Spring break was interesting but I am glad to be back at school. There is not much of a break for a man with a wife, children, and responsibilities, so while it is spring, it was nowhere close to a break.

I told myself that I would not think about school and would focus on anything else, but that didn’t happen at all.

I found myself checking the talonmarks.com website several times a day and updating the site to reflect the most recent stories that had been turned in.

Getting caught up on my reading for my other classes was something that I needed to do, so it was vital that I did that.

I spent the bulk of my break researching ledes for stories for the Talon Marks, and by doing so; I became more and more interested in Journalism.

So much so that I seriously considered changing my major from Theater to Journalism.

I also spent some time communicating via social media with other returning students that have expressed interest in starting a group of like-minded students.

During a conversation with a fellow returning student during spring break, I was asked if I am having problems communicating with my classmates.

That question sparked my desire to find out how many returning students feel the same way, so I decided to reach out to as many returning students as possible.

I began by simply searching checking the friend lists of my facebook friends and taking it from there.

When I began making progress in locating people, I quickly realized that I am not as alone as I thought that I was. There are more students that are returning than I originally thought there were.

I realized that a simple facebook search was not going to be enough to get the answers that I was looking for, and that left me with my back against the wall.

I have a saying that I live by. “If you don’t do anything to impact change, you have no right to complain.” My goal is to do something to impact change.

Regardless of age, any student deserves the right to feel comfortable in the school environment.

It is my goal to make a more concerned effort to ensure that students, especially returning students feel exactly that.