First FULL Weekend in Austin!

Schedule:

Friday-

1. Go to 8AM Calculus, Gus (professor) said "Ok" one hundred times. By the way, he is from Argentina! So cool!
2. Goof off in the campus computer store with Eric and Andrew waiting for class to start
3. 10AM Chemistry, bleh, but I did a lot better on the questions we were given in class!
4. Homework!
5. Noon- invite about 5 people to eat at J2, we ended up with 12 people at the table, a lot of fun but so crowded haha!
6. 2PM Hung out with Sephra, Eric, Andrew and Cathy in the guys dorm. We played some scary game on the computer (SCP?), then Eric did two crazy card tricks I still can't figure out, and Eric played a little guitar!
7. 3ishPM- Walked with Eric and Andrew to their friend's dorm to pick up something they left! I learned what Japanese Kendo is (Japanese Fencing)
8. 5PM- Engineering fall fest with free Jim Jim's Ice and a little bit of dancing! I ran into some Camp Texas friends I hadn't seen in awhile and made a few more friends!
9. 8:30ishPM- Leave to go to HOME SLICE Pizza on South Congress! There was an hour wait to get in, but the NY-Style pizza was SO worth it!
10. 10:30PM- Get on a super sketchy bus back to campus. Luckily I was with 4 guys, so I wasn't too worried, but 3 homeless people got on the bus
11. 11:00PM-Get back on campus and decide to rent out the pool table stuff and ping pong stuff!
12. As I was renting out the stuff, I left my key AND phone in the game room (on the basement floor) so I had to run back up to the front desk (first floor) and awk ask for a temporary ID, the RA just let me borrow his and I had to run it back up when I got into the game room. TOO MANY STAIRS end of story
13. Play pool and ping pong until well past 2AM
14. Sleep when you are dead is the motto, and by 3AM I was dead!

Saturday-

1. Wake up at 10am and begin Chemistry homework
2. Once Sephra woke up, we had a 3 hour dance party/clean our room session
3. During that, we ate ribs and OJ that her mom had given us! SOO yummy!
4. 1:00PM watch a little bit of the UT vs Penn State (#1) volleyball game. Our girls WON! Heck yes!
5. MORE HOMEWORK, Almost done with Chem, I am getting tutored by my FIG tutor in math on Sunday, and I am 10 pages away from finishing my Voice/Speech Class reading. I still need to look over my Mechanical Engineer powerpoint..
6. 4:30PM realize I have been in my room all day, so Sephra and I took another sketchy bus up to Amy's Ice Cream!!! SOOOOOO GOOOODDDDDD. I got Italian Creme Cake with strawberries, it tasted exactly like this homemade cake my dad's office manager makes for my family at Christmas. So basically DELICIOUS Amy's Ice Cream was also on our bucket list, so we scratched that off this weekends 
   
7. Get back to campus and meet up with Eric, Andrew, Ashley and some other friends and I learned how to play Ultimate Frisbee!!! That is an awesome game and I kinda want to keep playing it for, forever. (Sarah if you are reading it, I now understand why Baptists are obsessed with this game)

1. 8:30PM Go with that crew plus Eric Mayhew to Q'Doba, a burrito place on the drag! More yummy food was eaten and I started watching pieces of the depressing football game.. Oh Texas, I still love you, but come on.
2. 10:00ishPM Rent out ping pong and pool stuff again and play until 2:00am... because why not! It keeps up out of crazy stuff and it is free!

Sunday-

1. Wake up at 10am! Yaaayyyy for waking up late!

2. Do random homework and almost finish my Chemisty homework and my reading for speech class! I have found waking up early is good because then everyone is asleep and I don't feel about about not hanging out!

3. Around noon, go to a Turkish pita sandwich restaraunt! Soooooooo goood!

4. Until about 5pm, finish my Chemistry FINALLY, goof off, and watch Battlestar Gallactica with Eric and Andrew!

5. Talk to my mom and Marshall! :)

6. Catch up with my homie, Mauricio and eat oh so delicious Pluckers!

7. RUN to Kinsolving to get math tutoring

8. Presently doing laundry! Gotta have clean sheets!

Everyone constantly asks me what I am doing, and I always explain that I am doing way too much to remember. So I wrote it all out this weekend, but don't think this will happen every weekend! Anyways thanks for reading my long posts as always!

-Katie

PS: this is my beautiful roomie Sephra :)

It's been awhile...

Wow, it has been awhile since I have posted anything! I have just been busy as usual, class, homework, tests, friends, TV, going home, Texas Football, and food!

First thing is first, Texas BEAT OU, thus proving that OU sucks. During OU weekend, I played 4 hours of frisbee, woke up early enough to watch the game, then did homework. I went to Wendy's with Jimmy and Alex after the ridiculous amount of frisbee, here is a pic of them!

