I paid $400 for textbooks for three classes. That's why I originally got interested in OSPIRG. My first encounter with an OSPIRGian went something like this:
"Are you interested in helping make text books more afforadable for students?"
"Hell yes."
To be quite honest, the majority of the response I got to my first blog on gun control was negative and angry, and it got me down quite a bit. But, the majority of the arguments I saw were also better, more thought out, and much more educated than the ones that I had previously come in contact with. It certaintly was enough to change my mind.
I beleive that it was yesterday that the Matthew Shepard Act went before the Senate. Today I received an email from the Human Rights Campaign saying "the U.S. Senate has just passed the Matthew Shepard Act!"
Having finally worked my way to being an official college student, I feel like sleeping. A lot. I guess that's probably normal, though.
This is an essay I've written for my writing class. I want to share it, so...here it is.
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Natalie is dead. Now Maggie has buried both her children. It is completely unreal, completely vague and fuzzy, but Natalie is abruptly gone.
The way things are going, it looks like my old highschool isn't going to be around much longer. Teachers are quiting, they are even more understaffed than they were my senior year, and senior year was a strain on all the teachers. One teacher who was going to retire last year had to stay another year because they are so understaffed.
