This weekend is a big one for WMU Football and Hockey. Tomorrow at 2pm our football team takes on Ohio, as they look for their fifth win of the season. WMU Hockey will be playing Alaska, looking for two wins this weekend after last weekend's losses against Nebraska. I'm looking forward to the hockey game because my parents are coming up here for it. I unfortunately won't be able to see my sisters and brother because they're all busy this weekend. I will be running the 5k Saturday morning, so I hope it won't be too cold when I'm running. So far it's looking out to be a great homecoming weekend!

Today I was happy to have a relatively short and easy Monday. I started off with my Geography class, "World Ecology Problems." In geography, we talked about invasive species, mainly focusing on those in the United States. One of the biggest invasive species in the southeast region of the US is the kudzu vine. The vine has no natural predator and steals sunlight, water and nutrients from the plants it latches onto. Then we learned about invasive species located in the Great Lakes region. The main problem we have in the Great Lakes ecosystem is zebra mussels. The mussels are transported by latching on to the bottom of boats, and then the boats are moved from lake to lake, allowing for the mussel to spread its habitat. Then I had about a four hour break until my next class. I had my Health and Wellness lecture. We watched the Theater for Community Health's production of "The Real Buzz." I had already seen the performance, but there were a few different actors this time. It was very informative about the dangers of excessive drinking.

I have been looking forward to this weekend for quite some time. This weekend I'm going home to watch my high school's homecoming football game. A lot of my friends are going home as well, and it will be nice to see them. My parents are happy that I decided to come home, because it's the first time in about two months that everyone in my family will be home. I can't wait to see my older sister, I haven't seen her since before she left for school. She's a sophomore at Purdue, so she's been really busy with homework and clubs that she's involved in and hasn't had a lot of time to come home. I can't wait for tonight when I get to see my family!

As I was walking back to my room after class today, I realized that the week had gone by so fast. I didn't have a problem with that though, because it was a busy week and I knew that I was going home for the weekend. It's pretty nice to be back home. I am glad that I get too have a home cooked meal rather than cafeteria food. I get to see some of my friends that I haven't in awhile, and I'm going to the Bears v. Packers game on Sunday. I am really looking forward to a relaxing weekend.

This is the weekend that the majority of our university student body and faculty has been waiting for since welcome week. Today our football team takes on Murray State for the first home game of the season. Fans will be decked out in Western Michigan apparel and the crowd will be rowdy. Campus is filled with energy today, and the weather is great for football. After last season's record of 1-11, Coach Fleck looks to have a winning record for Western Michigan this season for the first time since 2012. Hopefully the Broncos are able to pull off a win today!

Today in my World Ecology Problems class I learned that the natural capital of earth is and has been unequally distributed for all of time, and will continue to be unequally distributed. Natural resources vary in amount depending on geographical location because of different ecosystems. This results in the unequal distribution of resources. I am still curious about the fact that it seems like our distribution is unchanged, but there are ways for us to change as seen in the work of nonprofit organizations. Red cross distributes necessities to disaster stricken areas, so we should be able to use those same methods to equally distribute resources.

Hi everyone, my name is Jeff Nowicki. I really enjoy the winter and skiing, lacrosse, football and hockey. I am an Economics major in the College of Business here at WMU. I will be joining the Alpine Ski team here and I am looking forward to this racing season!