Hello all! Monday afternoon saw our first real snow of the season, as well as our first snowstorm for winter here. We have about 2-3 inches of snow on the ground now and the lake effect snow machine is kicking in (thanks to some cold air coming from the north) to give us a couple of inches tonight. There’s definitely a buzz here in the Nutinis Apartments, as the start of the snowmobiling season seems to be just around the corner.<\/p>\n
Speaking of winter sports, MTU Hockey is doing very well so far this year too. As of Saturday morning, Michigan Tech was ranked the #1 hockey team in the WCHA! This is an impressive feat; the hockey team has been fun to watch since I started here at Tech but they haven’t necessarily been doing well. I don’t think MTU has won a WCHA championship since the late 60’s\/early 70’s. Certainly a large part in our recent success is our goalie Michael-Lee Teslak — who just happens to be ranked #1 in goalie stats for the WCHA as well. Here’s to hoping this will be the year for Tech Hockey.<\/p>\n
Let’s see…need 1 more paragraph…ah yes. Thanksgiving break is coming up! It is a mere 1.5 weeks away and I can’t wait to head downstate to visit friends, family and pets again. It’s been since July that I was down there last, and I am really looking forward to it. MTU is kind enough to give us a whole week off classes for the Thanksgiving holiday — add that to the long list of things I have to be thankful for. House<\/a> is on in a couple of minutes, so take it easy and take some time to enjoy our little winter wonderland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello all! Monday afternoon saw our first real snow of the season, as well as our first snowstorm for winter here. We have about 2-3 inches of snow on the ground now and the lake effect snow machine is kicking in (thanks to some cold air coming from the north) to give us a couple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}