Daniel Allen:  

Life Hey bulldogs Hi Ms Bean < so cute For the last ten years I've been a chicago fire fighter, taking advantage of the time available to travel and see some of the world. Maybe the huge diverse student body at Senn struck me with the curiosity to travel, although Senn provided the trip for us that most never get to experience right? After Senn, I went off to a small school in Iowa for a year, did well, and then joined the army national guard to help pay the school bill. I thought $9000 was a mountain of money to spend on college back in "85". Maybe I should have stayed at little Upper Iowa University because after the army basic training was over at the end of summer "86" I entered UIC. I did get serious in the next few years, I took a few classes here and there, and a even studied courses before taking them. I learned much on my own, but didn't get the degree in finance I set out to earn. We all see now how easy it is to loose money without any formal training at all, finance degree or not, anyone can do it he he. At this point, I was floating in and out of colleges, getting nice grades, but getting more familiar with keeping a car, and some clothes on my back to the extent that I didn't want to give them up. Remember having everything we wanted at Senn ha ha, the cars and K-swiss shoes, and polos, Izod and whatever else we thought was in.... Thats right, I didn't know any one with all this either haa, So wasn't it nice to finally acquire it on our own! Well, many wants and desires later, poof, here we are. We are all starting over every day right. Interestingly I value Senn more than ever after rediscovering some of the most fascinating times and people were right here in our back yard. You see, I went the suburban route for most of my school years before arriving at Senn, and saw the typical, safe, predictical life. Senn was my first window to the world, (I lent that phrase to WTTW) des...Expand for more