A Daydream Believer and a Homecoming Queen!

This past weekend was a really fun one- our annual Homecoming and Parent's Weekend! So many exciting events took place, it was jam-packed and I barely got any sleep!

Friday started out with my family's fourth time playing Family Bingo. The Student Activities Council puts on this event each year and my parents love it! There were awesome prizes up for grabs like a Flipcam, gift cards and movies but we were unlucky! However, we did have a lot of fun, it's always great to have my family on campus and mix together my real family and my school family!

Saturday's events began with the 5K Race that the Student Alumni Association has been planning for months! The weather on Saturday was absolutely awful but we still had 30 runners participate which was a huge success since this was our first year doing this event! We began the race in the heart of campus in Garvey Park. The runners lined up and on ready, set, go, the bell in the center of our campus was rung by one of our club members!

Then, the runners were off, headed on a tough course wrapping around campus and then on some surrounding streets. One of our professors, Dr. Von Thaden won the race! We concluded the event with a small awards ceremony highlighting a few people which included top Mercyhurst student and top Mercyhurst alumnus!

Saturday's events grew more and more exciting as the football game arrived! Earlier this month I was nominated for Homecoming Queen and placed onto the ballot. I then was notified that I had received enough votes to be one of the four girls on the Homecoming court! I was very excited for this! Before the football game, two of my roommates and I were invited to the alumni tailgating event because we are members of the Student Alumni Association. It was a lot of fun to see so much Mercyhurst spirit in one place! All of the alumni were really happy to be back on campus and seeing old friends again (it kind of hits home that that's going to be me next year!). After the tailgating, I ran home to put on my dress and made my way over to the tailgating tent held especially for the homecoming court.

At halftime, the entire court walked to the center of the field and they announced our names, majors, hometowns and future plans as we walked across the field. We each had with us a white box and in the box was a balloon.

Once we were at our places on the field, the announcer instructed us to open our boxes. The winning court members had a white balloon distinguished from the other people's green balloons. When I opened my box, I was VERY surprised and excited to see my white balloon! I was then crowned by 2011's queen, Amber and this year's king was crowned by last year's king, Dave.

Shane McCabe was the crowned king which was really exciting for the two of us because we have been friends since the very first day of freshman year! We were both very honored to have been given this title!
Check out the Merciad our school newspaper to read all about it!

All in all, this past weekend was SO much fun! It's really hard to believe that next year, I will be the "old queen" who comes back to crown the new one and I will be coming back to Mercyhurst as an alumnus and taking part in alumni activities!

As I quoted in this week's issues of the Merciad, "it's moments like this that I will always remember and hold as special Mercyhurst memories."





I will leave you with a lovely message from a fortune cookie:
"Whatever you want to do, do it- there are only so many tomorrows"