Not Soap, Radio Phi Mu Edition
October 28, 2009 by Erica
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Sorry I haven’t written in a while, life has kinda been taking over.
I love, absolutely love, getting packages in my school mailbox. I will check my mailbox four times in a day just to make sure I didn’t miss anything. So imagine how psyched I was when there was actually something in my mailbox! My package was a Phi Mu Not Soap, Radio lip gloss and makeup pack. The pack has two rub on lip glosses with Phi Mu designs on the lids, three shimmery tube lip glosses and a small, convenient make up kit. I thought was totally awesome because I like getting things with my sorority’s name on them. Secondly, the shimmery lip glosses will go with my fair skin and third the make up kit is really cute and once again has makeup that will go will with my coloring and hair.
If you are interested in ordering items for your sorority or your little check out, Not Soap Radio.
Erica Meier is a senior at Albion College, a Phi Mu and is convinced her inner child is 5. You can contact Erica at intern@collegelifestyles.org
Sorority Philanthropy Highlight: Delta Gamma Edition
October 18, 2009 by Erica
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Continuing the trend of hilighting NPC sororities’ philanthropies, Delta Gamma is up next. Delta Gamma’s philanthropic mission is to prevent blindness before it occurs. The Delta Gamma Foundations supports Service For Sight Grants that support various organizations in the United States and Canada who help those with dealing with blindness. Between 2008 and 2009, over $110,000 of grant money was given to organizations such as United States Space and Rocket Center (so blind or visually impaired kids could to go to Space Camp), United States Association of Blind Athletes, Blind Childrens Center, Los Angeles, Canadian National Institute for the Blind, National Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments and many more.
One way that Delta Gammas raise money and awareness is to sponsor Anchorsplash. Anchorsplash occurs on over 100 campuses nationwide. Anchorsplash is essentially synchronized swimming done by the Greek community. At Albion College, each fraternity and sorority make a routine in the pool set to music with props, as well as making a sheet sign that goes with the overall theme for that year(and member of the Greek community gets to pick whatever they want as long as it fits the overall theme, and last year the theme was movies that have won an MTV award. Phi Mu picked Men In Black. Also during Anchorsplash, there is a beautiful eyes contest and old eyeglasses are collected.
All information from the Delta Gamma website.
If your campus has Anchorsplash, how does it work? What is involved?
Erica Meier is a senior at Albion College, a Phi Mu, and and loves hot caramel apple cider from Starbucks. She can be contacted at intern@collegelifestyles.org
What Sorority Has 4 National Philanthropies?
October 4, 2009 by Erica
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The answer is Kappa Delta. The philanthropies are the Girl Scouts of the USA, Prevent Child Abuse America, Kappa Delta Orthopaedic Research Awards and the Children’s Hospital in Richmond, Virginia.
Starting in 1998, the Girl Scouts of the USA have been a philanthropy of Kappa Delta. Kappa Deltas serve as troop leaders, or adopt a local troop or host events like campus tours. The Kappa Delta Foundation also contributes $10,000 annually to the Girl Scout Gold Award program.
Since 1981, Kappa Delta has given over $7.1 million to Prevent Child Abuse America, which was founded by a Kappa Delta alumane, Donna Stone. To raise money for Prevent Child Abuse America, chapters of Kappa Delta have ‘Shamrock” events which vary depending on the chapter. The Albion College chapter of Kappa Delta has a ‘Shamrock” all you can eat pancake breakfast with all the proceeds benefiting Prevent Child Abuse America.
In 1947, the Kappa Delta Research Fellowship in Orthopedy (now known as the Kappa Delta Orthopaedic Research Awards) was founded. Every year Kappa Delta gives three awards worth $20,000 each to leading orthopaedic researchers. The Kappa Delta Orthopeadic Research Awards, known as the Nobel Prize of the orthropeadic world has given over $1.1 million to further orthropeadic research for over 60 years.
Kappa Delta has been supporting the Children’s Hospital in Richmond, Virginia since 1921. It is hard to believe that the initial donation was of $1200 for two beds in the hospital and now it has grown to over $2.2 million.
All information is from the Kappa Delta website.
What is your sorority’s national philanthropy?
Erica Meier is a senior at Albion College, a CollegeLifestyles Intern and is totally in love with My Big Fat Greek Wedding. She can be contacted at interns@collegelifestyles.orgSorority Philanthropy Highlight: Children’s Miracle Network
September 26, 2009 by Erica
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The next few blog entries will divert from the life of a student athlete and focus on various sororities philanthropies. Phi Mu’s National Philanthropy is Children’s Miracle Network.
Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) is a non-profit organization that raises funds for 170 children’s hospitals across the country. Every year 17 million children are helped by Children’s Miracle Network and in 25 years, over $3.4 billion dollars have been raised, mostly by donations of a couple dollars at a time. Some of the fundraisers for Children’s Miracle Network are the selling of the red and orange balloons in places like Dairy Queen, Wal-Mart, Costco and Speedway gas stations. Dance marathons are also held by college students across the nation to help raise money for the Children’s Miracle Network.
Donny Osmond and John Schneider formed Children’s Miracle Network in 1983. One really cool thing about the Children’s Miracle Network is that the funds stay where they are raised. Some other corporate sponsors are Sunoco gas stations, Coca-Cola, IHOP, Six Flags, Kroger grocery stores and the Miss America Organization. Their Greek partners are Phi Mu, Zeta Beta Tau, Phi Delta Epsilon, and Phi Kappa Theta.
There are four hospitals affiliated with Children’s Miracle Network in Michigan and they are the Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids, Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Hurley Medical Center in Flint and Sparrow Hopsital in Lansing. If you want to see which hospitals in your state are affiliated with Children’s Miracle Network, go the the Children’s Miracle Network website and search for hospitals by state and or zip code.
If you would like to donate or get ideas for raising money for the Children’s Miracle Network, be sure to check out www.childrensmiraclenetwork.org
All information from the Children’s Miracle Network’s website.
Erica is a senior at Albion College, a CollegeLifestyles (TM) intern and is looking forward to National Philanthropy Day on October 19th. Feel free to contact Erica at intern@collegelifestyles.orgDo you love listening to free music?
September 20, 2009 by Erica
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One of my favorite things about the internet besides Facebook is Pandora.
My best friend introduced me to Pandora a couple years ago and I totally forgot about it until this semester. Pandora is free, streaming internet radio. You have the ability to pick stations and once you register your stations are saved and can be accessed from any computer. I use Pandora when I study because I have to have music on when I am studying. Pandora is also great to use at work because I do computer work, which can boring, so having on music keeps it me on task. My stations are Led Zepplin (which is essentially classic Rock), ABBA radio, Gleenome radio (songs from Glee, which is my new favorite television show!) and the Fray radio.
What are your Pandora stations? Have you found any other free internet radio?
Erica Meier is a senior at Albion College, a CollegeLifestyles (TM) intern, a proud member of Phi Mu sorority and is going to get a dog of her own when she moves of the house. Erica can be contacted at intern@collegelifestyles.orgOn the bench when you would rather be on the field
September 10, 2009 by Erica
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One of my best friends during the season when I can't run
Sometimes being a student athlete isn’t always about running in a meet or playing in a game. For me right now, being a student athlete is about showing up to practice every day regardless of how I feel or that I am unhappy with getting up two hours earlier three days a week. My practice is different than that of my teammates, while they are running workouts in the local park or on the track, I am spending quality time with the stationary bike and elliptical machine in the fieldhouse. Spending all your time on the elliptical or the bike gets old after awhile, but it is necessary because I have been having trouble with my knees for over a year, which prevents me from running long distances or running hard workouts. At times, I feel like I am doing less than my teammates, but it actually takes more motivation to go sit on the bike for the 1000th time than to go run 200s and 400s on the track. I am not saying that my teammates do not work harder, because I know they do, I just wish I could join them. Being injured also means that I can’t run in meets, so instead I take down my teammates splits at the mile marks and cheer them on. Even though I am not physically running the 3.1 miles, I have been told that cheering on my teammates help them. And helping out your teammates is part of being on a team regardless of your ability to run at that very moment. And sometimes sitting on the sidelines is needed and appreciated, and one day you can return to the field, the track and your teammates will welcome you like you never left.
Have you ever any times where you had to sit out of a sport?
