Bradley Guinen

First Signs of Fall

Well with classes set in stone (as Add Drop period has officially ended) and the temperature gradually decreasing, you can pretty much say that summer is over. With papers due and reading to be done it was a long week and an even longer weekend. Luckily my Keurig was with me 100% of the way. 

Other than standard academics and corp activity my roommate cameron and I have been hard at work recording and producing our Progressive Trance mixes. if you would like to take a listen you can check us out at http://www.mixcloud.com/Fourth_Frequency/.

I bought my season ski pass yesterday (sunday). Unfortunately i was impatient so instead of purchasing the pass online like everyone else, I wanted to have my physical pass card. With this crusade in mind, I drove all the way to Sugarbush, which turned out to be an adventure due to the roads that were unusable because of flooding. I finally arrived only to discover that they weren't printing passes yet. A solid hour and a half through twisting dirt roads i returned to Norwich with a paper receipt.

That very day i watched the snowboarding documentary "Art of Flight" with some of my friends from Mountain Cold Weather. Well needless to say I am stoked for winter to come and to get some nice "pow" days. One can tell this by looking at my class schedule as i designed it so that every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, I can be on the slope by noon. It's funny because i'm pretty sure that i'm part of a very exclusive club of people who are excited for snow(Approx 5% of the students/faculty [statistic is completely made up]). My thinking has always been "If its going to be cold, it better snow so its not to miserable".

 

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Week 1 Complete !

    Well week one of junior year is complete and can already feel the stress of academics, Corp responsibilities, and regular problems of life weighing me down. But that's what makes being in the Corp so worth it. By now i've learned how to cope with mounting stress and encroaching deadlines, and i have to credit to the three years of Corp life for this skill.

    As far as Academics go it's always a hectic first week. Always find myself lost in a haze of buying the CORRECT textbooks, remembering class times, and of course where these classes are. My classes are pretty standard. Criminal Justice stuff, English, Etc. But then there comes Chinese. After 2 Years of procrastination I'm finally taking Chinese which is unlike any other langauge ive tried to learn. My roommate made the joke that to study i had to Draw Chinese instead of write it out. At least I'm slowly getting the hang of it.. I think.

 

    Corp life is running along at the same pace Being an upperclassmen Platoon Sergeant means that i have roughly 30 Cadets that are under me. Much of my downtime is consumed by paperwork, information pass-downs, and accountability. But all in all its a fun position to hold.

    There's week one in a nutshell. lets see how the rest of the semester goes shall we. 

My Short Summer

Well this summer was a well received break from both academics and corp activities but unfortunately it was a little lame. Even worse was i had no control over it. I was the victim of a ski accident and screwed my knee up pretty good. so in order to get back into shape i had to get knee surgery on june 9th. none the less, this took me out of normal activity for a good month, not to mention the next two months of rehab. Thankfully i had such good friends that pretty much dedicated A lot of their personal time to transport me to social functions. but now the days in August are waning down and classes creep towards us. I look forward to fully recovering, getting my ring, and of course telling everyone about it on here. It's going to be a great year!