Positives:

-Great job to SCOPE for a great series of events over Spring Weekend! And a special thanks to everyone that stopped by the USGA dunk tank at the carnival.

-We’re in the home stretch now; just a little over a week left until summer starts.

Negatives:

-Destroyed my voice staffing the Spring Concert. Note to self: never attempt to explain policies while the bass is being dropped.

-And with that, the next adventure begins: honors thesis research! Riding the struggle bus until graduation.

The Battery Charge:

Thank you to everyone that has been reading the Charger Battery (and the Bulletin in general) throughout the year. I appreciate you dealing with my ramblings. Have a great summer!

Positives:

-I hope everyone had a great Easter weekend!

-While it came much later than I had hoped, it looks like spring weather is finally here to stay.

Negatives:

-There is no challenge in this world quite as horrific as conducting independent research.

-I’m not quite sure how I feel about all of these UNH pages that are popping up…

The Battery Charge:

This year’s USGA election broke a record in the number of people that voted compared to last year, which in turn broke the record from the year before that. If that isn’t Charger pride, I don’t know what is!

Positives:

-What an incredible win the football team pulled off in the last few seconds against Stonehill College! Go chargers!

-There were so many great events this past week on campus; I don’t even know where to begin!

Negatives:

-There is a time and a place for everything, and sometimes it is important that a situation be taken seriously, whether it’s a meeting, event or something else. It can be irritating when people don’t remember that.

-*Insert comments about the weather and midterms here*

The Battery Charge:

So last week alone, we had ORL serve up some delicious pink ribbon bagels, the Career Development Center hosting the first Career and Graduate School Expo that’s taken place in six years, and two wonderful performances of the Musical Theater Cabaret by the theater department and students. One of my favorite things about UNH is the large variety of events that happen on campus, so I cannot stress enough how important it is that you go to them!

Positives:

-24-hour library…there’s no way to accurately put my excitement on paper, but I’m going to try anyway in the battery charge.

-I hope everyone enjoyed Midnight Madness and the breakfast afterward! Midnight breakfast is one of my favorite events ever!

Negatives:

-I hate sounding like a broken record, but I am not a fan of midterms. Especially since, unlike finals, everything else doesn’t stop happening and the world continues to move at a million miles an hour!

-Some otherwise great events are scheduled at really unfortunate times.

The Battery Charge:

The Marvin K. Peterson Library will now be open 24 hours a day and seven days a week from now on. I’ve only been waiting for this to happen for two years or so, and now my dream has become a reality! I hope everyone takes advantage of this incredible gift we’ve been given, because I know I will!

Positives:

-Family Day went great, so many families showed up this year! And great job at the football game, Chargers!

-Did anyone see the lighted peace sign in the Quad during International Day of Peace last Friday? Absolutely stunning!

Negatives:

-Why did I (and half of the campus) have to get sick now? Don’t I realize that I have a lot of work to do!?

-That moment when you see a certain someone and that alone ruins your entire day. Why can’t drama isolate itself in movies and books where it belongs?

The Battery Charge:

I’ve always found it both amusing and irritating (though mostly irritating) that flu bugs sweep across at the busiest and most inconvenient times of the year. Yes, I understand stress being a contributing factor and everything like that, but just once I’d like to have the ability to actually stay in my bed and do nothing when I’m too sick to do anything.

The Positives:

SPRING WEEKEND!!! Need I say more?

It was also my birthday weekend, which happens to always fall on Spring Weekend. Hey everyone thanks for throwing me a rocking party year after year! Ludacris? You shouldn’t have!

The Negatives:

This is my last Charger Battery of the year! I know this summer I’m still going to post sticky notes everywhere with possible positive and negative charges.

The Spring Concert sold out on the first day, but that’s not the negative part. As a member of the UNH community, I was honestly embarrassed by the immature and completely ridiculous reactions of those who didn’t wait in line Monday to get tickets. Get over it, for real.

The Battery Charge:

This entire year has been so wonderful, and I can’t believe it’s over already. I’m going to miss all of the seniors so much, but it was incredible that everyone was able to come together one last time at the Spring Carnival and Concert to celebrate our success!

The Positives:

The remembrance in honor of Stirling Danskin was remarkable. The event was so beautifully done and it was breathtaking the way that the entire UNH community came together to celebrate the life of one of our own.

It’s my birthday on Thursday! I’m so excited! Are you excited? What are you getting me?

The Negatives:

All of our senior friends are graduating in only two weeks. It’s going to be so weird on campus next year without seeing all those familiar faces. Don’t leave us!

That e-mail everyone got from the ever-so gracious Sacred Heart University inviting us to their Spring Concert because they have extra tickets? How nice! Oh wait; they want us to pay $45 dollars to see Wiz Khalifa? No thanks; I’m seeing Ludacris for free this weekend!

The Battery Charge:

Growing older is weird. Twenty-one is a landmark, and I’m starting to feel the age. Is that a wrinkle? I don’t want to grow up! Just kidding, I’m so excited! Who’s coming to Alchemy with me? (Yes, I’m actually going to Alchemy on my 21st birthday.)

The Positives:

I’m really stoked about the on campus involvement lately! It seems like so many organizations have incredible events on campus; I can’t even choose which to attend.

I ate at Jeffery’s Fusion for the first time this week, and it was amazing! Great work to everyone involved.

The Negatives:

No printing credits left, eight cents a page. AHH!

No one has GI anymore, which means that those few days where everyone on campus could find parking are over.

The Battery Charge:

I’m ALL for being green and saving the environment. However, I do not know a single person who has not run through all or nearly all of their printing credits at the library. The worst part is that term papers are not even due yet! Either we need more printing credits, or the exorbitant prices need to be cut because I am not paying $10 to print out my final paper.

The Positives:

Happy Easter and Passover everyone! I hope everyone spent a little time relaxing before the end of the semester nears.

“Send Silence Packing,” an award winning program by Active Minds, Inc. which visited UNH on it’s 13 university national tour! Go UNH!

The Negatives:

The UNH Plague! Whoever got me sick…we’re totally not friends anymore. Jerk.

The recycling bin behind New Hall needs to be cleaned or condemned ASAP.

The Battery Charge:

Delivering the Charger Bulletins on Tuesday evenings is always my favorite part of the week. I get to ride in a golf cart; people ignore you when you ask to be let into residence halls, and my hands get ink-stained for a few days. So… it’s mostly fun. The best part though is the trip to the recycling bin behind New Hall! It’s where the university disposes grease and also where they decide never to empty the bin. So as these spring days get warmer and as the stench of rotting grease becomes more fragrant, we get to trample further and further into the sticky-grounded abyss…I can’t. I’m going to vomit. Please, someone just hose it down.

The Positives:

Did everyone get a free umbrella from SCOPE on Wednesday? Talk about high quality!

There’s been an influx of guest speakers on campus lately.

The Negatives:

USGA Elections were pushed back, causing mass confusion for everyone. I totally missed out on my Five Guys gift card because tables weren’t set up all week.

Fall 2012 classes are STILL not on Matrix. I’m having daily anxiety attacks.

The Battery Charge:

I know everyone loves free stuff; it’s how every organization gets you to sign their point sheets at the Bartels Lobby tables. But seriously…those SCOPE umbrellas! I worked at a golf shop, and I know a quality umbrella when I see it.