After months of training, the time had finally come for me to run my first marathon. Although I did all but one of my scheduled training runs, my preparation was not ideal. This was mainly due to the fact I have been living in the college environment which tends to lead to more partying than I am used to, different (and less healthy) foods and differing schedules from week to week. I also got sick here and there which knocked me out for a few days each time and h...

I was pretty pumped to start spring term as I had some interesting subjects lined up and let's be honest, I am a nerd and love to study. The first couple of weeks the snow was still good up on Mt Bachelor so I did a day trip in week 2 and then spent the weekend in Bend week 3. Spring skiing is awesome here, really warm and although there wasn't as much snow as the last few visits I'd made (obviously), it was smooth and fun to play around in. I spent Easter weeke...

While most college students head to warmer parts of the country for spring break, I, along with about 25 others, made the journey from Oregon over to Montana for a week of snow fun. Together we had a caravan of 5 cars for the epic road trip of 14 hours where we stopped along the way a few times for gas and food. The car trip actually went really quickly and we drove through some pretty cool scenery while passing through Oregon, Washington, Idaho and then finally ...

The rest of winter term kind of flew by really quickly. Assignments for all my classes started to be due and weekends were filled with trips up to Mt Bachelor to snowboard, nights out (maybe too many) and just generally being busy with life here at college. One Thursday night, the girls from Core, the snow club here at OSU, had a night together, just the girls (until the boys crashed the party later). It was awesome to get to know a whole new group of people an...

Early on Valentine's Day, I hopped on the never-reliable, always stinky, packed full of interesting characters Greyhound bus up north to Seattle in the state of Washington. Seattle is the largest city in the Northwest and has a population of about 635,000 (3.3mil in the greater metro area). It is known for the rain (365 days of the year), craft beer and a progressive music scene. The journey was about 6.5 hours and unfortunately, the bus was almost completely ful...