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I've kept very busy over the past couple of weeks! During homecoming weekend, I performed in Air Jam and my team for DeHority won the prize for best residence hall! Our costumes were tribal-themed and we performed to the songs "Hooked on a Feeling," "Monster," "Pompeii," "Levels," "I'm a Believer," and "Be a Man." On the following Tuesday, I went to my Sigma Kappa new member meeting, where we learn information about the sorority and our chapter, like I always do. We began the meeting as we normally would, and about halfway through we were surprised with Big/Little reveal! We all walked over to the student center where we found a balloon with our name on it (courtesy of my wonderful Big, Mackenzie), and when we popped the balloon we found a paper with the name of our big! I got a large gift bucket as well as paddles from my Big and my Grandbig, Julie! One of Sigma Kappa's philanthropies is Geron...

Over the past two weeks, Sterling and I have been practicing every night with our dorm's team for Air Jam. Air Jam is a homecoming tradition at Ball State and features teams that compete against each other using dance routines and lip-syncing. Our routine is set to a mash-up of current songs and classic songs! We are putting our show choir experience to use and have also met a lot of new friends on the team, which is about 20 people in total. We practice every night until 12; most practices start at 10 or 11. The show is on Thursday, October 9th and will kick-off homecoming weekend.  This week I wrote about Air Jam in my first small article for News and Notes, the Honors College publication and online news letter!  Last weekend I went home for the first time since I've been here! I got to have lunch with my beautiful Linnea and spend a lot of time with my wonderful sister. I was not quite expecting the disorienting feeling that was waking up in my bed at h...