21 Days Later

Did you know it's been three weeks since the earthquake in Haiti? I can't decide if I feel like it just happened or if it feels so long ago that it's at the back of my mind. We get so wrapped up in our day to day life here that we forget there's a whole world beyond us. And it's not easy to help someone so far away when your life is so narrowly focused.

So to all the DePaul 1L's out there, here's how you can help:

Penny wars in the second floor lounge. Until Thursday afternoon, penny wars are happening between all three classes. Don't understand how it works? Let me explain. You want to put change in your own jar and bills in the other classes jars. Any change in ours gets added up, one point per penny, any bills in the other jars takes the other classes points down, $1=100 points. So find your competitive edge and get rid of that spare change I KNOW you have lying around in your apartment/wallet/backpack. Just dump it out. And throw a dollar each in the other buckets. There are 60-80 of us in EACH section. If we all donated one dollar, we could not only win this, but help Haiti without ever having to pause before we eat our lunch.

Blood drive Thursday afternoon. In the 7th floor lounge on Thursday we're having a blood drive. Now, I probably won't be there since they never let me donate anyway. But you could donate, or even volunteer to help organize if you have a fear of needles. Just email Rochelle at rochelleturrisi@gmail.com and she can tell you how to sign up online for a time to donate. It's an easy way to help and you can do your reading at the same time! Once again, no law school time lost. PLUS, you get a snack. Who doesn't love snacks?!

So there it is, easy ways to help without losing your narrow law school focus. You can catch me tomorrow between Contracts and Crim dumping all of my leftover change into the 1L jar. Hope to see you there.