My Academic Plans: You have two years to write a 40-page thesis paper.

Me: AAAHHHH, HOW THE HECK AM I EVER GOING TO DO THAT?!?!

My Academic Plans: Oh yeah, you also have two years to achieve proficiency in Arabic.

Me: Yeah, ok, that's not a big deal.

I'm currently juggling classes, Bible study, volunteer work, Catholic fellowship, homework, career planning and breathing. I've taken up studying Arabic, which is the first time I've started seriously studying a new language in years (my brief experimentations with Hebrew, German and Spanish don't count as real study). I'm also taking a class on ( Read more... )

Or, Why Picking the Major That Was the Most Fun Might Not Have Been the Best Idea ( Read more... )

Last semester I took an introductory sociolinguistics course, which was interesting, but which at the same time I kind of hated. After I took the final exam, I went around telling everyone that I was glad I'd taken the course because I learned a lot, including the fact that I never wanted to take another linguistics course again ( Read more... )

Tu t'es abaissé, et tu nous as élevés ( Read more... )

I really want to go through every episode of Smallville and count just how many times Clark's red jacket gets destroyed. Oh, all the fun things that real life prevents me from doing ( Read more... )

I'm a French major, which means I get to spend my days listening to all kinds of whiney marxist frogs.* But that's a story for another day. Yesterday, in my Spoken Contemporary French class, we got off on a tangent about Nicholas Sarkozy. In particular, we were discussing an incident from February of last year where he was shaking hands at an event ( Read more... )

The more I read conservative blogs, the more my conservative views a reaffirmed, yet at the same time, the more I dislike the Republican party ( Read more... )

Some stuff that's been going on:

- I joined the Newman Club (basically the Catholic Club, named after Venerable John Henry Newman) and went on a three-day retreat with them, which was a lot of fun. I've been making most of my friends through this club ( Read more... )

Another book I bought in Madrid:


( Read more... )