betwix semesters
I love semester breaks. Back in elementary and high school, I hated summer break because I was bored with nothing to do. Now that I'm in college and maybe entering the real world, I'm starting to appreciate the time where I'm able to do absolutely nothing except what I want to do for days at a time, with no one to stop me.
Take for example, the choice in reading lists and movies watched. When i'm in school, they're novels, short stories, films that I'm forced to endure for teaching value. There was an entire class this past semester that did nothing except watch and discuss the most depressing movies ever made--and all based on true stories. Wooo latin american politics! In order to balance out the cosmos, I did nothing today aside from roll out of my warm, comfy bed with a nice warm, comfy body still in it, chill at the museum for a few hours, return home to find the packages i'd been waiting for, read the first Anita Blake vampire novel (i'm such a nerd) and watch the first season of sex and the city. Last week, while bumming around with Robyn, who has the joy of doing pr work for the military and equally enjoys a good escape, we watched girly movies and ate brownies for hours. It was lovely, and really nice to do something aside from reading and writing about the harsh reality of the world.
Unfortunately, I have not yet done what i've needed to accomplish over break, which is fill out more applications for summer internships. I'm determined to do something cool this summer, just in case the state department doesn't work out. The application to spend the summer in DC with the Institute for Humane Studies (YAY!!!) requires that I List five intellectual figures or books that have most influenced you rphilosophical and political thinking, and a single sentence for each stating how it has influenced you. Responses are limited to 250c haracters. WTF? I want this so bad, but at the same time, I don't know exactly what has influenced me. These are all super-competitive, and I feel that every personal statement and "influence list" is giving those reading the applications a very strange facet of a person's real life. Eh, I've still got a couple weeks to apply. I'm sure I can think of something. :)
*sigh*
Take for example, the choice in reading lists and movies watched. When i'm in school, they're novels, short stories, films that I'm forced to endure for teaching value. There was an entire class this past semester that did nothing except watch and discuss the most depressing movies ever made--and all based on true stories. Wooo latin american politics! In order to balance out the cosmos, I did nothing today aside from roll out of my warm, comfy bed with a nice warm, comfy body still in it, chill at the museum for a few hours, return home to find the packages i'd been waiting for, read the first Anita Blake vampire novel (i'm such a nerd) and watch the first season of sex and the city. Last week, while bumming around with Robyn, who has the joy of doing pr work for the military and equally enjoys a good escape, we watched girly movies and ate brownies for hours. It was lovely, and really nice to do something aside from reading and writing about the harsh reality of the world.
Unfortunately, I have not yet done what i've needed to accomplish over break, which is fill out more applications for summer internships. I'm determined to do something cool this summer, just in case the state department doesn't work out. The application to spend the summer in DC with the Institute for Humane Studies (YAY!!!) requires that I List five intellectual figures or books that have most influenced you rphilosophical and political thinking, and a single sentence for each stating how it has influenced you. Responses are limited to 250c haracters. WTF? I want this so bad, but at the same time, I don't know exactly what has influenced me. These are all super-competitive, and I feel that every personal statement and "influence list" is giving those reading the applications a very strange facet of a person's real life. Eh, I've still got a couple weeks to apply. I'm sure I can think of something. :)
*sigh*