Erica Meier is a senior at Albion College, a CollegeLifestyles(TM) Intern and is getting into rock music that is older than she is. Erica can be contacted at interns@collegelifestyles.org
September 2, 2009 by Erica Outside of class being a student athlete and a Greek woman take up most of my time. I think being the position of being an athlete and a Greek is an interesting one, but I would not have it any other way. The first installment in the Student Athlete Corner are the rules for cross country. To start off, there is a difference between cross country and track & field. Athletes will get a little mad if you say they are the same thing. First, cross country takes place in the fall and track& field takes place in the winter/spring (depending on when your semester starts). Cross country has a set distance that is run, while track& field includes running events such as the 100 meter dash and throwing events such as the shotput and javelin. In collegiate cross country (or at least Division 3), women run a 5k (3.1 miles) for the first half of the season, and then for the second half of the season, they run a 6k (3.7 miles). 3.1 miles doesn’t sound like a whole lot, but it has been said that “it is not the three miles that kills you, it is the .1 miles.” The men run an 8k (5 miles) all season long. Cross country courses generally are golf courses or large fields. Depending on the course, there can be hills or woods or both. It is typical for spikes to be worn, to help give traction during the rain, in the mud and up hills. I am quite fond of my bright pink and white Nike spikes. Cross country is one of those sports that take place in any weather except for thunder and lightning. What fall sport should I cover next? August 25, 2009 by Erica I know today is Tuesday but does that really matter? Mondays tend to be my crazy day and here is why: 6am:wake up(yes you read that correctly, 6am, before the sun is up in Michigan), get dressed, stretch, eat a bagel on my way to cross country practice 6:30-7:30am: cross country practice 7:40-8:10: breakfast with my teammates 8:15: shower, get dressed, check my email and get ready for my first class of the year. 9:10-10am: first class of the year-Research In Social Psychology 10-11am break 11:10am-noon: History Of Rock (which might turn out to be my favorite class of the semester. Dude, we get to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for a field trip, how sweet is that?) Noon-12:30pm: Lunch with some lovely Greek ladies 12:30-1pm: Check email and hang out until my class at 1 1:10-2:30pm: Theory and Methods In Anthropology 2:35-3:00: chill out 3:00-3:35: Physical therapy before cross country practice 4:15-5:45: Cross Country practice 5:50-6:15: Dinner 7-8pm: First Phi Mu meeting of the year 8-11:30pm: have a study party, hang out with my friends and watch tv. 11:30pm: Bed time This is just a glimpse into one day of my life. Erica Meier is a senior at Albion College, a CollegeLifestyles(TM) Intern and is glad to be friends and sisters with such wonderful women.
August 18, 2009 by Erica Today is my second day on campus (due to cross country) and it was just one of those days that are interesting and laugh worthy. I went to early morning cross country practice and threw my cellphone and my water bottle in my bag like I always do. I did not realize that my water bottle was open, so my cellphone essentially took a bath for 1 1/2 hours as well as my long sleeved t shirt that was in my bag. While at practice, my running shoes got wet and when I took them off in my room, they were so stinky that I threw them in a plastic bag to prevent the shoes from stinking up my closest. Eventually I ended up throwing my shoes out because they were that stinky! After practice and breakfast, I picked up my books from the bookstore and I realized I ordered the same book twice for two different semesters. Today I also sought out rice in hopes that the dry rice would suck up the remaining water in my phone so that maybe sometime my cell phone will actually work. Now I find these events funny as opposed to woe as me. I definately have days like this and I have learned to laugh at myself because sometimes really they are that funny. If you laugh at yourself and your sometimes bad luck, you will get through life in better spirits and have a really good story to tell at breakfast the next day. Do you have any stories that required you to laugh at yourself? August 14, 2009 by Erica As summer winds down, and returning to college is on the horizon, one begins thinking about packing to return to school. I love Albion College, but packing to go back to school is one of my least favorite things ever. But I have learned a few tips that make packing a lot easier.
1. Use spacebags for big items such as comoforters, sweatshirts and or coats. The great things about spacebags is that it compresses things flat or close as flat as possible, therefore things take up less space. 2. Start packing about a week before you leave for school. This way you won’t be overwhelmed by the sheer amount packing required to return to college. 3. Pack in an organized fashion, ie t shirts all go in one box. 4. Roll your clothes so that you can put more things in each box. 5. Use packing tape and label the boxes with a sharpie. 6. Only bring what you need. I tried to cut down on the number of t-shirts I am bringing to school. 7. Only pack boxes to a weight that can easily be handled. This way you don’t strain your back or risk dropping the box. 8. Wrap breakable things like picture frames in newspaper, it will hopefully will prevent breakage in transit. 9. Bring a tool kit for move-in day, just in case you need to fix something in your dorm room. Happy Packing Everyone!Introducing…the Student Athlete Corner
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