#YOMO

This picture was taken about 17 weeks ago and the 33 of us students barely knew one another.  This was my RPL 333 class.  More specifically, the class that plans and puts on the Gus Macker Basketball Festival.  The Mount Pleasant festival is the only one that is put on by college students in the country.  The 33 of us are all a part of Central Michigan University's Recreation, Parks and Leisure department and are either Event Management majors or minors.  Our majors and minors and the fact that we wanted to put on the best Macker Festival Mount Pleasant, our professors, and the Gus Macker staff has ever seen are basically the only things that we all had in common.

In 16 weeks, in one semester, we were able to raise over $10,000 that was donated back to CMU for the Dick Parfait Auditorium, plan and run the Mount Pleasant Gus Macker Festival.  From the moment we started set up on Thursday, May 1, the 33 strangers in class all of a sudden became a family.  And this Finch Fanatic Family is a group of humans I will cherish forever.

It's The Little Things, like when you form a bond with 32 other individuals in the matter of four days.  It's The Little Things, like when you finally realize that it's not what you know, it's who you know.  It's The Little Things, like when you know that you have 32 friends that will be your Finch Fanatic Family for life.

#YOMO ...You Only Macker Once

-xo