Lord have mercy where do I start? Where do I start? There is so much going on in this country right now and my mind is just overwhelmed with everything that is happening. Lord have mercy on our souls!! Well first of all let me start of by saying I am sorry for not posting more often. I know I have a lot to say with my opinionated self and I know people like to read it! I've been really busy (I know how cliche' is that) but no seriously I've been all over the world, just got back from New Orleans (I'll try to talk about that later) and I have a midterm on Tuesday, and so I've just been tryna to get my life together and focus on what I need to do to get where I got to go!
But I wanted to fall out of my chair yesterday! I was sitting in my Logic and Critical Reasoning lecture, with Professor Johanssen and if I wasn't falling asleep! Whoever created Conditional Derivations needs to be put in a crazy house!! But I go to check my email and look at the news real quick and low and behold what do I see on the headline news section of CNN......ANOTHER college shooting and yes at another school that I know of...Northern Illinois University! Yes that is where I was last summer getting my LSAT and Pre-Law Preparation on with CLEO, the Council for Legal Education Opportunity, the program I work for! If I would have been at the school when that crazy man was shooting!! Lord! But anyway I felt so bad when I read that on there and then saw that those poor children that he killed were my age! I immediately texted one of my girls at NIU and made sure that she was ok and the everyone she knew was ok but y'all know I was worried to death! I hate seeing stuff like in the news! It makes me feel like even school isn't safe anymore! I'm so worried about the state that we are in as a nation, if people's only options is to go blowing people away and taking their own lives too! But I just wanna send my heart and prayers to all of those special people who lives were affected by the tragedy! We got to to do better than that y'all! Please try to show a little compassion in your lives!
On another note, let me just say Go Obama!! I know I have not been as active with the campaign as I would have liked but you better believe I'm still rooting for my boy from the sidelines! You better give it to Hillary/McCain!! They are not ready!! Y'all please let's Barack the Vote!!
Next, tell me why I had a fabulous V-Day and for once it wasn't Single's Awareness Day for me! But I'm not going to go into details but let's just say it was special time for me and everything is going so well! Can't wait to my Birthday get away! March 10 baby! 21 and kickin!!
So last week, the student government at UCMERCED, ASUCM took a delegation of Senators and Executive Officers to an ASGA Conference in New Orleans, LA and what an ordeal it was. We learned so much and it was so inspiring to meet all of the other student leaders who are doing it big across the country! Why does one college in Colorado have a 30 million dollar budget though? Can I get a cut of that!!?? But yeah it was tons of fun and New Orleans is such a party town! Lordy I thought I was in another country for a second with all those people acting a fool! The food was ok and the area that we were in didn't look like it was affected by Hurricane Katrina too much but maybe they just fixed that part because they know that's where the tourists go! Anyhow I just want to make a public statement for the students at UC Merced who don't agree with ASUCM's decision to go.
"I understand why some students are concerned with ASUCM spending so much money on a conference, however, I would encourage students to research a little more into the Bills and Resolutions that the Senate passes, especially the one regarding this trip. In the legislation it outlines the purpose of the trip, in detail, and where all of the funds went. I also want to ensure the students, that Clubs and Organizations can still request funds for their activities and in the near future the Budget and Finance Committee will be accepting budget calls for next year's budget."
So I sent off my application for Europe, for the Humanity in Action program last week and I'll be submitting my DC application for UCDC in the next coming days. I'm so excited to be solidifying my plans for the summer and for next semester. I am really looking forward to all of the amazing opportunities that are going to be available for me. I am really starting to seriously consider Howard University for Law School. It just seems like this particular institution is better suited for what I want to do, albeit Harvard or Georgetown would also be suitable for my political interests as well.
I sat down with J and we had a serious talk about my future and what I would like to do and I think after we finished I ended up more confused than when we started. I know for sure that I want to go to law school and that I want to practice but I'm still not sure if I should go straight into a JD program after undergrad. I don't particularly have a strong desire to go into a Master's Program however, if I don't get accepted into a favorable JD program then I don't really have any other options. Of course there's Peace Corps or Ameri Corps or a program like that but I really don't have a strong desire to do either of those. I want to go to law school and I want to become a lawyer as soon as possible point blank. So essentially what that means is that I am going to have to SERIOUSLY buckle down, get on my grind, get my grades ON POINT, and bust my LSAT out the roof! I'm talking 170+. So what that means is that I need to stop playing and start getting serious about JASD and studying practice tests and reading Logic books. So now I know what I have to do! Can someone please motivate me!
On a side note, this is to all of the haters, drama-filled, plastic, fake, phony people out there who make a living causing conflict, gossip, tension, and drama in other peoples lives...THANK YOU! You know I really don't know what the world would be with out all of you who feel the need to do nothing productive with your live other than hate on people who are doing something positive with their live, cause drama because your live is boring and meaningless, and cause endless drama for your own selfish indulgence. I love how instead of being a true courageous individual and being yourself, you choose to emulate other people that you could never be and act like something and someone that you are, quite frankly not! Please continue to do what you do! You truly are making the world a better place....NOT!
Now that I got that out of my system I just wanna say that I am so blessed and happy right now in my life and although I am no where near where I want to be politically, economically, or socially I am definitely en route! Wish me luck!
Love Always,
RKNJ
