So this week has been Hillel's Israel Week and it's been amazing. My friend Avia is the Israel chair on board and has done such an amzing job putting all these events together....jelly doughnuts to her as we say at the end of board meetings. (jelly doughnuts= good stuff and horsradish= bad stuff) So the week started out with an event sponsored by ( Read more... )

All I have to say is....you know you are at the sweetest frat party when they break out the Grease music....hahahahaha. AMAZING.

Go to your music player of choice and put it on shuffle ( Read more... )

So I had the most amazing trip EVER! I got back yesterday from a 4 day alternative spring break cruise to the Bahamas. 3 USF Hillel-ers and myself went on this cruise with students from the Hillels of UCF and UF. These were pretty much the most amazing people ever. lol. Within 4 days we were already trying to make sure we'd all be able to get ( Read more... )

So over the weekend I went "camping" with a small group from Hillel. Now when I say camping, it wasn't even close. lol. We stayed in air conditioned cabins with beds and went in a jacuzzi Saturday night. But I had a blast. We did Havdalah (the ending of Shabbat) around a camp fire and then made smores and roasted apples. YUM! Then we sat around and ( Read more... )

So no one ever understands when I say that I'm worried about getting into the college of nursing. Everyone keeps telling me "You have nothing to worry about....you have good grades....3.75GPA as of last semester...." But I still don't know if it's good enough. Why you may be wondering? My fellow pre-nursing roomie Brittany went to an info session ( Read more... )

I just wanted to let everyone know that I went to the beach today....it was almost perfect....the sun was out and it was gorgeous....but then the sun went away and it got chilly.....we're soooooo close to absolute perfect beach weather.....and it's February.....explain to me again why no one comes to visit? I guess gas and long distance driving and ( Read more... )

Do this cause it'll be fun! :) Please?

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I'M DONE!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It feels GREAT everybody. ::Sigh of relief::

Wow. It's definitely 6:35am and I have not gone to sleep yet. It was midnight bagel brunch at Hillel and I decided to go and study for nutrition there. So as 1am rolled around and everyone pretty much left except those staying all night since Hillel was open 24hrs, I finally got to really study. I realized around 3am it wasn't going to be worth ( Read more... )