Seasons Greetings and Salutations!

Readers, my name is Michael Niezer and I will be taking you through the everyday life…of my life…here at Ball State. I will be blogging about the ins and outs, ups and downs, and overs and unders of life as a Ball State student over the course of this new, exciting, sparkling, dazzling, and hopefully scintillating academic year. I had the great opportunity to blog last year and am motivated to get to it and do it again!

For those of you who don’t know me and are unfamiliar with my ways, my full name is Michael Bernard Niezer Esquire Extraordinaire. You can call me Mike for short. I am a senior this year, majoring in Architecture and minoring in Historic Preservation. I am graduating this MAY!!! I am the current president of my fraternity, Phi Gamma Delta (commonly known as Fiji) and am involved in a number of other organizations on campus including the Honors College and Cardinal Corps. My favorite season of the year is Fall, my favorite color changes on a daily basis, and the most annoying sound in the world is the sound of somebody chewing ice. I try and enjoy life to its fullest and think of myself as an incredibly optimistic person. I have been told that I have a unique ability to make a normal situation incredibly awkward but entirely enjoyable, all at the same time. I'm not sure how to respond to that, but I think I am ok with it.

Ladies and gents, this is how this will work. I will blog about my experiences as a Ball State student, good and bad, for the remainder of this year. I can promise you that what I write will be a real representation of the campus and life as a student. You have questions, are unsure of different things, and want to know what exactly life is like for a Ball State Student. I am here to answer those questions – it is my job, so to speak. I welcome, with open arms and an accepting mind, any and all questions that you have for me – give me your best shot!

I would attach some pictures so that you could start to associate my writing with a face, but am currently in Washington, D.C. for an architecture field study and am unable to load them to the computer. I'm actually on my way out the door to have a dinner party with my boy President Obama as I type. You know, talk a little politics, discuss foreign policies, speak intellectually about the greater things in life, and bounce jokes off of one another. He is such a jokester sometimes. Sigh, if only any of that was true. Please be patient and I will be with you in a few short days! I'll have to tell you all about my trip. I really am very much looking forward to blogging again this year. I am excited to hopefully interact a little bit more with my readers, what with photos and jaw-dropping live video coverage of those exciting and monumental events of my life.

Stay in touch, I’ll be back with you in a few days. Until then, everyone have a great last few days of September!

Signing out,