<p>I better get fin aid as long as this packet is taking- how am I to know whether I need to start saving lol</p>
<p>got my packet today
we're having a yearbook comm. and a talent show comm.</p>
<p>got packet today. </p>
<p>Do you guys have a website to visit or informaiton was printed for you? For us at Dartmouth, we have to visit leadnational.org/tuck hahaha</p>
<p>wharton had a website as well..for most of the other programs you guys have to interview entrepreneurs & on our website i didn't see a thing for that..i guess that means we don't have to do it??</p>
<p>LEAD IS ROUGH!!
Still haven't recieved a letter
but the lady emailed my mom
basically I just have to pay the $250.00 activity fee
my mom and aunt were planning on going to philly for the week of the 4th to just kick it but I still don't have my flight information.</p>
<p>Anyways finally printed Philly's 27 questions!</p>
<p>When does the first Lead Program start?</p>
<p>me/my moms lost part of the packet
I got all the forms/questionnaire
but there is this 4-H thing that I believe has something to do with being under 18</p>
<p>and I believe it is Illinois-specific
dang I wish I knew other Illinois LEADers </p>
<p>while I am wishing, I hope I find it tonight</p>
<p>Ladies and gents, we need to get more people ACTIVE in this thread!</p>
<p>The facebook LEAD coalition has over 35 members, and yet less than 10 post on CC. Outrage I say, outrage!</p>
<p>True dat!<br>
Are the 35 people 2007 LEADers or all LEAD alumni too?
When does Darmouth start ron?</p>
<p>they're all 2007 LEADers and one of them is an R.A. for Wharton, but she did LEAD in 2005.. ron you should do a post about CC on the LEAD 2007 discussion board</p>
<p>I can't wait. I feel like LEAD is going to change my life. It's going to be that great of an experience. My mom tells me constantly that she thinks she's wasting her money. I'm not going to get anything out of LEAD, and since I'm not studying business, why am I bothering. She doesn't understand the opportunity. It's not what I'll be learning, but what I'll be experiencing.</p>
<p>Where I live, business is opening a convenient store or a fast food place. It doesn't branch out to more varied and successful ventures. It isn't exciting. Sure, business is mostly drudgery, but where's the research and development, the innovation, the image building. My mom thinks business is being a manager at Wal-Mart. I don't want to believe that, and I think LEAD will help me to not. Business builds Aston Martin's and Maserati's, designs Sears tower's and Guggenhiem Museum's, opens up the world and says, "hey, you can have this. you can make this happen." </p>
<p>Well, I'm excited. It's surreal. In a few weeks, I'll be at Cornell. Now just to mail those checks...;)</p>
<p>Pj</p>
<p>Here is an article I stumbled upon about the epidemic proportions of the problems facing black youth. Reading it made me realize how happy I am to be the " anti-sterotype" and "anti-limintation" succedding despite the odds placed against me from brith and the limints placed on my advancement by society. As fellow LEADers, you too should be proud of yourselves by defying the odds and making statistics lies. Finally, since we are LEADers, it will be up to us to help find solutions to this problem and problems similar.</p>
<p>I don't buy into the media hype. There is a crisis, but it has always existed. I try to rid myself of the slave mentality. I accept society on a give-and-take basis. As long as I don't create SELF-imposed barriers, I can deal with society's imperfections. MLK has said not to judge a person by the color of her skin but by her character. Well, realistically, give me a balance. Let me benefit from programs like LEAD, and I'll take those statistics and change them. The worst racism I've witnessed came from black people themselves, because they couldn't love themselves to improve themselves before they did so for other people and procure material things. That's not the case for all black problems, but that's an issue, too. It's not all about society. It's about ourselves also. </p>
<p>Black is what I am, but not all that I am. If some people see me only through my skin color, it's their choice, but it will not be my punishment.</p>
<p>Pj</p>
<p>Beautiful post PJ and I agree</p>
<p>Thanks </p>
<p>Has anyone recieved a letter in the mail, saying that LEAD will post some documents on their website? My letter says today LEAD will have posted the info. I can't find it.</p>
<p>Wharton has its own website
and I think Darmouth's website is leadnational.org/tuck so maybe try that for Cornell</p>
<p>Newho, the Virginia Lead group on facebook is poppin. Looks like they'll have a blast. </p>
<p>Is there a Lead group on myspace? cuz I don't rly have a face book</p>
<p>Yup, it worked. Thanks, Tubbz.</p>
<p>a professor at UNC told me that "to be an example is not enough, for you will only be dismissed as an anomaly" (I believe that this quote applies to any problem of perception and to any social/cultural crisis)</p>
<p>I say we gotta be change agents</p>
<p>True DJ- I like that " Change Agents'"</p>
<p>This reminded me of a parent teacher conference I had with my English Teacher who hates the fact that I have a " cavalier" attitude, pull with administration and still maintain an A in his ruff class- anyways he was like your an "anamoly here as a black male but you will just be another face in the crowd at college" YEA RIGHT TO THE LEFT TO THE LEFT CUZ HE DON"T KNOW BOUT ME lol but yea </p>
<p>-anywayz</p>
<p>Ronald's found LEADers</p>
<p>we cannot let this thread die
we already lost one... not this one</p>
<p>:) after my finals are done i'll contact them.</p>