"Meet Joe Blog" and "Homelessness on Campus"

1) Blogging has always just been to me what techies did in there free time to express their feelings and complain about politics and other things that they could never really get published in an actual newspaper or magazine or something. But after reading "Meet Joe Blog" I kind of see that there is a lot more to it than that. I mean I am still not going to start some on going blog where I express all of my feelings and opinions, but thats just me and I'm just a little too shy to do something like that. But now at least I can respect and understand a little more the power and convenience that truly lies behind good blogging.

2) Wow... I can honestly say that i never really considered the idea of homeless college students until I read "Homelessness on Campus". I guess I always thought that there was enough financial aid at colleges and universities to help these students. But then again I suppose a problem with that is a lot of financial aid and scholarships tend to go to people who have the grades to be competitive. And sadly that's just not the case for a lot of people. From personal experience, and growing up right outside of Memphis, Tennessee, I have seen first hand how kids can be in the top of their class at a school such as B.T. Washington High and still not have the ACT scores or any number of other things to make it to college simply because the education that they received wasn't good enough to really help them. It really is a sad situation and one that lot of universities seem to overlook or just not notice. And it's the same situation it seems with these homeless students, their problems are just overlooked and the focus remains on the majority of college students who have means of paying.