Mission Accomplished.......Almost

The students have been addressed, the cities are been visited and now all that's left are the final loose ends to tie up before returning home. It's been a wild month. I'm ready for the next phase of my life. Let's keep this progression going. People, places and all things are up for review. There's no room for anything not moving forward. 

914 I miss you. I'm coming home again. :) 

Home for the past 3+ Weeks.....Memories

Rutgers Break Off Snooki vs Nobel Prize Winning Author????

32K for Snooki to speak about her reality show life vs 30K for aunthor Toni Morrison. The difference was only 2G and it should be noted that 2 different groups paid for each speaker so it wasn't the school technically paying Snooki. Either way a few folk seem a lil put off at the idea simple on principle.


"When you pay the tuition you know part of it is for student activities. It’s all about supply and demand and pleasing the student," said Gianna Santelli, 21, a junior from Nutley.

Freshman Adham Abdel-Raouf said he thought the campus show was a bargain, considering Snooki’s popularity. "Honestly, I thought they would have paid her more," said Abdel-Raouf, 18, a pre-med major from Alabama.

But other students were not happy fellow students had chosen to book someone who is most famous for "smushing" and getting drunk down the Shore.

"Such a waste of my money. If I want to listen to someone talk, they should have something intelligent to say," said freshman Dan Oliveto, 18, rolling his eyes.

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"Unknown" White Student Elected to Assist African American Student Union at Flordia School.....Word???

Top job: Members of the African American Student Union were left open-mouthed and outraged after white, freshman Torey McCleskey was hired as assistant director for the group

In all honesty I don't really have an issue with the fact that the new elect is white if his credentials stand and show that he's really about this. But from the information below it does sound a lil suspect as to whats really going on.

Members of the African-American Student Union at the University of North Florida were outraged by the appointment of the new Assistant Director. He's said to have only attended one meeting, is a freshman, and is white.

The Daily Mail reported that a dozen members protested when Torey McCleskey was choosen to be the assistant director by the school's senate.



"We didn't even know who he was. He has attended one event and he left early," a member told Newsforjax.com.

Ironically, McCleskey was selected this Black History Month on Feb. 14 by a unanimous student government vote according to the school newspaper 'The Spinnaker'. He's a slam poet who beat out a mechanical engineering junior and Christa Merix, an executive member of AASU with three years experience in the group. He didn't even seem angered by the student's grievances and walked past their protest saying the students had a right to express their opinions.

Merix said "they (Student Body President Byll-Cataria and Student Body Vice President Giovannie Medina) are using Torey as a white poster-child for diversity to fulfill their personal agenda of a multicultural agency."


Medina replied 'I don't see color when I interview candidates."

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Pieces of Me: School Days...

The things I did.The things I saw.The things a felt.
Above is a pic during my junior year at Iona College. I have no idea what I was looking at or thinking about, but seeing this image instantly takes me back. Spring 2002, a world still in flux some 5-6 months after 9/11 I was in a relationship, I thought my degree would ensure me a "great paying job". So many thoughts that would get left behind or at least reworked between then and now. But I wouldn't change a thing I really wouldn't.

......smh @ that shirt.