Freshman Year

Looking back, here’s what I remember:

• Chilling with roomate Joe Zimmerman, most laid back guy I know.
• Ry Brainard and Andrew Rice always making me laugh
• Tener Hall, Lifehouse baby
• intimidated of everybody and everything
• Andrew Rice calling his mom at East Commons to ask if Macaroni was ok for his stomach
• Steve Wysz single handedly got me through Math 140 and 141
• riding bikes to class in the snow, while my coffee spilled onto my hand and then froze in the -10 degree weather
• Playing touch football because i was too much of a panzi to play tackle against bigger guys
• The short walk to the stadium for football games
• First PSU game, bunch of us Tener guys painted our chest for the game, we arrived and thought the the seats printed on the tix didn’t mean anything and it was first come first serve. we were seperated and it was rather chaos. A man yelled at me. Todd saved the day and eventually we ended up together, just further up
• Trying to maintain a long-distance highschool girlfriend that I was “convicned I was going to marry” (idiot)
• Meeting ACF legends Mike Breza, Pete Horning, Allie Hemphill, and Mariko.
• Practically tackling Spencer after the first ACF to ask if i could ever be involved in worship team.
• Asking Karin the first week how long she had been a Christian as awkwardly as possible
• Meeting Peter Emerick and Harrison Lee, having them hate me at first, only for us to become best friends and dominate spring semester together.
• Samie Messerly slept in my bed, while i was in it. There, I said it. I feel better now. Andrew Horvath doesn’t read my blog anyway
• Pete Horning was there for me during my break up
• Organizing a volleyball team only to miss the meeting and not get to play any games
• Bible study with Morgan Forney through NAVS two floors away, best study i’ve ever been a part of.
• Going through Fellowship shopping week only to realize ACF was home for me, I never made it to Cru on thursday
• Studying way too much because I was convinced i had to and it was the most important thing ever
• Coming to the glorious idea that Engineering sucks, so i got out.
• Signing a contract to work at Summer’s Best Two Weeks for my summer employment
• Leading the Orange team at the Spring retreat. There were 4 teams. each had 14 people. We were small.
• Realizing that we were the biggest class ACF has ever seen.
• I was in Amy Henning’s small group.
• Played Mafia with the other bazillion freshman in somebody’s dorm like every weekend
• Playing Halo with like 12 people at a time on the 9th floor
• Had small crush on Sarah Fugate. That worked out for me, ha.
• Was a part of the first white out against ranked Purdue. We almost won.
• Was a part of the 6-4 loss to Iowa. (oh Iowa,  you will come back to haunt me)
• Dumped on Easter. Went to Tim kutch’s with random people, including Adam Hoff’s hair…wild
• Hung out with Amanda Thompson a lot, introduced me to Kelly Goddard, soon to be super close friend
• Watched Villanova get shafted against UNC at Aaron Myers cabin (it wasn’t a travel)
• Pete Horning began teaching me electric so could prepare to play for ACF
• For guys retreat, we went to Tyrone and Karl, Pete and I demolished a deck for community service, it was awesome. I met the Egli’s, little did i know…
• Fresh Express, best wraps

That’s all I can remember, One down. Four to go.