Play Hard and Grow: Life to the ThirdPower
Before my current writing life, there was The Hilltop , Howard University’s and the Nation’s Oldest Black Collegiate Newspaper, where many of the questions and themes I still explore first found their voice. What follows are my early published works, preserved in their original form. From The Hilltop Archives Originally published in The Hilltop , Howard University — February 13th, 2004 __________________________________________________________________________________ Play Hard and Grow: Life to the ThirdPower The sweat was dipping and her legs were burning. Gia Ferguson knows she can't stop peddling, not now. No one in the class has stopped, so why should she. "Everyone was going off adrenaline," explained Ferguson, a psychology major from Miami. "I was in pain and they were in pain." This wasn't preparation for the Tour de France, but those hills and sprints felt like the real thing. This is no ordinary spin class, better yet this is no ordi...