A Tree Grows in Brooklyn for Sunday, September 11, 2005

The town my college is in is practically controlled by a man named Jerry Falwell. If you don't know who he is, he's an envangelical preacher who is extremely racist, bigotist, etc. He's the chancellor of a large, Baptist university about ten minutes down the road from us. Its a college with a lot of very strict rules regarding male-female relations: for example, there are male and female dorms, and students aren't allowed to even go near the dorms of people of the other sex. And they aren't... Sign in to see full entry.

I forgot to write a blog on Friday continuing my explits within the Alumnae Bulletin. I'm supposed to keep this journal, and a lof of activities, regularly. On Friday morning I had my first full period of work, from 10-1. Wendy came up with a list of things for me to do for the semester- or at least for the next few weeks. One of the things I have to do is write an article on two teaching awards the school gives out to professors- one went to a professor of psychology, and the other went to a... Sign in to see full entry.

If you're in college, or have graduated within the past two years or so, you'll be familiar with the college phenomenon thefacebook.com. Begun by a bunch of students at Harvard, its basically one giant online community of college students. R-MWC has been pestering the administration for a while to get it- and we finally got it yesterday. God, is it addicting. Basically, while I was supposed to be reading about heresy for medieval history, I was looking up my college and old high school... Sign in to see full entry.