By week three, hopefully you've settled in for the school year. You've been to your classes and you're probably already doing, or avoiding, a significant amount of homework. Whether you are a freshman, transfer, or continuing student, remember that college is not only about getting your degree and finding a job.
Congratulations on completing two full weeks at Drexel. In that short period of time you have more than likely met people who are going to be lifelong friends, partied , met people who are going to be lifelong annoyances, gotten lost in the maze that is Curtis/Randell Hall, played soccer on Buckley until the lights go out and you probably think that you have college life figured out.
It seems that human rights crises are just springing up throughout the world one after another. Burma is a country in Southeast Asia that used to be ruled by the United Kingdom back in the day. The country became independent in 1948 and likes to call itself Myanmar, or the Union of Myanmar.
As everyone now knows, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the front man for the ayatollahs' regime in Iran, gave a highly controversial speech at Columbia University while visiting the United Nations. It would be an understatement to say that Mr. Ahmadinejad, whose credits as an historian include denying the Holocaust and whose diplomacy features regular calls for Israel's extinction, was an unwelcome guest in New York City, with its Jewish mayor and its two million Jewish residents.
I have a confession to make. Now don't judge me, I can't help if I've been raised in an affluent main line suburb of Philadelphia. However, I am going through a rough transition right now. I am adjusting to city life. Drexel makes it pretty easy with its campus maps and blue and yellow signs that adorn the front of every building, but there is simply one thing I just cannot get used to.
