The One Where We Attend a Baseball Game

See we really were there!
Tickets and everything.

First off, I know that the list commands us to attend a spring training game. Spring training is like preseason football, almost worthless. So we decided to go to the real deal. Screw the list. It needed to be put in its place, to know who was really in charge.       List you may have a veritable army of items, but we have an edit button! Take that list!                        

Look at that beauty!
You wouldn't be able to resist either.

The game we chose to attend was the Sunday matinee between the Tampa Bay Rays and Texas Rangers. Why? School, that's why. Weeknight games are not conducive to my schedule. Man, what a game. I wish my first Ray's game had been this good (Gilbert you lucky duck you). My man B.J. Upton mashed three homers (one on the first pitch(not that you could hit more than one on any given pitch,that would be cool, cool but weird)) and James Shields pitched a whale of a game, but the true star of the game was the Cubans we had (Which originated in Tampa, but don't quote me on that). 

No, Gilbert there isn't any money inside.

On our way out of the stadium we found a giant piggy bank, and we couldn't resist ourselves we just had to have a picture.

One more item down.

1. Round Up

A USF Tradition. To attend "Round UP" at the Sun Dome. Now I don't how it's been in the past, and how many people usually attend this event, but I must say that I was incredibly lucky to get in line early enough to have ground level seats. This pep rally style event brought be back to the my old high school days, playing in the marching band and ridiculously dancing.

Then after two opening acts. Thats right two acts, that just kept rambling off the same jokes repeatedly, then came Mike Epps. Well lets just say he had no problem bashing the USF Football team, but not without kindly mentioning our promising Basketball team.


Lets not forget Judy Genshaft botching our school colors. Lets go green and yellow.

First WOW Event

We decided that a appropirate introductory event to attend was the so called "Campus Tradition," (complements of the WOW brochure). The "Late Night with Campus Recreation" is an array of physical contests and activites. Including dodgeball, zumba, ping pong, and tableing event for intramural sports (which served us well, to get us introduced to which sports teams we may join). We were excited to experience the newly remodeled recreation center and enjoyed a rousing game of what the chinese call ping pong. With a fierce forehand I was able to break down the defense of the 6 foot 2 inch beast that is Kris.

Kris in preparing for battle

Dodgeball was a different story. Because of an error of registration we had the privilege to absorb a few more team members only to be denied a second round berth. But there was .

-Gilbert

Official Bucketlist

First things first, here it is, our bucket list. At this point the list is fluid, things may change(we will keep you updated). This is basically the rough draft of the list. We may be forced to forgo the more costly activities(designated by red text). We're hoping to trim a few items to get the list to 53 items. Why 53? Well that's a good question. Gilbert had the idea that since it's the USF's 53rd anniversary we should have one item for every year of the school's existence. Courtesy of USF Marshall Student Center and HerCampus USF.


1. Start off the new school year by attending "Round-Up" at the Sun Done.
2. Catch some beads at the USF Homecoming Parade in the fall.
3. Have your photo taken with the bulls at the MSC fountain.
4. Enjoy a walk through the USF Botanical Gardens.
5. Cheers the Bulls football team on to victory at Raymond James Stadium.
6. Participate in USF's Stampede of Service Community Project in January.
7. Visit the Florida Aquarium.
8. Be a "Miles for Moffitt" participant or volunteer in May.
9. Attend a USF women's volleyball, softball or basketball game.
10. Eat some popcorn at a "Movies on the Lawn" flick.
11. Check out the art at the new Salvador Dali Museum.
12. Tame the SheiKra at Busch gardens.
13. Attend a multicultual event on campus.
14. Spend quiet time at the "I Have A Dream" wall at USF's MLK Plaza.
15. Take a canoe or kayak trip at USF's Riverfront Park.
16. Enjoy a meal and flemenco dancing at the Columbia restaurant in Ybor City.
17. Visit the IMAX Theater at MOSI.
18. Vote for your student leaders in a Student Government election in the spring.
19. Attend a University Lecture Series event.
20. Play on a campus intramural team.
21. Take a jog on USF's fitness exercise course.
22. Check out the sounds at Bullstock in the spring.
23. Dance or donate at USF's Dance Marathon in March.
24. Gather some friends for a tailgate cookout before a game.
25. Get your heart pumping- enroll in a Campus Recreation fitness class.
26. Join at least one of USF's 500 student organizations
27. Attend a USF men's baseball and soccer game.
28. Celebrate a special day with lunch at MSC's On Top of the Palms restaurant.
29. Explore art at the new Contemporary Art Museum in Tampa.
30. Visit the world's famous Graphicstudio located on our campus.
31. Enjoy a Saturday touring Downtown Tampa and the Riverwalk.
32. Learn about Tampa's past at the Tampa Bay History Center.
33. Soak up the fun and sun at one of the area's greatest beaches.
34. Get your photo taken with Rocky, the USF mascot.
35. Enjoy a College of Visual & Performing Arts' play, dance or concert.
36. Have a late night meal at the Bulls Den Cafe in Andros Center.
37. Take a date to the Dessert Room at Bern's Steakhouse in Tampa.
38. Walk, bike or rollerblade the 7-mile lopp at Flatwoods Park in Thonotosassa.
39. Attend a concert or event at the USF Sun Dome.
40. Eat something deep-fried and decadent at the Florida State Fair in February.
41. Enjoy one of the many major league baseball games in the area.
42. Visit all four Disney parks and  both Universal Parks in Orlando.
43. Chow down on all things strawberry at the Strawberry Festival in March.
44. Party with pirates at the Gasparilla Parade in January.
45. Catch sight of manatees at the TECO Manatee Viewing Center in Tampa.
46. Watch the sun set form the Fort De Soto Fishing Pier in Sarasota.
47. Check out the alligators and crocodiles feeding at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo.
48. Celebrate Summer Solstice on June 21 at the USF Solar Rotary Sculpture.(Winter Dec. 21)
49. Peddle around campus on an Outdoor Recreation free loaner bike.
50. See the world by participating in the Study Abroad Program.
51. Attend a day at the Tampa Bay Renaissance Festival on the MOSI fairgrounds in March and April.
52. Play a game of Quidditch with the USF Quidditch team!
53. Register to play for Humans Vs. Zombies, a campus-wide game of tag.
54. Swing by the Undergraduate Research Symposium in the spring and check out all the neat research students like you are conducting!
55. Write a "Letter to the Editor" and send it to The Oracle, USF's award-winning, student-run newspaper.
56. Participate in a  fundraiser.
57. Check out the Wednesday Bulls Market at the MSC.
58. Graduate!!!
59.Watch a free 3D movie at the USF's Advanced Visualization Center.

