Recently in DC it has been foggy in the mornings. Ah, fog reminds me of my time on California's central coast in a little town of San Luis Obispo. This is where I spent four lovely years attending Cal Poly University. Because I have been nostalgically remembering my college days I thought it best to post some pictures so you could see me in all my nerdiness. Yes, there is a picture of me in this collage with my senior project and my favorite professor. What can I say, once a nerd always a nerd.
Sadly the first two years I took all my pictures using a film camera, and those pictures are all still in California, so these are pictures from my last two years. Here are some highlights:
* Working for an entire year on the senior project because the dang HPLC machine kept breaking.
* Going to professors office hours to chat and getting dirty looks from students who had legitimate questions on the material.
* Spending lots of time in lab with one of my best friends, Alexis. We spilled many an experiment together and somehow always pulled through the classes with flying colors.
*Muir hall mama's Bible study, first in the dorms, and latter when Kimmy and I led a small study together. Kimmy and I would meet once a week to have a prayer walk, and it was one of the highlights of my week.
*Fooling around with the fun roommates! Line dancing all hours of the night and probably waking up the entire apartment complex with our loud music.
*Living just 15 minutes away from the beach! We would even study on the beach, and nerdy little me would actually get things accomplished. Ha!
*Tuesday night dinners with the Barnes'. Gotta love the Hawaiian pizza if you are going to hang our with John and Sara!
*Trips to Santa Barbara with the Parkers for our favorite Italian food. Stacy and Steve were always making sure I was well fed.
*Watching "The Today Show" with Stacy and a cup of coffee every morning. And then during my morning break rushing home to catch "The Wedding Story" on TLC.
*Snow cones for Chemistry. Each open house we would sell snow cones to raise money for the American Chemical Society (ACS). I probably ate more then I sold.
So many good times!
Sadly the first two years I took all my pictures using a film camera, and those pictures are all still in California, so these are pictures from my last two years. Here are some highlights:
* Working for an entire year on the senior project because the dang HPLC machine kept breaking.
* Going to professors office hours to chat and getting dirty looks from students who had legitimate questions on the material.
* Spending lots of time in lab with one of my best friends, Alexis. We spilled many an experiment together and somehow always pulled through the classes with flying colors.
*Muir hall mama's Bible study, first in the dorms, and latter when Kimmy and I led a small study together. Kimmy and I would meet once a week to have a prayer walk, and it was one of the highlights of my week.
*Fooling around with the fun roommates! Line dancing all hours of the night and probably waking up the entire apartment complex with our loud music.
*Living just 15 minutes away from the beach! We would even study on the beach, and nerdy little me would actually get things accomplished. Ha!
*Tuesday night dinners with the Barnes'. Gotta love the Hawaiian pizza if you are going to hang our with John and Sara!
*Trips to Santa Barbara with the Parkers for our favorite Italian food. Stacy and Steve were always making sure I was well fed.
*Watching "The Today Show" with Stacy and a cup of coffee every morning. And then during my morning break rushing home to catch "The Wedding Story" on TLC.
*Snow cones for Chemistry. Each open house we would sell snow cones to raise money for the American Chemical Society (ACS). I probably ate more then I sold.
So many good times!
7 comments:
Yay for SLO!!! I remember coming up to visit you and having the most wonderful weekends. Who can forget Gum Alley, the line dancing club, wine tasting in Paso Robles and just hanging out in your apt. Ooh the good days!
I was shocked not to see pictures of my wonderful grandson when I checked into your blog but what a nice walk down memory lane. I'm glad you included a picture of John because I know when he flew in to sleepy little San Luis Obispo from Georgia Tech you were mighty happy. Remember the story of the girls "squealing" in delight when they got to meet him.
My, James is getting sooo big. I love the photo of your boys! It's nice to catch up occasionally. I expect you have seen the photos of "our" James if you follow CJ's blog - more to come soon.
Love to all, Stephanie
Pretty San Luis Obispo... I have many sweet memories there, too - One of which involved Morgan bringing me a scrumptious snow cone from your booth. :o) ~ Julia
Your post today made me happy and sad - so many good memories but I miss our coffee mornings together - or just seeing you at all. I enjoy reading you blog to see how your family is doing and love seeing pictures of little James. I hope to meet him one of these days very soon. Love Ya!!
Stacy
You made me so happy for including our Muir Hally Mamas Bible Study in the highlight of your years at Cal Poly! It so was for me also! Ahh...SLO, what is there not to love? I still think we should start a commune there so we can all live and not needs jobs! Sounds great?! James is gorgeous!
Alicia (Auser) Baker
John, you are one lucky man...Paige you are too cute!
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