U.S. College Students Seek the Magic of Quidditch April 28, 2008
http://reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1830730920070718
my school needs a quidditch team.
President Bartlet - Episode 1.04 April 11, 2008
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uMymwBvyIeg
i’m so excited for martin sheen to come to my campus on monday!
PayScale - 2008 March Madness Predictions March 31, 2008
http://www.payscale.com/2008-march-madness-predictions.htm?basketball
AU does much better if you look at it this way!
Top Ten Websites Among US College Students February 26, 2008
http://emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1005972
i go to…
facebook
youtube
google
perez hilton
cnn
yahoo!
american.edu
aol
post secret
weather.com
wikipedia
Congress to Review Textbook Legislation February 7, 2008
this is such a great idea. people forget that along with tuition, textbooks can run you $500-$1000+ per year. i have yet to use the CD-ROMs that come with textbooks, and some professors say that an older edition is fine because the new edition is the same except for one chapter. a rental service would be great, too. there’s a couple of books that i only have to use for 2 weeks during the semester and then i don’t need it again.
plus, reselling textbooks is a bitch. you can get more money if you sell them online, but it’s just a hassle to ship them out individually. the bookstore gives you PENNIES, even if you never touched the book and it just sat on your shelf for a semester. some of my smaller paperbacks that were $12-$15 i got $2 for, then the bookstore will resell them as “used” for about $10. it’s not fair to the students, especially if the book is the newest edition and has hardly been used.
The Kennedy Family Passes the Torch to Obama January 28, 2008
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/01/28/passing_the_kennedy_torch.html
i had a ton of fun today! i volunteered so i didn’t have to wait on line. this was a big deal for my school, american university, but it got even more enormous when the kennedy’s said that they’d announce their endorsement here. people started lining up at 5:30AM and at it’s longest, the line was 3/4 of a mile. about 6,000 people fit into the arena and they still had about 2,000 overflow, and not all of them fit into the overflow room! basically, it was huge.
here’s some of my pictures. PLEASE CREDIT ME IF YOU USE THEM ANYWHERE. A SIMPLE LINK BACK TO THIS ENTRY IS FINE.
Kennedy Endorsing Obama at American University January 27, 2008
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/01/27/sen_kennedy_to_endorse_obama.html
http://boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/01/ted_kennedy_end.html
barack obama will be on MY campus tomorrow, and the kennedy’s will be there as well. caroline kennedy believes that obama would be “a president like her father.” i’m so excited!
