As the computer lab fills up with students at all hours of the day, it is the first sign of finals. I've got one down, only four more to go. Tomorrow is honors convocation and I am being awarded for my accomplishments as a student. And it is true, for real, I am a senior. I am graduating!
I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge The Exchange. I have been working on this online publication for the enitre school year (really since August), and I am very proud at the production every week. We are a very dedicated group of students. We are committed reporters. We seek to be the new wave of journalists in the world. I certainly hope to make a positive impact in the communities that I will become a part of in the future. The Exchange has strived to bring news, information, and interesting knowledge to its readers weekly. Hopefully we've done our job. I know that the experience that I have gained working inthis newsroom can never be taken away from me. I want to thank all of my colleagues for a wonderful year together. We should all be very proud.
Now there is the future: what will you be doing, where will you be working, living, hanging out, will you be able to survive? I know that these are all the questions that will be asked, that are already being asked of me, a graduating senior. So here I have provided the answers:
What will you do after graduation? Party! No more seriously, after the killer graduation party that I am throwing, I am going to go on tour with my fiance's band in June. We will be travelling out to Michigan and Illinois. when we get abck fromt hat we will be doing some very serious wedding planning. Then on July 21st Brett Wilson and I will commit ourselves to one another.
After the wedding we might move to a bigger place. We want to move to Keene since I will be taking graduate classes there at Franklin Pierce College. I will be a graduate student there. In early February I was asked by Dr. Nevious, the director of the Fitzwater Center, to be her new graduate assistant at the beginning of the 2007/2008 schoolyear in September. this means I will still be at the Rindge campus on almost a daily basis. I am very excited to start my new position here, which will begin the last week in June. Not only will I be continuing with my Mass Communications work, but I will also begin my business schooling and work towards my MBA in leadership.
So, next year I will still be seen in the Fitzwater center even though my time at the Exchange has expired. Th Exchange will be a deeply missed part of my life, but I am confident that I will undoubtedly find other challenging projects to consume my life as my time in the Fitzwater Center for Communications continues on.
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Roots of Creation ROCS Harlow's!
Last weekend there was a record setting crowd at Harlow's pub in Peterborough, NH to see the locally based reggae/rock/jam band Roots of Creation. But ROC is not the only ones that deserve a standing ovation. Franklin Pierce College students demanded to be recognized and applauded on Saturday night for their turn out. Some on the faculty and staff at FPC might be quick to forget the recent grads of the school, but current students don't. The fans at Harlow's last weekend remember that ROC was founded at FPC and that 2004 saw the graduation of keyboardist Tal Pearson and frontman Brett Wilson from the Rindge campus.
It was great to have so many current students and other FPC alumni come out to the show, but many of these same people question why ROC doesn't play on campus more often. Here is a list of myths, followed by some myth busters, about why ROC does not play on campus more often:
Myth: ROC lives too far away to travel to FPC.
Buster: All members of ROC, including new bassist Chris Beam, live in the Monadnock region.
Myth: CAB has already brought ROC to FPC many times.
Buster: CAB has only sponsored one ROC show. The other show in the Outing Hut last semester was brought to campus by SSDP (which was acoustic and only featured 2 band members.)
Myth: There's not enough interest in reggae music at FPC.
Buster: First, ROC is reggae/rock/jam fusion. Second, unless FPC students are the only young people who haven't heard of Matisyahu, Sublime, Damian Marley, or Reel Big Fish (wait aren't they coming here???) then there's no way that reggae fusion isn't HOT right now!
Myth: FPC students should drive to Peterborough to see ROC and get drunk and then drive back to campus.
Buster: FPC might not necessarily be incouraging this scenario, but wouldn't it just be safer for everyone to just bring the band to campus? *Or provide a shuttle.
Myth: No one knows who ROC is.
Buster: Based on the number of FPC students at the show on Sat. it's obvious that ROC has quite a following at the school. But even if they didn't, someone on CAB has to know that these guys are alumni, that they are going places with their talents, that they should be seen as FPC success stories, and above all that they simply ROC!
So even though FPC hasn't made ROC a decent offer as of yet, it doesn't mean that the band will stop loving all the crazy dancers and big time fans on campus. It might mean though that they are very upset that they spent thousands of dollars on an education at an institution that won't even return their phonecalls. But keep packing Harlow's FPC because it makes the whole scene a lot more fun!
It was great to have so many current students and other FPC alumni come out to the show, but many of these same people question why ROC doesn't play on campus more often. Here is a list of myths, followed by some myth busters, about why ROC does not play on campus more often:
Myth: ROC lives too far away to travel to FPC.
Buster: All members of ROC, including new bassist Chris Beam, live in the Monadnock region.
Myth: CAB has already brought ROC to FPC many times.
Buster: CAB has only sponsored one ROC show. The other show in the Outing Hut last semester was brought to campus by SSDP (which was acoustic and only featured 2 band members.)
Myth: There's not enough interest in reggae music at FPC.
Buster: First, ROC is reggae/rock/jam fusion. Second, unless FPC students are the only young people who haven't heard of Matisyahu, Sublime, Damian Marley, or Reel Big Fish (wait aren't they coming here???) then there's no way that reggae fusion isn't HOT right now!
Myth: FPC students should drive to Peterborough to see ROC and get drunk and then drive back to campus.
Buster: FPC might not necessarily be incouraging this scenario, but wouldn't it just be safer for everyone to just bring the band to campus? *Or provide a shuttle.
Myth: No one knows who ROC is.
Buster: Based on the number of FPC students at the show on Sat. it's obvious that ROC has quite a following at the school. But even if they didn't, someone on CAB has to know that these guys are alumni, that they are going places with their talents, that they should be seen as FPC success stories, and above all that they simply ROC!
So even though FPC hasn't made ROC a decent offer as of yet, it doesn't mean that the band will stop loving all the crazy dancers and big time fans on campus. It might mean though that they are very upset that they spent thousands of dollars on an education at an institution that won't even return their phonecalls. But keep packing Harlow's FPC because it makes the whole scene a lot more fun!
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