So long, summer

Three months to the day from my post about summer goals (pure coincidence), I revisit the blog post and have some kind of general recap about my summer. Fall Orientation is in the thick of things, classes are starting in a couple of days, and senior year is here. That being said, this summer was still a lot of fun. Here's how it panned out for me:

1. Live in the Sem. Definitely did this, during Summer Orientation. It was fun and all for the week and a half I was there, and it was really cool having a sink in the room. The Sem wasn't particularly awesome or anything, but it was really cool to live there and to say that I got to.

2. Blog incessantly. Not that I didn't blog as often/much as I wanted to, but certainly not incessantly. I've found it really interesting that I haven't had double-digit blog posts in a month since November 2012, but I think there's something to that. Namely, the content of my posts (which has grown depth over the years (wow, I've been doing this for years.....)).

3. NHL12. Ended up playing out the first 41 games of my 82-game season, and then simulated the rest of the regular season. Then I won the Stanley Cup and all was well, and now I'm back to playing with my friends. NHL really is one of the greatest things ever, and NHL14 will be making an appearance throughout New Hall 315 very soon.

4. Make Baseball Club happen. This totally didn't happen, and that's fine. I'm not going to rationalize any of it either, I just straight up never did it. But I have been really excited for sporting events at Stonehill, and getting people going to the games, staying at them, and being legitimate fans who have an impact on the outcome of the game. Especially for basketball.

5. Research baseball. I did this more in the beginning of the summer than any time after July 4th, but I looked into some interesting thoughts I have. Potentially more on this later, but this kinda happened and kinda didn't.

6. Get colored shorts. Totally did this, and it was totally awesome. It scares me that I've been wearing these mint green shorts outside of Orientation, and it will be interesting to see how many times I wear them during the school year.

7. Read books. I actually did this one! I read Terry Francona's book (awesome), a book I read in high school and have always thoroughly enjoyed (awesome), and 1984 (awesome). Considering I read three books this summer, and 1.5 books last year...big improvement.

8. Quad sports. This didn't happen like I thought it would, but I think that was just because people didn't seem generally excited about quad sports this summer. There was wiffleball once, but that was pretty much it, save for a few rounds of golf on the quad at various points at the end of the summer. What I will say is that there's nothing more relaxing than some pitch-and-putt around campus. Real golf I could never do, though.

9. SH3. The scavenger hunt with my Watertown crew (and a special guest appearance by Vicki) was awesome, and exceeded my expectations. It was good to get some people to Stonehill that haven't visited before, and I'm hoping to do some more of that throughout the school year, as well as seeing other places. I'm already excited for SH2014, and already have a few locations in mind.

10. Go hiking. This never happened, but in all reality, I asked Vicki one thing she wanted to do over the summer, and then typed it out. So hiking never happened, but it was definitely the thing that I was least excited to do over the summer.

All that being said, this was a pretty fun summer, but I have to say that I'm really excited for the year to start. Classes, running around campus, seeing friends, seeing enemies, and making the most of senior year. Yeah!

(I dunno, I felt that I needed some exuberant excitement there.)