In a continued effort to read elementary school books, I finished Maniac Magee [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316809063/] this morning. While not as moving as The Giver, it was an interesting book taking a simplistic look at ideas of race, homelessness, family, and childhood. The race relations…
At long last, all the old contact information for volunteers was uploaded into R.I.V.E.R. this afternoon. We went in a matter of minutes from 39 entries in the database to 1880. It was a good time, eh? Hopefully f2o doesn't get too upset as…
I received word today from the Clinton School that I was not admitted. Their letter was much better than OSU's. I'm not too surprise though.…
The admissions to graduate schools have begun rolling in. To date, here are the schools I have been accepted to: * The Bush School at TAMU * The LBJ School at UTexas * The Patterson School at UKY * Poli Sci PhD at Kansas * Poli Sci PhD at SIUC This means I am still…
The usefulness of R.I.V.E.R. is already becoming apparent. In mere moments yesterday, I printed off sign-in forms for the volunteers coming to training tonight--a process that would have taken much longer and never quite looked right under the VMS system. This past weekend, I also cleaned…
Living on a City Year stipend, I am quite poor. As such, I recently decided to feed my hunger for reading by picking up old books from my childhood and giving them another go around. The most recent is The Giver [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0440237688/]. This…
City Year tries to be an organization that inspires democracy through citizen service, civic leadership and social entrepreneurship--as the mission statement claims. It appears to be extremely effective at accomplishing these goals among its Corps Members. There are countless stories of CMs graduating to start their own non-profit or altering…
At long last, I completed the needed two hours of programming give users the ability to remove individuals from a project. At the same time, the list of persons on a project became alphabetized and made graphically appealing. Oh so sexy. So, take that to-do list.…