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Extremely Excited

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Katie

I’m extremely excited and blessed to say that I was chosen for two new positions! I will be the new president of College Mentors for Kids next year, and also a Recruitment Counselor! I am so grateful for the opportunities that are coming to me from these two positions!

My interview for College Mentors for Kids was a 45 minute interview. The time of the interview alone scared me enough. The interview was not bad at all, and I’m really excited for the changes that the organization is deciding to take in the coming years. If you don’t know what College Mentors for Kids is, let me explain.

College Mentors for Kids is a nonprofit organization based out of Indianapolis. It was started at Indiana University and it’s mission is to connect college students with the most to give to kids who need it most. As president I will be overseeing a lot that goes on, but also having a lot of communication with headquarters. I’m really excited for this opportunity and to grow a lot as a person and a leader.

I am just as pumped for being a recruitment counselor too! Recruitment Counselors are girls in sororities that chose to give up their letters for a semester so they can be an unbiased opinion for the new girls going through recruitment. At the end of recruitment the girls will all find out what houses we were in. So for next fall I will not say what house I’m in and not blog,tweet,facebook,show what house I am in. Also I have to hide a lot of things on my Facebook, Twitter, and my blog. The freshmen like to figure out what house their recruitment counselor is in and will do anything to find out. This past year I heard that girls went through every single tweet one counselor had to find out what house she was in. Yes, it can get that intense.

Even though I may not be wearing my letters physically I know I am always wearing my letters no matter what.

Tagged: College Mentors For Kids, excited, position, President, recruitment counselor | 2 Comments

Update: Cleansing

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Katie

In a previous post I mentioned my roommate, Rori, and I are going through a cleanse. Just to give you an idea of what we are doing here is our regime.

Day 1/2: Only drink anything with no artificial sweeteners. We have chosen V8 vegetable juice as well as V8 Fusion.
Day 3/4: For Day 3 only vegetables, day 4 you can add fruits.
Day 5: Anything but meat
Day 6: Back to normal

Yes I realize how crazy this may be, but shockingly I’m OK. This morning I thought I would wake up and right away eat a thousand different vegetables, but instead I actually was not that hungry. Oddly enough I think my body is getting used to my crazy habit this week, which I don’t know if this is good or bad… Either way I know that this is doing exactly what I want it to do which is shrink the size of my stomach!

I will say I have noticed some changes such as my lack of energy as well as just zoning out. This experience has not only shown me the willpower I have (I avoided a nacho bar and dessert bar the other night) but also has shown me how much we rely on food. I don’t know if I will cleanse again, but I will say I definitely have never looked forward to vegetables this much in my life.

Random: I know the Harlem Shake thing is getting kind of old, but seriously I love this video just not the team.

Tagged: Cleanse, food, Juice, Natural, V8 | 1 Comment

Pinch Me I’m Dreaming

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Katie

This weekend was insane, and made me just that more happier that I am at Butler. On Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, my sorority had initiation ceremonies! Our main ceremony was on Saturday where we initiated 55 new girls, our largest pledge class ever in Indiana Gamma chapter! It was so exciting that I could finally call my littles my sisters! I was even more excited to give them more gifts!

More gifts for my littles on initiation day!

While this is not exciting I guess it is newsworthy, my roommate and I started our cleanse yesterday! How the cleanse works is three days of drinking natural juices. We chose V8 vegetable juice and V8 fusion since there is no artificial flavoring or high fructose corn syrup. Then two days of fruits and veggies. Then one day of anything but meat, and then I can finally go back to normal. Last night was a definite struggle to stay on this cleanse. Let me explain.

Last night with College Mentors for Kids I was able to go to the Bulls vs Pacers game. We were so blessed to be able to sit in the Indianapolis Power and Light suite! Unfortunately for me that meant having to sit in front of a nacho bar and desserts galore, but I didn’t cheat so I was proud of myself! Being able to watch the game from amazing seats I think helped distract me enough from the food.

PACERS GAME!

I was able to go on the court at halftime, which was amazing. Indianapolis Power and Light as well as the Pacers Foundation donated $10,000 to College Mentors for Kids! Myself and four other College Mentors for Kids staff members were able to help accept the check at halftime! It was awesome! We were also able to see the Bulls team come into the tunnel while we were exiting the tunnel! It was awesome!

On the court at halftime!

I’m so grateful for all the experiences I’ve had at Butler, and to think it’s only my sophomore year!

Tagged: basketball, butler, College Mentors For Kids, Indiana, Indianapolis Power and Light, Initiation, Pacers, Pi Beta Phi | 30 Comments

Here We Go Again

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Katie

It’s that time of year again to sign up for positions in organizations and clubs. I think this time I am going a little more crazy, but I’m excited for whatever opportunities I receive! Here’s the full list of positions I’m considering!

VP or President of College Mentors for Kids
Currently I am Director of Recruitment for College Mentors for Kids. I really love this organization because it takes kids from inner city schools or areas that aren’t the best and provides them with the opportunity to visit a college campus once a week and see that they can achieve anything they set out to do. I have this interview on Monday. It’s 45 minutes long, so I’m slightly nervous!

