Week 2: Wax Warmer



The author of my week, my wax warmer.



Just going to give you some background here...

So I've had a stressful week. It's been hard trying to get all of my thoughts together for this debate, for my other exams, and for really everything that's been going on.

The reason that I feel like my wax warmer has written me this week is because I usually turn it on with a soothing scent in the bowl to get thoughts rolling and get my mind focused. Featured in this picture is "Peach Ginger," which gives me  a light, happy feeling with the calming ginger that helps me stay on top of my schoolwork while sitting at my desk.

I feel like the atmosphere at Clemson has a calming effect on me as well. When it's warm outside, I sit in the courtyard or by the reflection pond studying and doing homework. I like to watch the squirrels and people walk by me and sometimes I start to wonder... why don't more people do this? I think that there isn't really a place outside that students can work and study without straining their back or sitting in the grass, and I think that the student body would benefit from more outside study spaces, with chairs, or swings.

This would have a large impact on collaborative writing, studying, and the way that students appreciate their environment.

Clemson is a beautiful place, and not just because of the people that go here.

source: http://cdn.stateuniversity.com/assets/logos/images/6249/large_Campus.jpg

Week 1: Hammock

This week's place on campus that wrote a chapter of my life was under my bed, in my hammock. In class this week we talked about racial issues on campus, how other cultures feel unsafe and unsupported, and how they have begun to affect student life on campus.

 As I was laying in the hammock underneath my bed (safe and supported), I began to ponder the accusations of our "Solid Orange" tradition. 

Solid Orange doesn't mean ONLY orange, with no black, it means UNITED under our school colors, TOGETHER.  What happened to the Clemson Family? Someone tell me this:

WHY? 

Why do people want to segregate themselves? Isn't that the exact problem that our grandparents and parents fought so hard and long to stop? If we build a "multi-cultural" center on campus, won't it be a "some-cultural" center, because people don't want ALL cultures there?

Everyone has their differences. Not all white people get along with white people. Not all black people get along with black people. But isn't the way that we are treating each other as students, friends, and even just humans a little inhumane?

Clemson University is a southern school. It has slavery in its history, as do many other schools south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Tillman, Calhoun, and Strom Thurmond were all slave owners. 

We should embrace it. 

Slavery has written Clemson's history, for the better or for the worse. Don't let it write our future.

#SOLIDORANGE     #CLEMSONFAMILY