Happy Valentine's Day!

Hi All,

I hope you enjoyed your Valentine's Day and weekend! This weekend, I went home from Happy Valley to enjoy a weekend of beautiful skiing. Although the snow wasn't what it was, the skiing was still phenomenal. I made such an improvement in my skiing this weekend by finding edges on my skis that I did not know even existed! I am now skiing faster and better than I have ever skied before. I learned that I need to push my hips out further and more downhill to create a more effective edge. It felt great!

This weekend is a very big one at Penn State. This is THON weekend. For those of you who do not know what THON is, it is a student run fundraiser for pediatric cancer. Students go out around the Northeast four weekends to go "canning" at supermarkets or street corners. Also, students have a mass letter writing campaign to ask for donations from their friends and family. This weekend, we will be fulfilling a promise to all who donated money to THON by having over 700 students, or dancers, fill our basketball arena, the Bryce Jordan Center, by standing and dancing for 46 hours straight without any sleep breaks. While I am not a dancer, I am on the Finance Committee for THON which basically means that I am one of the people who counts all the money that is donated to us through cash, checks, or IOU's. I can't wait to see how much money we raise this year! Last year we raised $6,615,318.04!

I will definitely keep you posted on how that goes! I can't wait and my head is spinning with all the on-campus activities to help students prepare for the weekend!

Have a great week and let it snow!

- Tracker
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"When cancer is cured, we will dance for joy. Until then, we will dance for life." - Anonymous Dancer from THON