Hey Everyone!

So welcome to my blog for the year. This is my first time blogging so this is a new experience for me and we’ll see how it goes. I guess I should start by telling you a bit about who I am and what I do.

My name is Jimmy Ireland. This is currently my fifth year here at New Paltz and I’m majoring in Geology. My ultimate goal is to go to grad school for my Masters in Education and become a high school Earth Science teacher. I’m from Bergen, NY which is out in Western New York. It’s smack dab in the middle of Rochester and Buffalo. According to some people I know they think that I live up in a tree house and hunt Woolly Mammoth. I’m just going to set the record straight. I live in house and it’s not always snowing. It’s actually 72 degrees there as I’m writing this.

One thing you’re going to find out about me quickly is that I love sports. I pretty much will watch every sport. I have actually been caught watching curling passionately during the last Olympics. I’m a hardcore follower of three sports though. Baseball, football, and hockey. I love the Yankees, the Buffalo Bills, and the Buffalo Sabres, three of the greatest teams ever.

As for playing sports I’ve pretty much played everything on some sort of competitive team. Once I got to high school I joined the cross-country team, the swim team, and the track team. I also continued to swim here at New Paltz and was actually on the New Paltz swim team. Another fun fact about me is that my friends from home and I are huge wiffleball players. We have teams and uniforms and we even built a stadium. It has a scoreboard, a fence, foul poles, a mound, and I was just informed by my friend he found a way to mount his flood lights so we now can have night games.

I’m also a CDA over in Lefevre Hall. I have been an RA/CDA in Lefevre for 6 semesters now and I love it. I love the staff that we have this year and I can’t wait for the year because we’re going to be doing a lot of amazing things. I also work on campus as a lifeguard and greeter at the Welcome Center. So if you are ever in the pool or in the Haggerty Administration Building say hello.

Like I said I’m really looking forward to blogging this year. I’ll try to keep you all entertained and give you some fun stuff to read. So that’s it for now but keeping checking back I’ll be posting again very soon!

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