Blog 4

This year marks the fifth year that I have attended this prestigious university. For some odd reason each and every year the University of South Dakota raises the amount of green backs required of me to keep going here. But do I complain? Of course not, because with all of those tuitation hikes we have been assured that the University would spend the money on the best of student services. What services you might ask, well let me tell you. For starters wrap your mind around this. Division One. BOOYAH! That’s right we are now considered a Division One school, for starters that means we get to compete against those darn Jack Rabbits over in Brookings. Before we made the change to Division One I believe that the vast majority of students at USD felt like the change to Division One needed to be made to keep the school able to recruit as many new and incoming freshman as possible. They made the change to Division One, since then we have been getting a new Business School, a new Medical Facility, and even a brand new Student Center. I have even been hearing wild rumors regarding a new and improved athletic facility to take the place of the dome. I have even heard that the new athletic facility will have a ice hockey rink, this might even allow the University to raise up the hockeys team expectations and finally fully support them. It might also allow for maybe drunken ice skating. That is when you get really drunk and attempt to ice skate with your buddies. Maybe even play a game of ice ball, or ice broom, or really pretty much any kind of fun ice battle game.
Homecoming is coming up, or as the locals/ students / everybody calls it, “D-Days.” Now I think that stands for Dakota Days; and it is usually a pretty good time. The week is a lot better for those of us who are over the age of twenty one, it is a little safer walking the streets inebriated if you have permission from the state to drink legally. The bars do get way to crowded for my taste; all the alumni come down to watch the football game and that really makes the bar crowd a hellava lot older. Grey hairs all over the place, cougars, cougars and more cougars. That week should be a challenging one regardless because of the tests I will be having that week. You would think that teachers would know that it is probably one of the worst times of the year for studying or testing or even quizzes for that matter. However I am looking forward to that guest speaker that Lee Anne is bringing down. It is always fun to hear great poetry from different sides of the country. I hope that we get some speakers in who read and or write in a style similar to Charles Bukowski, in fact I hope we get to read him sometime this semester as I believe that his style is very confessional in form.