Younger Brother Graduated

This past Saturday my younger brother, Chris, graduated from high school. It is pretty cool because he was the last person left in my family to graduate. Our high school is called Rivendell Academy, and even though we live in VT, the high school is located in NH.

Anyway, I am sure that everyone was happy with the length of the graduation. My graduating class last year had 52 graduates, but this year there were only 41. At this year's graduation there were also over $350,000 worth of scholarships given out to students! For a small school in NH, and a school graduating only 41 students, this amount in scholarship cash is quite impressive! :D

We had a huge party at my house after the graduation because it wasn't simply my brother's graduation party, but it was also my dad's birthday party AND my grandfather's birthday party. My dad is now 43, and my grandfather is now 80. Wow... with writing these numbers now I just realized that the age gap between my father and I is only 23 years, but the age gap between my father and my grandfather is a whopping 37. :D It is because my dad grew up in a family of 14 though, and he is one of the youngest in that family.

Well, I think that is all I have for right now. I have been looking for places that are hiring, but I never thought it would be this difficult to find a job over the summer. Nobody seems to be hiring right now, and it sucks because I really want a summer job.

My Fall 2009 Schedule

I am currently on summer vacation, but this is what my schedule will look like when I go back to Vermont Tech. for the fall 2009 term. I am really really really looking forward to it! :D

Yay! I Finally Got my License! (About damn time!)

Our Backyard - Pool & Apple Trees

I had my driving test on May 26th, and I managed to pass the test without a problem! I FINALLY got my license! I should have actually had it about 3-4 years ago, but a surgery that I had kept me from getting it for a few years. In the picture above you can also see my vehicle. It is the silver 2002 Hyundai Santa Fe, and it should be all registered and ready to drive legally on Wednesday. :D

I applied for a job at Staples in West Lebanon yesterday, and I might apply for a job at Best Buy later today. Now that I have a year of college under my belt, and good grades, it should be relatively easy to get a job at one of these places. Best Buy would be paying me $8.50 an hour, but Staples would be paying me $9.50 an hour. I actually have more interest in Best Buy as a store, but if Staples is going to be paying me more, for pretty much the same work, than I would much rather work there.

Also, I mean to update this blog at least once a week, but I have been relatively busy the past few weeks making sure that I was prepared for my driving test, and getting everything in order for job applications. As mentioned above, I have applied for Staples and plan on applying to Best Buy, but I very well might apply to one or two other places to make sure that I can get a job over the summer. I plan on taking at least half of the money that I make over the summer and sending it directly to my college loans, and that should still leave me with plenty of money to spend on whatever I want AND of course necessary things like gas for my vehicle etc...

The picture above is one of about 60 that I took of our backyard. I will likely be using a couple of these photos over the summer to post on my blog. I think that this is really all I have to post for now, but I should be getting calls for interviews soon, so I will be sure to post when I have more information. :D

A Lazy Day at Home

It feels weird to be suddenly taken away from the busy life. It is nice having nothing to do sometimes, but I also can't help but feel like I could be a bit more productive. I have gone through my first year of college, and it was a busy year. Now that I am home it feels like I have nothing to do. I plan on updating my resume later today, and then possibly applying to Best Buy over the internet.

Because of a couple of surgeries I had a while back I wasn't able to get my license when I should have. I have been going far too long without having a license, so I am relieved to FINALLY have a driving test scheduled for May 26th. I should be able to pass it without a problem because I think that I am actually a pretty good driver. Not having my license already is what is holding me back right now. It really sucks because I wanted to get out and start working immediately, but I don't have the transportation yet. I already have my own vehicle though. It is a silver 2002 Hyundai Santa Fe. When I apply to different places over the next week or so I need to make sure that I let them know that I won't have proper transportation until May 26th. It is good to be honest on applications, and this would avoid having them set up an interview time that wouldn't work for me.

Well that is all I got for now. I am going to try to keep this blog going throughout the summer months to make sure that it stays strong. :D

Yay! My First Year of College is Complete!

GRAND FINALE!!!

I meant to update this on Wednesday because that was officially my last day for this school year, but I had a hard time uploading the video above. I had a GREAT first year at Vermont Tech! I am glad that I chose a school that pushes students to be all that they can be. It seems like yesterday that I was moving into the college, and now I am already on my 2nd day of summer vacation. It is CRAZY how fast time flies by when you are constantly kept busy. I know that this first year was the easiest of them all. I know that next year I will be, yet again, faced with new challenges to overcome.... and I am REALLY looking forward to it.

