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Pancakes Are Back! How Did We Start It?

The flyer for our first pancake night of the Fall 2023 semester For those of you who knew me from last semester or prior, you'd know that in Spring of 2023 my fraternity, Phi Mu Delta, began doing this new event called PMD Pancake Night. This was a brand-new event that we created to reach out to the greater Ohio Northern University community and provide a service that was needed, late night food on weekends. And provide we did. This event took considerable planning to set up for the first time. We had never done an event of this scale before so we had to consider numerous details. We researched griddles to use, batter to use compared to cost, how much syrup we needed and more. But by the time we were done we had a well thought out plan capable of feeding hundreds of hungry college students on a Saturday.  Our first pancake night was on February 18, 2023. Going into that night we had no idea the turn out we would generate. Would it be 20 people including members? Would it be 50 peop

One More Time With Feeling: The Beginning of Senior Year

(Photo of myself from the first day of Senior Year / Michael Gallagher) Welcome back! This blog has not been active in quite a while for my own personal reasons in almost a year. Now that I have been given a reason to begin blogging again I can catch you all up on what has happened since December of 2022. Since the last blog I made in December of 2022 there have been multiple things that happened in my life. Chronologically first and foremost I turned 21-years-old! I was able to take a whole weekend off and make a trip up to a casino in Niagara Falls. I have never been to a casino before so getting to experience one with my family was a treat. Unfortunately I walked away losing money like most people, but I was not too pressed about it. My brother however, walked away with over $1000 in profit! I found a pattern in a digital poker machine that I got bored with so I  told him about it and walked away. That was a big mistake on my part, but in the end I still had a great weekend with my