Who loves BINGO? SU does!

Tonight I went with my best friend Nicole to the Phi Beta Lambda Ultimate Bingo.  Usually, I wait until the Mission:I’m Home Bingo in the spring to get out all of my bingo energy, but this year I thought about trying my luck early.  As usual, I didn’t win a thing, but Bingo is SO much fun that it didn’t even matter.

One lucky guy walked out of the BINGO with a digital camera and two of those NYC trip tickets I have been raving about.  Wanna know what else you missed out on?  A Buffalo Wild wings basket, a Ravens basket, a Pimlico VIP package for 10, Washington Wizard tickets, over $300 in gift cards and so much more!  It’s a shame that I still didn’t pull out a win.  Maybe this year I will win some Vera!  Stay tuned for some more Bingo during the spring semester.

Resume Help

• Walk-in Wednesdays are back!  Stop
  by Career Services (located on the first floor of Wooded Way) on
  Wednesdays from 1-4pm to have your resume critiqued.  No
  appointment necessary!
• Never written a resume?  No
  problem!  Stop by Wooded Way on Thursdays at 3pm for a
  30-minute resume workshop open to students from all majors.

On Campus Programs

• Career Carnival, October
  19th
• Cooking Up Careers, October 13th,
  October 27th & November 10th
  
• Fall Internship & Career Fair
  and Mock Interviews–Wednesday, November 2nd.  Click on Career Events and Fall
  Internship & Career Fair to view a list of participating
  organizations.
• Graduate School Symposium,
  November 16th
  
• Nursing Career Fair–November
  29th.

Off Campus Programs

Interested in a
Career in Students Affairs?
Careers in Student Affairs Conference

Friday, October 7, Towson University
Register here:  http://www.naspa.org/regions/regionii/default.cfm

You heard it – U.S. News Names Stevenson University a 2012 “Up-and-Comer” in Annual College Rankings
Here’s what our SU Homepage has to say about the exciting news!

Stevenson University has been recognized as one of America’s “Up-and-Comers”—one of only 46 colleges and universities nationwide given this designation—in U.S. News & World Report’s newly released 2012 “America’s Best Colleges” rankings. Most significantly, Stevenson was ranked No. 2 among the “Up-and-Coming” Regional Universities-North, a new classification for the University this year.

“Stevenson has seen tremendous growth over the last decade, adding more students, facilities, and programs as well as renewing our focus on career development for our students,” says Kevin J. Manning, Ph.D., President of Stevenson University. “The ‘Up-and-Coming’ designation really reflects the hard work of our faculty and staff, and also speaks to the growing reputation of Stevenson among our peer institutions.”

This is the third time that Stevenson has been recognized as an “Up-and-Coming School” by U.S. News. The category recognizes institutions that, according to U.S. News, “recently made promising and innovative changes in the areas of academics, faculty, student life, campus, or facilities.” During the past decade, Stevenson has significantly increased enrollment while developing a second campus in Owings Mills. The University just opened a new 3,500-seat stadium on its Owings Mills campus for the inaugural season of its new football program as well as its men’s and women’s soccer, lacrosse, and field hockey programs, and more than 2,000 students—the largest resident population in the school’s history—now live on the campus.

Stevenson also moved this year from the U. S. News ranking category of Baccalaureate Colleges-North Region to Regional Universities-North based on the recently revised Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, the leading framework for recognizing and describing institutional diversity in U.S. higher education. The category recognizes institutions that provide a full range of undergraduate majors as well as master’s programs. Stevenson is ranked No. 79 among the top 183 Regional Universities-North.

Stevenson University, known for its distinctive career focus, is the third-largest independent undergraduate university in Maryland with more than 3,900 students pursuing bachelor’s, master’s, and adult accelerated degrees at locations in Stevenson and Owings Mills.

Look us up @StevensonU

Get all the updates as soon as they happen, know when the games and events are going on at school. Find out answers within minutes if you @mention us with a question.

Stevenson has officially joined the technology world.

We first joined back in 2008 with just a few single followers and tweets here and there, now that Twitter has been around for a while we are up and running with tweets throughout the day and week.

Get up and dance to the latest dance craze – ZUMBA!