ESPN3 Access on College Campus

My fellow college students, I am quite pleased to inform you that we all have the equal opportunity to receive access to ESPN3 even if your service provider isn't on the list. It is 100% legitimate and it doesn't cost a thing. This technique only works when you are on your university's internet services (Wifi or desktop) Here we go.

1. First you need to make a ESPN account using you USF(or whatever college you are enrolled in) email which ends in .edu.

2. Now verify your account using the automated email sent to you inbox. 

3. Now enjoy. You have access to the live streaming games and matches whilst on campus. Now click on any live video feed and enjoy.

Just in time for Wimbledon

 I came across this loop hole and thank god I'm enrolled so now me and my friends can enjoy all the best content. 

When Nonslip Measures Backfire

For those of you who have anxiously awaiting this (If you really exist I would like to know), I am sorry that this post has taken me so long to get to. Allow me to defend myself as most of reasons for not writing this earlier are legitimate. First, well really the only important one is that I have professors this semester who feel like I don’t do enough of my homework on my own and feel it necessary to make us submit it for grading (I feel like my professors from last semester gave my current set of professors the “scoop”). Secondly, and this may seem like a trivial excuse (to the uninitiated), I have been catching up on second season of Community.

Okay enough excuses now down to the knitty gritty, this post was either going to be about crazy stalker squirrels or people falling on their butts. As I currently am lacking in the squirrel picture department (Spoiler alert: If any of you see a squirrel with a half moon shaped cut out on one of its ears please send me a picture it would be greatly appreciated) I decided to wait on that particular subject.

Allow me to paint you a mental portrait, imagine a young starry eyed transfer student the first day of classes at the Ginormous University (hah I love how auto correct thought this was an actual university name), with nary a clue on the intricacies of the campus.  And in midst of his awe he was stuck in the rain making a mad dash for the closest building.  To his chagrin what he thought was a non-slip surface really was a Venus flytrap for unwanting students which ends with him falling smack on his butt to the amusement of all the other students seeking shelter from the rain. Well most of this story is true. On my first day of class at USF as I waited out some rain under Cooper Hall and as people came running up the ramp to escape the rain, many slipped and fell. The surface was a non-slip kind but not “non-slippery” enough for this amount of rain combined with the angle of the ramp. The reason I remember this incident is as I walked by Cooper recently, I noticed that they have attempted to alleviate this problem with even more non-slip measures. If you can see in the photo the little black sandpaper strips these are the non-slip measures that I was talking about. Maybe this truly is to benefit the students, but it also deprives of us of literally minutes of free pratfall hilarity (Yes I have heard of YouTube).


Gregg Chaucer

How-To Edition: Printing from a Laptop

Discovered that they finally allow us to print from our laptops this week and ready to share the great news.

First you're going to need to start by do is first click on the link here and download that package you need for a specific printing location to which ever packages you will need for the specific location and specify which type of systems you use on you computer. Since I usually use the Marshall Center then I decided to go with the Universal Driver, which is good from first floor library and the computer lab at Marshall Student Center.

click on the link here for the Pharos drivers.  


Once you've chosen a location to print. Pick 32bit or 64bit depending on what your computer uses.


Open the click to open the file.

Select Run



Click the Install Button



It should take a minute to install when it's complete select Finish



Now you're ready to print.

When you print you need to select RICOH or which ever printer driver you have downloaded in the printers selection box. You will be prompted to type in your username just like in the computer lab

The official directions are here if you have any issues