Rutgers: Senior Photos

Last semester (in December), I took my senior photos.

I was picturing in my head that I would be take the typical ones you normally see everywhere -- you know the typical shots:

• in your cap and gown.
• in your gap and gown holding your diploma. 
• in your gown holding your cap.
• in your gown holding your cap and diploma. 
• a few in your dressed up outfit.

Maybe some that portray Rutgers in one way or another.

Well, it definitely was a very 'Rutgers' thing -- full of mishaps.

They took three snapshots of the same thing -- seriously there is no difference. I am holding a FOLDER that says Rutgers (could it get any more fake?). The tassel was from the year 2009! 

Until now, I didn't think much of it because I had other things preoccupying my time (LSATs and it's on-going drama)... but when my brother's senior photos came in this week - it reminded me of them and the fact that I want real ones!

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International Women's Day

When you think about it,

it wasn't too long ago when women couldn't vote.
it wasn't too long ago when women didn't have the opportunity to be educated.
it wasn't too long ago when women couldn't work (and when they did, it was under horrible conditions).
it wasn't long ago when there were unfair hiring practices, and NO paid maternity leave and affordable child care available.
it wasn't long ago when it was legal for employers to pay a women less than a man for the same work.


BUT, we still have a long way to go!

These issues are just a few issues from a LARGE spectrum of issues women continue to face everyday.



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School Lunch Project

I just found this blog via twitter, and it's definitely a blog of interest. It's a teacher who plans to eat school lunches every school day in 2010. She makes a note of what she ate that day and adds a photo in her daily blog posts as a part of her 'School Lunch Project'.


She says:

It's very challenging to teach students when they are eating school lunches that don't give them the nutrition they need and deserve. Oftentimes what is served barely passes muster as something edible. And after a meal high in sugar and fat and low in fiber, they then must pay attention in a classroom.

From what I can remember from when we were in school, most of the food was junk. Fries and pizza were what was considered to be a 'lunch meal' daily for most students. Worse, when students got tired of that - they resorted to cookies instead to change up the pace.

It's no wonder students have a hard time concentrating. I like this teacher's idea... what a creative way to get a sense of what's going on.




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Olympic Thoughts

Seems like just yesterday that we were watching the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia... and now it's already over!

I love the Olympic events, but never get a chance to watch as much of it as I would have liked... but always have fun watching what I do get to watch. Figure skating and ice dancing are my favorite events to watch in the winter games- and neither disappointed this time around.

Canada not only got it's first gold medal while hosting Olympics (this is the third time they have done so), they got fourteen of them! That'a s record, I believe.

The Vancouver games came with more than its fair share of sad events (read here and Joannie Rochette's mother passing away two days before her events were to start to name a few) that will definitely be associated with the Vancouver 2010 games. There were some sad times, but some great memorable ones too (the first gold medal on home soil, getting a record number of gold medals, Canada beating U.S. in ice hockey in the final, the Canadian gold medal in ice dancing are just a few).

Unfortunately, due to a prior family event commitment, I missed the closing ceremony last night - but I'll hopefully catch it sometime this week. I saw a quick clip last night about Canada mocking themselves from the glitch in the opening ceremony where the fourth pillar wouldn't open (remember that?) and in the same act - they brought the woman who was supposed to be one of the four to light the cauldron (but couldn't because her pillar was the one that got stuck), light the cauldron last night. I thought that was a nice way to round off everything and bring everything to a full circle.



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