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It's been a busy couple of weeks. The game was-- amazing. My first college football game. I am so obsessed with college football it is getting ridiculous. Like, now that I know what's going on, I am literally ob-sessed.
In other news, school is still pretty easy. I've been working well and all that, but I haven't been really stressed out yet. Which is either good or bad. Maybe things will kick up a notch, especially with essays and midterms and all that. I am registering for Panhellenic rush tomorow, and I need to get my "recs" in, which basically means I need to find people I know who graduated from college and were in sororities. Can anyone help me out with this? Seriously, ask your mothers and sisters and aunts and cousins...(If you see them, obvie you are not going to call all these people on my behalf). It doesn't matter WHERE they went to college, just as long as Vandy has a chapter of their sorority. Actually, this whole deal probably doesn't matter, so dont bother. I am just getting ridiculously into it.
I just finished "Am I thin enough yet?" by Sharlene Hesse-Biber. It's a sociology book (I know, I know, but I read it anyway) that my hallmate had for one of her classes. I was intrigued by the title, so I decided to borrow it, thinking I'd only flip through and read the good parts, like the testimonials. I read it in a half hour. My gosh. It's all about the "cult of thinness" and the "commercialization of identity". Coming as no suprise to me and I'm sure to most of you, college girls are obsessed with their weights and appearances. It's truly a problem. At one point, the book goes into the issue that girls have turned away from academics and turned torwards "peer society, with it's emphasis on romance". Sad, but true.
Parent's weekend, and then I'll be home in October. See you all then. Seniors: Hang in there! Just a few more months and you can be total slackers...
In other news, school is still pretty easy. I've been working well and all that, but I haven't been really stressed out yet. Which is either good or bad. Maybe things will kick up a notch, especially with essays and midterms and all that. I am registering for Panhellenic rush tomorow, and I need to get my "recs" in, which basically means I need to find people I know who graduated from college and were in sororities. Can anyone help me out with this? Seriously, ask your mothers and sisters and aunts and cousins...(If you see them, obvie you are not going to call all these people on my behalf). It doesn't matter WHERE they went to college, just as long as Vandy has a chapter of their sorority. Actually, this whole deal probably doesn't matter, so dont bother. I am just getting ridiculously into it.
I just finished "Am I thin enough yet?" by Sharlene Hesse-Biber. It's a sociology book (I know, I know, but I read it anyway) that my hallmate had for one of her classes. I was intrigued by the title, so I decided to borrow it, thinking I'd only flip through and read the good parts, like the testimonials. I read it in a half hour. My gosh. It's all about the "cult of thinness" and the "commercialization of identity". Coming as no suprise to me and I'm sure to most of you, college girls are obsessed with their weights and appearances. It's truly a problem. At one point, the book goes into the issue that girls have turned away from academics and turned torwards "peer society, with it's emphasis on romance". Sad, but true.
Parent's weekend, and then I'll be home in October. See you all then. Seniors: Hang in there! Just a few more months and you can be total slackers...