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I'm Allyson Galle.
I'm Adam Evan Engel.
I'm Carly Fleming.
And we write for Culture Shock.
We are the official blog of the Howard Thurman Center.
Most of us showed up timid and shy and quiet and left being able to express ourselves in
a new venue.
We've really become friends outside the blog, too. They were just my editors when I started
on and now they are two of my really good friends, blog or no blog, and I think we will
definitely be keeping in touch after graduation.
The blog actually precedes us by a little bit, about a year.
It started off as a group of about 10 to 15 writers.
They brought the blog from nothing into this group, into this community, that would draw
not only from people who were already a huge part of Thurman Center, but for new people
who could bring new voices and new ideas and then could become apart of the family.
We've gone from that small group all the way to a 35 person blog where crazy new ideas
come out every week, every day.
You have this audience that you never realized you as an undergraduate writing for a school
blog could have and it's incredible knowing our reach.
The audience at this point is coming for across the map. We have like 150 countries. I think
from the last couple months we have been pulling in 16,000 people every month.
We had almost all of the states except Montana and one of the Dakotas, and so I specifically
put up a post about Montana to get someone in Montana to comment on it, and once we got
that state it was the best moment.
We formed this really tight community in this blog that it's become more than a blog, It's
become this really awesome group that we have.
Culture Shock and the Thurman Center is the first place at BU that I felt like I belonged
and the first family that I have here and that doesn't go away. I'm not leaving that
behind. I still get to carry that with me.
It's almost the sense that we didn't get to choose this family, we just have it and I
don't think that will go away.
It's this incredible feeling that it's more than just friendship for a lot of us. There's
mentorship going on, there's brotherhood going on, sisterhood.
It's family, there's no other way to put it. It's family.
Yeah, family.
Can we hug it out guys?
Aww!