Despite being in Fort Lauderdale, McCabe always took the time to call us back and pore through numbers heavy data pertaining to the Treasure Coast housing market. On more than one occasion, he's called with a real estate related tip on the cusp of happening here. Chinese drywall is just one example..

"We have to do better in terms of self educating about the diversity within the Latino community," Perea said. Pointed out that many groups on and around campus at Columbia that are now promoting education and awareness of "Afro Latinidad," which is for him a welcome change. A lot of conversations with my family about it, they would firmly reject that they were black," Rojas said.

I also think the movement away from latchkey kids is a massive one. It's more common for teens and kids today to grow up without knowing how to fend for themselves, either in terms of "survival skills" (which, for me, meant microwaving ramen while my mom was working late