Approaching graduation

the trap the blame is on you.

I do know; however, that my roommates and I were forced to go out and buy an ant killer just a week before this ordeal. As ants accumulated in two corners of our room, we basically intoxicated ourselves with the amount of spray it took to kill all of them. So we finally got rid of the ant problem; however, if I had known mice would have been our next obstacle, I would almost rather have kept the ants.

Spiders have slowly but surely made their way into House 2 as well. Is it bad that finding a black large spider crawling either on your arm or desk becomes a weekly routine?

This leads me to my next question involving pests. Why is it that every week a new part of the building is broken off or torn apart? These people who roam around House 2, punching walls, ripping poles out of staircases, throwing bottles of coke and cups of coffee all over the place are well aware of the fact that we all have to pay for it. They don’t care. They don’t think about the actual $350 that comes out of our wallets for doing absolutely nothing wrong. Not everybody is made of money and sometimes every dollar counts.

Whether it being humans, rodents or insects, the pests in House 2 are getting a little ridiculous. As the year winds down and move-out time comes along, living without the sounds of squeaks and mouse traps at 3:30 a.m. or insects lurking in every corner sounds pretty good and the time can’t come soon enough.

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As it draws closer to graduation, I realize how much I am going to miss this place. I know I complain about a lot of the administrative stuff, but Cabrini has really become a place I can call home, despite all the messed up things about it.

When I left high school, I dreaded going away to college because I didn’t want to make new friends and have a new life. I was fine with my old life. Four years later, I find myself in the same predicament. I have made friends here that I will have, hopefully forever.

These are the same people who I thought I would never find when leaving high school and the same people who sometimes know more about me than I do about myself. My closest friends from this school are the same ones who lived on the same floor in the same dorm with me freshman year. It’s where all the crazy memories and amazing friendships started, Woodcrest.

The girls that I have met at Cabrini have stuck with me through crazy roommates, getting in trouble, embarrassing moments and much more, not to mention those mornings that we would spend trying to put the pieces together of what happened the night before.

We have been through so much in these past four years and now I am starting to feel the same way that I did when approaching high school graduation, except now, it’s even scarier because I know there aren’t four more crazy years to look forward to.

In a month, my life will revolve around finding a real job and putting college memories in the past. To tell you the truth, I don’t know if I am ready to do this. It’s hard to think of myself as a college graduate. I look like I’m 16 and having a good time is still a number one priority in my book.

I like staying up until 4 a.m. talking with my friends about anything and everything and waking up for class a few hours later. It is what I do and what I have done for the past four years.

Whatever happens after graduation, I know I will never forget the friendships I have made in college and the amazing memories that I am walking away with. So for all of you who have made these possibly the best four years of my life, thank you.

Crimes against children going unpunished

Every time I turn on the news there are more stories and reports about children being killed, tortured and mistreated. And every time I see one of these stories I feel completely disgusted. Who are these monsters, and what is wrong with these people?

It seems like every other day there is some insane mother, or some crazy lunatic, who commits some horrifying crime on these children. Sometimes I think that these people just do it because of all the fame they get from the media. Take the infamous Susan Smith case, in which she drowned her two beautiful boys and didn’t even get the death penalty. I will never understand why only some people are given the death penalty and others are allowed to live. This woman took the lives of those two young boys, and she gets to go on living with tons of attention from the media.

It just makes me wonder what this world has come to and how these people could ever do the things they do. There are so many cases of children being mistreated, hurt and killed that we have never even heard about.

It makes me sick to my stomach to know that there is that many demented people out there who find nothing wrong with hurting innocent children. In my opinion, I think that the media is only helping these sick peoples’ cause. In these peoples minds, the more terrible the crime they commit, the more airtime they will receive.

I remember when I was younger, seeing the picture of Adam Walsh holding a baseball bat on candy machines and on TV, and then hearing what happened to him. For those of you who don’t remember the Adam Walsh case, it was a 6 year-old boy who was abducted in a department store and found 16 days later dead. Only they never found his body, but only parts of him. This happened in 1981 before I was even born; however since the story was so chilling, it was repeated for year, and still is to this day. I remember thinking that there couldn’t possibly be people out there to do such horrible things.

But as the years go on, cases like Adam Walsh have almost been a normal thing. And they happen almost everyday. It’s enough to make you never want to bring a child into this world.

The Wolfington Center proudly announces the 2005 CEO honorees

Excellence in Community Engagement & Outreach

Active Citizens (individual students):

Lisa DiMond, Mike Ryan, Tori Sarian, Maureen Cooper, Linda Jean-Baptiste, Jessica Kolinsky, Colleen Patterson, Kristin Poroski, Jackie Small, Lauren Walker, Ashley Lucci, Latisha Johnson, Andrew Randolph, John Casparro, Joseph Clark, Erik Harris, Samantha Lange, Josh Lange Jessica Boettger, Jennifer Brown, Deidre Beadle, Kharisma McIlwaine, Brooke Sexton, Kristen Catalonotto, Jacquelyn Flick, Kristine Jennings, Meghan Hurley, Phil Nicolo, Maria D’Alessandro, Matt Grzeskowiak, Ashlee Lensmyer, Pat Jordan, Sharon Kolankiewicz, Claudia Sciandra, Marcy Fonseca

Community Builders (student organizations):

Operation Support Our Troops, Cavaliers for Life, Student Democrats, Habitat for Humanity, Finance Association, WYBF-FM The Burn (with distinction), WOLF Pack, Sigma Rho, Men’s Soccer Team, Men’s Lacrosse Team, RHA, Roller Hockey Team, CAP Board, Cabrini Honors Club, Project Appalachia, New York City Cabrini Immersion Trip, Psychology Club, Up Til Dawn, Sociology Club, AKD (3 year award), Delta Epsilon Sigma, Math Club, Women’s Lacrosse Team, SGA, Roots & Shoots

Congratulations, Cabrini CEOs!

Your dedication to service & advocacy can change the world!