My last few days at Vermont Tech (for my first year) were extremely stressful because of having to simultaneously pack my stuff to go home AND study for my final exams. I only had three final exams, but two of them I spent a lot of my time preparing for as I watched the clock quickly tick its way down. I am happy to have completed my first year of college because it gives me great amounts of pride knowing that I am first generation college student and have already made it this far. I know that I will miss my college friends over this long four month vacation, but I also feel like this 'extended' vacation is well needed.

My first year of college. It was definitely a time that I will never forget. I have met a large group of amazing and unique people who have made me laugh countless times. People who are true to who they are, and people that share the same passion for both music and technology that I do. I got to see Lowell Sanders and Rusty Dewees, two extremely funny stand-up comedians, a famous sword swallower who has been on Ripley's Believe it or Not!, a French comedian/juggler, and even two live bands that did an AMAZING job of ROCKing out at Vermont Tech.

I also got to go to an Eve 6 concert with three of my college friends. It was my first concert, and the band playing is the same famous band that does the song I marched out to (Here's to the Night) at my high school graduation. Not only did I get to see this band, but I got to be smashed up against the stage during their whole performance. I even had several close calls with being hit by the lead guitarist's guitar because of how close I was.

It was a great year. It was stressful, but I have learned that my dreams truly are a possibility. I have learned so much during this first year. I have built a robotic car that can detect collision and turn itself around, and even a small amplifier that can channel a signal from a microphone through a piece of fiber-optic wire and out to a speaker. I have experienced a new level of education. I am more proud now than I have ever been, but I know that this is simply the beginning. I look forward to the day when I receive my Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering Technology from Vermont Tech. It will be the proudest day of my life.

The video above is the grand finale of the end-of-the-year fireworks display on Tuesday night at Vermont Tech. I managed to pick my camera up at the PERFECT time to catch the whole grand finale. The screaming you hear throughout the video belongs to countless students on campus (that are nowhere near my camera by the way) who are extremely proud to be where they are. I share the same feeling. :-)

LAST WEEK OF CLASSES IS OVER! :-D

Cool Wall Design Displaying a Computer Chip (Morrill Building)

Wow! It is hard to believe, but my last week of classes for my first year of college has come to an end! I have a final exam for Fundamentals of Circuits II on Monday, a final for C-Programming on Tuesday, and a final exam for Intro. to Technical Math II on Wednesday.

Over the next few days I will be focusing on packing and studying. I know that on Tuesday night there is supposed to be an end-of-the-year fireworks display. I am hoping that my camera is able to take decent photos of the fireworks. I know that my old one simply couldn't do it.

I am sure that I will do well on my C-Programming and Fundamentals of Circuits II exams. I am confident with my math skills, but I know that my math exam is going to require the most preparation. It basically covers all of the math topics for the whole school year, so it is tough to know just how much of what is going to be on the final. I plan on spending a good portion of my time on Sunday to review all of my notes, and then of course do the same thing on Tuesday night.

Also on Tuesday night is a math review session that covers many different subjects in math. I plan on going to this because I have an 80 in my math class, and I want to see if I can make it go up even more by doing the absolute best I can on this final exam.

Well, that is all I have for now. This is the first weekend that I have stayed on campus instead of going home for the weekend, so maybe tomorrow I will get some more pictures for a couple of posts next week.

Week 29 - Final Class Week!

Solar Vehicle - Vermont Public Interest Research Group

It is crazy to look back at how quickly this school year has gone by! I am proud to have already made it through my first year of college. As a first generation college student this is a huge step forward. I am already looking forward to coming back in late August to start my second year. This week is looking like it is going to be a relatively easy week, but I know that this is simply because it is a review week for next week's final exams. I have 4 exams spanned out from Monday to Wednesday, and then I get to go home for summer vacation on Wednesday night! I enjoy being here at Vermont Tech, and I am sure summer vacation is going to seem like it is just dragging on as I will likely be anxious to get back to school. :-)

The picture above is of a solar vehicle that actually produces enough energy for 3 energy-efficient homes. It is owned by the Vermont Public Research Interest Group and part of the reason why they were on campus is that they wanted to spread awareness about the Green Mountain Yankee power plant. A meeting, or a vote, is supposed to take place sometime soon that will determine whether or not the plant is allowed to run for another 20 years. VPIRG is trying to get the plant to be shut down because it has a history of creating radioactive waste. It was pretty cool to see a vehicle that can actually power 3 homes. According to the drivers the solar panel array on the truck is only about $23,000. This is actually extremely affordable when you consider that the extra energy you don't use can actually be sold back to the grid for a profit, and there are also federal tax incentives. :-)

Well, that is all I have for today. I will likely post again this week since it is the last class week of the school year.

