Krystal's Blog

Tuesday morning I found out after a 4 month application process, 2 long interviews and waiting for what seemed like years but in actuality was only two months, I found out that I received the internship of my dream. I am going to New York for the summer.

This spring break I coordinated a trip to Washington, DC to study voting rights issues. Most people do not know that the people of Washington, DC do not have representation.

OMG! After two weeks in Mexico studying immigration issues. I have decided two things.

Hola again! So another year brings another New Year’s Resolution. Well I have decided to start my New Year’s Resolution early. Instead of complaining about the problems in the community I decided after a very informative Ambassadors meeting to help solve them.

Ciao a tutti! That Italian for what’s up ya’ll. This break has been short but very good. Going to school in a different state can be difficult sometimes.

I have five siblings, two nephews, no money, and Christmas is just around the corner, however I just got my passport and I am studying abroad winter break. I believe that studying abroad is something fundamental that every college student should experience. Unfortunately, not everyone has the finances to so, so I decided that this blog I'll talk about the great ways you can study abroad, despite insufficient cash flow.

Junior year has arrived and I am swamped. This year I have decided to scale back on the unnecessary things to focus more on school. However, somehow a social life became an unnecessary thing.

Miami to Saint Louis, Saint Louis to Columbus, and now I am finally back in the Twin Cites. This summer I had the privilege of interning for Abercrombie and Fitch.

So I was watching Gossip Girl last night, and it was a special episode where everyone was freaking out about ACTs and SATs and getting accepted into school. All I could do was laugh. I remember being in the exact same position a few years ago and thinking that my 3.8 GPA and thousand extra curricular activities and AP classes would leave me flipping burgers at McDonald or reminding someone "That We Have $5 footlongs" this week when I am forty.

These past few months I have had the privilege to work with a lot of great students, grades K-12. The majority were from underprivileged communities. It is funny how you think because you are in college that you will automatically come into these kids lives, give them a great speech and change their lives forever just like in all of those movies.. You know like (Dangerous Minds, Freedom Writers, The Substitute etc.) instead the complete opposite happened.

Winter Break was awesome. I got to see my family and spend two weeks in San Francisco working with California Health Advocates and the Peoples Grocery to create farms and healthy food in inner city communities where they do not have gorcery stores. It was a blast. I have officially Gone GREEN and enjoyed the SUN. Yeah ME!!! LOL

My Biology Final is in two days and though I should be very fearful, all I can think about is going back home to Saint Louis and chilling with my family for a week of chaos and Christmas traditions and then going to San Francisco.

With great initiative comes great responsibility and right now I am covered in it. Since I orchestrated a peaceful protest to get the MCAE Kickoff equal amount of time at Welcome Week to insure that there will still be an organization for incoming multicultural students to meet, I have been bombarded with responsibilities.

It feels so good to be back at the U. Unfortunately no one else is back yet. I've worked so hard at my internship this summer. So this last week before school starts I just want to go to sleep and spend time with my friends. I have been re-discovering the campus. The silver bridges are gorgeous. The FREE food is remarkable. (Well i guess when you have to buy groceries any free food is remarkable. But that is besides the point.)

However relaxation never lasts long at the U.

4 weeks until its time to go home and it seems as if there is no time to get ready. I am very excited about my classes this semester. I am taking Karate to stay in shape and starting a new language; Italian. I love languages like Arabic, Spanish and Swahili and I think Italian will be great addition. I will also be taking my first required classes as a journalism major. However my excitement is over shadowed by my worry.

Somedays being an intern for Clear Channel is great. There are free concerts, celebrities, cd's and movie premieres etc. But then on others day like today, you have to stand outside for 5 hours during a 4 hour shift in 100 degree plus heat, after you just did your hair, while waving a flag screaming "100.3 The Beat" to the top of your lungs. Whoo! I love my internship however with all good things warrant hardwork. I am learning that the very "sweaty" way." Despite the hard work I am learning so much about the music industry and marketing that my Mass Communications class could not fully teach me.

I am 19. I am officially a student in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. I am a Martin Luther King Program advisor and now I have an internship with Clear Channel Radio a fortune five hundred company! All these things are going on yet I still sleep with the lights on after a scary movie. Very embarassing. Believe me I know! Now I am back in Saint Louis and home just doesn't feel the same anymore. I find myself mentioning the Gophers just as frequently as I mentioned Saint Louis, while I was at U of Minnesota. Life is funny how it works.

CLA has been an adventure. From my first day of classes in the SEAM business course where I met many of the people who I call my closest friends to today, while I am an CLA Ambassador interviewing to be a Peer Mentor for the MLK. I cannot believe that time has gone by sooooo fast!