Whit in the World

A New Year calls for a New Post(s) Highlights of the Year Reviewing the Year Past What 2011 means to me New Years Resolutions There are so many aspects of the New Year to talk about but what is it really? A fresh start or just another walk in the park called " Life "?  In my own personal opinion the upcoming year means the same that it meant last year, but that all depends on what it meant to you particularly. For me I would have to cover every single angle or at least try to.... Highlights of the Year Graduating from the University of Florida with a Bachelors of Arts in Anthropology and Minor in Education.  I ended my collegiate career feeling free and renewing some friendships that had fallen apart, while letting other relationships fall complete to the wayside where they needed to be. Then the very next day having a very special someone ask me to be their girlfriend, in the cutest way I have ever been asked. At the moment that this is being typed up we a...

One of the most complex things in life that all living creatures have to deal with are relationships. It seems though that humans, Homo sapien sapiens have the most complex type of relationships that are on this planet. The one type of relationship that is most fascinating to me though is the friendship.  There are a multitude of sayings and phrases that relate to friendship but none of them fully grasp the idea perfectly because each person looks at the bond differently. I may view a friendship to be a relationship that takes place between two people that are not related and create a bond that last a life time that does not have any type of intimacy, like dating. Whereas there are people who view friendship to have no boundaries at all.  As defined by Dictionary.com Friendship -noun 1. the state of being a friend; association as friends: to value a person's friendship. 2. a friendly relation or intimacy. 3. friendly feeling or disposition. The ...

The absence....... While I was growing up my father was not around and his absence, as expected, had an effect on my life in one way or another. Even though he has been absent I have learned some very valuable concepts from our relationship. The first one was to cherish those who are in my life and to live life to the fullest with those people. A lot of times we will dwell on those who are not in our lives and why they are not there but all that does is keeps us from enjoying the time with those that are with us at the time. Why should it matter that someone is not there anymore, when they have removed them selves from the equation? If the person did not want to be around you or talk to you any longer then why does it bother you to point that those around you just aren't good enough for you to be happy with them? I am not saying that you should completely dismiss the fact that a person is not in your life but once you confront the feelings that you have with that issue of them...

Whit. WhitWhit. Smilez.  Princess Crunk. Silly. Short. Intelligent. Sweet, Kindhearted. Funny. Out-going. Female. Young. Baby face. LJ. Short Stuff or Shorty. UOMee. Eeyore. All of these words, phrases and nicknames are just a few that people will use to describe me, but what are the nicknames missing? Background information about me.   Courteous Entry Level Living On July 5, 1989 at 5:25am a new member to the Johnson family was born in Brooklyn, New York. An only child raised in a household with three spectacular women, Sylvia, Chandler and Maureen in Far Rockaway before moving to Florida at the age of five.   From the time I was born until now, at the age of 20 (soon to be 21!), I have learned so many things from my “PEP Squad”, “Special Crew” and every other person that has somehow been a part of my life.  I have always thought of myself as just being me but never really knew how to describe that to people. When I was younger,...

University of Florida- May 1, 2010 & beyond You go from birth to high school graduation and you can plan everything more or less to what you want it to be. You can plan out what schools you will be eligible for by working extremely hard and setting that to be you goal. You start applying for scholarships and remaining at the top of your high school graduation class. Then once you walk that stage and leave it to enter a whole new theater. When you enter college things change, people change...basically everything changes. Not for the worst or the best, they just change and each change brings new experiences and emotions. As people go through life though they think that they can plan what is their life is going to be like down to the very last second. Boy are those people in for the rudest awakening once they hit their last semester in college. Nothing truly goes as planned while you are in college, let alone in life. When your last semester comes around there are so many things ...

What are the rules of dating? A question that has plagued the dating world for years, but the perfect set of rules have yet to surface or descend from the heavens to be written on stone. Every magazine and television show can tell you a set of rules to follow. but they all seem to come up (fall?) short. The rules that you once followed in high school no longer apply once you hit the college arena, and once you hit the "real world" the rules are bound to change once again. So then, what are “MY dating rules?” I have come to the conclusion that the rules of dating should be based on basic human interaction, or in better words, they should cover all relationships. Dating is just a type of relationship and that is what a lot of people seem to forget as they enter a dating relationship. Even I sometime forget that simple fact. Instead of making specific rules to follow for dating or reading books that tell you how to find the "perfect...

March 19, 2010 Turlington Plaza- University of Florida When the 2007 Summer B Preview students walked around campus there was one major warning from the Preview Staffers and that was to beware of the "Set". "If necessary avoid it like the plague or you will be glued to one spot for the whole day and miss classes." A year later the same location soon went from having a daily BUZZ to a soft hum that could not be differentiated from the rest of the University of Florida's campus life. And by the time the 2009-2010 academic year rolled around the "Set" no longer existed but instead was simply Turlington Plaza. Courteous  CLAS One Friday during February it seemed as if Turlington Plaza would reclaim its rightful name amongst students as the "Set" when Black Student Union ’s Black History Month Cabinet hosted "Reclaiming the Set". It seemed as if things were going to be like ‘the good old days’, with tons of people and nonsto...

February 8, 2010 Grand Ballroom, Reitz Union Anticipation has been mounting for him to arrive to the scene and everyone is anxious. People are about to attend an event that they normally would disregard as another boring ACCENT production but not this time. Twitter is a buzz with comments ranging from “I can’t wait” to “I normally would never attend a BHM event that wasn’t greek related but this will be my first”.  So who has the University of Florida students turning a new leaf and even the local community giddy? Courtesy  ModeOne The author of three books, “CSI:NY” star and actor, Hill Harper. Over 700 hundred people gathered to listen to his wonders of wisdom, courage and advice. The audience was as diverse as the speaker himself, with an array of age groups and ethnicities filling the Grand Ballroom.  The show was presented by ACCENT and co-sponsored by Black History Month and the Black Graduate Student Organization for the 2010 Black His...

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