Miami v Drop Inn

Drop Inn vs Miami University

Miami University, Ugg boots and Northfaces riding in Lexus’s and BMWs cruising the streets between the houses and buildings that make up the atmosphere. Highlights and tans bob along the sidewalks carrying their Macbook Pros and designer bags from class to class. Cosmo and Men’s Health explain the celebrity style that is available because of mommy and daddy’s bank accounts.

Drop Inn, twenty-year old jackets and clothes from the garbage walking in old shoes and barefeet down the crowded sidewalks between the river and 12th street that make up Cincinnati. Dirty hair and dinge somberly trudge along carrying knives and bags of rags from shelter to shelter. Stereotypes and prejudices mimic the text book idea of poor and helpless.

Miami University and the Drop Inn, embrace different mind sets, but serve the same purpose in each setting. An idea of hope, inspiration, and life fill the atmosphere and the hearts of those that inhabit it. Setting aside the presumptions for something more, something meaningful, that sheds light on the future.