Halloween Week

Week in Review: A Reflection of October 29 – November 4

 Halloween week we had a hypnotist perform at the West Bend campus. I talked to some students who had seen him at the Fond du Lac campus the previous day and came to see the show again in West Bend. I volunteered to be hypnotized, my first time ever. People asked me what it was like. I say, it was actually pretty relaxing. People I saw in the hall were talking about it to me days afterwards.

I already celebrated Halloween earlier in the month, so besides taking my nephew trick-or-treating, it didn’t really feel like Halloween. It’s a shame it’s so cold already. All the kids had to wear jackets.

On Wednesday we got to play with some older technology used for transcription in one of my classes. They have foot pedals and play cassette tapes. It’s fun to see how things were done in the past. For our assessment, however, we’ll be using more up-to-date techniques for transcription.

I still volunteer at a nonprofit once every other week, so on Friday I was working on a display. I was able to use some advanced features in Microsoft Office programs, and I learned more about the copy machine.  Those things can do so much stuff automatically! A few weeks ago I scanned some pages and it automatically sent the pages wirelessly to a specific folder on the network.

I spent some time this past week choosing classes for the spring 2013 semester. I’ll be registering soon. It looks like I’ll be taking some traditional and online classes and maybe a winterim class. Wow, that registration date sure comes up quickly!

Looking Forward to an Awesome October

Week in Review: A Reflection of September 24 – 30

September has been a very busy month, and I imagine October will be more of the same. However, I am nearing the end of my accelerated Principles of Accounting class. It’s an eight-week course that started at the end of August. I’m pretty excited to have Wednesday nights free again soon; especial since the new fall TV shows have just started.

At the end of October I am going to the Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities (APCA) Programming Conference in Iowa with some MPTC Student Senate members. At the conference we’ll get to check out entertainment acts we think students will like so we can have the acts perform at our campus in the future. I’m not quite sure what the weekend all entails since I’ve never been to anything like this before. I’ll be sure to take photos and video and tell you all about it when I come back.

The week before I go to the conference, I’ll be hosting my annual Halloween party. Everybody dresses up and we play BINGO for prizes. I’ve got my Halloween costume put together already. I won’t tell you what it is, but I will say that I have purple gloves that go up to my elbows.

The only downside to October is all this leaf raking that needs to be done. Can’t we just vacuum them off the tree? No? Okay, I’ll go back to raking now.