Aaron

My favorite campus activity:

I love intramurals here on campus. With 7 different sport seasons (like floor hockey, volleyball, flag football) and different leagues of various competition levels, intramurals is an activity that everyone on campus can get involved in. Half the fun is forming your teams and coming up with team names like “Schizophrenic Squirrels” “Fighting Pandas” “Combat Wombats”. It is easy to see that you can take intramurals as serious or laid back as you like. Personally I enjoy playing in the coed leagues the most because they are less competitive and every one is just out there to have a good time.

My favorite intramural season:

This is a difficult decision but right now I would have to say it is a toss up between coed flag football and Volleyball. Both are very sociable sports because of the nature of the game. You have one play and then you stop and set up for the next play which give you time to celebrate or laugh about the previous play depending on what happened, and encourage each other for the up coming play.

My favorite residence hall:

Martin House is not a Residential hall really but I am still going to call it my favorite. Martin House is a house owned by EMU and is located on campus. Every year it is inhabited by 10-12 different people who are usually upperclassman but the occasional sophomore has slipped in. The house is a place that provides an opportunity for guys and girls to live together in a single-family dwelling. It is a chance for them to live as a community and see if they can get along with other members in the house. Members in the house cook and eat meals together and make decisions together, like deciding what temperature to set the thermostat on since they are the ones who pay for the gas and electrical bill. I found that living in Martin House gave me a taste of what living on my own is going to be like.