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spmiller@rollins.edu

Class of 2009

Hometown: Elyria, Ohio

Major: International Relations

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"Highlights and Un-highlights of St. Lucia"

January 31, 2007

I’ll quote my good friend Ron Burgundy in saying that “I’m not even mad. I’m impressed...” with how consistently good (in terms of frequency and quality) my R-Journal updates have been…

Last time, for those of you who are not refreshing this page every two minutes, I took you all with me on my quick recruiting trip to Boston. This time, we’ll go a bit more exotic. We’ll go to Latin America.

Each year growing up, my parents abandoned my brother, my sister, and myself as they set off for a Thanksgiving cruise. My early childhood Thanksgivings were all spent with grandparents, aunts, in-laws, and often a hot dog (both my brother and I were extremely picky eaters). However, as time has gone on, both my palate and my parents’ tolerance for their children (just kidding Mom, I know you are reading this! I love you!) have increased, and we’ve started to be included in the festivities. For the most recent cruise, we set off from San Juan, Puerto Rico, for the deep Southern Caribbean. While I don’t want to get bogged down in the details (heck, I don’t even think I remember half of the places we stopped), I will point out a couple of the highlights—and “un-highlights.”

I really enjoyed spending some time on the beautiful island of St. Lucia. We got to St. Lucia, boarded an extremely sketchy boat, and headed off to an active volcano. (FYI: volcanoes smell like sulfur. If you don’t know what sulfur smells like, you probably should not be applying to Rollins, but it smells like eggs. Yuck.) This was pretty cool. Our tour guide told us of how they used to take visitors into the lava pit to boil eggs. Again, pretty cool. However, someone fell into the lava and died so they ended the tradition. Not so cool. We also visited a bat cave and a pretty fun beach. The beaches in St. Lucia have black sand. Any guesses why? The volcano actually spewed volcanic ash that created black sand.

My “un-highlight” was spent in bed. Literally.

More about Steve...

While searching for colleges as a high school senior, Steve found the R-Journals at Rollins, which aided in his final decision between the United States Military Academy at West Point and Rollins College. Steve is a senator in the Student Government Association, a freelance photographer for The Sandspur student newspaper, plays intramural basketball and founded Rollins Relief, an organization dedicated to helping disaster victims around the world through hands-on service.

Steve is a Cornell Scholar, a member of the Honors Degree Program and a 3-2/Accelerated Management Program student. He said, “Rollins offers an amazing community experience to incoming students—one filled with both academic and social experiences. The two can certainly mix—academics and socializing do not have to be mutually exclusive.”

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Steve's R-Journal archives:

Date	Link
Dec. 14, 2005	Reflections on the Fall Semester at Rollins
Jan. 17, 2006	Home for the Holidays
Feb. 7, 2006	The Beach in January (and other neat perks to attending Rollins)
Feb. 27, 2006	Greetings from Arizona!
March 27, 2006	New Orleans for Spring Break
April 4, 2006	Celebrity Tour and Choosing a Dorm
April 12, 2006	Fox Day and Fish Day
April 20, 2006	Great Aspects of Rollins
April 26, 2006	Food
May 8, 2006	Exam time
May 16, 2006	College Essentials
June 16, 2006	My Maniac May
August 29, 2006	Back in the Game
October 5, 2006	Enough of Summer
October 20, 2006	NOLA and Other Random Items
January 29, 2007	Where in the world is Steve Miller?
January 31. 2007	Highlights and Un-highlights of St. Lucia