West Wing Star Brad Whitford Visits

Bradley Whitford, who played Josh Lyman in The West Wing, visited West Point Tuesday and Wednesday. A few of us were able to have dinner with him at the Thayer Hotel on post. We talked politics, Hollywood campaign donations, the powers of the presidency, and the genius of Aaron Sorkin.

Whitford has some advocacy videos on YouTube that better state his views. He says he votes for "Better Healthcare, and better Education... so basically hearts and minds."

It was an awesome - and at times surreal - experience for me, a West Wing fanatic.

Model UN Team Wins Nationals

The West Point Model UN Team in Boston, Massachusetts. Our team took 1st Place at the 2009 National Competition at Harvard.

We spent the weekend at the Boston Park Plaza and had a great time meeting delegates from all over the world. I made new friends from India, Pakistan, Venezeula, Kenya, Holland, and France, as well as several from all over the country.

My committee focused on the challenges of "Oil in Africa." Though we came up with a pseudo-solution to the problem, we left realizing the complexity of the social issues surrounding "black gold" in Africa. It was a great weekend, despite the fact that it interfered with my original Valentines Day plan.