school; heritage

ive never realized how rich the history of our school is . this place has been around not as long as most colleges , but it sure has cought up with its history . not only is it beautiful, but i found out that some of these building served as hospitals, and this used to be an all girls school , how crazy is that , also i found it interesting that the exchange book store used to be a grocery store adn people used to be able to trade goods and farm animals for books and even tuition. i love this school and want to make more history here and love the fact that im getting my education here .

our economy sux these days

ok so whats going on with our economy these days . well first it was the war, and the more stuff started to crumble , like they say when it rains it pours. so as far as were aware the US government is about 13 trillion dollars in debt , thats rediculous amount of money. Then the stock market crashes by almost 800 points thats huge ! thats history right there that just doesnt hppen then it had about 400 point increase also the biggest increase in stock maket history , but guess wat the people and bussiness in this country are still in trouble , bussiness owners are going bankrupt the biggest banks are being bought out by other companies , the banks wont give out loans or at least not as many as they used to because now they dont have so much mobey to back up their investments . so then the government came up with the bail out plan which is 740 billion dollars in tax money that will  be taken and put back into society to rebuild those bussineses.  and help those banks out that are struggling , sounds great except at first they didnt pass it but now the deal is that for the next year or so the taxes are oing to get higher , so per every avarage family their taxes are going to be raised in addition to what we already pay there will be an addition of about 22oo dollars a year , this money will go to the bai out plan . thats great im all about saving a country , but its not really fair for our generation and maybe the next one because were going to be the ones paying all this money back , we werent the once that messed up the economy and it didnt crash by itself , the government figured they were doing great and started throwing money a round like it was just paper , opening huge bussyneses rebuilding other countries , and giving out huge loans , and now were alll in a pickle because were in so much debt . sooo lets just see what hapens hopefully it will all go back to nomal or at least just get better .  

mountain day

here at Lees Mcrae we were fortunate inough to get a mountain day, it was a day dedicated to the school and the lovely mountains that surround it . all the classes were cancelled , and we got a day to enjoy where we are . there were bounce  houses there for the students entertainment , different activities, games , and the best part is food , so weather you wanted to come or not you had to to eat and then get distracted by the fun events that were happening on campus . many LMC students were present there as well as the teachers i had the pleasure to meet the guy in charge of the physical rehab unfortunately im so horrible at names that i cant remember his if my life depended on it , i just know he was a very nice guy and he graced us with his presence and had lunch with us , it also gave me an apportunity to meet more people , such as some girls of of different teams besides lacrosse i met a couple of softball players , socker girls , and some softball players . overall it was a very nice day , food and people so it was a pleasant time to enjoy our surroundings .

drinking ....

all college students drink ! is that a fact ?actually no, there was a survey in 2004 on drinking at LMC and over 20 percent of students didnt even drink at all , and majority were moderate drinkers. it is percieved to younger generations that college students constanlty drink in huge quantities, thats not true , yes college students experience the college life but they dont necessaryly drink as much as people may think they do . now it seems that way because older college students make it seem like theyre always partying n that may not be true it is also percieved that way in many hollywood movies it starts as back as national lampoon Animal House , awesoem movie by the way, and since then and probably before, it seems like college students drink a lot realy they dont and they dont let partying get in a the way of school which i think is very good. n i also believe that drinking age for college students should be lowered to 18 ,because it would save kids from getting alcohol poisening , it will stop all the drinking tickets, and binge drinking . so they should deffinatly do that .