Boy this past week went really fast. I think that it was the fastest week yet at Marquette. I was somewhat hoping for a slow week, but you can’t always get what you want, as the song says. But, all in all, I think the week went fairly well. Luckily, I didn’t have too much homework and am pretty caught up with most of my studies. I plan on taking the weekend to finish the catch-up to everything and to write a few papers that are due this upcoming week.

I was happy to find that I did well on my statistics test, but a little dissapointed at the same time beacuse I found out that I wasn’t chosen for a job I wanted. Back to the drawing board for that one. I’ve been calling a few more departments at Marquette, and I hope to find something soon.This weekend, Marquette is kicking off its Magis program, which is designed to raise lots of money for the university, so that they can pay for all of the stuff they want to build, like the Al McGuire center, an extension of Campus Town, another parking structure, the Raynor Library and if there’s any pittance left over, it can go into the scholarship fund. So, there are lots of activities happening this weekend, including a huge dinner or something over in front of LaLumiere hall, where they erected this big tent to hold a big party. Sounds like fun.

In coordination with the kick off of the Magis fundraiser, Marquette has taken the time to debut its new advertising campaign, with the slogan “Be the difference.” They actually have a professional PR firm working with them. (The head of the firm is a MU grad!) And I think that all of the promotional stuff that I have seen so far looks really great. Hopefully this will help drive up enrollment, but hopefully, Marquette will be able to handle the increased enrollment. I also understand that sometime soon the entire web page is going to go under a major overhaul and look even better than it does, with lots of interactive things to really give Marquette the edge. Stay tuned and I’ll update more later on!