It's a great weekend to be a Tiger

When I explain the upcoming events of this weekend, I myself am overwhelmed. It's the 99th Anniversary of Mizzou Homecoming, and living in Greektown, it's been quite the celebration!!

Below is a list of some my Homecoming weekend's highlights (before they even happen!) so you can understand why it is so exciting to be at the University of Missouri for Homecoming!

• Homecoming is a campus-wide competition, for residence halls, student organizations, and especially the Greek system. Each sorority is paired with one or two fraternities, so 14 pairings compete in multiple categories by earning participation points and more points for basically...being the best at something. Some of these include the Blood drive, purchasing merchandise (Homecoming t-shirts), service events, Decorate the District (like GBN's Paint-the-Town, decorating a certain restaurant downtown *Phi Mu has Bambino's*), a talent competition (a skit and dance performed at Jesse Hall), and lastly, house decorations. House decorations is where each pairing creates a scene incorporating their theme (ours is chess) and other attributes. So first and foremost, all of this is going on this week! Click here for more official information!
• ESPN College Game Day has been on campus all week in preparation for Saturday's football game against Oklahoma! They filmed on the quad this morning and are filming live from 8 to 11 a.m. tomorrow. The doors open at 3:30 am, I wish I had the motivation to camp out but just need the sleep this week. Look for me on tv on the later part of the show though! I got my free Beat Oklahoma shirt after waiting on the quad for three hours (yes, what college students do for free t-shirts...) but passed out the Maneater's Homecoming issue while doing so!
• Phi Mu made skit finals for the talent portion of the Homecoming competition for the first time in four years! We were nominated for superlatives in six of eight categories, which was more nominations than any other of the 14 greek chapters! Our house decorations looked really good (photos to come later) and it's just been fun to be really involved in our pairing with Lambda Chi Alpha and Phi Kappa Psi!
• The MU Student Center was being constructed and remodeled last year after being torn down, and planned to be completed summer of 2011. Somehow, construction in Missouri goes quickly (?) and the student center is basically almost complete...NOW. The dedication ceremony outside was at 3 p.m. today, Friday afternoon, in the midst of Homecoming, ESPN and everything. I was invited through Mizzou Student Foundation and got to hear the chancellor and vice chancellors speak, as well as seeing Andrew dressed up as Beetle Bailey on his birthday!
• Homecoming is sort of like a mini-Christmas. When you walk around to see the house decorations, it's like you're seeing the most intense Christmas decorations you've ever seen, plus a skit on top of that in front of the boards, and like you're at an amusement park with hot dogs, popcorn and funnel cakes sold on the streets of Greektown.

So this is why I've been so busy this week (month) and what I've actually been doing and preparing for! Look forward to all the photos from this weekend :)