we ain't going to the town, we're going to the city
i'm back in good ol' proff warren's class once again. this time i'm taking the class which is his specialty: urban politics. so i'm gonna learn me how to run a city! it's great cuz the context of the class pays special attention to the urban problems of miami. i can't wait to have a pragmatist's view of miami. i'm hoping proff warren continues to teach more classes, cuz he's about the closest thing i have to a mentor. he's the kind of proff you could go have a beer with and i could use a bit of direction as i'm knee deep in my junior year. after a couple years of studying politics, both international and US, it started out like i was learning bits and pieces here and there. but now it feels like i'm starting to draw it all together and i can see where one piece stops and the others lead off. i had like about 80 or so different drafts for my schedule this semester. it was largely motivated by my lust for lazyness. i dropped one class the first week friday so i wouldn't have to go to class that day and ended up adding it back on again the next week! finally, last tuesday as i contemplated dropping it again it became aware that the registration period was over and i was locked into my classes.
i felt committed, so i decided to swallow the lump in my throat and accept the lifestyle i was now in, which was going to class M-F. monday through friday! have you ever heard of such things? what is this? K-12? but the final draft of my sched. is: urban politics, comparative economic systems, international relations of south asia and world politics. four more diverse classes they could not be, specifically in the department of readings, i have 8 books to read in all. one of my classes had no books and one of them had five! (including two versions of the same book, talk about being redudant). so i decided to really test my metal and make it an even 10 books, adding two books which i deem are the most important books related to my major that came out this year. here we go, in case any would like to join me in reading these (no one ever does though) :
the first one, 'crashing the gate' was supposedly sent to every lawmaker the author could possibly send it to. whether or not any of them have actually read it seems to be up in the air. but i'd like to read it before the midterm elections coming up, because it seems to be the first year where the blogosphere will have a profound effect on politics. (did you know you're reading a blog right now? yes!) and there's proof all around us that people on the internet are being heard, if you don't believe just sit and wait to see if they put 'the path to 9/11' docudrama on tonight or tomorrow night on ABC. it's really dispicable, just check out the trailer being used for the mini-series outside the US, which lists it as 'official true story'. here.
i felt committed, so i decided to swallow the lump in my throat and accept the lifestyle i was now in, which was going to class M-F. monday through friday! have you ever heard of such things? what is this? K-12? but the final draft of my sched. is: urban politics, comparative economic systems, international relations of south asia and world politics. four more diverse classes they could not be, specifically in the department of readings, i have 8 books to read in all. one of my classes had no books and one of them had five! (including two versions of the same book, talk about being redudant). so i decided to really test my metal and make it an even 10 books, adding two books which i deem are the most important books related to my major that came out this year. here we go, in case any would like to join me in reading these (no one ever does though) :
the first one, 'crashing the gate' was supposedly sent to every lawmaker the author could possibly send it to. whether or not any of them have actually read it seems to be up in the air. but i'd like to read it before the midterm elections coming up, because it seems to be the first year where the blogosphere will have a profound effect on politics. (did you know you're reading a blog right now? yes!) and there's proof all around us that people on the internet are being heard, if you don't believe just sit and wait to see if they put 'the path to 9/11' docudrama on tonight or tomorrow night on ABC. it's really dispicable, just check out the trailer being used for the mini-series outside the US, which lists it as 'official true story'. here.