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Hi I'm Katie, I am a sophomore at Butler! I am a Strategic Communications major with a focus in Public Relations. I love being involved in campus and hold positions in College Mentors for Kids and Dawg Pound. I am also a Butler Student Ambassador, Morton Finney Scholar, and a Recruitment Counselor. In my spare time, I am usually hanging out with friends, making up new phrases, or tweeting.

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Archive: April 2012

New Positions

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Katie

This probably does not come as a shocker to anyone that knows me, but I love to be involved. Some times this is a problem because I get involved with too much, and then don’t have time to do anything else. For once though I think I am in just enough to be able to juggle all the things that go on in my life!

Originally I was planning to apply for 5 different positions in clubs/organizations, but soon realized how crazy that is. Instead I cut it down and so now that I know what I finally am I can tell all of you, so that next year you can join these amazing organizations! Here’s what I will be doing next year so far, and what positions I have!

College Mentors For Kids
- Director of Recruitment
Basically my job is to recruit new people to join CMFK. It’s a really great organization that takes inner city kids and gives them college mentors to let them see how college is and get them to start thinking about different degrees. You help to really inspire them to accomplish their goals when it comes to secondary education!

Dawg Pound
- Street Team
Dawg Pound is our student fan section. My job as being on street team is to promote the games as much as possible, scan ids at games, and basically be just as pumped or even more pumped than everyone else. Funny story I didn’t find out I was on Street team until two nights ago when a Pi Phi senior willed her street team shirt down to me. I didn’t get to hear I was on street team at the dawg pound party because I had to go to a lecture!

and obviously the best job ever

Butler University Admissions
- Blogger
Yes, I got asked to be a blogger again next year. I hope I can still entertain each and every one of you with my craziness, stressed out, exciting, and fun year that I hope to have next year. I hope that many were able to see that being undeclared is not that bad at all, and actually I’m not behind at all either now that I am declared!

So next year when you come to Block Party, which is where all the clubs come out and display what their clubs are about, JOIN!

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Why Does This Always Happen?

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Katie

Right before finals week it seems like everyone starts to give you the most ridiculous work ever. I feel like I have a lot, but then when I say it aloud to myself it doesn’t seem that bad. I just have a lot of busy work to do! I’m going to use you to show myself what I have to do!

Freshman Year Seminar: Science and Sustainability
- Write final paper. Already 5 pages done only 3 more to go. Due Thursday

Arts Administration
- Start/Finish Portfolio due whenever scheduled appt. w/prof.

Natural World: World of Plants
- 4 seminar papers due
- 2 current event papers due
- study for lab practical
- study for final

Analytical Reasoning: Win Lose or Draw
- presentation
- study for final

Physical Well Being: Ballet
DONE

JR 112: News Print Writing
- start/finish controversial story due May 5
- rewrite any stories necessary

To you that may seem like a lot, but to me it doesn’t seem that bad. I really only have 2 exams, the rest are just papers. I love writing papers more than exams, because I know I am definitely a better writer than exam taker. I hate exams. So if I don’t blog in the next couple days I’m not dead I’m just trying to make it through my first year of college without my gpa dropping dramatically from the 3.5 that I already have. Wish me luck!

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Can You Believe?

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Katie

It’s April 18th and in only one week I will be officially done with my freshman year of college. Yes I will still have another week of finals, but my classes will be done! It’s crazy to think of all the things I have experienced this year, and since we all know I love doing lists I thought I would do another one.

Here my top 5 best experiences for my freshmen year:

1. Orientation Week
To this day I still remember everything about that week. There’s people you meet that week that will become your best friends, but if not your best friends just a familiar face that you see around campus. Being the crazy social person I am I went to literally every event possible, and I suggest you do the same. Get close to the people in your unit! Don’t be shy! It’s college and while you may be nervous and scared everyone is going through the same thing as you.

One of the first events with my unit!

2. CONCERTS.
I can’t believe all the concerts I was able to go to while being here. I got to see The Fray, Mac Miller, Chris Brown, Kelly Rowland, and Tyga. As I’ve mentioned it’s amazing to live in the city. No matter where the venue is you are always so close. The only bad thing about being so close means it’s so tempting to go to each and every concert! This Saturday at Butler we are having DEV and many other bands, which is awesome!

Mac Miller and I at the Murat downtown!

Chris Brown!

3. My Sister’s Wedding
I was so grateful to be apart of my sister’s wedding as a bridesmaid, and see her on a day that she will remember for the rest of her life. My sister was so pretty on her day! I also loved it because I was able to see family that I normally do not get to see. On top of that I got to spend this time with some of my best friends, and people who I love. It can’t get better than that.

