For those of you that know the beyonce song "put a ring on it". Its about a guy who broke up with a girl (i think) and the girl is singing a praise to "single ladies" if you will and telling the guy that if he "liked it that you should have put a ring on it". Pretty self explanatory....for most.
For Jordan however....the lyrics are.... drum roll please.
"If you're happy and you know it put a ring on it! If you're happy and you know it put a ring on it!"
Awesome...I know. And awesome in the sense that it inspires AWE. Shocking.
But I'd like to make another point...because Jordan brings this up every time I tell him he doesn't know the words to anything. I blame this on Beyonce...not my lack of intelligence because her song was DUMB. But... The song about "I need a soldier..." blah blah blah. I yelled at Jordan for having the lyrics wrong a few years ago...he kept saying "If your status ain't hood..." and I argued that it was OBVIOUSLY "If your status ain't good".
I was wrong. And Jordan now wins forever apparently.
Nobody cares I know. Sorry.
Ummm...I wanna give a little wrap up to the semester. I'm leaving Providence today to go to NYC then HOME! After our final presentations of our website...most of my class met up at sweet water (a bar next to school) and I finally orders the grilled cheese there because it looked so good the first day I was at emerson and told myself I would get it. Have been dreaming about it all semester...IT WAS DISGUSTING. ew..thinking about it now makes me wanna throw up a little. The tomato soup was gross. ew. But...nonetheless it was so fun being with everyone in my class. We became really close throughout the semester and my biggest worry coming to Emerson in the first place was that the tour guide told my dad and I that the journalism program wasn't that close knit. I really worried about not making friends but I've made friends faster and MUCH easier than at Dickinson being on 2 teams! Its crazy....I guess a lot has to do with my personality. I'm not shy anymore at all...I used to be scared of everyone. And people are older and more "mature" I guess. I wouldn't go that far....for most....but some of them are.
And then we all went to my really close friends' apartment for a game of Cranium. Sounds dorky...but it was awesome. I'm not good at it...at all. And found that when I don't dictate what I am telling people I know...I don't seem to know much. This worries me. But...it was still fun.
And...I left my favorite little roommate (only, but still favorite!) Sarah behind in Boston. I love her so much and she has been such an amazing roommate for me. So many people in teh past have made me feel like I'm a really realllu awful person to live with because I'm stressed and whatnot...but she just takes it in and calms me down...she never blows me off (I guess because she can't because our apartment is tiny and she has a soul) haha but...I love her and will miss her so much when I'm gone. Hopefully she reads this...but she probably won't. She hears about my life WAY too much as it is.
SOrry this is getting long and deep...whatever. Stop reading if you're bored. But...I think I've grown a lot as a person this semester, which is one of the main goals of this whole venture. I am fearless when it comes to interviewing...and proves that being thrown into something really forces you to get comfortable..or give up. There can't be any middle ground. So I took it and ran with it. It was scary and it was really difficult covering immigration in the first place. It's a touchy topic...and even touchier when you are dealing with undocumented immigrants and students. It was hard to know where to draw the line....what information I would make public to the world and what I wouldn't. If people see this website....they will know MORE about the topic ...but like all media outlets...they will see MY side of the story. I just hope I covered this issue fairly and shed light on the realities of being an immigrant in the U.S. It's got so many advantages and so many challenges. But in the end...I learned so much about so many people and look at it in a way that I never would have if i hadn't worked so hard to find these people's stories.
If you have any interest at all in the topic of immigration...look at my website and I can give you a link to the sites of my other classmates. It was awesome. So much ground was covered.
So next semester...I am taking an Interactive News course (its an online news thing...I'll build yet another website) and a beat reporting class. I will cover a beat in the Boston area...I HOPE IT"S THE CELTICS. haha that would be awesome. Not gonna happen. But...it will be another awesome opportunity to build my portfolio and get some more essential experience.
WHEW Sorry...really long. Thanks for reading if you survived this post.
2 comments:
Another excellent post! It is amazing when you're thrown into something and you're forced to perform. You sometimes surprise yourself. Short story...
I was a freshman in college and in the spring all the fraternity houses had a softball league. My fraternity (Sigma Nu, Very Crude!)had a team and I went to try out. It was a jock house and they really didn't need anyone except for a pitcher. I could hit pretty well as I played baseball for several years growing up but never played softball, much less fast-pitch softball, since I was 7 years old. Anyhow, I told them that I was a fast-pitch softball pitcher (because I'm a big, fat lyer) and that I was pretty good. I figured that I could do it because I pitched little league hardball and how different could it be. So at the first day of practice I struck out the first guy and the rest is history. I even developed a little curve that appeared unhittable except for one guy who took me deep 3 times. We win the Championship Game (I was still a little drunk from the kegger the previous night) and my arm has never been the same. The End!
Morgan...now that I have a colossal amount of free time, I have found myself reading most of your blog
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