Traveling Season Begins

To many of you who are in the turf industry, you know that next week is the GIS Show in Las Vegas.  From the MSU Turf Club we have 24 representatives set to invade the desert next week.  Like 23 other students im excited about the opportunity to attend the show, and yes have some fun as well.  This event butts right up to our spring break at MSU.  Which essentially means i will be flying from Detroit to Denver, Denver to Vegas, then while coming back ill fly from Vegas to Raleigh to see my family in North Carolina.  After being in NC for a week i will drive me and my daughter back to Michigan to finish the semester out and in a 3 week span, pack and head to Miami to start my internship.  I guess this is what's meant by the "rubber hitting the road."  For those that are traveling i wish you safe travels and great experiences.  For those staying home please continue to keep your nose to the grind. 
With all of this being said, i will sum this shortened post up like this.  The next 6 months of my life will be hectic and challenging.  I do realize however, that they have the potential to be the most rewarding time of my life in terms of career advancement.  Me and my wife Jenni (whom i would be nothing without) and my beautiful daughter Ella are doing our best to prepare for our time apart.  We all understand that if our dreams are to be attained, I must be dilligent in working and focusing on the prizes that lay ahead.  Im a blessed man and that is undeniable.

Midterms... and another half of a semester down.

Well this week was midterm week and it seems like we all made it through it.  I must say that 3 of 4 exams were tolerable.  I will follow that up with our exam in CSS 267 (Dr. Rogers class) was perhaps the hardest exam i have ever taken.  Im not the only one that has said that either.  I know that if somehow it gets back to him im writing this in my new post it will make him smile... thats just how he rolls.  All of that aside, i do believe that his test was fair and forced us to pay attention to detail.  Today is dedicated to taking a deep breath and doing some minor homework assigned to us over the weekend.  It's unbelievable how fast this short semester is going by.  Cody Korenstra and I were discussing it on the way to the commuter parking lot yesterday, and came up with including being in Las Vegas for the GCSAA conference coming up in two weeks we basically have three weeks of actual class time left this semester.  Then its off to sunny Florida for me to learn from Bob Randquist.  I'm excited about this opportunity to further my education.  I'm really excited for all of us.  We will all be scattered all over the world, but these guys and one girl all mean alot to me and I'm proud of how hard we work. 
We had Turf Club officer elections a week ago Thursday.  Our new officers are Anthony Heath is our secretary, Jeff Campbell is our treasurer, Tylor Meppelink is VP of our sports turf guys, Paul Jacobs is our Vice President and I am the new Turf Club President.  I look forward to this position and working with all of these guys i call friends.  We as a group plan to further our group by highlighting networking within our industry.  I have some ideas and i know the other officers have a ton of good ideas as well.  We have started a twitter account already and this weekend i am going to get a facebook page going so we can share with students an alumni what is going on in the club...  I hope you all are having a great week and you have a good weekend!!!