Day 32: go cougs

I love being a cougar. My university is awesome.

At the NWNATA conference, I had the privilege of presenting research with three other classmates at the student forum. The student forum was the same time as two other presentations, which I’m sure were a million times better than the ones the students were participating in. there were 6 other groups presenting as well, and of course none of us are professional presenters, so we weren't necessarily moving the crowd.

Needless to say, it was boring to watch.

But even though it was boring, almost all my classmates that came to the conference came and watched us present. They had seen us present multiple times as practice and were probably so sick of us, and we were the second to last group so they had to wait a long time, but they did it anyway. They stayed to support us.

The next day was Quizbowl. Quizbowl resembles jeopardy; each school with an entry level athletic training program in the northwest had a team of three students to represent. The question was read, the teams conferred and clicked in their answer, and points were awarded as such.

Once again, not necessarily thrilling. And once again, it was during the time of other presentations. But once again, our whole entire program showed up to support. Not only did we sit in the crowd and support, we were the super obnoxious group that cheered ridiculously for every right answer, shouted GO COUGS at random intervals, sang our fight song, and basically annoyed the crap out of everyone else.

We were proud of our classmates, and we wanted them to know how much we supported them.

Our presentation didn't get first place, neither did our Quizbowl team. But we absolutely were the undefeated fans, which comes as no surprise for anyone familiar with WSU.
So shout out to my classmates, I'm thankful for the unwavering support we all have for each other. 

Go cougs.