Note: This blog post was originally published on my personal blog My Ramblings.  Please feel free to comment on the original post, as I have disable comments on this post. 

In every edition of our campus newspaper, The East Carolinian, there is a section called "Pirate Rants."  This is an anonymous opinion section where students can write 'rants' about things on…

Hey there Fellow Pirates –

I’m just really getting started here on the Inner Pirate Network, but I have been a Pirate for a long time.  As a Pitt County native, ECU has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember.  It was always my goal to become an ECU Pirate – not only because Pirates “arrrgh” cool… but because we have a top notch University. 

My journey as an ECU student began about 8 years ago, in 2003.  I moved into a residence hall on campus and had a great year…