SUMMER JOB OPPORTUNITY!

I sent out an email to TUCAN, a tutoring organization that I'm involved with at Tulane, and I decided to share a variation of it here. Hope anyone reading will enjoy and maybe reach out to me if you're interested!

As spring semester begins, you'll find that a lot of people are starting to think about their summers, and I wanted to let you guys know about an amazing job opportunity!

That opportunity is Camp Echo Lake, a seven week overnight camp in New York for kids aged 8-16. This will be my third summer working there, and I couldn't think of any better way to spend my summers. I can promise you that it will be the hardest you have ever worked, and the best job you will ever have.

Right now, Echo Lake is looking to hire staff that come from all over the country and the world! A lot of the staff are currently in college and they range from age 18 to 25 or older. Last summer, I recommended the job to my friend Naomi, and she flew from California and had a blast, and she'll be returning as well this summer! So I'd like to extend the invitation to all of you. I know you guys are all great tutors at NFL Yet and you guys would make great camp counselors. If you haven't had the camp experience growing up, now is the time to see what it's all about.

With the one week orientation before camp begins, you would need to be free from June 19th to August 17th. Feel free to look around the website for more information and be sure let me know if you are interested and ask me any questions you might have. (You might see a familiar face!) Shoot me an email at jsussma@tulane.edu and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

Thanks for reading this far and hope to see you this summer at camp!

With lots of TUCAN love,
Jake Sussman
Daily Coordinator

6. Gone Girl (Top 10 of 2014)

Gone Girl

I never read Gillian Flynn's popular novel, but I did hear great things about it, so I was pretty excited about this movie. I wasn't even sure what it was about, which I think is the best way to go into watching it. And wow, were my expectations exceeded. Even though the movie was way over two hours, it didn't feel too long as I was completely invested the whole way through. I don't want to spoil too much, but I can't believe how my feelings about the couple, played brilliantly by Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike, could shift so much over the course of the story.

7. Problem (Top 10 of 2014)

Problem by Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea

Yes, Iggy's "Fancy" was the official song of the summer, but "Problem" was my personal jam. The moment that saxophone riff kicks in you know you're in for a party. As it is with most Ariana songs, she goes right for it, belting the first line. It doesn't waste time building up the whole time, but rather it builds up with a very strong transition that you can't help but sing along to ("head in the clouds, got no weight on my shoulders...")

Oscar Predix! (UPDATED WITH RESULTS)

Because why not? Oscar nominations are announced tomorrow morning (eeeee!) and here are my predictions! Now with updated results in green! Overall, it's pretty upsetting that all of the Best Picture nominated films are starring men, and all twenty acting nominees are white. This little diversity is upsetting, but rather than take it out on the Academy, let's get some more diverse roles in Hollywood, shall we? ANYWAYS, let's see what I got right and wrong! Overall, I was about 70% accurate.

(credit to GoldDerby.com for ideas; I'm pretty much editing their rankings)

Let's go category by category, with each list in order of their likeliness for noms.

Best Picture
Boyhood
Birdman
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theory of Everything
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Whiplash
Gone Girl
Nightcrawler
7/8- I missed American Sniper, while Gone Girl and Nightcrawler, my predictions with a lower chance missed the cut.

8. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay-- Part 1 (Top 10 of 2014)

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay-- Part 1

Yeah, the folks behind the enormously popular Hunger Games franchise decided to split the final movie into two. This started with Harry Potter and it seemed that everyone followed suit, like Twilight, Divergent, and The Hobbit. Yes, it's a clear grab for more money, but it seems that it only pleases fans of the original material. As someone who read the Hunger Games books, I was one of those people.