DeFacto Blog

Come closer, stranger. Don’t be afraid.

Honest, the blog won’t bite you. Step forth and let it take you into its warm embrace. Relax and listen to the melody and not to the song.

Did you get enough sleep lately? I began to appreciate sleep only after I lost it. It is a calm night, it is dark and gloomy, the temperature outside is six-six-six degrees… and I am not sleeping. Come to think of it, no one in the whole apartment seems to be asleep.

AUBG always gives me the impression of a restless place that never sleeps, not even when all lights go out. Sparks remain - tiny concealed lights throughout rooms, hallways, and corners. Each of them is a person who is awake, kept away from the sweet stupor of sleep by that amazing feeling.

The feeling of being reborn.

Most of us were young lost souls just a few years ago. And then, all of a sudden - POOF - we are “future leaders.” We have more to study. We have more and harder assignments. We work throughout the summer. We do research and attribute quotes. We begin to think about the future. It is only 4 years before we are reborn into the real world, and take our deserved place in it.

AUBG is valuable as a unique transition period. AUBG is the pain that precedes the rebirth, the effort to open your mouth and take your first breath of fresh air. It has its flaws and drawbacks, its absurds and peculiarities, yet AUBG remains a unique experience, only comparable to the euphoria of waking up in the middle of a tumultous storm. It may be scary at first… but the feeling is AWESOME.

Enjoy your stay at AUBG - these are the best years of your life and you shall remember them for many more summers and winters to come

I will be visiting you again, my dear reader. I am always here for you…

Yours truly,
GK

4 years of studentry. Two presidents down and that many to go.

Last time the Board announced its “reluctant acceptance of [yet another] President’s resignation” in January 2005. The resignation was due in May. It took them less than a month to early lift Bloom’s presidential mandate.

I have still got a couple of months till graduation, so maybe the number of early fare- welling presidents of the glorious institution of AUBG will increase. Easton had just waved a white flag, claiming uncriticizeable “family health issues.” He is also due to retire in May.

Right before coming to AUBG, in May 2003, all the prospective students received another letter from the Board announcing “with enthusiasm and anonymous vote” Bloom’s succession of President Dr. Julia Watkins. (http://www.aubgalumni.com/main_news.asp#)

All the resignations (both transitive and intransitive) seemed to have had a plausible explanation. Yet, the rumor is a powerful invention of human kind, and it does have a lot of things.

The rumor has it Watkins wasn’t the wisest spender of AUBG donors’ money. With all the USAID money AUBG had received by her resignation, they only had built one- and-a-half dorm (woops, sorry, “Residence Hall”).

The facts also have it, Bloom did indeed lack such wisdom, as well. His College of Business in Sofia brought nothing else but financial debris, further faculty cuts, and, as a result, an AUBG less cheerful to dwell in.

Then Easton had come. He’s never done anything suspicious, he hasn’t started crazy projects, and he didn’t transform AUBG into “the Harvard of the Balkans,” either, as he had once been heard speculating about.

Well, as one of my friends said, and I give him all the credit, Presidents change one another, only students are stupid enough to stay here for 4 years.

Sincerely, Mocke

The first post of a hopefully long and fruitful online log for the DeFacto people.

and don’t be fooled into following what others say:

Thinking leads to the sin of overburdening the mind

Now, to give you a thumbs up, here are the first four issues of DeFacto Biweekly - the print version of DeFacto

• DeFacto Biweekly - Issue 01 (Nov 09, 2006)
• DeFacto Biweekly - Issue 02 (Nov 23, 2006)
• DeFacto Biweekly - Issue 03 (Dec 27, 2006)
• DeFacto Biweekly - Issue 04 (Jan 18, 2006)

enjoy,
the shadow advisor