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And now for a special treat. I have a new, though low quality, picture of me. This was taken about 2 weeks ago for that engineering program. So without further ado, me.
CNN has an article on fewer black admissions into the University of Florida (the school I go to). This came about because of Jeb Bush's plan to do race blind admissions. However for some reason the NAACP is in an uproar over this, but I don't really see why. What Bush wanted to do was make sure people who have the right grades and activities get into college, and that people with less qualifications do not. How can a race blind admissions policy be racist? It's things like this that make me so opposed to Affirmative Action, because if someone does not have the qualifications to get into a college, then they shouldn't get in just because of their skin color. That right there is racism. UF is the toughest public school to get into in Florida, and while it may be unfortunate that statistcally blacks are less educated than whites, it doesn't mean that there shouldn't be a race blind admissions process.
Yesterday we went to Orlando for one last visit to Sea World and Disney, and we also saw The Princess Diaries (if you like Disney stuff, it's good, otherwise it's just ok). But the real excitement was the trip home. About half way home we ran into a bunch of rain so that it was hard to see the road, but the worst part was the lightening. They dont' call central Florida the lightening capital of the world for nothing. I'd say there was like one strike every 3 seconds, and some of them were really close. We actually saw a bolt hit a power transformer about 50 feet away from our car. And then on two separate occasions, the lights on the side of the road would go out after a bolt would hit a pole and short them all out. So it was weird to have all this light and then to be plunged into darkness. We made it home safely though thank goodness. And yes, I was driving, I figure I got some good driving experience out of it :)
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