Have it your Way

Dear Readers,

This has been a pretty cool week. It was scholarship weekend here at Coe and I do not know why but I signed up to host Three prospective students on the same night.Lucky for me I got a group of some pretty sweet dudes. But before I continue with my Friday I guess I should back up a bit to how my week went.

This past week was a pretty solid one, as far as classes go I must say which much surprise I loved them( I am not typically the sort of guy to say something like that). Besides that the weather has been amazing out here and I have been hanging out with a few of my buddies a lot lately playing a lot of video games(I sort of go through fazes). Other then that I have been spending a lot of time in KCOE Radio airing my show that I do with three other students Tuesday-Thursday from 10-12am and Friday from 9-11pm. If you are intrested in checking out my show this week feel free to check it out by going to www.kcoe48.com

Now back to my weekend, I was fortunate enough to get granted a few prospective students who all happened to like Modern Warfare Three, Pizza, and the man cave I am lucky to call my room(this is all very shocking I know). We stayed up until around 3am which was probably not a good idea seeing how they had interviews in the morning but you only live once I guess and they refused to go to bed at a decent hour so we just continued of our having fun campaign.

Saturday was a long one for me, after getting everyone where they needed to be I attended some Diversity Leadership training things and gave some tours for Admission later on. Doing all that good stuff followed by a good meal caused me to fall asleep well before acceptable, I think I was out by around 7pm and had no motivation to get back up. That is what I call productive Saturday. Sunday was a typical one full of relaxation and homework which I was excited to work on since I knew I had some good poetry I could look forward to reading. Other then that I got to chat briefly with a good Coe College buddy of mine Ankit Rana who I will give you all more details on in a blog soon to Come.

Thank you for your time,

Charles E. Cotton III

Happy 2/14 Everybody

Dear Readers,

Life has been well. Classes have continued to be enjoyable and I am pretty sure this is the first semester where I have absolutely loved every single one of my classes. This past week was full of activities and so are the days ahead, on Tuesday I went out to lunch with a boss and Fraternity Brother Justin Nylin. We decided to go to the flying weenie which is a small little hotdog restaurant located in downtown Cedar Rapids not to far from Coe. I always enjoy trips there for some reason, I don't know if it is because of the people I am with or the wonderful little bright yellow airplane located on the roof that stretches over the parking lot just a bit but either way I always seem to have a good time there.

I was also privileged enough to be able to attend the English Senior Thesis Seminar
that took place on Tuesday where I got to here a few students prep the large crowd on what they should be looking forward to in the next few weeks. The nice thing about this event is I got to see two of my past professors who retired, both in which manage to still come out and support the students.

On Wednesday I found out that residents of Cedar Rapids have the opportunity to participate in one ride-a-long with the Cedar Rapids Police Department so i decided to take the city up on this offer and within the next couple of weeks I will be riding shot gun with one of Cedar Rapids finest(I am looking forward to this a lot!)

Thursday was another fun filled lunch trip, I got to go with a few of my bosses and a computer science professor out to lunch at the Great Dragon which is another nice restaurant located in downtown Cedar Rapids.The nice thing about the Great Dragon is it is all you can eat and located right next door to another one of my favoirtes Taj Mahal. We had a good time and stuffed our bellies which then caused me to take a nice 2 hour nap afterwards while everyone else had to go to work (I feel sorry for those guys).

Also on Thursday a good buddy of mine, John Sherrod who graduated from Coe last year and is now in Law School at Marquette University came to visit for the weekend which was a swell time to say the least.

Friday was another Coe College tradition,President's Ball, this started when our current President, Jim Phifer was entering and has continued ever since. Pres ball as it is called for short is always held second semester on campus and is a very formal event, I would even say it is more formal then our annual homecoming dance. A lot of student come out to this and overall I would say I had a great time.

For the most part I spent the rest of my weekend just hanging out and doing some cooking. Oh, and also finishing up some homework, however look forward to some updates on another fun filled week.

Once again happy 2/14 and thank you for your time,
Charles E. Cotton III

#whyd3?

Dear readers,

I have had an amazing week. I was on duty all week for residence life but that didn't slow me down one bit. Actually duty this week was pretty fun, I got to meet a few new people in my building which is always a fun thing. Other then that classes went very well, from working on some new short stories to analyzing film I felt as though I picked up a lot of new information.

Besides my typical weekly updates I wanted you all to hear a little more about my weekend.I never thought attending an Athletic leadership Conference could be so much fun. Lets be honest how often do you hear the word conference and thing "oh yeah this will be the time of my life?" Not very often at all. Well I have always been told go into things with an open mind and my athletic director really encouraged me to find someone to cover my weekend duties so that I could attend and so I did. Before I forget one of the key components to this story let me just tell you now. The conference took place in Cedar Rapids and was all weekend long, so if you want to know more about things to do in Cedar Rapids this is why I thought this would be a nice story to share.

Coe College is a part of the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in short IIAC. This conference is Division III and really stresses the importance of being a student first. Being able to go to this conference with a few other Coe athletes was a great experience, from getting to meet people from other schools and the large amount of Coe alumni and presenters we got to meet and interact with I would say the trip was well worth it. The conference was at the Marriott hotel which is only like 5 minutes from campus which was nice because we were able to run back and forth if need be. Also late night food runs were not a problem at all and neither was my Laser Tag skills.

Not to brag or anything but the four Coe guys who went dominated in laser tag, I got a clean sheet to prove it