Hello!

My name is Olamide! I recently graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Tar Heel born and bred!) and I am getting ready to embark on a life changing journey miles away from a place I’ve called home for over 10 years. I understand that life changing doesn’t always mean good but I am interested to see what the rest of this country has to offer. I will be working, through Teach For America, as a middle school mathematics teacher at a charter school in the Twin Cities and I am extremely excited to “get this show on the road.” I know it will be tough, I know I will face challenges that are probably a million times more overwhelming than I could ever dream and I know that I will come to the brink of insanity. All I have to say to this is, “Bring It On…again!” I say again because this has basically been the story of my life for as long as I can remember. Maybe I live for the thrill of immense amounts of expectations and pressure both internal and external or maybe I am just absolutely crazy but I am always looking for a challenge.  I hope to use this blog, hopefully more consistently than I’ve done in the past, to recount the more ridiculous moments along the way. I do not intend for this blog to become a battleground for big debates on education reform or for diatribes about what is right or wrong with Teach For America. Rather, I plan to use it as an outlet mostly for myself and whoever is curious about what I am up to. With that said, I start Induction tomorrow and the big bad Institute next week in Chicago. I hope I know what I’m getting myself into

Olamide