Everyday Life at Phi Delta Theta!

This week I’ve decided to do a piece on Fraternity rooms at Phi Delta Theta. I’ve gotta admit that one of the reasons I joined a fraternity in the first place was the fact that you could make a room however you like. Want a sweet loft in your room? Make it! Want a swinging bed? Do it! Best friends with the guy in the other room? Make a door! You get the point I hope.

The sweet thing about fraternity life is that you can do that without getting in trouble with the RA’s or having your landlord take your security/damage deposit as a punishment. Obviously don’t join a fraternity for this reason, but you’ll never have another opportunity in your life (unless you are like ass rich) to blatantly lower the value of your room through personalization without any sort of financial repercussions!

Anyway’s, depending on popularity, I might make this into a series and go through everyone in the house but for now I’m going to do mini-MTV cribs-esque tours of certain guys in the house! We’ll start with us seniors, Me (Austin), Joe the president, and Tako/Josh. Enjoy and let me know what you think!

JOE!!!

Welcome to Joe’s room (ignore the heart, they’re from girls from valentines day =P)

Sweet air conditioning (the only one in the house) box spring and mattress on the floor, minimalistic beauty.

Nice lil bookcase full of complex scientific books!

The only remaining built in closet in the whole house. Niiiice!

Big bro paddles…tiny tv, white boards, and postits for remembering complex physics equations…

Computer desk, a little WOW maybe??

Tako!!

Amazing door poster found someone in the house….Adorned with tako chip bag cut outs! Great styles taks.

Nice lil papa san (tako started it), a sweet curtain that I lack, you can also see the bed in the back of the room. Mattress on the floor, simple. Clean! Sugoi Tako.

Tako and his “big rig”. Amazing 24 inch lcd from dell, the sweet dell flexilamps, Joshua Svidriface. Beautiful, just astonishingly GORGEOUS!!

Fridge full of healthy snacks, awesome sound system, nice lil 360 there in the back. Nice work tako, looks familiar.

Wow, after all that intense stuff you’d expect a break when looking at the clothing corner but no such luck. If you look closely you can see the towel that tako uses on his RIPPED body after showers. Lucky!!

Austin

My favorite X-Man on my door! Thanks HUB free color poster printing!

My sweet Ikea “Beddinge”, my sweet TV, my life plans on the left, movie posters galore!!

Extended view of the picture above…

I copied tako and got a popa san. Best decision ever! My cork board, my clothing racks, and whatever!

My computer station. Very comfortable workplace, I’m actually siting there right now at this very moment! Spectacular!

Well there you have it you all! Some rooms in the house! I love living here and I love customizing my rooms when I first move in. Its like a tetris challenge cramming all the stuff you want in your room in there and have it look good an be comfortable and its so much more “nice” living in it knowing you did it all yourself (or with your Frat bros!!)

Let me know what you think of the post and maybe I’ll continue the series!

First of many new updates to come!

Hi All!

I’m sorry I havn’t been keeping this page updated but my life got super busy over the last couple months! I missed the blog and so now I’m back!

I’d like to give somewhat of a summary of my life over the last 6 months or so, a LOT has happened.

But here are the main points

• I finished up my presidency at Phi Delta Theta. I think of this as one of my proudest achievements in my life so far. I learned a ton about interpersonal communication, leadership, personal responsibility, and organizational behavior. I am proud of what I’ve done throughout my presidency and I’m sure that my successor (joe) will do a great job as he has been doing since I’ve finished up my term.
• I got myself an internship in Microsoft IT. I work in the IT Showcase team doing process improvement. It’s not exactly my specialty by any means but I am eager to see it through it. Its been almost 4 months since I started this 6 month internship and I am really hoping to land a full time position after my internship ends. So far I’ve been doing well and thus… i’m not afraid!
• I am still happily dating my lovely girlfriend Vy! We’ve been doing very well. I <3 her!
• I have started being more health conscious – I’ve been running more often and eating pretty healthy (for the most part LOL). I feel much less sickly than I have before I started doing this and I feel much HEALTHIER (obviously but there’s just no other way to put it!)
• Vy, Elitza,Tako and I went to Mexico for our final college spring break. We lived at the Pueblo Bonita in Mazatlan. It was AMAZING. Hands down the best trip of my life! In total I ended up spending about a grand on the trip but it was totally worth it to get out of the US for a couple days and sit by the pool, feel no pressure to do anything and just eat, drink, play, eat, drink, play, and enjoy life. I couldn’t take that kind of thing for more than a couple weeks but for the 4 days that we were there, Amazing. IN FACT!! Enjoy some pictures hosted by my new favorite google service… Picasa & Google Web Albums

Thanks readers! I’ll be blogging more now I promise! In the meantime, enjoy some tunes by my favorite…

Now Listening to: Snap Yo Fingers by Lil Jon

11 Guys signed and still going strong!

Wow. I dont know when I can imagine myself saying that we, at Washington Alpha Phi Delta Theta, have signed 11 guys for the coming fall quarter. It makes me extremely excited because its going to be a shit load of fun.  If any of you pledges are reading this, then now you know how excited I am to have your company in the house!!!!!!