I don't know if they'll be good or not, BUT, Michigan State University is offering a free "course" online over Zoom, "Adulting 101," where they present about various adult-life topics; finances, banking, relationships, cover letter and resume writing, traveling, cooking, jam making (??), voting, that kind of stuff. Might be worth sitting in on and seeing what they have to say.
Here's a link if you're interested in checking it out, the next class session is on Feb 12th.
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Hello. for those of you who are unaware, I am a student at Michigan state university. if you've been keeping up with the news, you may know where this is going.
TW: Gun violence, death, shooting
at 8:18 pm on February 13th, shots were fired into a nearby building on campus. from that point on, we were on lockdown. I barricaded myself in my dorm room with my roommate and started reaching out to those I knew.
3 of my classmates lost their lives, and several more are injured. I will be putting updates here for what's going on around campus and any GoFundMes made to support the victims and/or their families.
Please. don't make this another statistic. that could've been me that lost my life. Please fight for me and my classmates. they deserve to be alive today.
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J-Pop America Fun time Now!
"If there is such a thing as 'loving racism', I think you've found it."
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Oren Root, a longtime New York City lawyer and Columbia University graduate who was at the school when anti-Vietnam War protests rocked it in 1968, said Shafik's summoning of police was "an extraordinary miscalculation."
"President Shafik and her advisers clearly didn't learn from history," said Root, who was a top editor at The Spectator, the Columbia student newspaper, in 1968 and 1969. “Calling in the cops was clearly a mistake. Things have not gotten any calmer.”
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Crazy to think that not even 2 hrs away from me, there is an active shooter on a college campus and I am just driving to work as usual. I ordered donuts for Valentine’s Day tomorrow, no doubt some of those other kids did, too. It was just supposed to be a normal day at college for them and now it’s turned into one of the worst days of their lives. Fuck this country and its love affair with guns and the fucking NRA.
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Hello all,
It’s been a while, hasn’t it? I apologize for my sudden departure from this blog, which came following some massive changes in my life (both good and bad) that meant I didn’t have time for daily updates anymore, despite my desire to still post. I didn’t feel I could keep pace with this blog and as my last update became further and further away, I set this project aside, but I never forgot about it and all of you.
All of that being said, there was a mass shooting at my campus, Michigan State University, yesterday evening. Although I am an online graduate student, there are no words for the horror I felt seeing dozens of emergency emails come through and watching the videos of students running and endless streams of police officers showing up to my school.
There are no words for the fear that I felt for my classmates who were on campus.
I don’t personally know anyone who died or was injured in the shooting yesterday, but it was still my school, my classmates and we are all grieving and I am still in shock of what’s happened.
This being said, I’m revisiting this blog and, knowing the impact it's had on my life and the lives of others, I’m going to try to begin giving weekly updates on the epidemic of mass shootings in this country. Maybe one day I’ll figure out how to code auto-updating posts, but, for now, I still do not have the time or capacity to commit to daily updates on these tragedies.
Thank you to all of you who’ve sent me messages checking in. Your comments meant more than you’ll ever know.
I’ll update later this week updating everyone on 2023’s mass shooting metrics, but in the meantime, please join me and the rest of MSU in mourning our three classmates who passed away and the five who are in critical condition and keep their families in your thoughts and prayers
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Coaches Chandler, Williams and Miklus (https://www.sjanickiphoto.com/2023-2024-College-Wrestling/2024-02-23-Michigan-State-Vs-Central-Michigan/125-157lbs-Michigan-State-Vs-Central-Michigan-22324)
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