Week 28 - Living in Old Dorm Next Year!!!

"Rock Wall Around Hartness Library"

Only a week and a half remains for my first year of college! This year has been a great success, and I am quite proud to have already made it this far! This week has not only been going by fast, but has also been going quite well.

Vermont Tech held room lottery last night in the Judd Gym, and I managed to get into the best dorm building on campus! I will be living in Old Dorm next year in room 201! Old Dorm gets its name because it is simply the oldest dorm building on campus. It has the largest rooms, and all the furniture is movable. This is HUGE plus for most people.

The furniture in the other buildings is attached to the wall someway or another, so you don't have any real freedom as to how your room is arranged. Old Dorm is also much closer to the buildings where classes take place than Keenan is. Instead of having to walk clear across campus to go to all of my classes I will only have to walk a relatively short distance. The only trip that is going to be lengthened will be my trip to the dining hall for lunch and dinner every day. The thing is: I walk to classes 3-5 times a day. I only have to walk to the dining hall up to twice a day and that is IF I am planning on eating there.

Anyway, I had my second Fundamentals of Circuits II exam today. I think that I did quite well on it, but I haven't gotten my grade back yet. I know that I got all of the bonus questions correct. My favorite bonus question was: "If a ripe tomato is red, and a train leaves Chicago at 60 MPH, what is the value of 2^4?" I still laugh about it on and off... :-)

I have a Tech. Math exam tomorrow that includes some of the stuff covered last semester AND everything that we have gone over in class since the last exam. I am confident that I will do quite well on this exam since the material covered is based on the same exact concepts that we have been covering in circuits all semester. I have been doing a pretty decent job in class, so I am sure that I will do well on this exam. So yup, one more exam this week followed by my last normal week next week, and then a 3-day week of final exams then...

SUMMER VACATION!!!

Week 27 is Flying By!

The weather has been amazing all week! It is nice to know that summer is quickly approaching! I know that this year has seemed to fly right by. I think it is because of how busy the college keeps me with the amount of homework I get.

Anyway, I turned in the rough draft for my research paper today. It is currently 8 pages long without including the 'works cited' page. It is good to know that I don't have to worry about it for now since the final draft isn't due for a couple more weeks. I think that I only have a week left of Research Writing because the final class week is actually going to be used for individual conferences with each and every student between all of the different sections. It will be nice because it means that the week before finals I will have 5 hours cut from my schedule for that week.

Next Monday I have a presentation due that is supposed to be based on my research paper. I have been researching the planet Mars and what steps mankind must take in order to explore Mars and eventually colonize it. It will be interesting because, while some people are given a week to do this assignment, I have only this weekend to complete it. I hate sign-up sheets because it is always obvious which time slots are going to be filled up first and it is unfair to those that get to look at the sheet after everyone else has. The sign-up sheet had time slots for each Research Writing class period of next week, and to no surprise I was stuck with Monday.

I don't have a problem at all with having to do so much work. Sure, sometimes it gets out of hand, but the education gained makes it more than worth it. There are also only two class weeks left, but my last week of Research Writing will be next week. I am also psyched about having my last final exam on Wednesday, May 6th instead of Friday, May 8th. It means that my vacation starts a couple of days early. :-)

Note: The picture above is of the parking lot between the Morey, Keenan, and S.H.A.P.E buildings. Now that all the snow is gone I am able to simply cut across this parking lot for faster access to the campus snack bar, which sure as hell beats walking all the way around the parking lot! :-)

Start of Week 27 - A Busy Busy Week

This week is a super busy week. I have an 8-10 page research paper due on Wednesday on space exploration and the importance of spreading life. I know that the next few weeks are going to be insane since those few weeks are all I have left before summer vacation. I have a 1-hour exam coming up in both Intro. to Technical Math II, and one Fundamentals of Circuits II before actually taking the final exam for all of my classes. Right now it looks like my final day of my first year of college will be on Wednesday, May 6th. This means that my vacation starts two days earlier because my last exam is on that Wednesday. :-)

It has been an extremely busy school year, and I love it. The time has gone by so much faster than it ever did in high school, so before I know it I will have a job in the Burlington area doing what I love to do.

