I'm Moving On...

As a Schomburg-Mellon fellow I have learned more in the first five days here, then I have learned in school my whole life and I have never been more excited to do so. My individual research prospectus will be on my family history and genetic ancestry. I will be blogging about this experience in a new blog. Once its up I will post the link here and on my Facebook. I will still use this blog to showcase what I'm thinking and reading every once in a while. 


Can you feel a brand new day?
-The Wiz 


I know I can.

Happy Holy-days !

So its Christmas time and to be quite honest, I am not feeling the x-mas spirit. I guess once you figure out the whole thing is a hoax its pretty much lost its meaning. This holiday season however, I am feeling more practical than anything. I have loads to do: Like discover a career path that allows me to be paid well enough to pay off student loans, allow for my excessive book expense, my growing fashion sense, and all the things real Americans desire a house, a car and a dog of my own. Maybe not a house since I live in NY but at least a nice apartment away from the crime ridden neighborhoods, next to a major subway line and some food joints--not to hard right? Wrong! The economy is in the crapper, lawyers aren't getting paid the same and historians are also feeling the pain. and whats worse is, being from the "hood" there are so many things I have to learn and program myself to do before I can even consider myself a fully functional independent adult--all before I turn 21 I might add. There's just a lot to do this Christmas and I feel like all the hooplah is slowing me down, I'll be glad when its over.   

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As I read the many Law blogs in my blogroll and else where I am starting to believe that going to law school is not as hard as I am making it out to be. I know I want to go to law school and I have known since I was little, but I do not exactly know why. I feel like if I can't answer the question I am waisting my time, but its this feeling deep down inside where I know I am making the right decision. 

So far here is my plan:

• Raise G.P.A to a 3.8 or better 
• Take an honors course or two
• Apply for the B.A./ M.A. program at my school 
• Teach for a year to save money 
• Goto Law school 
• Do lawyer stuff 

(I think I should make an official set of goals and post them here) But thats just a simplified version of what just came into my head) But other than that I know I can make it in law school I just have to apply myself. And so I have been watching myself lately (yes you!) and from what I've seen I think I have seen a definite improvement to my studies and the way I organize and plan for things. Great Job! I am just afraid that if I make the wrong decision I am literally going to be paying for it the rest of my life and the thought seriously freaks me out! Hope I'm not being too dramatic. I'm done now! 




******Wait, almost forgot this isn't a law school blog so others don't be afraid to say Hey! lol

Dan Brown's New Novel (if you can call it that!)

         After getting my textbooks earlier this year, I had already planned to pick up the new Dan Brown book in addition to some other great fiction. See the whole summer I wanted to read historical/fantasy/detective/suspenseful books. I found 2. One of them satisfied me the other I had to put down. Not that it was good just either I got to busy to really give it the attention it deserves or I just got fed up with waiting to get to the good parts. 
       O, well in any event, the Dan Brown book comes at a really bad time in my life. It should have come out during the summer because now I am trying to read it and on top of that worry about graduating which means getting credits together, raising G.P.A applying to grad school and studying for my LSAT.  The book so far ( I Haven't finished it yet) is like a typical Dan Brown book and follows his necessary plot points:
   


 1. Murder 2. related person of the murdered must accompany Robert Langdon in his adventures 3. Robert Langdon knows everything (just give him a minute  to work out the clues. 


    
  Theres nothing wrong with the format (he even tries to change it) but it does kind of have this feel where I think it makes the book kinda droopy in parts, but its all good. Thats as far as I will go into the books because I don't like to spoil them; which means I'd make a pretty bad reviewer so for my sake and yours lets hope I get into Harvard Law School. The book is set in America, present day, Washington D.C. and its mostly about the founding of this country. The part where Robert Langdon explains it all is pretty interesting. All in all Dan Brown is Indiana Jones in book form for me. Its slowly weening me off my Harry Potter books that have had my attention for almost 10 years. I'd recommend this book to people who are into history, action, drama and white people lol. What ? theres alot of them in the book just giving you a heads up. Plus the book might make you look a little smarter on the train especially if you take off the book Jacket. Happy reading!

Up at 6 nothing to do

Ok so I know this will bore you to death  but I am up at 6 with nothing to do. I woke up with a horrible nose bleed which can mean a number of things A) my room was too hot B) my cold is breaking C) my cold just got a whole lost worse. B/n me and you I am shooting for B. I love blogging but I haven't been as active as I should. I am trying this new thing where I become the person I want to be and for the most part its working out fine. Rome wasn't built in a day. There's nothing wrong with me per say, I would just like to get my grades up to a 3.6 or better and get into Harvard Law School. I am actually at a point in my life where I think it will work I just have to keep trying to get things done everyday and stop procrastinating. It's Fascinating because I want to go to Law School and I know I will be a great Lawyer I am just really scared that I will accomplish everything. Is it possible to be afraid of success? I hate to start a sentence with "all my life" but All my freckin' (thats better) life I have only had to get by no one asked me really hard questions, no one challenged me and now that there's a BIG challenge staring me in the face I'm kinda putting my toes out there in the water inch by inch. With God's help and the ancestors I know I will be fine-they have yet to let me down. Somewhere in me is a fire I just have to turn it up and burn all my insecurities. 

Hello Moto!

So I've been sick and thats why I haven;t been on lately. Nothing to serious I hope (I didn't get my swine flu vaccination, nor do I wish to. I think what I have is a head cold and it will easily go away. Nonetheless it is flu season so I thought I'd give you guys some helpful tips on how to stay healthy. http://www.essortment.com/all/immunesystemst_rzzb.htm

Sorry about that!

Well I was back until financial aid tried to bite me in the behind so I am taking a little hiatus just to get a schedule and things so I will know how to run a blog, work like a mule, try to graduate on time, save my money, get a car, try to get more scholarships, a fullbright-you know all the things I am suppose to be helping you guys achieve. I will be back really soon just its taking me longer than I thought to settle down into the mood of writing ad posting. Plz don't be angry with me. 




You Know You Love Me XOXO