Alex Priest » college http://alexpriest.com Alex Priest's personal blog, on marketing, social media, technology, politics, and life in general. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:40:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Gross and Exciting http://alexpriest.com/2011/06/29/gross-and-exciting/ http://alexpriest.com/2011/06/29/gross-and-exciting/#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 01:53:39 +0000 Alex Priest http://alexpriest.com/?p=1335 Continue reading →]]> My sophomore year of college, I decided to do something totally crazy. Crazy in my little non-athletic, geeky, technology-filled universe, anyway.

I joined the crew team.

Yup. I started waking up at 4 a.m. every day. I put on spandex. I worked my ass off for months to get in shape (and actually—surprisingly—did). It was one of the best and hardest years of my entire life, but I loved every minute of it.

One day in mid-November, a few of my crew mates decided to do something even more ridiculous than wake up at 4 a.m. to go row. They jumped in the river. And this isn’t some big, beautiful blue river, with nice warm water and beaches. We’re talking about the Anacostia River. A river that has the dubious distinction of being