What a weekend! In three days, I managed to attend three major Queens events. Ranging from sorority semi-formals to casino night, I think I pretty much did it all and came out completely exhausted! All great fun of course, but very draining nonetheless.
For starters, I had the pleasure of attending the Kappa Delta sorority semi formal on Friday night. The event was held in Burwell (the really pretty building right in the middle when you drive by campus) and looked absolutely great. Luckily, after a little while at the dance, they held a ceremony that awards a select male or two the privilege of wearing the Kappa Delta letters. The males given the privilege to wear the letters are known as a dagger men and literally get a set of letters from the ladies in the Kappa Delta house. To get this honor, you must exemplify all that the Kappa Delta's feel the ladies in the sorority must posses to become a member. Only a handful of males are allowed to wear the letters at any point in time which makes this even more prestigious. Luckily, on Friday night Iwas named a dagger man!!!! I can't say how happy and surprised I was to receive such an honor, but I am sure glad I did :) I always have a blast with the Kappa Deltas and this time was no different. It was especially awesome because my sister-in-law is also a Kappa Delta so it felt good knowing we had one more thing in common!
After a great night, I was back up early for our second Discover Queens. This is a great event where we not only get a chance to talk to prospective students and their parents, but give campus tours and allow them to hear from the president and a number of deans at Queens. It takes place from about 8:30am till 1:30pm or so and lets students get a really great taste of what Queens has to offer. I had the chance this time to do a quick speech about my internship with Ford Motor Company and then sit in on the businesss session with our Dean and Chair of the business school. It truly is a great day and awesome opportunity to show how special Queens can be! I always meet a few parents from Florida or lacrosse recruits who I played against back when I played on Team Florida. It really is a small world when it's all said and done. At this point in the weekend I was pretty tired, but I am an extrovert and people always energize me so naturally I got my second wind around lunch.
This second wind, however, lasted only long enough to help set up for my third event of the weekend. Casino Night is always soo much fun and a huge campus tradition. Campus Union Board (CUB) is the club that puts this event on and I am the secretary of it so naturally I had to make sure I was helping out. Students dress up and the cafeteria is turned into a casino with music, dancing, food and the whole bit. This years theme was Arabian Fantasies and turned out great! Set up took a few hours and when we finished I had no choice but to take a nap! I was beat and the event hadn't started yet! By the time it was ready to start, I had gotten my rest, put on my game face and put on my costume. Thats right, I actually had the opportunity to dress up like Aladdin which was a ton of fun. I had the whole bit and just ran around all night taking photos and being a goof ball (like usual). The students seemed to have a blast, enjoy the prizes and really take advantage of such a great time! It's a shame, but this was my last Casino Night.
In the end, I was just beat but couldn't wait to get a good nights sleep and knew that I did just about everything fun I could possibly do one weekend at Queens. This weekend was a great success for so many reasons, but mainly because so many peoples' hard work went into planning such a variety of events and they all turned out so great! Events like these just justify my love for this university that much more!
It's past my bed time and I am starting to crash so I'll get out of here, but have a great week and don't forget to contact me with any questions!!!! tyler.rauch@qmail.queens.edu
GOOD NIGHT!
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