Me, my sister, and mom

4. Recruitment Week
This week was possibly the most exhausting, emotional, and stressful week, but it was also one of the best weeks. After all the craziness and seeing girls cry over houses I can honestly say everything works out. Everyone is happy with the house they are in and I love every single one of my sisters. I hope that everyone at least tries recruitment week. For guys it’s easy, but girls do not be afraid. It’s such a great experience, and plus now I have the best Greek family! Not to confuse with my actual sister in Greek life you get a family too! Below is a picture of my big sis, and my big bro!

My Big Sis

My Big Bro!

5. My First Official Basketball Season As A Bulldog
Although I had watched the bulldogs in previous years this was my first time being able to be the crazy students in the Dawg Pound cheering them on. We may not have had a winning season, but it was so much fun. I will not forget the crazy games, and how intense we would get to the point of losing or voices, or the time my car got broken into and I still managed to attend a game. I cannot wait until the next season comes.

Butler vs Purdue. We won!

6. Super Bowl Week
Ok I know I only said 5 things, but how can I not say Super Bowl week?! That was the most insane week ever. I will admit I skipped some classes just to experience Super Bowl week. The amount of famous people I was able to meet and see was crazy. Shaking hands with Jimmy Fallon, hugging Pat McAfee, seeing Hall of Fame players, and all the events. It was such an eventful week and I hope Indianapolis gets to have it again!

Colts Punter Pat McAfee throwing the arrow for Pi Phi!

The numerals in downtown Indy!

6.5. Blue 3!
I give Trip a half because he’s still a baby. Getting this new mascot doesn’t take away from Blue 2! We take crazy pride in our mascots here. Seeing them around campus is like seeing a celebrity. They are probably two of the most well taken dogs I know. Watch out America, you’ll get to know Trip soon enough just like you met Blue2.

Welcome home Trip!

7. DECLARATION
I finally declared. I thought I would be on the sophomores waiting until last minute to figure everything out! I’m so excited and thrilled for what’s in store for me. I can’t wait to take more and more Strategic Communication classes. Even though I may not be Exploratory anymore I still want to be able to help those you are and the incoming freshman! You may think you’ll never figure it out, but my major was right in front of me the whole time!

Strategic Communications Major!

Obviously I had many experiences just to keep it down to five! I am can’t wait to see what is in store next year, but no worries this year still isn’t over. All of you can expect a blog about my stressful life right before finals.

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The Amazing Race

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Katie

Ever since my mom’s friend has gotten me addicted to watching the show The Amazing Race I cannot stop watching. The Amazing Race is a show on CBS that airs every Sunday at 8 PM. It is a race around the world where teams of 2 compete against others to win $1000000. Along the way teams get eliminated throughout the race, but sometimes there are parts of the race where no one gets eliminated it just depends. Through out the show you must do different challenges pertaining to the culture or country where you are!

At some point I want to at least apply for the race. My only problem is that I can get really competitive, so my goal would definitely be to find someone who is just as competitive as me. Some times that is dangerous though because people who are both equally competitive can start to irritate each other!

I was going to show the top five places I want to go, but I thought that would be too much so I am going to the top three places I would want to go to if I were on the race! No particular order!

1) Budapest, Hungary
I am going to be honest one of my reasons is just because how awesome the name Budapest is. I also have many other reasons! The city looks amazing on pictures! They have so many beautiful buildings and on top of that currently Budapest has over 837 monuments! They also are said to have amazing spas, so that is just a cherry on top… not that I would be going to a spa if on the race!

2) Machu Picchu, Peru
Being it is one of the seven wonders of the world I think it would be amazing to go there. It seems so mysterious yet so beautiful! I also think it would be so gorgeous just to be able to even look around the area outside of Machu Picchu as well. I can only imagine how beautiful Peru would be!

3) Cordoba, Spain
Don’t ask me why I know all these random places. I do pinterest way to often and also have always wanted to go to Spain! The buildings here look amazing, and they have so many festivals and awesome things to do! I feel like being able to go through any of the above places would be amazing on a race!

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Don’t Listen To Stereotypes

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Katie

As many of you might know from my previous blogs I am half Japanese and half Caucasian. Do not let me being Japanese fool you. Stereotypes that usually go along with me being half Japanese are: I’m smart, really good at math and science, and probably know every Asian person or am somehow related to them.

The truth of the matter is I am not like that at all! I am terrible at both math and science. I am smart, but it’s not just from being half Japanese. I’ve always had to try really hard to get the grades that I have, even if that means procrastinating to the very last second. Right now I am in Natural World, which for us is like a science class and Analytical Reasoning, which is math. I have always had trouble in science and math for as long as I can remember!

