"snap, snap"..boom BOOM!!

Throughout this course I've learned various traits that I know will stick with me for the rest of my life.  Coming in to Converse I expected to breeze through just as I had done during high school.  Little did I know I would be struggling a little and forcing myself to do things that never seemed to be a problem in high school. My SSS Final Project pretty much summed up how I feel about Converse now.  Because Arnisha and I did our project together throughout our "spoken word" we were able to express to the audience our different views in our different verses.  While her verse was related more to SSS the class itself, mine was more of my experiences that I have gone through since being here at Converse for example.  I believe I stated in one of my verses that "some of us learned to adapt, while the rest were still taking naps." I was referring to myself in this line.  If it wasn't for Dr. K. Vaneman warning Arnisha and I during Music History to actually GO TO SLEEP at night time, I don't know what I would have done.  I've learned sooooo much being here at Converse.  The people are great, the students, professors, everyone, it almost seems as though it is not real.  The person I am now is no where near the person I was when entering Converse.  I now know that time is essential to my graduation plans.  Without a healthy time schedule for when I will eat, sleep, study, practice etc. there is no way I will make it to the Class of 2014:(..Yea my timing still is not perfect, but it is much better.  I'm striving to be a time management nerd by the end of this freshman year and I hope to reach my goal. I've enjoyed my time in SSS and I look forward to learning many new things here at Converse. :)

The various traditions:)

Since being here at Converse, various students have often told me about many of the fun traditions.  Such as when a girl becomes engaged her friends throw her into the fountain for good luck.  But the tradition that caught my attention the most was the Dexter Edward Converse tradition.  It has been said that if one throws penny on Mr. Converse's grave and it lands, the student will receive their wish.  For example, if I have a huge exam coming up, most likely, I will walk down to the graveyard in hope of receiving my good luck from Mr. Converse himself.  Not all of the traditions are fun though.  For example, a theater major may know that when it comes down to a big show they must give Hazel who the theater is named after flowers; if not their show is most likely doomed.  For example, when playing in the recent show "O Horrors," the cello player informed me of some of the terrible disasters that have happened when Hazel became unhappy.  It occured her freshman year here at Converse College.  Her roommate was in a huge show and there was one actor that did not give Hazel any flowers, simply because he did not believe that something would actually happen.  Little did he know, the show was DOOMED!! The cello player said everyone forgot their lines, even though they had rehursed them for forever, and her roommate even caught a concussion. That is something serious. The traditions here at Converse can be taken however you would like to take them.  But as for me, I'm following every tradition, because I would like for my stay here at Converse to be peaceful and fun!!