Post Spring Break

We tend to all be pretty excited when spring break is right around the corner. Beach, sand, ocean,party; what else do college, high school, and apparently now middle school kids think about spring break. Aside from a whole week of no classes, mostly all of these teens think about is concerts, drinking, partying and sometimes safety is the last thing that crosses their mind during these times. 

Lately, personally I'm a bit afraid when spring break is around the corner, just last year in 2015 there was a young man that went missing and was found days later dead, and that head that was found in the water that same week. It seems as if this is going to become a pattern, as this Spring Break 2016 another awful incident occurred again as another teenager went missing and who's body was found days later in a beach in Matamoros right across the border with one of our university's campus. 

What is happening to one of the few beauty's the RGV has, pictures of our island being trashed, people passed out, and people going missing;where are we going to end up? Let's step it up Vaqueros, lets create some change.

That time of the Spring Semester

It's that time of the spring semester; with just a week away from Spring Break, comes a week full of studying, projects, and midterms. You must work hard before a whole week of break. This will probably be one of the weeks were we see the library traffic higher than ever. This last week, during a discussion in on my classes I realized that many of our students are not aware of many of the services our University has to offer them. 

For example, the Learning Assistance Center; which provides tutors for a few different subjects, the Writing center where we can take our writing assignments to receive feedback and suggestions   and a few study rooms located at the Student Union for students use. Scan-trons are a must for many during midterm and finals week, and sometimes a few dollars is expensive for many college students. Student Government Association, SGA provides free scan-trons throughout the year, and all you have to do is take a quick survey.

The University Center Welcome Center and the Student Union Information Desk are a few spots around campus were you can learn about the different services UTRGV has to offer students. 

Let's hang in there and finish strong Vaqueros, remember that it will all be worth it with a full week of break!