"Moving weight, losing weight
Not picky with who she choose to date
To confused the hate
With her struggle I relate"
-Common
The kid Riley Harmon is a beast. Peep it - How to: Love.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Volunteer for Fenway High School's Annual Career Fair on November 20th
Dear Friends & Supporters of Fenway High School,
You are officially invited to attend the annual Fenway High School Career Fair!
Your involvement is very important! As we well know, the economy is in a dire state and jobs are hard to come by. Fenway High School's Juniors and Seniors will be graduating into this economy and they need all the preparation they can get -- and YOU are the way to that end!
The Annual Career Fair is coming up around the corner (Friday, November 20th!). Please volunteer to conduct mock interviews, participate in a panel discussion or host a booth in our assembly hall. Your time and contribution will be invaluable!
Please help spread the word and encourage your friends, colleagues anyone who would like to give back to come and help prepare the future workforce with you! Last year we had over 100 participants and it made for a rich and diverse experience for our juniors and seniors.
What: Fenway High School's Annual Career Fair
150 students and 100 professionals from Boston's workforce spend the day sharing experiences, practicing interviewing skills, discussing career fields and preparing for the future.
When: Friday, November 20, 2009 - 8:30am – noon or 1pm
The day will be structured in three sessions - students will rotate, volunteers will stay put in their areas (see details below). If you can, please stay until 1pm and join the students for their first-ever networking lunch from 12- 1pm.
Where: Fenway High School
174 Ipswich Street, Boston, MA 02215 (Right across the street from Gate B at Fenway Park). Directions are included in the attached document.
Why? Because Fenway students are tomorrow's workforce and they need your wisdom, guidance and insight today!
REGISTER NOW! Volunteers can now register online two ways:
1. Go to http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dG9xZnROQ0FPX09HLW5MMmtTZExyVGc6MA
2. Go to our school homepage at http://www.fenwayhs.org/ and click on "Career Fair Registration" at the very top of the page.
Please feel free to forward this email on to anyone who may be able to help recruit - we want to make this is a rich and valuable event for our students and find people from ALL INDUSTRIES!
DETAILS ON THE ROLES YOU CAN PLAY:
Between 8:30am and noon, volunteers will participate in one of three areas (Mock interview, panel discussions or hosting a booth in our assembly hall - I'll describe further below) and there will be three rotations of the 150 students broken into groups of 50 each. Three groups of 50 rotate through the three areas of the career fair and cover all areas before the day is done. I provide lunch from 12-1 afterwards where students and volunteers can connect with each other more informally.
For the panel discussions, the 50 students will choose from one of two panels to attend. Students have selected their preferred panels ahead of time and the groups are small enough to invite conversation between the panelists and students. This is an important area to fill. Professionals (volunteers) are asked to talk for about 3-5 minutes about their work, how they got into the field, what they like and don't like about their work, advice they have for students thinking about studying to go into their field of work. After all panelists share, students begin to ask questions and the panelists can answer however they would like. I usually have panelists and students circle up so it feels more informal, less intimidating to the kids and so they feel more connected to you. There will be a brief orientation when you arrive in the morning.
The booths in the assembly hall are essentially tables where volunteers stand with information about their field of work (company info, pens, brochures and any other customized handouts) and they talk about the types of jobs kids can do if they go to work for their company (ie. banks hire software engineers, finance people, HR people, marketing people, etc). You can answer general questions about your company, the field you work in and if appropriate, any internship or job opportunities your company may have for HS students and who they should contact (you can ask HR if they have a summer HS student internship program - lots do). Set up starts at 8:45am.
The mock interviews are done by 18+ HR folks who are skilled in interviewing and can give students feedback at the end of the interviews. Each of the 150 students completes an interview during the career fair. A list of questions and a grading rubric will be given to volunteers during a brief orientation in the morning when you arrive. We need lots of people for this!
You are officially invited to attend the annual Fenway High School Career Fair!