Recruitment Counselor
A Recruitment Counselor is someone in a sorority who has already been through both sides of recruitment (going through as a potential new member, as well as going through as an active member) who decides that they would like to be a leader for the freshmen who go through next recruitment round. Doing this means that you must disassociate yourself from your house. Basically no one can know that you are whatever sorority you are. I really want to do this because I think it will be so much fun as well as I want the freshmen to experience the best time I had through recruitment, because it can be extremely stressful. I have this interview on Monday as well!

PR/Marketing, Dawg Pound
I’m currently on Dawg Pound as a member of Street Team, but I want to have a higher position. This is based on a majority vote by those in Dawg Pound, so we’ll see what happens. Although I am thinking about applying for a Sports Marketing internship at Hinkle so I’m not exactly sure if I will go through with Dawg Pound. It all depends. Either way I plan to be all over Butler athletics next year!

It’s insane to think that next year is my junior year and that I will be advancing further into the organizations that I have been in since freshmen year. I can’t wait to see what happens!

P.S. IT’S MARCH WHICH MEANS MARCH MADNESS. GET EXCITED!

Tagged: butler, clubs, CMFK, Dawg Pound, organizations, recruitment counselor, Sorority | 15 Comments

The Final Countdown

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Katie

Sorry I have not been blogging lately, things are starting to get a little hectic lately. As many Butler students know Spring Break is just 9 days away. Although it does not seem that way at all. As usual many of us are struggling with the craziness that comes with breaks, which typically means that professors are springing last minute assignments and trying to attack you before Spring Break.

As of right now I am making a daily list of everything that I need to do and crossing it off because having a planner isn’t enough. Even doing this I still feel like there are not enough hours in the day. On top of all the school that is going on this week is initiation week. By the end of this week I will be able to call 55 new members my sisters finally. Although it’s a exciting time it means more crafting must commence! I have been crafting like it’s my job lately, which I can’t tell you what I have been making because then my littles and my guardian angel would know! When I can I’ll try and show you pictures of everything I have made.

Even though all this crazy stuff is going on I’m just trying to stay positive! Here’s an artist that I got recently re- addicted to! I listened to him a lot when he first came out, but forgot about him until he came up on Pandora! Here is Matisyahu!

Tagged: Classes, Initiation Week, Pi Beta Phi, Spring Break | 9 Comments

Ain’t Nobody Got Time For That

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Katie

If you see me around campus or maybe hear me, because I can be really loud sometimes, I usually say “Ain’t Nobody Got Time For That” It’s a phrase that I stole from Sweet Brown, a YouTube sensation. If you haven’t seen the video here it is:

Basically Sweet Brown made me realize that ain’t nobody got time for a lot of things, and a lot of my friends have realized this as well. Recently, many of my friends have been asking, “Katie, what do you have time for?” and my response is there is a list of things I have time for and it’s in a top 5.

#1. Homework
Let’s be honest everybody got time for homework, or at least they should. I am on a scholarship at Butler so if I don’t do homework there’s no more anything for me at Butler, so I really got time for this. Plus I care about my grades either way so even though I may not like it here’s always time for homework.

#2. Butler Basketball or Butler SPORTS in general
If you ain’t got time for butler basketball we honestly can’t be friends. Let me rephrase this if you don’t have time for sports in general we can’t be friends. A lot of people focus on Butler basketball and I will admit I have been a victim to this, but our school has a lot of amazing athletes so really going to any game you should have time for to support your school.

#3. Hanging out with friends and family
I always got time for this. I love my friends and family. They are usually what get me through the day and through school. Whether we are laughing, talking about some serious things, or just hanging out on the weekend I love being with them and always have time for that!

#4. Sleeping
Getting down to basics, if you don’t have time for sleeping you aren’t doing it right. People who say “Oh you will sleep when you die so why are you sleeping now?” WRONG. People don’t want to see me with no sleep it’s not a good time, and I am a feisty person, and ain’t nobody got time for feisty- ness.

#5. Eating
Another basic part of life, but everybody got time for eating. College students who pass up free food baffle me. This is college you know we are broke so eat the free food and make some time to eat!

I apologize for the numerous grammatical errors that are intentionally in this blog, but needless to say if anyone asks me what I have time for I am directing them to this blog, because clearly I got time for things. For all the other shenanigans that’s going on in life one thing is true: AIN’T NOBODY GOT TIME FOR THAT.

Tagged: ain't nobody got time for that, sweet brown, YouTube | 14 Comments

Meet The Newest Members Of My Family!

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Katie

I had three new people to my family this past week! No my sister in law did not have triplets, so let me explain!

On February 14th at 1236 AM my nephew was born! He’s so cute! As I said in my previous blog his name is Stanley Kenji, I think though I’m going to call him by his middle name Kenji because it sounds like he’s a pretty cool guy instead of the Stan the man like my brother insists on calling him. Either way I love him so much already.