Well, I have a lot of stuff that I need to be doing right now, but I might post on Thursday or Friday since I will be swamped through Wednesday due to my research paper.

Also, the picture above is one I took of the campus snack bar. I edited it with Photoshop to make it look cooler. :-)

End of Vacation - Start of Week 26!

"Pascal's Triangle - Conant Building"

It is hard to believe it, but my first year of college is almost over! While stress from any college is inevitable, I have found that my first year was actually filled with more fun from learning countless new things then it was from college stress, and this is how education should be.

It is crazy, but it is already the beginning of my 26th week. This means that I only have 4 weeks left of classes, and then a week of final exams! As much as I love being here, at Vermont Tech, I am looking forward to my summer vacation. It is just over a month longer than the summer vacation that I am used to from elementary school to high school, so it will actually be the longest summer 'vacation' I have had since before I started pre-school! :-)

I hope to get a job at Best Buy over the summer. It would be nice to work at a store in which the products I have always known a lot about. I actually applied to Best Buy last summer, and managed to get my first job interview, but I think that they didn't want to hire me because I was starting college in just a few weeks, and the application process probably would've taken longer than that. I was also nervous during my job interview, but maybe when I go in again I will do a much better job. I would really like to work there, but if I can't then I will seek employment elsewhere.

I have to run off to C Programming now.... I have an exam in that class today that I should actually do quite well on. :-D

Week 25 - Next Week is Vacation! :-D

"View of Walkway from Conant Building Window"

It is hard to believe, but it is already my 25th week of college at Vermont Tech! I have the rest of this week of classes, but then I have all of next week off for vacation! When I come back I will have 4 weeks left of classes for the year, and then a week of final exams.

On Thursday I have an exam in Intro. to Technical Math II, and I am pretty sure that I am going to do a horrible job on this one. I have tried going through all of the old homework problems to see is I can make it finally click, but I think that I need to visit Student Support Services down in the Conant building to get some math help.

The exam covers three chapters in our math book. It is pretty much based on "Solving and Proving Trigonometric Equations." I should add that doing this seems extremely difficult for me right now, but I know that once I get it down as a process that I should quickly become better at solving these math problems.

The toughest thing about the exam is going to be having only an hour to solve all of the problems that will be on it. It is extremely easy when working with Trigonometric Identities to run into a "mental block" and simply waste your time by staring at the problem instead of trying to solve it. Another serious problem is how you never know which way is the right, or easier, way of solving the problem. You could very well spend 10-20 minutes working on a problem only to discover that your method will not work.

Well, enough about my math exam. I was also given a "take-home" exam from Digital Circuits II which is due Thursday, and I am expected to have an exam in C Programming the Monday after I get back from my upcoming vacation. Exams are so much fun! :-|

Well, that is all I have for now. I won't post tomorrow night because I am going to have to study for my math exam, but I may post Friday if not on Thursday. Looking forward to my vacation!!!

Jamming in Old Dorm

"Keenan Hall & Morey Hall"

I have been playing guitar for over 8 years now, so it is something that I not only enjoy doing, but have developed into a lifestyle. I am obsessed with playing, and I really enjoy playing with other people. I went down to Old Dorm around 8 o'clock today to play with one of my college friends, and play a requested song for another one.

My classes have been going pretty well. My last math exam (#2) was given back to me and I managed to score a 79% on it, so I am quite happy with what I got. I have a very scary math quiz tomorrow that is based on fundamental trigonometric identities and graphing trigonometric functions. I really hope that I am able to keep up my average and surprise myself by performing well on what must be the scariest quiz of the year. I know that I am not alone though. I know that the majority, if not all, of the students in the class are lacking confidence.

I will try to post at least once or twice more this week. If you look in the picture I took you can see that the snow is quickly starting to melt. When all the snow has disappeared I will have plenty of pictures to take which means that I will have plenty of blog posts to make. :-D

Holy Crap It is Week 23 Already!

"My PS3 and the Best Game Ever Created for any System"

I was pretty stressed out last week, so unfortunately I completely forgot to update my blog. I am confident that once the snow disappears I will have plenty of things on campus to take pictures of and write about.

