Hello! My name is Melanie Krcilek and I'm a public relations junior at the University of Oklahoma. I’m originally from Lafayette, Indiana, and at home, I live about 15 minutes away from Purdue University. Unfortunately, that means I’m about a 13 hour drive from Norman. I came to OU in the first place because I thought I wanted to pursue a degree in broadcast meteorology. However, after one semester, I could tell that wasn’t for me. I wanted to stay within the journalism college, and after some indecisiveness, I decided on public relations. So far, so good as far as that goes.
Along with this online class, I’m taking five on-campus classes, so I know I’ll have a lot going on this semester. Somehow I managed to work my schedule out in a way that allowed me to have Fridays off, which I’m pretty excited about. I don’t have any terribly early classes this semester either, so I really can’t complain.
This summer was a pretty eventful one for me. I returned to my job at home at Moe’s Southwest Grill, which is pretty much (in my opinion) a better version of Chipotle/Qdoba. Sadly, the only Moe’s remotely near here in the airport, so I don’t get to have it much while I’m a school. I miss it already. I did a lot of caterings for Moe’s this summer, and I enjoyed that a lot.
In addition to working, I celebrated a lot of birthdays this summer. My little (and only) sister turned 18, my mother turned 50, and I turned 21. We all thought it was pretty exciting that these monumental birthdays were happening in the same summer. I took my mom to see Billy Joel in concert at Wrigley Field for her birthday. He put on an incredible show and we both really enjoyed it. For my birthday, I went skydiving. It was a cool experience and one I encourage everybody to try if they’re even remotely interested in doing so.
I also did a lot of typical summer activities, such as going to an amusement park, tie dying, eating watermelon, etc. ☺
(Image Information: personal photo of me above the clouds while skydiving, photo from July 2014.)