Tonight, the SU Social hosted a ZUMBA class in the banquet room at 7p.m.  The class was taught by a professional ZUMBA instructor from the area and was also hosted on Monday.  Let me tell you something about ZUMBA, man do you feel it the next morning!  It works every muscle in your body but it is so much fun!  I went with a bunch of my female residents and we had a blast.  I learned that even the most in shape people can feel ZUMBA after a little while.  So still workin on those holiday pounds?  Try ZUMBA!  There are classes offered in the Owings Mills area.

Stevenson has been going green & now we’re making it a competition…

SU’s DORM VS. DORM

ENERGY CONSERVATION CHALLENGE

FEB. 21st – MAR. 7th

How does it work?

The SU Residence Hall with the biggest percentage reduction in electricity use will win!

Prizes:

1. $100 to a resident of the winning dorm

2. $200 to a charity selected by the winner

– Baltimore Green Works

– Baltimore Free Farm

– Chesapeake Bay Foundation

– Irvine Nature Center

– Maryland Sierra Club

3. Free party for everyone in the winning building

How can YOU save electricity??

1. TURN OFF THE LIGHTS!

2. UNPLUG (or better yet use a power strip that you can turn off):

– Cell phone & iPod chargers

– Laptop power adapters

– TVs, PCs, game consoles, printers, and speakers

– Extra appliances like electric picture frames, lava lamps, etc.

3. Turn up the temp on your fridge and Turn down the thermostat in the room

4. Close windows tightly

5. Take shorter showers (shoot for 5 min)

HOW MUCH ENERGY CAN YOU SAVE?????

Waking up this morning was unsettling to those of us who were previously excited for this monster.  Many services around campus such as the library and Pandini’s are now shut down for the weekend.  And if you can recall, I was supposed to be at a conference this weekend for Reslife called No Frills.  But because of the snow we pulled out to ensure the safety of all of us going on the trip.

Regardless, though, today was our very first day being snowed in at SU.  So what do you do when you are snowed in at college and 20+ inches are headed your way?  You prepare, and you play.

To begin the day, Tylor and I went to Giant to get some goodies to last us for the weekend.  Apparently we weren’t the only ones who got the memo because the grocery store was packed!  We ended up getting everything we could to last us for the snow.  Check out our freezer!

It is jammed packed!  But hey, what else are we supposed to do for food?  Plus, we are college students!

After food shopping we came back, relaxed, watched a movie until all of that got boring.  The snow started to pick-up by midday and we didn’t even go to Rockland for dinner.  Instead, the brave Dominoe’s delivery guys brought us our dinner!  But waiting for the food I did my February door decs, which are totally cute!!  If you want to read the blog about me beginning my February bulletin board, click here: http://wildstang.stevensonuniversity.org/.  But for now, here is the stack of door decs I completed… that took me over two hours! 

Yeah, I work hard, even on snow days!  But enough was enough and I decided that we needed to do something a little more fun.  So Tylor and I sat down and played Electronic LIFE.  Much more complicated than regular LIFE, by far.  For two hours we played and then slowly more and more people joined until we had 8 people in my room laughing and talking and of course, playing the game of life.  For those of you who are interested in owning LIFE, here is what it looks like!

It was so much fun playing with everyone!  We were one person away from breaking fire code… woops!  But the night wasn’t over.  We moved into Chelsea’s, my suitmate’s, room to play the Wii!  This is the best game system in the world to have on a snowed in eve.  So as a group we piled into her room and played the Wii Fit.  Our fave game?  The Hoola hoop.  It is awesome!  Here is a pic of our friend playing the hoola hoop game!

After another hour of laughing and playing, I was all gamed out and ready for bed.  But not before checking out just how much snow we had accumulated in the 12 hours that it had been snowing.  Here is a picture I took just before bed of students walking through the snow.

Maybe tomorrow after it’s done blizzarding I’ll get to go out and play in the snow!!

:]  While walking to get dinner, Tylor and I almost stepped on this little guy!  For week I have been looking for a frog and we finally found one!!!  We didn’t name him, because we soon found out that it is illegal to catch frogs and keep them as pets in theh state of Maryland.  Woops!  Needless to say… I have a pretty wild life.