What a Week

Dear Readers,

This week has been pretty fun filled. I spent a lot of time in the KCOE RADIO studio installing some new equipment, I also spent a little bit of time studying. Before I forget I would like to let you all know I spent a bus load of time playing the new call of duty game for xbox. I stayed up until 7am on the day it came out, guess that is one of the benefits to college and freedom.

However staying up so late was probably the stupidest thing I have done in awhile because it left me extremely sleepy for the duration of the day. Regardless the game is sweet and was well worth it. Other than that I spent sometime working on a research paper and preparing for a exam on Friday. Both of those thing went pretty well and my research paper is due this Wednesday.

Looking at my Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings I hosted my show on KCOE RADIO www.kcoe48.com from 10pm until 11pm. This Thursday we brought in a special guest D.C. who is a local musician who just released his album last week.


Once I finally made it to Friday all I could think about was the big event that KCOE Radio was hosting in Armstrong and Douglas Hall lobby. We held a big mixtape release party from some local Coe College musicians and it was a great turn out. There were tons of people, free CDs, free food and live performances. Overall it was a great time. I also spent that Friday evening on duty with one of my Resident Assistants and we decided it was a good night to cook an entire pack of bacon.


Saturday was not anything to special. I was feeling a little sick due to weather changes so I just stayed to myself a little bit and played some video games.

Sunday was a very busy day. From the moment I woke up I had to go to fraternity meetings that would take place from 10 am until 6pm. We had to take care of elections stuff and it was overall a very enjoyable experience.

Below are 2 photos from the week the first being the fortune cookie I got from Hyvee that came true and the other being a buddy's messy couch

Thank you for your time,
Charles E. Cotton III

Wild and Wonderful Adventures

Dear Readers,

I have had a pretty great week. I have been getting a lot of stuff done for my classes, which is always a good thing. I also started selecting my classes for next semester which I am pretty excited for. Other than that my week was not to special. I gave a lot of tours this week which is always a good way to meet/ get to know about new people. I really enjoy that aspect of working in the admission department.

This week seemed to fly by and I do not know if it was because I was busy or if it had anything to do with the fact I planned on road tripping this weekend, either way the week moved to fast for me to even keep up with. I headed out to Des Moines this weekend with a few buddies to visit a buddy. It was only about a hour and forty five minute drive so not bad at all. It was kind of like a going away party/ weekend for a good friend of ours who is heading back to Nepal after winter break.

I must say we had a good time this weekend late night pizza runs, random adventures on the town and we also played the game of Life which was a lot more fun then I expected. Other than that we were all counting down until the release of the video game modern warfare 3 which came out last night, I spent a lot of hours playing it and enjoyed every second of it.

As far as the rest of my week goes, I have a test Friday to prepare for in my Jazz History class, and I also have to get a few things done for my seminar course. Other than that I am not to busy with school stuff so I plan on a possible movie night with a group of friends sometime this week.

Hope you all got to check out the Coe College online radio show, if not feel free to by just going to www.kcoe48.com


First Photo is a picture of Juan being dumb in a chapter meeting. I just had to draw on his face.
The second photo is the game Life!

Thank you for your time,
Charles E. Cotton III

What a Kohawk Week!

Dear Readers,

I would like to let all of you know that I had a great week. I happened to stay very busy this week but I had a good time doing so. On Monday I met up with my golf teammates and coach to chat about spring break plans which is always a good time. I also had my second to last soccer practice of the season, which is kind of sad but it turned out to be a very productive practice. Later Monday night I helped set up for spring letter awards banquet, this is an opportunity to give some credit to the athletes for the hard work they put in during their competitive season. To end my Monday evening I wrapped up with a few Residence Life meetings and tons of studying for an Astronomy test Tuesday.

Tuesday was a whole new ball game. I ran a booth at lunch for KCOE RADIO of course went to my classes ( I also went to class Monday if you were wondering). Then I broadcasted live on kcoe radio at 4pm. Followed by my final soccer practice of the season and also a astronomy exam which I was not a big fan of.

Wednesday was even better, all that soccer practice paid off with a tie against Luther College who was undefeated in conference before running into the kohawks.

Thursday was packed with class meetings and some room reorganizing not to busy of a day. I also went to a Stride Piano concert that evening at City High School in Iowa City. I had a great time and the atmosphere there was top notch.

Friday I was off to the races. I woke up at around 5:30am to prepare for a long morning drive to Western Illinois for a Student Affairs undergraduate conference. I got to meet a lot of people and also narrow down my graduate school search a little father.

Saturday was nothing but lots of work related task that I felt would be nice to get out of the way. I got a lot of things done for Residence Life and I also thought it would be nice to write 4 academic reviews to put me ahead on some of my classes. Along with all that stuff I thought it would be great to spend 7+ hours designing hosting a website for Kcoe Radio which is Coe College's radio channel which is now live nation wide via internet feel free to check out the page I designed kcoe48.com I ate a lot of pizza that night and along with the president and secretary of kcoe I believe we may have went through close to two cases of lemonade.

All and all a great week and weekend Sunday was more of a relaxing and reflecting day plus a little more website editing. I hope all of you are able to go check out the website at kcoe48.com it turned out pretty nice with some more updates coming this week.