My nephew at the hospital!

Last night Pi Phi was finally able to do big little reveal. This is the night where we get to tell new member who their big is! I have two littles and of course to continue on in tradition they are both half Asian! My big is half Asian and I’m half Asian so we make one full white person and one full Asian person and now my littles are the same! I’m so happy I was able finally to tell them. I love big little reveal because I think our ceremony is so awesome! I can’t find pictures right now but the bigs line up on the steps of the bell tower and light a candle, and the littles are behind us and we turn around and do reveal! It’s really pretty to look up the bell tower with all these candles!

All the gifts for my two littles! So much crafting. I'm in the Rockstar family which is the reason for the guitars!

Asian pose with my littles Lindsay and Miranda!

I can’t wait to show more pictures in the future of my littles and my baby nephew! This was an awesome end to last week and beginning of this week!

Tagged: Big Little Reveal, Family, nephew, Pi Beta Phi, Sorority | 15 Comments

Top 5 Songs Right Now

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Katie

If you keep up to date with my blogs you know that I occasionally write a blog about new songs that I can’t stop listening to! Sometimes it’s the artist itself and a lot of their songs or sometimes it’s just one song. Right now here are my top five SONGS that I can’t stop listening to.

#1. Lullabies – Yuna
A found this new application on Spotify called Tunigo and they make playlists to match certain moods or party playlists, basically anything you can think of. The playlist I found this song on is called Hanging Out and Relaxing. This song is just that, relaxing. This singers voice is insane. It’s super easy to study to this song.

#2. Man On The Moon – Kid Cudi
This song isn’t that new at all, but this song also showed up on one of my Tunigo playlists and forgot how much I love it. I love the instrumental on this soundtrack, it’s actually another song called Aquarium that Kid Cudi just laid a verse over. I like both songs without or without the lyrics. Either way I think I’ve been playing this song way too much because people in my hallway are beginning to notice.

#3. Feel Tall – Oncue
I don’t know what it is about this song, but I seriously can’t stop listening to it. I think it’s the chorus because I really like the guys voice at that part. Sometimes songs are really good music to just study to and I love finding rap songs that are easy to listen to while studying.

#4. Pyramids – Frank Ocean
I love Frank Ocean. I don’t know why I just started liking this song, but it’s so awesome. I really like the second half of this song. It’s a 9 minute song but right at the 430 mark it goes into this super chill part that I like. Frank Ocean’s voice is just too smooth and I can’t get enough of it.

#5. Run – Knux ft Kid Cudi
This song is so good to workout to, because it just gets you really pumped up. I’ve never heard of the Knux before Tunigo introduced me to them, but I really like this song! I haven’t heard any of their other songs yet, but I plan on checking them out more!

Tagged: frank ocean, Kid Cudi, knux, music, oncue, yuna | 4 Comments

Today’s the Day!

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Katie

At 335 this morning by brother texted me they were on the way to the hospital which means only one thing, MY NEPHEW IS COMING! His due date was 3 days ago so I feel like it’s about time!

My brother and his wife have two other kids, so I’ve been an aunt for a while. I have a nephew and a niece, Sam and Olivia, but I’m excited for the newest edition. If they didn’t change his name last minute I’m pretty sure his name is going to be Stanley Kenji Cessna. All of the kids have Japanese middle names and typically their first name is a family name. This may sound really bad, but I’m hoping that Stanley looks more Asian than Sam or Olivia. My niece and nephew look completely white. They have really light colored hair and blue eyes.

My nephew!

My niece!

I was the third child and ended up looking the most Asian out of my siblings so maybe that will happen to Stanley! Either way I am still excited whether he looks Asian or not. It’s always fun to have a new baby around. Sam and Olivia are quite the handful, but I’m sure they will help with Stanley a lot!

I don't know if you can tell here, but I look the most Asian between my siblings!

Tagged: brother, Family, nephew, niece, sister | 5 Comments

I Love Being Sick

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Katie

Clearly the title of my blog is an exaggeration. I hate being sick. Currently I have a lot of issues going on! If you don’t want detailed information on my sickness you may want to stop reading…

My roommate thinks I have pink eye because the same thing that happened to her is happening to me. One of my eyes is completely red and I woke up with it basically shut from eye crust. My tonsils are currently so swollen that the thing that is in the back of your mouth that hangs there is touching my tonsils, so that’s fun. Since my tonsils are so swollen it’s making it extremely difficult to even swallow. No worries though I’m still talking, so don’t think you have gotten rid of me yet!

I do feel really bad for the cold dorm right now, because since my nose is stuffed and I can’t really swallow unless I really think about I’m snoring extremely loud, but I can’t help it! Hopefully I can go to the doctors ASAP, because this is probably the worse feeling. On top of being sick I have my first Spanish test on Wednesday, so this should be fun studying for.

Anyway enough of my complaining, keep your head up everyone. It is only Monday after all.

Tagged: doctors, monday, pink eye, sick, tonsils | 4 Comments

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