Your involvement is very important! As we well know, the economy is in a dire state and jobs are hard to come by. Fenway High School's Juniors and Seniors will be graduating into this economy and they need all the preparation they can get -- and YOU are the way to that end!
The Annual Career Fair is coming up around the corner (Friday, November 20th!). Please volunteer to conduct mock interviews, participate in a panel discussion or host a booth in our assembly hall. Your time and contribution will be invaluable!
Please help spread the word and encourage your friends, colleagues anyone who would like to give back to come and help prepare the future workforce with you! Last year we had over 100 participants and it made for a rich and diverse experience for our juniors and seniors.
What: Fenway High School's Annual Career Fair
150 students and 100 professionals from Boston's workforce spend the day sharing experiences, practicing interviewing skills, discussing career fields and preparing for the future.
When: Friday, November 20, 2009 - 8:30am – noon or 1pm
The day will be structured in three sessions - students will rotate, volunteers will stay put in their areas (see details below). If you can, please stay until 1pm and join the students for their first-ever networking lunch from 12- 1pm.
Where: Fenway High School
174 Ipswich Street, Boston, MA 02215 (Right across the street from Gate B at Fenway Park). Directions are included in the attached document.
Why? Because Fenway students are tomorrow's workforce and they need your wisdom, guidance and insight today!
REGISTER NOW! Volunteers can now register online two ways:
1. Go to http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dG9xZnROQ0FPX09HLW5MMmtTZExyVGc6MA
2. Go to our school homepage at http://www.fenwayhs.org/ and click on "Career Fair Registration" at the very top of the page.
Please feel free to forward this email on to anyone who may be able to help recruit - we want to make this is a rich and valuable event for our students and find people from ALL INDUSTRIES!
DETAILS ON THE ROLES YOU CAN PLAY:
Between 8:30am and noon, volunteers will participate in one of three areas (Mock interview, panel discussions or hosting a booth in our assembly hall - I'll describe further below) and there will be three rotations of the 150 students broken into groups of 50 each. Three groups of 50 rotate through the three areas of the career fair and cover all areas before the day is done. I provide lunch from 12-1 afterwards where students and volunteers can connect with each other more informally.
For the panel discussions, the 50 students will choose from one of two panels to attend. Students have selected their preferred panels ahead of time and the groups are small enough to invite conversation between the panelists and students. This is an important area to fill. Professionals (volunteers) are asked to talk for about 3-5 minutes about their work, how they got into the field, what they like and don't like about their work, advice they have for students thinking about studying to go into their field of work. After all panelists share, students begin to ask questions and the panelists can answer however they would like. I usually have panelists and students circle up so it feels more informal, less intimidating to the kids and so they feel more connected to you. There will be a brief orientation when you arrive in the morning.
The booths in the assembly hall are essentially tables where volunteers stand with information about their field of work (company info, pens, brochures and any other customized handouts) and they talk about the types of jobs kids can do if they go to work for their company (ie. banks hire software engineers, finance people, HR people, marketing people, etc). You can answer general questions about your company, the field you work in and if appropriate, any internship or job opportunities your company may have for HS students and who they should contact (you can ask HR if they have a summer HS student internship program - lots do). Set up starts at 8:45am.
The mock interviews are done by 18+ HR folks who are skilled in interviewing and can give students feedback at the end of the interviews. Each of the 150 students completes an interview during the career fair. A list of questions and a grading rubric will be given to volunteers during a brief orientation in the morning when you arrive. We need lots of people for this!
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Generation: 60Hz
Since I've become fairly well-versed in cyber babble, I've grown fond of sharing anything I find online that may prove useful, educational, or informative fro others as it relates to internet safety. Generation: 60Hz is a great video conveying the wide range of emotions and psychological reactions on the Interwebs. A dope piece by Riley Harmon to show to students and have them react and respond to it. And then maybe make their own.
via Current
via Current
Monday, October 26, 2009
And I'ma need a few moments just to get in ya'll ear
School em' all from the drop out to post gradsApparently, I haven't been blogging regularly in so long that I forgot what it looked like. As a matter of fact, I used to have some blogging peoples who I haven't been trading comments with in so long I don't even know if I still have their joints bookmarked anywhere. Alas; such is life. With a clean slate we start anew.