Anyway, last week I had my first Fundamentals of Circuits II exam, and my 2nd Intro. to Technical Math II exam. I did well on my circuits exam. I received an 82 on it, and I would have probably received a 90 if I wouldn't have foolishly recognized an inductor as a resistor. I was doing so well on the exam that I just kept blazing through it. The exam was early in the morning, and thanks to the drunken assholes on my floor who like to kick my door at 2 o'clock every morning I usually don't get enough sleep.

They do it every morning, right at 2 o'clock. It is a game to them. They kick my door and then run away like little middle school girls, so I have yet to see who exactly has been doing it. I have boot prints on my door. I took pictures of the prints, and placed a sign on my door "advising" them to stop. If their BS continues I plan on submitting my photos of their boot prints to security, and asking the Resident Director of my dorm building if we can have a floor meeting about what they have been doing, and to determine who has been doing it.

I am not a security type of person, but they keep running away, and if I don't know who is doing it then I don't know who to ask in person to please stop. People don't realize that I am an extremely busy, and easy-to-like, kind of person. Hell, if I knew who they were I would play some guitar for them or something to make them realize that it is wrong for them to be kicking my door at 2 o'clock in the morning. No one's door should ever be kicked, but maybe if these people got to know me better they wouldn't be acting so stupid. It is too bad that they are too cowardly to show me who they are. I am strong mentally, and weak physically... they have nothing to fear from me. Unless they really want me to start writing letters to the college, they have nothing to worry about. I am already planning on talking to my Resident Assistant, my Resident Director, and directly to Campus Security. I will do everything it takes to make it stop, but it is up to them whether or not I will do so peacefully.

On another quick note: 2 WEEKS AFTER THIS THEN A WEEK OFF!!!! YAY!!! :-D

End of Week 21 - Home for Another Weekend

"4 of my guitars"

Yup. It is hard to believe, but my 21st week of college is now over. I have been coming home every weekend since the beginning of the school year because it is nice to have a break at the end of each week.

Time to appraise my math professor. :-D

Today I got a quiz back in my math class. It was a quiz that I had taken last week, and I actually received an 89 on it! My math professor does a phenomenal job with teaching math topics to people who haven't really had much experience with them. The 89 that I received was on a quiz based on material that I had never seen just a week before the quiz. When my math professor is explaining new things to us it seems like everything she says makes perfect sense. She carefully walks us through each step and she explains everything she does along the way. I suppose that it helps that she isn't technically a Mathematician, but instead an Electrical Engineer. Her profession is very similar to the one that I am working towards. This helps because she thinks and talks the same way that I do, so it makes her the perfect math instructor for me. I have a math exam next Thursday, but I am confident that I can do well on it. :-D

Well, that is pretty much all that is new with me right now. I plan on enjoying my weekend, and I will soon be starting my 22nd week of college! I don't think that I have to say that I am quite proud of myself. I have a long ways to go, but I am not complaining one byte.... or even a bit! :-D

Turned in LOADS of Circuits Homework!

A student in my circuits class and I completed a bunch of homework that we were missing, and I turned mine in today. I should be all caught up on all of my work now. It is a huge relief to finally have the homework out of the way. I should have done it as it was assigned, but unfortunately I ended up being extremely stressed out for the longest time, and I found that I couldn't think correctly in order to do my homework on time. It is all complete now though!

This picture here is of the "Green" building at Vermont Tech. This is where the majority of my classes usually take places, and this is also the building where the Electronics Labs are. This building is HUGE, and it also has a pretty cool walkway (currently buried) heading up to the main entrance. :-D

A Very Lucky First Day Back From Vacation!

"Outside of the Admissions Building"

Today has been going great, and for the first class day after a vacation I couldn't ask for anything better. I ended up getting lucky because, not one, but two of my classes were canceled today! Both English and Math were canceled, so I only had Fundamentals of Circuits II and a C Programming Lab. My 2-hour English lab for tomorrow was also canceled which means that I only have 2 hours of classes tomorrow! This also means that my busiest day this week will be Friday which is only 4 hours of class time. :-D

I still have a fair amount of circuits work to catch up on, so I am going to be using the time that I would normally be in classes to get caught up. I have an optional quiz in circuits on Wednesday, but the deal is that if we take this quiz and do better than ANY other quiz we have taken previously then it will replace that lower quiz grade! It is a no-brainer for me to take the quiz because there was one quiz that I took that I didn't do too well on. I am sure that I can do well on this quiz though.

In other news, I made a dvd with some recordings of Roderick Russell's latest show at Vermont Tech and a video of me playing "Hells Bells" by AC/DC, and they are going to be broadcast on the school's TV station! Pretty cool eh?

