Anticipation: 2010=Graduation…and I don’t know what else
See that ^….yes, it’s official. The graduation process has started. The application is in. (I’m assuming it will be approved since I have completed all my requirements).
End of the Year Prep: Self Reliance
I’ve sort of become an Emerson freak recently. He may even be my favorite poet/writer of the Transcendentalists (I don’t have many favorite writers). But in particular, his essay “Self Reliance” has given me great strength and motivation to plan some amazing initiatives for 2010 and execute “preliminary requirements” to those initiatives before the end [...]
Marching for Climate Change, I Decided to be Green for the Weekend
350.ORG held an amazing march across the Brooklyn Bridge a few weeks ago. My documentary production classmate Lauren Wylie invited me to get in on some of the Green Action and meet her amazing mom! Interestingly enough, Lauren is working on a documentary about climate change in Antarctica and Rob Swan’s quest to save the [...]
Detangled Minds, Good Hair & Indie Films
As many of you have figured out within the last few weeks, I cut my hair. Chopped, gone, and perhaps now in some garbage incinerator floating up to the sky. I have cut my hair before, around my 18th birthday (that’s about two years ago, yes I am young!), I told my hairdresser that I [...]
Reflections on Spain
It has been an interesting semester, hasn’t it? I began January by flying to Madrid to be in NYU in Madrid’s program, living in Spain’s capitol, and feeling for the second time what it’s like to be a study abroad American student in Europe. And then I returned and I saw my country swear in [...]
Es la verdad, Estoy en Madrid (It’s the truth, I am in Madrid)
It’s been approximately four days and I have NEVER spoken so much spanish in my life. My Senora (aka the sweet old woman I am living with) speaks no English, so my five housemates and I have all our evening conversations in Spanish and barely speak any English. It is truly the best thing I [...]
Last Days in London
After every experience surfaces the inevitable question upon your return to your homeland, “How was (blank)?” Well, how was London…hmmm I had to ask myself. What exactly did I think, feel, and if I had to do it again, would I go back? London was interesting…that seems to be the response I have given everyone [...]
Pictures of My Living Box
As requested, below are some pics of my dorm in London. I cleaned up just for you guys, so feel special!!! lol The funny thing is that my dorm looks BEYOND luxurious from the outside. Here is a picture of our building from our outside foyer and from down the street on Pentonville Road. Admittedly, [...]
Study Abroad Education Should Be Mandatory
Well, let me first start by saying that I love New York University. Even though they get on my nerves and their financial aid office is always trying to pull some shananigans with my aid, I still LOVE my school. But honestly, I think American education is a bit too institutionalized. Our ideologies have managed [...]
Honest Critiques and the Start of a Revolution
I made a promise to myself that I would dedicate my London experience to learning more about my people’s history globally and read as many black literary works as possible. After running New Jersey’s NAACP Youth & College Division State Convention successfully this weekend and meeting a ton of student leaders across several campuses in [...]
