It’s frightening thinking about post-college life. Today, on Black Friday, I just made the beginning of my transition to “adulthood” when I clicked the “I Commit” button on the Teach for America website. From 2009-2011, I will be teaching in Eastern North Carolina as a middle or high school social studies/history teacher (maybe coaching basketball [...]
That’s the motto Ezra Cornell gave this University. Apparently the School of Industrial and Labor Relations thinks differently. Last semester senior year is approaching and I plan on enrolling in the courses I’ve always wanted to take since I got to Cornell: Economics of Collective Bargaining in Sports and Essential Desktop Applications (you learn all [...]
With all my excitement about the election, Nebraska, the senate recounts and run-offs I forgot to post my picture with President-elect Barack Obama. It was taken in Zanesville, OH at a closed press event that we helped to set up on July 1, 2008. My friends in the picture were also Obama Organizing Fellows and we [...]
If Obama’s election as President-elect couldn’t get any better, Nebraska said otherwise. For the first time in the history of the United States, one of the two states who could split their electoral votes for President (Maine and Nebraska), chose to do so. Nebraska’s second congressional district, which includes Omaha and its surrounding areas as [...]
I got text messaging…finally! But in all seriousness we all know the feeling of what happened Tuesday night of how, as Thomas Friedman of the NY Times put it, ” The Civil War started in Virginia, tonight ended in Virginia, and now Reconstruction begins.” What made the night so much more historic and inspiring was [...]