That is all I have for now. I might go down to The Rat later. The Rat is actually now, officially, known as the "Tortilla Express," but since I think that is one of the dumbest, most uninteresting, names ever I refuse to call it by its new name! Sure, some people wouldn't want to eat at a place that is called "The Rat," but they also don't have any Mexican food except for nachos really... :-D

╔╩╦╩ VACATION!!!! ╩╦╩╗

"Roderick Russell in a Straight Jacket and 80 foot Chain"

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I completely forgot to mention on this blog that I have this whole week off!!!! I have been extremely busy in school recently. My courses are far more challenging this semester than last semester, and my new schedule is something that I am still adapting to. While I have been doing an awesome job in all of my other classes, recent events, not to be mentioned here, have caused my circuits grades to slip dramatically. The homework usually requires my full concentration, but I haven't been able to focus on it because a lot of stress has been getting in my way. I shouldn't allow outside stress to affect my education, but as a freshmen it is still something that I need to learn how to cope with.

I know that it is vital in terms of my education, and my career, to not let stress get in the way of my performance. I have decided to dedicate a good portion of my vacation to getting caught up in all the work that I have missed in my circuits class, including 2 lab reports that need to be typed. There is no debate about how I should spend my vacation. I should have completed the work when it was asked of me. Now that I am in a much clearer state of mind I need to take this divine opportunity to catch up on all of my missed work. One thing is for sure, when I go back to college after vacation, improving my work habits in the presence of stress is going to be my top priority.

My other courses seem to be going pretty well right now. Math is so much better this semester than it was last semester. My new professor is actually an Electrical Engineer, so she really speaks my language. She is also a really cool and nice person, and that is just one of the many things that makes her a great teacher. All of the subjects that are covered in this semester's math course are explained in detail. It is not that we spend a lot of time learning new things, it is actually the fact that we don't have to spend a lot of time learning new things now. Everything just makes sense. Math was my biggest worry about the major that I chose. I am in Vermont Tech's toughest major. It is the toughest because it relies the most on math. The math course that I am currently taking gives me a huge boost of confidence that I can be very successful at Vermont Tech. My circuits grades are really scaring me right now, but that just means that I am going to work my ass off to make things better! :-D

The biggest thing that I have learned so far this semester is that I can't let stress hold me back. I need to learn how to cope with it. College is going to stress me out. I need to learn how to handle this stress before it really starts to mess with my career. With today's economy I feel that I really need to get my Bachelors Degree. The fact that I am in the toughest major at my college will further increase how proud I will be of myself when I successfully graduate from Vermont Tech.. :-D

I will probably post again on the Sunday that I get back to my college. I really wish that I could post on this blog as much as I used to, but I will be able to once I get back on track. I hope that any Vermont Techie's that are reading this are also having a great, and very much needed, vacation. See ya Sunday!

Concert Was Awesome!

Sorry for taking so long to post, but I have been extremely busy at school lately. I wanted to let everyone know that the Eve 6 concert was AWESOME. I got to stand directly in front of the stage the whole time, and I was only a few feet from the lead guitarist! I took a bunch of pictures of the band, and I was even able to record some video footage. The footage that I got came out really good, but the sound quality is bad because my camera's microphone couldn't handle it. The concert was a lot of fun. I am hoping that I do something like this again soon. :-D

In other news, Roderick Russell, the sword swallower/magician, will be back at the college tomorrow to do another act. This time I should be able to actually record his whole performance now that I have a camera that does video! I will hopefully post that tomorrow night...

Going to an Eve 6 Concert Tonight!

Tonight I will be going to see the band "Eve 6" perform live at the Pickle Barrel in Killington, VT. I know that it is going to be a lot of fun. They are a pretty good band. They actually do the song "Here's to the Night" which is awesome because that is the song that was played as the marching out song at my graduation. It will be really cool to see them live. This will be the first concert that I have ever been too, so I am really looking forward to it. I will actually be leaving in about an hour to go to it. :-D

Anyway, I haven't had enough time to post to the blog for over a week now because things have been keeping extremely busy, but everything is going great. Vermont Tech will be bringing Roderick Russel (sword swallower/magician) back to the school for his second show. Now that I have a new camera that can record video I plan on recording it and then posting his act on this blog..... hopefully this will make up for me not posting in a while.... :-D

If you would like to listen to "Here's to the Night" just follow this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P-ZteihW60