The end of a week

This has been a busy week! Meeting with First Year Scholars is such a joy, and I have met with several this week. I'm at 13 of 45 thus far with a few appointments on my book. Some of the conversations have been so insightful -- how they came to choose the University over the many other schools they gained acceptance to, many prestigious institutions. I think our students make wise choices to attend college here. The cost of an education is quite expensive, and the attention and resources they receive at USC is exceptional. Okay, perhaps I am a bit biased, as both a two-degree alumni and employee here. In a couple of weeks, high school seniors will come and interview for our scholarship programs. The current scholar peeps are eager to share their experiences -- now that is fun to see. In other news, we had a scholar social yesterday, and made 55 Valentine Cards for hospitalized children. I loved seeing everyone express their creativity, enjoying each other, and take time out from very busy schedules to sit down and create with their hands. It's fun to be old school sometimes. Photos below.

Failures and Successes. All in a week.

This week has been interesting for my free stuff. First, I marched into Bruegger's yesterday for a free bagel thin and cream cheese, when I realized the coupon was for Einstein Bagels. Like I said on FB, epic fail. But this did not deter me from marching in there today at 1 pm to get my free 3 bagels in honor of the store's birthday! Also on Monday, a coworker put a Chickfila postcard in my box with three freebies on it. Score. And tonight I took Kate to EdVenture's $1 night.....again, a nice success for tiring her out on a weeknight. On my CVS run at lunch, I entered with $13 in extra care bucks and left paying $3.12 for 4 Vitamin waters, deodorant, Valentine's candy, a card and candy for Scott, gum, ..... a great way to spend my ECB that would expire on Monday. And finally, for supper, I indulged in Chickfila on Decker's Tuesday night B1G1 chicken salad sandwich, which delighted The Mimi! Now I'm off to look at my checkbook which tells me that the 15th is still a few too many days away. Peace.