Honors Colloquium I

At the beginning of the semester, I challenged myself to learn guitar. Although I did not make it to the level that I wanted to obtain I did make significant improvements in my playing ability. Each Thursday for the past 7 weeks I attended a 1-hour guitar lesson at Trinity Arts Center. In addition to class time, I spent about 25 minutes per day practicing at home. I worked with a recent ETSU graduate to develop my skills in guitar. He started off by teaching me some basic cords and had me practice simple chord progressions at a 60 beats per minute rhythm in 4|4 time. After I got that down after about 2 weeks. We moved onto attempting to apply those cords to a song that I wanted to learn. I chose "Light the Fire." This turned out to be a lot more difficult than I expected and it took me about 3 weeks of lessons and practice before I could do the progressions of the song at 72 beats per minute and 4|4 time. Finally, he introduced strumming in the final 2 weeks. I am still worki

This semester I also attended the Greek tailgate for the baseball game against UTK. We arrived about 2 hours before the start of the game and set up our tent. We had cornhole and music playing, and we also got a chance to build relations with other Greek organizations on campus. We continued to tailgate until the start of the game when we sat in the back of trucks and watched the game for U Edge.

Although I can't discuss any of the events that occurred during this night because it is all ritual information that I cannot share, I can confirm that I attended this club event, and my fraternity can verify that I was there.

This semester I volunteer for 8 hours through my Fraternity. Each year we put on an event to raise money for cancer research within the Hunstman foundation. We take this event very seriously while still trying to make it fun for the people involved. We work on raising money in booths. These booths include anything from simple donation booths to pie a sig booths where a dollar is given to through a pie in one of our faces. Throughout the course of the week I logged 8 hours of service to setting up and participating in this event for charity.