December 28th, 1835

     I was born on December 28th, 1990, three days after Christmas and four days before New Years. And when I researched my birthday on Wikipedia including the year, I was disappointed to fond out that the only significance it had was that I shared birthdays with David Archaletta, a former American Idol contestant. How glorious. But when I researched the date in other years, I found many interesting events, the most interesting happening on December 28th, 1835. Oddly relevant to FSU, on this day Chief Osceola leads the Seminole Indian warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the United States Army. And I know this is extremely ignorant, but I was shocked to find out that the mascot of our school was the leader of a group of Indians who fought to the death with most likely my ancestors. I researched the event more thoroughly and learned that the two groups finally made amends with each other (Duh, Thanksgiving) and were in such good standing that when it was time to deem FSU worthy of a mascot, they chose the Seminole Indian Tribe.