After that long long weekend, I had awesome school. Well not that awesome, I don't really remember doing anything special... OH WELL.

The following weekend I went home for my Dad's birthday and homecoming! I was so happy to wish my dad a happy birthday on his actual birthday, and give him his awesome new UT burnt orange fishing fancy shirt! I also was able to help Jennifer get all dolled up for homecoming. It only took over an hour to get her hair all curled, but it was worth getting to see her off and be hands on a part of her life!

I also got to see my beautiful best friends! The biffles: Marissa, Sarah, and Abbi reunited in Magnolia at the football game and had a great sleepover and then waffles at Marissa's with even more friends! I missed everyone so much and it was great finally getting to see them all in person! Only a few more weeks until Thanksgiving, when I will see them all again!

I had to get back to campus pretty early on Sunday, because ASME is building a chariot to race in the Red Bull Chariot Race Competition, and I will be the one in the chariot! We are building a killer bunny, pictures to come :)

This past week of school has been pretty chill, it feels like every other day I have to do a lot of homework, but Thursday and today (Friday) I don't have much! Next week will be more hectic, I have an Mech E sketch quiz on Tuesday and Math test on Friday! Woohoo!

 This weekend has already started off on a great note! I watched Slumdog Millionaire on Thursday evening, and today after classes, Eric Andrew and I decided to go on an adventure! We began with Geocaching on campus! We found this super relaxed nice place near the alumni center, but unfortunately we could not find the geocache. Our adventure continued by catching a bus down to Sixth Street! We were looking for a cool mural, but once again could not find it! So we walked from W 6th St. (Dirty 6th) past South Congress to E 6th St. for some delicious Amy's Ice Cream! I was lucky enough to witness an awesome event. The worker at Amy's took a young boy outside, gave him a bowl, the guy walked to the other side of the street, and flung the ice cream to perfectly land in the bowl! It was AMAZING!

Side note, I just got a new camera lens and SD card for my mom's old camera, so I have a tonnn of photos. But the adventure was not over. Andrew was thirsty for a geocache and decided to search for another. We found this little park next to a small creek and began the hunt. Eric and I gave up pretty quick and decided to climb a tree instead. No worries Mom or Dad, I was only 4 feet off the ground haha! After about an hour at this small park, Andrew finally figured out where the geocache was! 48/51 people had logged online that they found the geocache, so we were glad to add to the success rate. After finding that one, of course Andrew had to go and find another! 

BUT, the adventure isn't over yet! We were no where near a bus, so we just had to start walking, and we decided to not use out phone GPS to get back to campus. Eventually we ended up seeing the Capitol and heading towards that! But we couldn't just walk by the capitol, so OF COURSE we went inside! Andrew has never even been inside the capitol, so it was quite an event! We found some janky ice scoopers in the basement, cartwheeled (unsuccessfully) everywhere, and generally goofed off!

 Formatting is super janky on here, sorry for the weird picture layout! Anyways, I am going to head out for some non cafeteria food dinner, then frisbee! Fun!

-Katie

One Day More!

Wow! I can't believe I start school tomorrow! The past few days have been pure bliss, no responsibilities, hanging out with whoever whenever, and continuing decorating my dorm room! I keep hoping that I will be able to incorporate these fun times into my actual "attending classes life"! The past few days I have met people for coffee, walked across campus, then back to my dorm, then back across campus (all past midnight), Kerbey Lane at 1AM, student organization fairs, Start Fresh Fest, visiting others dorms, hanging with the mysterious Luis (valedictorian of my HS), hanging at the Laundry Mat, followed by breakfast way too early with band kids, an honors engineering meeting, a wing meeting, karaoke night at Jester West, visiting the Capitol, taking metro bus, seeing the gym, and printing college syllabi. And I didn't even tell you what I was doing when I wasn't doing those things. Trust me I could go crazy with the details but I won't! Just know, college is a blast, and I haven't even been here on my own for 2 days!

 
         Above: The "Luis"


It has also been craft week in the Katie World! Before I left home, I designed and hand painted TOMS for game days! I am kinda obsessed with them, sorry not sorry.

Sephra and I also created a bucket list board! It's got stuff like go to sporting events, swimming holes, eat at random places, and take pix by stuff! The not done stuff is on the top, and as we do the events with each other and friends, we will take pictures and move the sticky note from top to bottom! Sephra has quickly realized how obsessed I am with the words "#yoloswag" and "Holla Bless", so she incorporated them into the board, without me asking her to! She is awesome! Today I taught Sephra and Eric how to ride the Metro, so we rode it down to the Capitol and took one item off the bucket list!

We are about to head out to an event called "Gone to Engineering" and "Gone to Texas" Basically it is a spirit rally for freshman before the start of classes! Tomorrow we have class, then a million other events the rest of the week, and finally game day! I know I will be busy, but will try to keep posting!

-Katie