Meghan Butryn

GEN 1033, Honors: Life of the Mind

Dr. McGovern

1 December 2014

Blog 3

On October 29^th Stockton’s S.E.T club organized an event called Lola-no-bozza. One of the main reasoning behind the event was to encourage students to resist drinking on Halloween night especially because Halloween fell on a Friday night. Halloween is my all-time favorite holiday so I could not resist celebrating two days in a row. I went with all my friends and got all dressed up as a skeleton. When we first arrived we were handed glow sticks and lead to the dance floor. There was an awesome DJ and everyone was dancing. If you weren’t one for dancing there were chairs and tables to hang out with your friends. If you got bored there was a photo booth in the corner of the room and it was free. Everyone would pile in with all there close friends and take pictures of their great costumes. To satisfy ones hunger there was tons of pizza as well as well as many specialty drinks made by different clubs. All of these alcohol free of course but to show you that even with out alcohol they were still extremely tasty!

After lots of dancing and eating you could go around the room and put your tickets in for certain prizes. They ranged from smaller cute ones such as gift cards to Wawa to one night at a hotel. One of my friends was lucky enough to win a one night stay at a hotel close to her house. There were so many prizes so he majority of people attending were able to walk out with something. At some tables there were different pamphlets and fun facts about the statistics on drinking at Stockton. It was an extremely fun and safe event to go to with all your friends. Hopefully they’ll have it again next year if you missed it!

Meghan Butryn

GEN 1033, Honors: Life of the Mind

Dr. McGovern

20 October 2014

Blog 2

As a part of my health science class I attended the Josie King Foundation presentation in the PAC center on September 25^th. The speaker, Sorrel King, started the foundation in early 2009 as a result of a traumatic experience she had with her young daughter and a hospital. When her daughter Josie was only four years old when she fell into her bath and had burns all over her and was admitted into the John Hopkins Hospital which is an extremely renowned hospital. Sadly throughout the course of being there Josie passed away due to a medical error. It all happened the day that doctors told the family the young girl would be able to return home. Of course this kind of even would be heartbreaking to any family and it was very hard for the Kings. Sorrel started doing a little research and saw that medical errors are the cause of many deaths each year and this began to fuel her to do what she does today.

After her daughter’s death they took the money from a law suit and put it towards a foundation that would work towards creating less medical errors in the hospital setting. Over the years they have gotten many hospitals all over to partake in rapid response teams and programs that encourage more communication between the doctor, nurses, and of course the family members as well. As well as the foundation being a success, so has been Sorrel King as a speaker. She travels all over to schools, hospitals, and conventions to share her. It began when she spoke at a John Hopkins event and someone filmed it and still today people purchase and use that DVD. Her speech was quite heartbreaking to here but extremely inspiring to all us young health science majors to work towards less medical errors when we are finally working and out in our job field. For anyone that attended was moved by her presentation and enjoyed her as a speaker.

Meghan Butryn

GEN 1033, Honors: Life of the Mind

Dr. McGovern

25 September 2014

On Thursday September 18^th the G-K quad hosted a Hoedown Throwdown to welcome the lovely fall weather. There was all tables set up in the G through K building area for you to sit with friends and enjoy food and refreshments that were provided. There were all different kinds of snacks and an assortment of wings with different hot sauces for you to try. Along with that there was all types of mustaches and beards in lollipop form for you to take pictures with and of course eat and enjoy!

Once you got finished eating all the free food they started the wing eating contest. It started out with about twelve different girls and guys ready to take on the challenge. For the first round you had to eat each wing in a certain amount of time. Each person started with four wings that went up in the hotness level. All twelve people made it through to the second round but only two people decided to compete again due to the fact that everyone else mouth was on fire. For this round the winner had to eat four wings covered with the hottest sauce as fast as they could. The winner was then crowned with a giant cowboy hat.

Once the wing contest was finished we moved on to throwing pies in our RA’s faces and I’m not sure who wouldn’t want to do that. Of course me and my friends through a pie each at our old RA at the same time. During this time they handed out free bandanas and started lighting up a “fire” (just a grill really but same thing!) so we could make some oh so delicious s’mores. Overall it was a great event and if you were there I’m sure you had lots of fun getting to know your fellow residents and RA’s!