Disclaimer: This is not turning into one of those "I am a wonderful human with a wonderful, perfect life" blogs...I just happened to have a good week.
In MCOM we were invited to "buy a stranger a Coke". Originally I was going to use it as an excuse to be adorable and win over some attractive male...
Well, my friend Diana is a good person and she arranged for us to feed a whole group of strangers an entire meal. I just cut the potatoes, but it felt good to serve. There was no actual Coke, but I think it counts.
Speaking of strangers, here's a group of people I didn't know.
But we ended up being a dream team. The Laycock center is in the middle of the Fine Arts Center on campus that encourages inter-departmental relations (collaboration, that is).
So they kicked off this 24-hour competition and we had to get in groups of five with at least three different majors.
Thus it happened that one (1) Visual Art Major (and his kick-a GF), two (2) Communications majors, and two (2) film majors became one.
We combined all of our talents came up with a nifty campaign including a video and an animated logo and a budget. It was nice to use all of our strengths.
Then we were in the top three. And then we won the money to develop our campaign further. All only 26 hours after hearing about the project.
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But here's the really cool part. If I hadn't done this competition I wouldn't know about vittana.org an organization that helps students in poorer countries fund their education.
It's like another organization kiva.org and works through micro-financing. You loan the money so someone can get an education and after they graduate they pay it back and you can invest the money into someone else's education. People are given opporunities they couldn't otherwise afford, but still are self-sufficient.
Seems like a win-win-win.
We serve other people because we care. It doesn't matter how well we know each other, we should just buckle down and get things done.
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