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		<title>Top of the class to &#8216;ya</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subject: Special Recognition 
 Dear Educating Rita,   
 Congratulations!  Because of your academic achievement at Rutgers
 University, you have been named as a recipient of the Rutgers 2008
 Academic Excellence Award.  This award is given by the University to the
 top 10% of sophomores at Rutgers based upon GPA performance in your
 respective Schools.
 
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		<title>Paging Dr. Douche&#8230;&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a young boy in my Dev of U.S. II class on Saturdays who was also in my Dev of the U.S. I class last semester. He&#8217;s white, but has adopted a very urban look and attitude. He wears a large diamond or CZ stud in his ears, often dons throwback jerseys, large gold chains [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educatingrita.wordpress.com&blog=2164516&post=14&subd=educatingrita&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Talking about my vag</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a whim I decided to audition for the V Day production of The Vagina Monologues at Douglass in late March.  It&#8217;s been a a while since I&#8217;ve been to an audition or been on a stage and I wanted to go mainly just to see if I could get it.
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		<title>I thought it was just me&#8230;&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Sophia Club Holiday party a few of the other Bunting program ladies  mentioned how they were shunned by the younger students. They didn&#8217;t say it with sadness or avarice, it was more like&#8230;..amusement.
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week in class (Culture of the 1950&#8217;s) we watched a  documentary on the executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.  As one of the documentary participants was describing the deaths of the Rosenbergs in graphic detail, my classmate, Giselle, took out her iBook, opened Safari and went directly to perezhilton.com
Let that sink in.
Yeah.
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was sitting in class last week. As I was rifling through my bag, which by this point in the semester is a train wreck of papers, books, pens, lip balms, loose change, and a sole o.b. tampon.
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		<title>Going to class in Gen Pop</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to warn everyone contemplating attending Essex County College in Newark, NJ or West Caldwell, NJ, it&#8217;s quite possibly the WORST school you could possibly enroll in. Of course, that&#8217;s only MY opinion based on MY personal experience.
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		<title>World Civ Part I.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first class I took during Summer Session I was World Civilization I. The instructor was an attorney from Paterson I&#8217;ll call Ronnie.  I&#8217;ll call him Ronnie since he often referred to himself in the third person as &#8220;Ronnie&#8221;. He sort of had this &#8220;Supafly Soul Brotha&#8221; vibe to him. He had relaxed hair, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educatingrita.wordpress.com&blog=2164516&post=6&subd=educatingrita&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After I made the hasty decision to go back to college, I needed to decide where exactly I wanted to go. Since most admission departments are dealing with people who take care and patience deciding where they want to go in the last two years of high school, sending in a college application in April [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educatingrita.wordpress.com&blog=2164516&post=5&subd=educatingrita&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me be honest, my decision to go back to college grew more out of spite and sloth than a desire for personal fulfillment. I had recently quit my low paying go nowhere job and was receiving unemployment. As an added bonus from NJ state taxpayers, I qualified for an additional benefit called Tuition Reimbursement; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educatingrita.wordpress.com&blog=2164516&post=4&subd=educatingrita&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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