The trimester only has 3 weeks left! WHOA! No offense NUHS, but
after 12 weeks of grinding on the same information I get antsy to
move on to new material and can't wait for a little break from
studying where I can go home to Boston, recharge my batteries,
spend some quality family/friend time, and touch up on a little
extracurricular studying I normally don't get to allocate time to
(i.e. my stock trading passion). I realize the last couple weeks
I've mainly given non-school related material so I will give some
NUHS recap.
Tri Games Recap
Last week we had our Tri Games tournament featuring kickball for
the summer trimester. The tournament was almost canceled with
torrential downpours throughout the morning, but magically the
weather beamed hot sun by afternoon and the games were on!
Our tri (3) was looking to exact some revenge after our loss in
the finals at the last Tri Games in dodge ball. We fielded a solid
squad and have a particularly athletic group, both guys and gals.
We started the games with a blowout of Second Tri (whomp whomp!)
and went undefeated through the round robin and earned ourselves a
first round bye in the playoffs. We excelled through to the finals
were we faced our bitter (not really) rivals, Tri 5. They are
another solid athletic group and they had rolled straight through
the tournament on the backs of great defense and precise
hitting.
Decked out in orange (our color this tri) we took home field
advantage, and held strong. Unfortunately, we fell behind on a
dodgy foul ball call and were never able to recover. Their strategy
based on how we picked the first few games was to take away the
deep ball. We never were able to adjust to hit base hits (kicks?!)
and we lost the game in 7 innings. Sad face. Alas, we have
back-to-back losses in tri games finals! No worries, I had a blast
and we will be back for the fall for flag football!
Frat
The frat initiation party was this past Friday, much to the
anticipation of lots of people. We hosted it in the city at
McGee's, which turned out to be a pretty great time. On a side
note: I was elected to be the treasurer for the frat for the next
academic year. If you're reading this and think you'd never be in a
frat, I would say I would've agreed with you. And yet now I'm an
officer?
I've blogged about the unmentioned benefits of joining the
professional frat at NUHS in an earlier post. It sums up to
strengthening the relationships with fellow classmates from other
trimesters that you normally wouldn't hang with, as well as
constant adjusting practice with Dr. Elder. If Karma's an issue,
helping locally with community service isn't so bad either! The
bottom line is it will make you a better chiropractor and
ultimately that is what we all strive to be.
That's it for me this week. I have lots of studying as finals
start next week. :\
Live Awesome,
CC