It's now 2 am and I have been doing nothing but working and as usual have forgotten about eating. Am I becoming obsessed with food? Covering the "Food Beat" for the Weekly Retriever while at UMBC was trust upon me. My Editor-in-Chief and my News Editor not only wanted me to cover food, but expected me to constantly write about student's complaints thinking this would take care of their grievances. Silly students, the university doesn't care about your grievances. In four years to six years, you'll no longer be here but everyone who is employed by the university will be. Only those who have made their careers here will be heard.

Then again, as a starving student, its not difficult to become obsessed with something that is constantly missing. Let's face it, you can't work well without eating. I learn from reading my peers posts in all my classes, our problems are all the same. We are all living though the "Rocky" narrative as Shipka calls it. We are working against all odds in order to get out of poverty. Little do we realize that in the end, a degree will not provide relief either because then the next outcry is, "You have no experience!" When you have experience, it becomes, "well you don't have "this" skill or "that" certification. When you have those, the last outcry is, "Oh you're just too expensive!" Well considering all the money and time I had to spend in developing myself to perform a worthy function in a company, of course I'm expensive. After all it was all my money and not yours. Now employers want more immigrants because they will work for a great deal less; thereby increasing their profits once again.