The event I have been planning for the past month and a half came and went this weekend. The Color Rush 5K at Dickinson Park happened on Saturday and I am pretty pleased about how everything went! I enjoy event planning and this event was no different. I spent my week working on the fine details and creating bags with a t-shirt, banana, granola bar, pen, and directions to keep the color in the shirt, making banners, sandwich boards, creating a day of plan, and finalizing and confirming a lot of materials borrowed. A van was loaded with 125 pounds of powered color in blue, green, purple, pink, and yellow. I even made a no sew tutu to wear from this event!
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| Service Trip Leaders and I getting ready to open registration |
The Color Rush was successful! It was a fundraiser for the Service Trips through the Office of Community Service and Religious Life. I started my morning out by getting up at 4:50am and arriving at Dickinson College around 6am to check and double check that I had everything accounted for. The service trip leaders met me at 6:30am and we headed over to D-Park. At 7am, I had 30 volunteers come and set up the event! In all my programming event experience, I never had this many volunteers! I was delegating so much for this event, in the past I was the one doing the decorating/setting up and delegating, it was nice to be able to focus on the event as a whole and not creating the set up for it. Registration started at 8am and we had quite a few community members come to the Color Rush. We had 5 girls from a local middle school track team, we had a group from the ROTC and a lot of student participation. There was a student who ran the whole 5K in 14 minutes, I could not believe how fast he was running! We had about 120 people register and pay for the event, but only had about 80 runners. I need to remember that Dickinson is a much smaller campus than Minnesota State, Mankato, so I should not expect to have hundreds and hundreds of people. MSU's campus community is at least 6X bigger than Dickinson and having a small number is comparison to the school.
I received a lot of positive comments about the Color Rush, I got many comments that the event was well organized and I had things planned out very well. I also heard from some of the runners that it was so much fun! I, too, had fun at this event! I walked around and watched the runners go through and I stopped at the first color station to throw some color, because why not? Throwing color is what makes the Color Rush 5K one of the happiest 5K's in the world! I also loved running around in my tri-colored tutu that I had made a week prior. I went to JoAnn Fabrics and could get tulle for $1.18 per yard, so it was practically yelling my name to buy it and make a tutu. I felt pretty proud of how the event was handled, especially for putting it on in a community I do not know, a campus where I had never gone to school, and without knowing all my resources. I have learned so much about talking to different directors and working with CASE and reserving different materials needed to an event. When I was involved with IMPACT, I dreaded going upstairs and reserving materials or locations, I always feared that I would say something or do something wrong or I would get my words all jumbled up and not make any sense. I have been in contact with CASE so much at Dickinson, I am pretty much over the fear of reserving things! If I get into grad school at MSU for Student Affairs, I can definitely use all the skills I have learned and am continuing to learn at Dickinson!
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| The small aftermath of throwing color |
I am planning to start working on my graduate school application over the next couple weeks, I am starting to get a little antsy about it, I am only applying to one school- Minnesota State and part of me thinks I should be more nervous about only applying to one school. What will I do if I don't get in? I'm not entirely sure, I know I will be back in Iowa or possibly Minnesota. But, I am not extremely nervous about it. I have a passion for the program and I went to the school for undergraduate. I am familiar with the campus and people and I have gained much more experience through this year off. I hope that and my essays will be enough for me to get into the program!
This coming week is much less exciting than this week- which I am okay with! I have been very tired this weekend but I guess that's to be expected. I am looking forward to a back-to-normal week! We will see what happens!
Till next time,
Katie
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