Since I have been struggling a lot in these classes at Butler, I have gotten a tutor for both my math and science. Thank goodness for those two! They have helped me out so much! At Butler getting a tutor is really easy because we have the Learning Resource Center, which will find a tutor for you! Although you can’t get a tutor if you aren’t going to class, or haven’t done the necessary steps that you can do by yourself first.

I take my first natural world test on Wednesday since having a tutor, so it should be interesting to see how much it really is helping. So far I feel like it has been helping a lot, but I am so grateful that I finally have a tutor and hopefully I can get my grade up before semester is over. Only three weeks left!

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American Problems

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Katie

These past couple of weeks my sister, brother in law, and mom have been in Japan. My mom is Japanese and her whole side of the family still lives there. This was the first time my brother in law was meeting my mom’s side of the family, and the first time my sister has been back to Japan in a very long time. If there is anything I learned from their trip it was:

1) they think my brother in law looks like an actor…
2) they think Americans (mainly my brother) are fat.

They did not say that Americans are fat, but from hearing what my sister said about not being able to find large shirts or even large anything for that matter it obviously shows that everything is LARGE in America. My uncle had to rent a car just to pick up my family because although their car is large enough to hold everyone it was not large enough to hold everyone’s luggage.

Some of the things my mom, sister, and brother in law got for me!

People always ask me how Japanese are so tiny, because many think that because they eat so much white rice they wouldn’t be that tiny or healthy. The reason is because as Americans we decide to eat ridiculous portions. I am no health expert, and I am guilty of these large portions, but that’s probably the main reason why we are bigger than Asians. I still find it entertaining though to hear my Japanese grandpa’s only advice to my brother “lose weight, so you can be healthy and live long” My grandpa is in his late 80′s, and still walks around everywhere. I hope I can be as healthy as him when I get older!

Don’t be afraid to go to Japan. My family is only harsh to us, and it’s all out of love, so no worries!

A picture my sister took of Mt. Fuji from her phone.

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Greek Life Bananza

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Katie

With the end of the year coming up things are getting a little crazy. A lot of Greek events are all happening at once!

Next week there are three different philanthropy events going on. It’s Delta Tau Delta’s Trike week, Tau Kappa Epsilon’s Jumpathon, and Lambda Chi Alpha Teeter Totter event. Philanthropy events are ways the houses make money for whatever philanthropy they support! Anytime there is a philanthropy event on campus it is usually a week long event with serenades, food, and so much fun. My favorite part about a lot of philanthropy weeks are serenades! Serenades are when the fraternity who has their philanthropy event will go to the sororities and sing to the house. Usually the brother prepare songs that relate to the house you are in.

Not only are all these events happening next week and weekend, but there are also so many formals! Formals are for Greek houses. It is basically like a prom or homecoming, but way more laid back. Next weekend it is Phi Delta Theta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Alpha Chi Omega, and Sigma Nu formals. I am going to Phi Delta Theta’s formal and it’s in Louisville so I will have to miss some of the philanthropy events, but I guess there is always next year!

Just to add on top of all this next weekend is also Mom’s Day for my sorority Pi Beta Phi and Alpha Phi. The events just keep piling on. You may wonder why I know all these events! I know them all because our Greek life on campus is so involved with each others events and also I have a lot of friends in all the houses! These next few weeks though will be crazy, but at least school is almost over.

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Spring Sports Spectacular

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Katie

If you would have entered Hinkle Fieldhouse at 3 AM in the morning this past Saturday you probably saw something very unexpected. Karaoke, Dance offs, Volleyball finals, Basketball finals and all sorts of other events that would not be happening on a normal Saturday morning.

This past weekend was Spring Sports Spectacular. It’s a twelve hour event where all of Greek life and also Independents get together in order to raise money and support for the Special Olympics. Although it is for a good cause many houses take it very serious and get very competitive. The independent teams are usually very good, because many athletes cannot do Greek life, so a lot of independent teams have division one athletes on their teams!

I was originally suppose to play tennis, but it got rained out. Instead I administered a spelling bee contest, which was terrible. I am terrible at saying large words. Then I played ultimate Frisbee at 4 or 5 AM. Honestly, I don’t remember because of how tired I was and now continue to be. Either way it was so much fun. Next year I plan to do way more events, because it’s fun! Just from Spring Sports there was $5200 raised, which doesn’t include the amount of money from Polar Plunge, which also gets donated to the Special Olympics! I can’t wait until next year to do Spring Sports again.

Here’s a video of Spring Sports Spectacular from two years ago!

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