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Senator Barack Obama has just been named the projected winner of the United States presidency!!!! I was so excited to have made my vote this morning. Senator Obama will be the first African American president that this country has ever had. This was a historic election and im so thrilled of the current outcome! Watch CNN to keep up on the current numbers! Here's to the next 4 years!

Free Expression- a class that all communications have to take before graduation. I have been dreading taking this class since last year. But now that im taking it, im not sure exactly what i was afraid of. At first it was hard understanding the readings and all the court cases. Law is a very conufsing and detailed subject,a nd isn't always written clearly. But for some reason today i actually understood what went on in class. Usually i try to pay close attention so i don't miss anything that our… Continue

McCarren Park- Brooklyn I took my little cousin to the park to play a little since the rain had stopped for a bit. There was a huge line around the park... I didn't realize it until I was listening to someone strumming a guitar that there was a concert in the park today. So we stayed for a while and listened to the Ting Tings rehearse there song, "Shut up and let me go." There were other local bands playing (MGMT, and Black Moth Super Rainbow). It was nice to listen to them rehearse but then it… Continue

So there we were having some dinner at the Shake Shack; a restaurant in Madison Square Park (23rd and Madison). It was my first time and I was excited to see how the food was. I really had no idea what to order so I had my friend who had been there before order for me. My burger was absolutely heavenly. It tasted like no other burger I've ever had, not too greasy but not too lean, just right. As we were finishing my meal it started to rain. We ran out of the park and headed for the subway. When… Continue

My summer has been a whirlwind. After I got back from the beach I got a call from one of the internships I had applied to. I came in on a Thursday for an interview and by the next Tuesday I was already moved into my aunts apartment for the duration of the internship. Everything happened very fast; so fast in fact that I barely had time to find my own place to live. I've been bunking at my aunts place in Williamsburg Brooklyn since i got here. It's been great! I'm living in the middle of Hippidom… Continue