CCF Fall Camp '08

Our Halloween Costumes...Converted Uraki

Edenson Core Guys. Left to right,

Danial, James Yaw, Mark, James Tomlinson, Bryce, Levi, Chris, Niel.

Cabin gymnastics anyone?

Some Pictures from the first half of Fall Quarter 08'

Jordan overlooking the San Juan Islands from the top of the Oyster Dome. (This was taken the week before school started.)

The San Juan Islands

Looking out towards Old Main lawn and Bellingham bay from my window.

My Room looking from my desk towards the door. Bathroom on the left, Jon's bed on right, and then my bed and Jon's desk are out of view on left.

Fall is here, the trees are all changing colors and it is glorious.

End of Week 5 (late)

Sadly, I missed posting this weekend. I don't have any real excuse except that I just kind of forgot about it. So we are now done with week...5...I think.
I had a Physics exam last week that I thought went pretty well but I am still kind of unsure since we haven't got it back yet. I have to turn in my perspectives book this Thursday so I have a lot of work to do for that. Redoing drawings, photoshoping them, then putting them into a book for printing. I am doing all my own printing and binding so there is a lot of time there.

Next week is fall camp with CCF. James and I are going but only one guy our core is singed up so far. We are leaving Friday afternoon (Halloween) and driving down to the camp. We get back Sunday some time so I am pretty excited.

As some of you know, at the end of this quarter my roommate Jon is graduating and will be leaving so I have been on the lookout for potential roommates for Winter and Spring quarter. There is this Freshmen guy named Bryce who lives in Higinson and we have hit it off pretty well. He is really into skiing so it would be fun to have him as a roomie. We will see though. I am going to ask him at Fall Camp.

The "How To" of All Nighters

So at college there are bound to be times in which an all-nighter is pulled to finish work, study for a test or to spend it with friends doing nothing productive.

I feel it is my duty to elaborate on my reasons for doing these ghastly events. Also, to expound on a few of my own adventures into the wee hours of the morning.

TO begin we must define what "all nighter" means. According to a survey I did, an all nighter is where you stay up all night and then go about your normal (or sort of normal) routine the next day without sleeping.

Using this definition, I have never done an all nighter. Also, I must say that I have never stayed up past 8am. So I am not an expert on this topic and so we will be looking at the special casses of staying up really late. Also, for the sake of ease, I will refer to staying up really late as all nighters.

First off, let me say that all-nighters are not bad (for certain reasons). At school there are just to many things going on and trying to juggle them all is hopeless. With, school, work, friends and sleeping, things have to give way to each other once in a while. I for the most part try not to give up sleep to much but there is defenatly less of it this year as compared to last.
On average I get about 7 hours of sleep each night.

So, why do an all -nighter? Well, for starters, there is not enough time during the day to finish the big parts of school, such as big essays, study for midterms or class projects. For example, as of right now, my roommate is going to stay up all night writing a 5 page essay on whether the constitution or the articles of confederation are more democratic. He has been working on it for the past few days, getting together the information he needs and now he is shutting himself away from the world to write it.

For me, this Thursday, I have to turn in my Perspectives Book. That means that I have to redo a lot of drawings, alter them, write descriptions and put them into a book format. Then go and get it printed and bound. I will have some very late nights this next week as I spend hours sitting in computer labs working on this project.

The other reason for staying up all night, aside from school work, is friends. Night is when college students are "free" from school work, or its when they wont do it. So that is when things happen. This year so far, I have not gotten to bed before 2:30 am on a weekend. I have even had one night where I was up until 5am and another until 4am. A few nights ago I was up until 2:15 am watching a movie (bad idea, on a weeknight).

Last year there were also quite a few late nights for projects and other non-school things.
There was the time I stayed up all night talking with people and then drove a friend to the airport at 6:30am and the other time where I spent 6 hours straight, (from 11pm-5am) working on a computer model of a flashlight for a class.


Basically, all nighters are almost a necessity at college, at least a couple times each quarter, not only for work but for fun. The down side to staying up late is that it suppresses your immune system so it is easier to get sick and a lot of the next day is burned up in catching up on sleep. OR, as good college students do, you don't catch up and just add it to the sleep deficit that you already have. :) Oh, it is also really fun, especially after 3am or so becuase things get really funny.

Weekend Post

So I didn't get a chance this weekend to post. No wait! It is still Sunday. Yes! I made it!

So this has been a very busy weekend although my weeks just keep on getting busier and busier. Stayed up way to late last night and didn't get up until 11:45 this morning.

I haven't had a chance to turn any of my drawings into an actual picture yet so sorry about that delay.

Went on the big rope swing last night. It had rained that day so the ground was super slick and you kept sliding down the hill.

Greek!

Greek test this morning...I studied for 4 hours last night, staying up until midnight and then got up at 6am and studied until 7:50 at which point I went to take the exam. It went really well. It was a fill in the blank with a name or word, 52 questions and I had no problem answering all but 5. So even if I get those wrong, I still get a very nice grade. I am a little tired though.

So here are some questions from the test. You write in the names.
1. What was the name of the man who was dragged to death by his chariot?
2. What deity was the Peacock associated with?
3. What is the name of the creature with a thousand eyes that guarded Io?

I am learning how to do shadows and shading in drawing now. It looks really cool, just a huge amount of time. I did some drawings of electric drills yesterday and once I scan them into a computer, I will post them for you to see.

Jon (my roommate) is a great roommate. We have the same class in the morning so we both get up at the same time and usually go to bed around the same time. I really couldn't ask for a better roommate. It is going to be sad having him leave at the end of this quarter.

Wow!

Okay, so tonight was pretty amazing. As some of you know, God has been growing me this year in trusting in Him. It has been very stressful and amazing at the same time.
So tonight we watched this movie and it was amazing. The message of the movie was so pertinent to me and I would recommend it to everyone. It is a christian movie about a high school football coach who is having problems with almost every aspect of his life and how he turns to God and God provides. Very emotional.

So, go watch, 'Facing the Giants'.
(and let me know what you think)

End of Week 3

It is sunny at 55 degrees out. It is beautiful. Our first intramural soccer game is today at 2:00. There are about 13 guys on the team and we play 11-11 soccer. It will be my first time ever playing in such a large game.
The week has been pretty good. Tuesday, and Thursday were pretty rough but I pulled through.

Last night I and 5 other guys from Edenson went on an adventure. We were looking for a fabled zip line that was somewhere up on Seahome hill. For an hour and a half we were tamping through waist high ferns in the bottom of gullies, with flashlights, looking for this place but we never found it. There were spider webs, and rotten logs and stinging nettles everywhere and it was hard to see them in the dark. At about 1:30am we stumbled upon a rope swing...it was amazing! The swing started right below this rock face and it swings out over the ravine. The ground dropped away really fast and on the far end of the swing you were over 40 ft in the air. It was so much fun. I got to bed around 2:00am last night but it was worth it.

Starting this next week life is going to get a lot harder. Next week we are starting one-on-one's with people so I wont have any free time and I have my first test on Friday for the Greek Mythology class. It is worth 25% of my grade so it is kind of important. Then, the next week I have Physics test worth 20% of the grade and then the day before Halloween I have to turn in my Perspective's book. That is a professionally bound and portfolio quality book with all my drawings and sketches for the first half of the quarter. So prayer for comprehension of material and an ability to work really quickly would be great.