Your file has been reviewed by the assigned faculty member for your program and based on their evaluation you have been approved for graduation in December, 2008. The official certification will be done on January 19, 2009.

has anyone else noticed the gmail spam filters sucking all of a sudden? also, why is it that pitt keeps throwing money at me ever since i handed in my graduation questionnaire that says how unhappy i am with the education i've received from them?

since a few people have asked what sort of stuff i'm studying this semester, and i have to "study" for my final tomorrow, i figured i'd run down a list of topics we'e covered. you can ask me about them if you want, but i have no idea if i'll be able to talk about them intelligently. i may be able to do a reasonable comparison between topics, ( Read more... )

my teacher changed the syllabus AGAIN, so we won't be meeting tomorrow like he originally rescheduled. we'll instead be meeting monday like we were supposed to before he rescheduled. this means that the last chapter that i haven't finished yet can wait until the weekend. thank freaking god. also, we got our midterms back (a week before the ( Read more... )

"the deciding of issues by the electorate [is made] secondary to the election of the men who are to do the deciding. to put it differently we now take the view that the role of the people is to produce a goverment...and we define the democratic method as that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals ( Read more... )

well, i had my first class of the semester tonite. comparative politics. it's a 3+ hour class, and we were out of there in 30 minutes. awesome. it seems like it should be a pretty easy class, but it also looks like i won't have a way around doing the readings. also, 2 chapters per class. 50-60 pages. 2 classes per week. he said it shouldn't ( Read more... )

tonite is finally the night that we upgrade our app at work. i'd like to think this means work will be less hectic, but it just means that all the stuff we decided to wait until after the upgrade to start is now ready to be started ( Read more... )

i got my first graded paper back in class today, and the only criticism she gave me was that i didn't include a full citation for the chapter of a book she photocopied and gave us in class. i got an a. i must say i'm relieved, because i was really concerned from the way she speaks in class that her expectations were really high; either i'm a much ( Read more... )

i think i've decided on comparative politics for my summer class. what i haven't decided yet is if i should spend more money than i should on a vacation that i really want to take ( Read more... )

from the first book i've had to read for my class, "integrity" by stephen l carter:

"the distinction that the person of integrity must draw in order to avoid evil is between willing good and willing evil. willing good occurs when, upon due reflection, we will ourselves to do and speak that which we now know to be the right, even when the burden ( Read more... )