Oh Hello and Other Stuff....

How's it going everybody? It has been a little while since I last posted on my blog but I have been super busy! Last week was a short week and I know you are probably thinking, "but Nate, if last week was a short week how come you where so busy?" Well let me tell you! I had Monday off of school and usually when I have Mondays off I have a 4 day weekend because I have no classes on Tuesdays! Well this time Tuesday was a Monday schedule meaning that I had all of my classes that I usually have on Mondays on Tuesday WHICH SUCKED!!!! Mondays and Wednesdays are my busiest days! To have them right next to each other really sucked! On top of that I had 3 tests and I was preparing for my Private Pilot Stage Check #2 (out of 3) which I have yet to complete, I passed everything except for my short field landing. For a short field landing I am required to pick a spot on the runway and land 0 feet before and no more than 200 feet past, you may think that it would be easy and there are times where it is but the planes that we fly, DA-40s, are incredibly aerodynamic so they can be hard to land! Plus the winds where starting to act up just a little which added to the difficulty of the landing so I touched down just past the req's. I just have to go in and do a short field successfully and I will be done!

 Anyway, because of the goofy schedule that week I had to shuffle all of my flying around and most of it ended up being super early in the morning so I was getting up at 5 am every day and not going to bed until 1 or 2 in the morning each night because of all the studying that I was doing! It was super difficult to for many reasons, I had taken a Math test the week before and didn't do so well which discouraged me a lot, I need to have a 2.5 or higher to keep my Executive Board position which I really want to keep! There has also been a lot of drama within my fraternity, being an Exec means that I have to deal with much of that drama. Usually I have no problem dealing with drama but I think that since I was already so super stressed, the drama wore me down even more. Needless to say I was very glad when Friday rolled around. Friday night was awesome, we (Delta Sig) hosted a dance party called the Tight and Bright Dance.

 Everyone showed up in tight and bright clothing and danced the night away, we had an amazing turnout and the party was rocking! In fact we had so many people that the floor began to give out! We were fortunately able to relocate the party to another room before anything disastrous happened! We where worried that everyone would leave but in fact the complete opposite happened! Even more showed up! We seem to have set a new standard of partying and that is the standard of partying so hard that you break the floor! The next morning during clean up we pulled the ceiling tiles out to inspect the damage. We discovered 4 broken floor beams! Our house is over 50 years old and for a long time people have been wondering when the floor would give out and it has finally happened! Apparently like 10 or 15 years ago when DSP bought the house the skylight above the floor was broken and there was rain damage to floor which was never fixed so it is most likely that the rain damage combined with the weight of 200 people caused the beams to give out! While our last dance party was successful, I don't think that we will be having another one for a long time! I said that last week we had our Big Brother ceremony and that it was one of my favorites! Well I GOT A LITTLE BROTHER! Technically I am his fraternity father and he is my son but we call them big's and little's. I am super excited because the big little relationship can be super awesome and I have always wanted a little brother!

devinstein:

wearing my new letters with excessive amounts of pride—and I’ve got the best big I could ask for :]

That's my little!