Thank you for your time,
Charles E. Cotton III

Life of A Kohawk

Dear Readers,

Soccer season is coming to a end. I myself am not a big fan of this minus the fact it will be getting cold outside very soon. We have our last soccer game this Wednesday away against Luther College. Other than that I have a few other things I am looking forward to this week. I plan to attend a conference this Friday in Illinois and I also have a test tomorrow in Modern Astronomy that I still need to study a lot more for but I am looking forward to getting it over with.

I just found out my class got canceled today so that is some extra free time for me to relax today so I am not complaining. I also got around to narrowing down my grad school list to 6 possibles. I was pretty excited to finally get that search started and narrowed down a bit. This past Thursday I had the opportunity to meet with our assistant dean of students at Coe just to chat about a social justice conference I was able to attend this summer and we just spent sometime reflecting on that stuff, it is kind of nice to know we have tons of people around here that are willing to just process all sorts of things with you and just chat about whatever you want.

On Thursday of last week I had another radio show to host which was a good time fore sure. For all of you readers interested in learning and hearing more about Coe from Coe students I definitely want to recommend you check out the KCOE radio once we go live on the internet November 1st! I will make sure to give you more dates on that since me and a co-host of mine were selected to host the launching show.

I had a very productive weekend as well. I gave a tour Saturday morning after losing my voice Friday night at practice, some how it magically came back just in time for my tour. After that I had to get ready for our soccer game vs. Wartburg College which we won. Sunday was a great time as well, I got to go to a brunch at Elm Crest Country Club for Diversity Leadership Scholarship recipients and we had a good time getting to mingle and learn a little more about each other.
Sunday evening concluded with a little bit of homework and some movie watching.

Oh but some other random stuff that happened,I bought 6 cases of lemonade(it was on sale), over fall break I did a huge load of laundry and someone was kind enough to put it in the dryer and fold it for me(That just made my day). I also got all you can eat chinese from hyvee which is right down the street from Coe and it was pretty tasty.

Well once again thank you for your time,
Charles E. Cotton III

Fall Break is Here!

Dear Readers,

This past week has been a good one. I took a test and did not do as well as I would have liked but did not do that bad I got an 88% also I had initiation week for my fraternity which was a great time.
I was able to do a lot of reflecting this week and follow up conversations with people from the conference I attended last week. So my goal for this week is to narrow down my graduate school search. I also submitted some poetry to Coe Review which is our big publication service. Not typical of me but I figured I would give it a shot ( my teacher forced me). I am looking forward to see if any of my work was selected.
Although I do not have class today or tomorrow I stuck around Coe this fall break because of our soccer game yesterday which we won. That was a good one since we played our long term rivals Cornell College. Other than that I have been enjoying the weather change sort of, I like that Halloween is almost here it is my second favorite holiday. I still need to figure out a costume for this year’s festivities.
Other than that I have spent this fall break hanging out with teammates and my brothers, watching tons of movies and ordering lots of food. Along with that I got to talk with my grandma yesterday and they are getting excited for thanksgiving already. It is weird how fast it seems this school year is moving. I am looking forward to attending another conference next week and hopefully I can come back with some insight and pictures to share with you all. Speaking of pictures I plan to take some on the trip to our soccer game tomorrow so get excited!

Thank you for your time,
Charles E. Cotton III

A Few Days Away

Dear Readers,

This past week was full of fun activities for me. From receiving a new plant for my room, a free trip to a big conference, and finally some enjoyable soccer. What more do I really need? This was a perfect week if I do say so myself. All of my classes were pretty fun this week and that is of course not always the case. Along with that I also had a soccer game this Wednesday and ttyhat is always something I look forward to. To add to all the excitement earlier this week we have had great weather as well.
This past Thursday and Friday were a blast as well. I was fortunate enough to attended a big conference related to my career field. I hope to someday become a dean at a college and I got to mix and mingle with tons of proffesoinals in the field. To make that even better my trip was paid for by Coe! This is nice for a person on a college student budget.

To add even more sugar to my punch, we had another soccer game yesterday and it was a road game. Althouuhgh we didn't get the result we were looking for this weekend we did learn a lot from it.

All and all a great week and weekend. I look forward to sharing more with you all next week. Who knows what I will get into.

Thank you for your time,
Charles E. Cotton III

All the places you can go.

Dear Readers,

Since we last spoke a few exciting things have occurred. I had the chance to finally go to healthy happenings which is a smoothie place in Cedar Rapids. I have been waiting to go there all summer but just finally made it and I must say it is pretty good. Other then that we had a big away soccer game Wednesday however we did not finish as well as we would have liked to but that is alright. I have night class on Wednesday so since I happened to miss that I got to go to brewed awakenings which is a coffee shop across the street from campus where I had lunch and discussed the class materials with my professor. That was very helpful to say the least, I picked up on so much more of the reading information that way and I must say it is pretty sweet that a professor was willing to go grab lunch with his students.

Other then that I also got to go to Iowa City Thursday night and I have plenty of pictures from the evening. My jazz history class went out to the Englert Theater to watch the Miles Davis Experience which was pretty cool because our professor bought us all dinner and paid for everyone's ticket. Other then that we grabbed one cold stone ice cream before the concert and walked around for a bit which was a god time.

This Friday we had a big nacho bar party in Armstrong hall lobby which turned out to have a lot of people in attendance. I can surely say I had my fair share of nachos that night. The rest of my weekend has been pretty relaxing hopefully yours was as well.

Other then that I hope you all enjoy the photos look forward to some more next week from a big conference I will be attending and thank you for your time,
Charles E. Cotton III