Who: My name is Sam Bernstein.
What: I am a rising junior in the class of 2012.
Where: I attend The George Washington University in Washington, DC. I hail from the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area of California. I grew up in the small town of Piedmont.
When: Why, now, of course! "If not now, when?" - Hillel
Why: Well, in all honestly, it's partially a bandwagon situation. Most of my friends have blogs, and I like to think my life is interesting enough to the average college student and other worldly beings that it's worth reading about.
How: The beautiful parallel universe we call the internet.
Moving on.
College Stuff
Studying: Believe it or not, after two years of rigorous course work, I have yet to decide on a major. It appears at this point that I will major in Liberal Arts, with minors in Judaic Studies, Music, and Journalism and Mass Communications, just to give you a sense of my wide array of academic interests.
A little more: This past semester, I took my first Journalism course, which was a great experience for me! I hope to incorporate the skills I learned into this blog. Currently, the dream is to be a sportscaster. I love sports and everything about them. In elementary school, I played baseball, soccer, basketball, and football. While football and basketball were short-lived endeavors, I continued to play baseball through my freshman year of high school and soccer until my senior year. I occasionally search for the men's club soccer team here at GW, but have found that classes and student organizations take up too much of my time to play soccer.
Teams: While I no longer play sports the way I used to, I still watch them with the same intensity. I grew up a San Francisco sports fan: Giants (baseball), 49ers (football), Sharks (hockey), and Stanford (all college sports). I continue to support all these teams while living in Washington, DC; however, I have adopted the Nationals (baseball), Redskins (football), Capitals (hockey), and of course my very own GW Colonials (all college sports). Fortunately, no sports rivalries exist between any of these teams.
Organizations: As previously mentioned, I am VERY involved in student organizations. This past year, I was President of Koach, the Conservative Jewish movement at GW. Through Koach, I am a leader at Hillel, the center for Jewish life at GW. I attend services almost every week and participate in various Hillel programs. I also belong to two professional fraternities: Alpha Chi Sigma, the Chemistry fraternity, and Eta Beta Rho, the Hebrew Honor Society. I am a Student Admissions Representative (STAR), which is just fancy talk for a tour guide. I was also a founding member of Shir Madness, the new Jewish a cappella group at GW. Shir in Hebrew means "song." We like to think we're clever. Between all of these organizations and my hefty class schedules, I never had a dull moment during my sophomore year.
More to come.
Peace, love, and happiness.
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