KC a great place to party...and eat BBQ

Wow, what a weekend. I just spent the last four days in Kansas City with around 1200 other psych major students. Now that might sound pretty drab and boring, and if there was a presentation to be heard or discussed it was, but as soon as a day's events ended that all changed. These people know how to party. Until this weekend, I would have said that frat boys were the only ones to throw a party worth remembering, but I was wrong. It seemed like the geek you sat next to during a presentation to during the day turned into the pole swinging diva after a shot of tequilla and a Long Island ice tea. Now before you swing into some wild assumption, this particular person was also being egged on by her boyfriend, but I think you get the picture. Plus, it seemed like they were bottomless pits. There was no end to the concumption, even after we were being excorted out at closing time. Most of these people partied well after four each night nad were up by eight to present. I am damn glad both of my oral presentation were on our first day, and all I had to do for our poster presentation was stand their next to it and hand out pamplets. But now I am home and back to business as usual.

I now only have a few tweeks to make to my final paper and prepare yet another presentation along with a powerpoint. Fortunately, this one only has to cover fifteen minutes and there will only be thirty or so audience members. The SWPA presentations had to cover around an hour a piece. My final paper is a literature review of peer-mentoring that covers a historical timeline, uses in the business world, and uses in elementary and secondary education, but its primary focus is peer-mentoring in th higher education setting. I had to read over 240 articles to find the fifty-three that I actually used and the paper topped out at thiry-six pages inculding references. Not the longest paper I have written while in college but by far the best and most rewarding. Well it getting late and I need some sleep before the week officially starts.

DB