Going home!

Finals are here.

It's our last week of the semester here at Hillsdale. We should be filled with Christmas Cheer and all that goodness, but it's difficult to be very jolly when 10-30% of your grade is going to be determined by upcoming exams. But on the bright side, all my papers are done, and by the end of today, I will have one class (Science 101) over and done with. Then tomorrow it'll be Spanish. Wednesday and Thursday I have no exams so I'll be working at the library and studying all that time. Friday I'll have Western Heritage (should be interesting), and finally on Saturday, English 101.

Then we get to fly home to our dear family and friends.

We will have many stories to tell, much knowledge to impart,  and many people to catch up with. It'll be great. Just so you all know, we'll be flying home on the 16th, and staying till about the 13th of January, I believe.

As Dr. Jackson says when he can't think of a good conclusion,

OK, that's it.

More Spanish Stuff!

This is the terrible video Emily and I made for my Spanish 102 Project.

My apologies to all you Spanish speakers.

3 Weeks left before Christmas Break!

AND IT IS CRUNCH TIME, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!

Can't wait to see all our family and friends at home.

Hail the Dale, Ep. 2: Halloween Swing

We're not dead.

Just wanted to let you all (if anyone is still checking this so-called blog) know that we are still alive and kicking here at Hillsdale. We want to put up a video of us participating in some activity, as opposed to just us telling the camera what we did that week. But it is midterm season, and getting our schedules to align can be problematic.

In the mean time, here is a short writing assignment I did for Spanish class. It is satirical.

Walter Peterson

Spanish 102

9/27/2012

Cuándo yo llegué a Hillsdale, yo estaba excitado de estar aquí. Aquí había estudiantes como yo: estudiantes que sólo deseaba aprender. O eso creía yo. Pero ahora yo sé que nada y nadie en esta escuela es serio. Los profesores dan una cantidad minúsculo de tarea, y esperan que los estudiantes salgan a fiestas en todo el otro tiempo. ¡Y los estudiantes! Ellos son muy fisgones, siempre haciendo preguntas, tales como, “¿Cómo estás?,” “¿Te puedo ayudar?” y (la más penosa), “¿Te gustaría ir a esta actividad divertida conmigo?” Además, la biblioteca tiene películas entretenidas. ¡Pero no es lo peor! He oído que el presidente de la universidad dispara estudiantes con una pistola de agua! Pienso que quiero permanecer en mi dormitorio por el resto del semestre.

Hail the Dale, Ep. 1: An Inauspicious Beginning

College didn't have an inauspicious beginning. This video series, on the other hand... I mean, I made it, and I was bored. But it was time for a video, so a video was made.

A Brief Poetical Interlude

Greetings from the Dale! We have, alas, not made any new videos as of yet, but we do intend to acquire some batteries for the camera and kick off a new series shortly. In the meantime, Walter suggested I share a bit of song I've been writing. The first verse and the chorus I wrote about a week and a half before our arrival at school (if my memory holds true), and the latter two verses came into being in the last few days. I anticipate further additions as the year progresses. (If you've read this already on Facebook, feel free to leave a comment telling me how boring and repetitive I am.) --Emily 

The Song of the Student
 by Emily R. Peterson

Hillsdale beckons
My train of thought reckons
It will be days before I'm there

Some watch Doctor Who
And Firefly too
And Legend of Korra will be there

Fencing and fighting
Torture, revenge
Captures, escapes and much more

One more weekend
And then I shall spend
Months missing family and more

Chorus:
Music and Greek
I shall learn how to speak
With extra time taken swing dancing

Write me a letter
I'll write back, write better
(Just kidding) I'll draw you a picture

The weekend seems close to me
And what seems most to me
Like a good time is a party

A party sans craziness
Stupid and zaniness
Rather, with Mina and Marty

The good kind of crazy
With people too lazy
To get into huge stupid trouble

Tomorrow at eight
I'll try not to be late
For both parties where fun will be double
 

Chorus

On Saturday night
We'll show up, take a flight
In time and through space in the TARDIS

Yeah, we'll watch Doctor Who
(No Firefly, true
'Cause Fox cancelled it)
[silent beat]

The Dale is a symphony
I'll live in infamy
Ever because of old Schenker

So many were homeschooled
Kitchen jokes are considered cool
Also, the Germans: der denker 

Chorus

To the Dale: Epilogue

Day 6

Day 5

Day 4

Happy Minnesota Awareness Day!

Day 3

Day 2

Day 1

To the Dale, Ep. 1: Dorris, OR. Terrible videography, but we have Riverdance.