Thanksgiving 2011: The Freshman Experience

     They say it's an experience like none other. You've been away for a while, the world has become your oyster, and you find it's time to come home. For some, it will be there first trip home during their collegiate career. For others, its a relief from the brief weekend escapes from campus. A time when friends and family come together and share food, fun, and memories of holidays from the past. But for the college freshman, Thanksgiving is a time to bring the new world to the old, and fill in those the matter the most with your new found freedom and life. That, for me dear world, was Thanksgiving 2011: The Freshman Experience.    
     My time at home was spent amazingly. Friends and family, food and fun. From Nov. 22nd until the 27th, I spend time with people I loved and cared for, filling them in of the parts of my life that they missed. In the time apart, people noticed that I have matured and come into my own. It was, simply put, the best holiday break of my short life. And Winter Break promises so much more.

Blue Light Music Spotlight

This Month's Artist...

The Weekend

Abel Tesfaye (born February 16, 1990), better known by his stage name The Weeknd is an Ethiopian Canadian singer, who has quickly made a name for himself in a little under a year. A fan of Prince and R. Kelly, The Weekend's name first leaked in late 2010, though the identity of the individual behind the project was initially unknown. The Weekend released his first mixtape, House of Balloons, on 21 March 201, which is a part of a trilogy which includes Thursday, released on 18 August 2011, and Echos of Silence, to be released in the autumn. Most recently recognized for his feature of Drake's Crew Love, The Weekend is slowing but surely becoming a force to be reckoned with in the musical world.