The Last Full Day of VSA

But before I get to the last full day, let's start with Wednesday. 

Wednesday passed in a blur, starting with running club in the morning. I was the only one, surprisingly enough, but that didn't affect my run at all. 

After showering and eating breakfast, we went to the last full day of class. We were pretty productive in working on the problems in the book, and my group was able to make three new posters to put up on the walls of the classroom. We didn't have a final presentation though, like some classes, but I thought that not having a final presentation was nice in some ways, because it's a more relaxed ending to our three weeks together.

Jason and I 

After class was free time, dinner, and the last SOFT night. I mostly just hung out with the group of friends I've been with for almost all of VSA. I also meant to go to the San Antonio Taco Company again, but I helped out Keaston and Carmen by eating some of the Chinese food they had ordered because they couldn't finish it all themselves. It was a lot of food. 

After dinner we played a couple of games in the library until the proctor group meeting. One was paranoia, where someone asks another person a question in secret, but the person says the answer aloud. Someone then flips a coin to see if the answer will be revealed. I had a lot of fun playing it, because I hadn't before. Just another thing I've learned at VSA!

The next morning (today) marked the beginning of the last full day of VSA. I could tell that many people new it, too, as there was a lot of talk about what was going to happen in the afternoon, at night, and the next morning.

We had a good final day of class. We started out with some problems similar with what we had done on the first day and went from there. We also recapped what we had learned. In the afternoon, Jason had everyone say what they had felt they learned the best, and what they wanted to learn more about. I put that I had learned about different bases and mods really well, but of course I wanted to learn more about everything. The entire class was a great experience with a lot of challenging and interesting material. I wish all of my classes could be like it. All too soon though, we were heading to the rotunda for the closing ceremonies.

The funny photo we took as a class

The closing ceremonies weren't too long, but it nicely wrapped up the program. There were a lot of speeches, even one by Olivia. Olivia is a fifth-year returner, which means she's been here for all five of the years she could. I know a lot of people (including myself) started tearing up at her words. As a couple of my other friends here are also fifth-years, they felt especially sad. It was their last year at VSA, and they had done so much there. Other than Olivia, Rosie, Doctor David Dun, and Victoria all spoke, and the heads of houses spole as well. It turns out my house, V-house, did not win. A-house did, but that's alright - it sounded like they won by a lot, so good for them. Once the closing ceremonies had closed, we headed back to Hank Ingram.

At Hank, we cleaned up our rooms and packed up a bit before tomorrow. 

After that was dinner and the dance. Dinner was mostly spent signing term books, as we didn't have much time to do that before.  The term books are kind of like yearbooks, so it was very similar to the end of the year at regular school. The dance was fun, especially because I was feeling so much better at this one. 

The dance got out pretty late at night, so we just went back to Hank Ingram to do our proctor group meeting. Our meeting went a little longer, as we had more to talk about. It gave good closure for the program, I'm glad my proctor group was so great. After that, we went to sleep, finishing out the last full day of the Vanderbilt Summer Academy.