What history book you do or don't have
-Mos Def, "Breakdown"
I want to get back into the swing of things by going face first. To hell with dipping my toe in the water. Let's get it in, shall we?
For my Boston peoples, let me break it down to you so it's broken. Mayor Menino has done a lot of good for the city. But there's a lot of progress that is noticeably absent. I am very skeptical that if voters elect him again, he wil not finish his term. I simply do not see it happening.
Call me a skeptic, cynic, o whatever. But it ain't going down, boo-boo. If Thomas M. Menino gets elected to a fifth term, he's going to somehow step down, which in turn will allow the presiding city council president to become interim mayor. Obvisouly, many moons ago before Mike Flaherty blossomed into a fully grey-heared man, that was the rumored plan.
But no....in the age of power-hoarders clutching on to their authority until you pry it from their cold hands, there is no succession planning. There is succession appointing. And my dear friends, if we are not careful, the next person to be mayor after Tom Menino will not be Flaherty or Yoon. It will be none other than...
...Rob Consalvo.
gulp.
And then I'm packing my ish up, dapping up my peoples, selling the crib, and moving my black a$$ back to my hometown, because that joker's a bama, son. Two steps forward and three thousand seven hundred and fourteen steps backwards. Don't say I didn't warn you. Yall better hope Mike Ross stay council president. Get at me.
Roxbury Community Research Advisory Board
The Roxbury Community Research Advisory Board (CRAB) has membership openings and is seeking individuals who live or work in Roxbury, Dorchester or Mattapan and are interested in helping to end health disparities and expand participation in medical research. The Roxbury CRAB is composed of residents who are working to improve community understanding of and responsiveness to community based and clinical research in the above areas and work to advise researchers. Members also provide advocacy education & training and community outreach and dissemination of information. The Roxbury CRAB is a part of the Horizon Center at UMASS Boston.
Please send bio or resume' and a short explanation of your interest by October 26, 2009 to The Nominating Committee Horizon Center Wheatley Hall, VDC Room 162 UMASS Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, Ma. 02125 or email to highfort@juno.com for more information call 857-544-3079 617-287-5685
Please send bio or resume' and a short explanation of your interest by October 26, 2009 to The Nominating Committee Horizon Center Wheatley Hall, VDC Room 162 UMASS Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, Ma. 02125 or email to highfort@juno.com for more information call 857-544-3079 617-287-5685
Monday, October 19, 2009
ropeburn
we wrote our eulogies on napkins
stained from bloodied fingers gripping
at life's drawstrings
palms chafed from struggle's rope burns
embracing such struggle so often
in this mystical
ghetto wonderland
we often forget
to get off at our stop
lazily lulling ourselves to sleep in a
hallucinogenic stupor of
despair
the choices we make never fully feasible
the regrets we forsake never fully meaningful
disciplined by character
and whipped by insecurity
we fetch our own twigs and nooses
in spite of our supposed freedom
oblivious to the living lessons learned
in our stories
skimming through its pages
much too fast to notice
we've reached the cliffhanger
and all the parachutes are on back order
so we dangle from tattered ropes
as gravity prevails
stained from bloodied fingers gripping
at life's drawstrings
palms chafed from struggle's rope burns
embracing such struggle so often
in this mystical
ghetto wonderland
we often forget
to get off at our stop
lazily lulling ourselves to sleep in a
hallucinogenic stupor of
despair
the choices we make never fully feasible
the regrets we forsake never fully meaningful
disciplined by character
and whipped by insecurity
we fetch our own twigs and nooses
in spite of our supposed freedom
oblivious to the living lessons learned
in our stories
skimming through its pages
much too fast to notice
we've reached the cliffhanger
and all the parachutes are on back order
so we dangle from tattered ropes
as gravity prevails
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