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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

A few more pictures of the progress on Knights Cove!

Hey everyone,

Yesterday I was able to stop by and get a few more pictures. Enjoy!




Have a great rest of the week!

-Erica

Monday, May 23, 2011

Just as promised...

Here is a picture of the progress for Knights Cove!


As you can see, the second floor is starting to really take shape. Before you know it, we'll have our new dorms! Also, I must give credit where credit is due. This picture belongs to a fellow blogger. Thank you for the picture, Christen!

Have a great week, everybody!
-Erica

By the way, I apologize for taking a while to put this update/picture up.. we've had some crazy weather the last few days! I was going to take a picture this morning, but there was a thunderstorm warning.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Summer update: grades, tours, and Knights Cove!

Hey everyone! I hope you are all doing fantastic!

I'm glad to say that I'm officially done with my junior year at Northwood, and I will begin my senior year this coming fall. This year has been crazy! I got really involved in different clubs and organizations, but I still managed to keep my grades up.

I'm so proud that I was able to get a 4.0 this semester! Here is a screen-shot of my classes and final grades.

Finals grades for my spring semester!
In other news, I gave a tour today to a group of students and their teacher. They were 8th grade AVID students from a junior high in the Arlington Independent School District. I went to AISD schools from K to 12th grade, so I was more than happy to have them on-campus! They all enjoyed the tour, especially the Student Activities Center!

Thanks to Javon, Tristan, and Chelsea - some of our Royal Ambassadors who helped out today!

Knights Cove update
: I've gotten the opportunity to continue working in the Admissions Office during the summer, and the other day I noticed that the frames for our new dorms were up!

David, who works in the IT department on campus, went out a couple days ago and got these pictures for the blog!


As you can tell, things are getting built up fast! I was driving around the loop today after work, and I saw they were about half-way done with the frames for the second floor of Knights Cove!

I'll make sure I post a couple pictures tomorrow afternoon of the progress.

Have any of you applied for housing yet? Did you put Knights Cove as your preference? Let me know in the comments!

-Erica

Oh, I almost forgot! I got the okay to do blogs during the summer. So don't worry about us disappearing for three months! :) I will be keeping you guys updated on what's going on around campus as we wait for the 2011-2012 school year!

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Graduation!

So the big end of the year event for all seniors is graduation! Northwood's graduation was held Thursday, May 5 at Jessie Owens Memorial Complex. A tradition for Northwood is to have each flag from every country of our graduates present. We definitely have a strong international influence on our campus as you can see by all the flags.

Student Ambassadors helping with carrying the flags
Graduation has a series of events leading up to the ceremony. This year a day before graduation students were invited to Honors Convocation. This is where graduates are honored with awards from various departments and our student blogger Melissa Elder gave her valedictorian speech.

Natasha and Melissa (The Elder Sisters) at Honors Convocation

The morning of graduation there is a reception for graduates and their families to enjoy some refreshments and chat with the professors. They always have an awesome looking ice sculpture.





Then finally graduation! You walk across stage and receive your diploma. Finally! Your undergraduate career is over. Many of our graduates have jobs already waiting for them and some choose to attend graduate school. Northwood gives us the tools and we take them along our road of life. I definitely cannot wait until my graduation next year! 


Conner, Lindsay and Amanda waiting to walk in and be steated
Shanna Grant receiving her dipolma

Miguel, myself and Steven
SGA members helping out at Graduation














































-Christen