Majors

I am officially a History major. I don't know why, and I have no idea where I am going with this, but that's what I'm doing. Maybe someday I'll figure out what I'm doing with my life.

This semester is almost over. It's really strange.

I have 3 papers and a powerpoint presentation due tomorrow by 10:45am. I have one paper done. I still have a combined total of between 10-15 pages to write, plus a powerpoint presentation about a book I haven't read. I doubt I'm going to be sleeping tonight.

In case anyone missed the Compassion Forum, and wants to know what went down...

I wanted to put a bunch of pictures on here, but I'm mostly computer illiterate and couldn't figure out how to save them individually from the slideshow. So, for anyone who might want to see pictures, go to...

http://www.messiah.edu/compassion_forum/photos/SundaySlideshow1/

and if you want to know everything that was said, go here...

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0804/13/se.01.html

If anyone has any questions about anything regarding this, feel free to ask me. I was not in the room, but I was here, and have access to much of the information about it.

The Forum of Compassion

There were abortion protestors on our campus. They had a giant poster of an aborted fetus. It was extremely disturbing and inappropriate. Both Hillary and Obama are pro-choice, but that doesn't mean that McCain would actually do anything about the abortion issue. Maybe he has an opinion on it, but I think that the abortion issue will go untouched because of much more important issues that our nation is dealing with right now.

Wow. It was intensely strange to watch that knowing that I could get to that room in a less than 5 minute walk from where I'm sitting. It was also really weird seeing a bunch of my friends in the audience. 2 of my friends and I stood outside for over an hour trying to find out if there were any extra tickets. There weren't, so we just watched it from our room on tv. So strange. I am in that room every other day, and Obama and Hillary were there. Weird.

Anyway, I'm not so much of a fan of any of the candidates, but I do have an opinion on what was said. I think Hillary did a much better job defending herself and making a case for what she believes. I felt Obama was a bit sloppy. Hillary did a very good job of articulating the way she felt on different issues, especially abortion. Obama just seemed like he didn't quite know what to say.

I will say more about this later, but I have to study for my Spanish oral exam tomorrow.

This is why my school is cool!

The Compassion Forum is on CNN tonight at 8pm EST. All day today, the CNN correspondants have been outside the main building on campus. I am so pumped for people to see Obama and Hillary at my school! Yes, we are a Christian college, but we are also very aware of issues, and aren't the stereotypical Christian school.

So, tune in to CNN tonigth at 8pm EST and watch Obama and Hillary talk about faith and politics at the wonderful location of Messiah College!

No McCain :(

McCain declined. What a terd. I guess he technically doesn't really have anything to worry about yet, since he doesn't really have any competition for the primary. But I still think it was extremely unwise for him to miss out on this. I mean, I know we're not a big school, and I know we don't have all that much influence, but a bunch of major Christian publications and other types of media will be there. Also, national news people are gonna be here too. Sure, McCain is probably gonna get a lot of votes from conservative Christians. But contrary to popular belief, Messiah College is NOT conservative. In fact, we are very liberal. for a Christian college. Truthfully, he kinda does need to campaign here if he wants to get votes from people at this school. People are gonna be a bit upset that he declined the offer to participate. I hope it doesn't come back and bite him in the butt.

As for me, I don't know who I'm voting for, and I'm extremely uninformed. I wish I were more motivated to know about their views on issues, but I just personally don't like any of them. We'll see what happens after this event goes down. I'm pretty pumped.

Clinton and Obama are coming to my school!

Messiah College is hosting this thing called the Compassion Forum. They invited Clinton, Obama, and McCain. Today, Obama officially confirmed his attendence, so now all that's left is for McCain to get his butt moving and confirm. Then it will be crazy. We are going to have the most absurd security on April 13, and the whole week leading up to it. Having ALL the main Presidential candidates all in the same room at the same time is gonna be hectic. Not a whole lot of students could get tickets, so I'll be watching it from the Student Union on campus. It's gonna be broadcast on a national news station too, apparently. Apparently Messiah can be pretty awesome sometimes! haha. According to an email sent to us all by President Phipps, "conversation topics will focus on compassion and social justice issues such as U.S. and global poverty; AIDS; climate change; Darfur; and human rights." Should be pretty interesting.

So, watch out for information on the Compassion Forum, and know that I'll be here right where the action is! woohoo!