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Growing up as a kid I was hooked on the television show called “The West Wing.” This show was on every Wednesday night at 9:00 pm and documented the happenings of President Josian Bartlet, played by the legendary Martin Sheen. It was well known on the show that the nickname for the President was POTUS [...]

This semester I am taking a class called “Forest Ecology” and it has quickly become one of my favorite classes this semester. The lecture portion only meets once a week for an hour, but it is the lab section that is the best part of the class. Each of our labs takes place at the [...]

I’m back up in Burlington for what will be the final semester of college! It’s even more depressing when you write it down, let alone say it aloud. Last week was the first week of classes, nicknamed by many students to be “Syllabus Week,” due to the fact that teachers will spend the first couple [...]

Last week I submitted my first job application for after college! The position is called a Regional Director and I would be working for my fraternity – Sigma Phi Epsilon. Every year SigEp hires eleven men to serve as Regional Directors throughout different regions of the country. The responsibilities of these men include driving to [...]

This past Saturday a few of my fraternity brothers and myself spent the day walking around Shelburne Farms. This farm located in Shelburne, VT (just south of Burlington), is a 1,600 acre area of land that was originally claimed and constructed on by the Vanderbilt family in the late 1800′s. Today, the farm land remains [...]

Last weekend, my mom came up on a Sunday afternoon to Vermont to meet me for lunch and bring me everything that I forgot to bring back up with me to school when I moved into my apartment in late August (mainly just lots of clothes, and all the delicious food that she made for my [...]

I’m currently sitting in my apartment wrapped up in blankets wearing sweatpants and a sweatshirt on this terribly overcast and rainy day in Burlington. But just last week it was 80 degrees and sunny, so much that I had to walk downtown to run a couple of errands and visit my favorite “store” on Church St. [...]

This afternoon I had my first tour of the semester. Before every tour starts we have a brief student panel where the tour guides aka Advocats introduce themselves to the students and families, while also telling a brief introduction about their life here at UVM. During my introduction I mentioned my involvement in Greek Life, [...]

The first week of senior year is officially in the books! And what a week it was! For the first time ever during my time at UVM, classes were canceled; and it was the first day of classes! Due to the severe weather brought to Burlington by Hurricane Irene, UVM was shut down for a [...]

Last Saturday, I gave a tour for admitted students and their families of UVM. There was one family in particular that I made a close connection with and really stood out. I found out that this student lives in the town next to me in Massachusetts, and she currently attends my rival high school (Go [...]

So over the past few weeks, it has been consistently snowing here in Burlington. So my friends decided to play a nice little trick on me!

My car was somewhere under that pile – some friends I have!

So while the majority of students are officially back in “school mode” here at UVM, I certainly am not! This is the second week of classes, and I am still trying to adjust to being back at school. I am taking 5 classes this semester – Biostatistics (YIKES!), Survey of Folklore (aka analyzing poems, fables, and [...]

Merry Christmas to all!

Hope Santa Claus was good to you!!!

So Christmas is rapidly approaching (3 days?!?!), and sadly I am truly not in the holiday spirit at all. However, I have come up with a list of reasons why (kind of like making a list for Santa)… I finished my finals on the LAST DAY OF FINALS!!!, and while everyone was listening to Christmas music [...]

Thanksgiving break is only two days away and basically…I CAN’T WAIT!!! I don’t think that we have had a day off from school since Labor Day in September – so Friday afternoon cannot come soon enough! Friday afternoon is the onset of Thanksgiving break and a very longggg and well deserved break (in my opinion!). [...]

Hey everyone! Sorry that it has been soooooo long since my last post – but a lot has been happening! It is officially the midterm period here at school, so I am spending WAYYY too much time studying in the library! I also went home this past weekend, as my parents went away for the [...]

A question I am always asked by family and friends is “I’ve heard so many good things about UVM; what is it that makes that school such a great place?” And now into my third year at UVM, I can already give an abundance of reasons – many of which have occurred this year. Being [...]

Hey everyone! So I’m back again for another year of blogging here at UVM! It’s hard to believe, no it’s actually scary, that I’m already a junior in college. But enough of the sentimental sadness; it’s time to catch up on summer and life! For one, I changed the name of the blog this year. “Mookie” [...]

If you were to tell me last week that it was going to be 80+ degrees this weekend in Vermont, I’d probably tell you that you were going insane. But I must say that I stand corrected, as this weekend was by far the best weekend of the year! Friday and Saturday topped off around [...]

As I sit hear in the study lounge of my fraternity house, I cannot help but recall why I love the city of Burlington, Vermont so much. This past weekend, my fraternity volunteered at the Mardi Gras parade downtown on Church Street. Even though the actual Mardi Gras was two weeks ago, and we are not [...]

So we are now into the second week of February, and I am yet to be satisfied with the amount of snow that has fallen in Burlington. There is barely any snow on the ground outside, while further south in Washington DC and New Jersey, they received FEET of snow. I know that this supposed massive [...]

So as I sit in my room, I look back and think about how quickly winter break came and went. It feels like yesterday that I was up until 5:00 am still drinking coffee, studying for my physics final that I had later that afternoon. But today is January 22, and my first week of [...]

So I am back in Burlington after a wonderful and relaxing Thanksgiving break. It was really good to go home for a few days, catch up with friends and family, and eat lots and lots of turkey! I honestly think that I spent more time in bed during break, as I did a lot of [...]

I’m sure that everyone has seen the movie “Happy Gilmore” starring Adam Sandler which tells the story of a washed up semi-pro hockey player whose amazing golf drive earns him the chance to play in the PGA. For those who have not seen this movie, it is a must. While it did not win any Oscars, [...]

Well hello again everyone, it has been a very long time since I last blogged, and I truly apologize. But luck for you, that means that this entry will extra, extra long! A lot has happened since my last blog (which seems like forever ago), and this is the pristine time to fill everyone in [...]

Happy Friday Everyone! And let me tell you, there isn’t a person who is happier that it is Friday; this has been one of the busiest weeks of my collegiate experience. I am the VP of Scholarship and Programming on the Interfraternity Council, which is the council that oversees the actions of the eleven fraternities [...]

So I’ve come to the conclusion that my brain is completely fried from studying geology all day in preparation for my exam tomorrow, so I decided to write another blog. This past weekend was parents weekend here at UVM, which essentially means that about 5,000 parents come to visit their children and Burlington becomes one giant [...]

A lot of happened since the last time I blogged; I had my chemistry test, and I became sick. But let’s look at the good things first; my chem exam went really well and even though I won’t know my grade until tomorrow evening, I’m pretty confident that I did really well. However unfortunately this [...]

Hey everyone, in a world that is becoming dominated by Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and Skype, blogging is the new and upcoming thing to do, so I decided to hope along for the ride! This is my first blog (ever I think) so let’s hope that everything goes smoothly! My name is Mike Deedy, and I [...]