it's a great day to be an eagle

Between the junior mentor assembly and dinner at Skip's for XBSS, today could not have epitomized the St. John's spirit any more. But don't let me get to ahead of myself. First let me embellish you with my impression of junior mentor day and it's significance. While I was dissapointed with the disrespectful and downright pethetic manner in which our class presented itself, I could not have been more enthused by the speakers and their overwhelming guidance. The two speakers that really stuck with me the most were (and let me now refer to their business cards) John Cushing and Mark Pothier, the senior assistant metro editor/globe south. Mr. Cushing really had an excellent attitude and benefitial advice on language selection in college. After Mr. Pothier, who by the way, I found impressive and exceedingly helpful due to his specific advice on the one field I am looking most strongly at for a career, mentioned the importance of Spanish in regards to interviews and overall communication with a large part of the population, I asked him and Mr. Cushing about it in a little chat afterwards. After explaining that I was locked into Latin already, Mr. Cushing responded by telling me that he had taken Latin as well and that the big mistake that he made, was when required by his college to take a language freshman year, he took it again just because it would be easy. Before this that would have been my course of action as well but now I would lean towards taking Spanish. (And this from the kid who wishes those little buggers would learn to speak English or leave - I'm such a sell-out.)
In terms of dinner at Skip's house I could not have been more pleased at how it went. Great food, good company and tasteful discussions (including our sentiments on girls at SJP). Mr. Hardiman was insanely funny and the dialogue between Skip and himself could not have been more entertaining. (Note to self: never ask for a principle's holiday!). I have a good feeling about the retreat and now that MJ is scheduled to bring cookies for our departure (about 30 minutes after we finish our prelim performance on March 5th), I can not see anything going wrong.