Sumaira McCloud

All my friends always drive while being intoxicated, but I was raised to never do so. The one night I decided to drink and drive, it ended up costing someone else their whole life. What are the odds? It all started when Kim and I broke up last Saturday. My closest friends were out of town so I decided to go to a local bar, Drinkzter. I've been there many times, but usually just accompanying my friend. I consider myself to have been a pretty successful (younger) person. I'm 24, graduated with honors, and had a business degree to my name. Notice I say  had. I worked for a local business as an assistant director. It was never enough for Kim, though. She wanted me to propose, yet it had only been three years. I wanted to wait until I felt ready and she decided she had to leave and move on with her life...without me. I probably should have proposed to her.. The break up was pretty hard on me. I come from a small family of two parents and one sister. My family resides i

I just thought about something. You know how when someone is suicidal and posts anything on social media about wanting to do the act, and a bunch of caring people try to stop this person and explain how it is wrong etc? What if we stopped doing this? When someone wants to take a new job or begin working out, everyone is supportive and wanting to be on board. But because suicide is viewed as a negative thing to majority, we all jump in and try to stop this from happening... BUT what if this decision would make the person happier? Who is everyone else to stop them? What if they really do not care anymore to be on earth and see what could be?  If this is what someone wants, they should have the right to commit it, right? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Suicide does NOT affect the person who commits it. It affects everyone else . This is why everyone else tries to stop others from committing such an act. Plain and simple. Let's just try to understand some things

God, I can't say it enough. I am so over social media and all the false sense of 'keeping in touch' it allows people to feel. I have so many people I know who expect you to keep up with their life or know certain small details of their day, because they have promoted the idea on Facebook. Really? Even if I had Facebook, had I seen these posts, what is left to talk about in PERSON? I used to be this way four months ago, so I know it's easy to be blinded and not realize what's happening to your life and the constant increase of addiction. BUT with that said now that I am aware of the habit and have broken it, I feel everyone else should be awakened, too. Just venting, and hating Facebook, sigh. -ssr

August changed my life. I began my bachelor's program and it deals with 100% social media and internet. The name of my degree is called Converged Communications . Upon telling people this degree everyone has only one universal response, "What the heck is that?!" The response is valid, because my school actually is the first to have this degree offered. Whereas other colleges around our school offer Communication degrees, after choosing this degree one must branch under Broadcasting, Media, Marketing, Public Relations, etc, to become an expert at one specific field. Converged Communications is a new program that is designed to offer a student ALL of the above into ONE degree. It's pretty awesome. There are four large focuses, however the main courses are required for all four. The four focuses include Advertising & Promoting, Production Media, Strategic Corporate Communications, and Political and Cause campaigns. So far I've been enrolled and active