The Home Stretch... It's Not A Game.

Hey Now.  

     It's crunch time for the American College student. The "home stretch" of the academic school year. The last few weeks to make the grades count and get the last ounce of partying out of one's system before the journey home and the summer begins. For my fellow Owls, Temple University is closing in on it's final hours. Spring Fling 2012 has come and gone, and the final week of classes is around the corner. Students are booking breakout rooms in the Tech Center, and final projects and papers are causing headaches campus wide. And as I look around and move along from class to class, I realize something... What the HELL are we rushing for? If you ask me (and you don't have to because I will tell you anyway), we should be enjoying these final moments.

     Take the frist year college freshman. We (yes, I will include myself with my graduating class on this one) are feeling pretty accomplished and most of us will be returning in the fall. We did what they told us we couldn't: survive the first year of the college experience. Our grades are fairly good if not excellent, and we are ready to run home and rub it in the faces of the people that told us that we would fail. But we cannot forget the fact that even if we are ready to run back home to the lives that we have set in stone back home, we have new lives that we have to prepare to maintain when we return back to school in the fall. The real question is... will we be able to keep it up? Will the lives we have at home and the world we want at college become one. Or we will we torn and pull to two very different directions for the next three years of our lives. We won't know until the fall.

    So enjoy it all now, before you look up and the party is over and real life begins.

                Until We Meet Again,
                           Letters To Cuba

Temple University Homecoming 2011

"Fly Above The Rest!"

          And that we were. For my first official college homecoming, I would have to say that TU did a pretty great job. The week started on a Wednesday, with Tee's for Temple U where I was able to great a free t-shirt from MCPB by simply giving to charity. Then I went to the J. Cole concert and the Electric Factory and it was AMAZING. (Mind you, this was not apart of the official homecoming for the university, but my own personal twist :) The concert was mind-blowing and started my homecoming off the in biggest way. Thursday was the homecoming pageant where the royalty court fought for the crown. I was able to work backstage and see all the work that goes into putting on an event for a major university. Friday was the Pep Rally/ BBQ and I really had a great time. Over 400 alumni were present and it was great to see that Temple had a strong alumni network. The week ended with the homecoming football game where we DEMOLISHED Buffalo, and the Kid Cudi concert :). I must say, Temple may not be Howard University when it comes to the grand scale performers and people coming all over from the east coast, but I enjoyed myself at my university and that's all that matters.

   With Love,  

Letters To Cuba

I Love College.

              

          Yeah... This is my life now. Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. I'm am officially a Temple Owl. Hooter is truly my homeboy. Only been here for two months, and I'm already in love with in. From this point on, I will bleed Cherry and White. Months before this all began, I couldn't image that college would be like this. Movies don't prepare you for all the things you are bound to experience. Everywhere I look there are opportunities for me to great involved. If you don't come to college knowing what you want, believe me, over these four years you will most certainly find out. The late nights up studying, making new friends everyday, getting lost in a brand new city, and having to accept independence are just a few things that I can truly say I love about college. I can't wait to see what these four years have to offer. So I'm gonna sit back, and enjoy the ride.