First off, sorry. I don’t have any decent pictures from this week. I’m thinking about buying a camera soon. But we’ll see.

The past 2 weeks have been pretty random. The Friday before Halloween, The Residence Hall Association sponsored Prom from Hell, which was a costumed Dance party with food and Halloween activities. We danced the night away with the wicked witch, a ‘cereal’ killer, and the whole Sailor Moon crew. I could barely walk after that night because of all the activity. But alas, we continued. I ended up eating the leftover pizza and playing Mario Party with Steve and Joe our Area Hall Director until 2 in the morning. Needless to say, I slept in the next day. The randomness continued throughout the week. The Tuesday before Halloween, I was doing homework and got a text that simply read. “Waffles!” So, we headed out to Omega, a 24 hour restaurant in the Hinsdale area. I have been told that the banana pancakes were delicious.

Halloween, yes you guessed it, continued with the randomness. Ok, I have not lived in walking distance of a Chipotle before, and I was not aware that if you dress like a burrito [i.e. Make a foil hat] you get a free burrito on Halloween. We didn’t care if it was free or not, we wanted Chipotle. After visiting two packed Chipotles, we lost our appetite for the glorious goodness of burritos and settled for the terrific tastiness of Panera. The night was actually calm, it was too cold to go trick or treating, or so I was told. The night consisted of The Game of Life- SpongeBob Edition followed by apple cider to get in the fall mood. That was a quite weird time, things settled down for a little while.

That is until the radio station, 93.9 The Lite, became The Holiday Lite. Yes, my friends, Christmas Music! Christmas is by FAR the greatest holiday in the history of man. In accordance with this fact, I have already decorated my room with a 3 foot tree, garland, and red, green and white lights. And, I’m happy to say that it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Hopefully I will have pictures up later this week. My laptop is being a little weird.

Many people have yelled at me because they believe that I am ignoring Thanksgiving. And my response, Thanksgiving is the tailgate of Christmas. At Thanksgiving, you find out who your not going to invite to the holiday party, you start stretching your stomach in preparation, make a batch of egg nog [non-alcoholic] just to make sure you have the recipe down, and talk to everyone to find out what your going to buy them for Christmas. Thanksgiving is a test run of Christmas. A rough draft if you will.

The Final will be due December 25^th.

My name is Mike Russell, and yes, I really do.  My problem: I never want to leave NCC!  Lucky for me I’m a freshman so I still have quite a long time! I’m an accounting major and am hoping to get my bachelors, masters and pass the CPA exam within the next 6 years.

I like to think of myself as that kid you couldn’t put a label on. I love school, but I live for the weekends.  During the summers I read for hours and then went and played Halo for a few more.  In high school I did everything.  I was President of Mathletes and a Captain of the swim team.  I was in too many clubs to count and loved it.

I’ve only been here at NCC for 8 weeks now, but I’m already super involved.  Which is lucky for me, it is the way I like it.  Here’s what I’m involved with right now.

President of the New Student Complex Council.  Simply put, the president of the First Year Student Dorms.

Online Chair for the Relay for Life of NCC this year.

[You should probably know, I am a huge supporter of the American Cancer Society and their events, such as Relay for Life.  One of my goals in life is to work for the ACS.  Every day I rock my Relay for Life spirit with a purple bracelet.  It never comes off, really… I have a tan line.  And when it does break, no worries I have about 10 more in my room.]

Residence Hall Association

College Union Activities Board

And then I find myself helping random organizations.

That me in a nutshell.