THON

I was a dancer this weekend for THON; it was a great experience but I need to say the truth, it wasn't fun all the time. Staying awake wasn't the problem for me, but I think that it was because I was in so much pain that I totally forgot that I hadn't slept for a really long time.
One of the things that were really frustrating for me was the fact that my morale (the person that is there specially for you, to support you, give you company, and just make sure that you were doing OK) had to leave, now I understand that if you have 700 dancers you cannot have 700 morales there at all time, but at the moment I just got really mad because we all had so much fun when they were there, and once they left we would just be there tired and complaining about every part of our body that was hurting, it was kind of depressing.
I got really scared on Sunday morning around 5 am, because my knees were killing me and I knew that I had around 12 more hours to go, and I was positive that there was no way I was going to make it 12 more hours in such a pain. I don't really understand how I did it, for a while I was just on a weird stage, I actually started to hear everyone speaking in Spanish when of course they were speaking in English, and a lot of weird stuff began to happen.
At the end thank God I did it and once you reach the last 4 hours and your THON family is there with you and you see who you are doing this for and what these hours of pains are actually for, then everything changes and you feel so much better. Well the pain is still there but at least you know it is for something that is completely worth it.

Rube Goldberg Competition

Penn State is having their annual Rube Goldberg competition this upcoming Saturday at 2pm in the Alumni Hall, you are all welcome to go and I strongly recommend you to do so. It is a really interesting competition, every team needs to build a Rube machine that can do an specific task, this year's task is to replace an incandescent light bulb with a more energy-efficient light-emitting device. I know it sounds complicated, I thought so myself when I first heard about it, but it is really simple it can be just changing a regular light bulb with a more energy-efficient one, one that uses less energy to operate. My team is the SHPE (Society of Hispanic Engineers) and we have been working on our machine since last semester. We have won 2nd place on the last 2 competitions, and we are trying to get 1st place this time.

For those of you who have no idea what a Rube Goldberg machine is, wellthey are those machines where a ball comes and hits a spoon an the spoon lets go another ball which hits a set of dominoes and they al fall etc etc... I hope you understand what I mean, it is just a complicated machine that performs a simple task.

For more information about the competition visit:

http://www.engr.psu.edu/RubeGoldberg/

The Grammys

Last night I saw the 51st annual Grammy's Award and I am still wondering if I liked them or not. It had a couple of nice performances but also some weird ones. Maybe I don't know all the artists and that's why I thought they were weird/boring. What I did found interesting was the fact that several artists preformed twice, they were good artists but why would you make them perform twice? I think there are enough good artists this year for the Grammys to make Justin Timberlake, Stevie Wonder and Kanye West preform twice on a 3 hour show. I really liked them and enjoyed both of their performances, but do you think that maybe some artists decline the invitation to preform at the Grammys? Or is it just that Justin, Stevie and Kanye are so good that they had to preform twice? It is just a thought and I hope everyone had the chance to watch them last night.

Terribel Towels

We were selling Terribel Towels this week and it went great, we were able to sell all of them... I wasnt really cheering for any team, but because of this project I became a Pitt's fan, at least for the game. I hope everyone enjoyed the game, it was a great game, and I am sorry for all the cardinal's fans, there is always next year...

GO PITT!!