You can give me guns and politics, and I'll just make a mess of it...
So, it’s been a good while since I’ve updated. My job is going smoothly, making some meager money, but money nonetheless. My Comparative Politics class is very fun and informative (not looking forward to my newspaper project, though) and today I started a new class called Scope and Methods of Political Science. Basically we utilize statistics, economics, and science to interpret and create politically relevant analysis of information. It’s pretty scary, the Professor takes no bullshit and is very strict with his class. I mean, one of the first things he said when he walked in was "This class has a high fail rate. This class has a high fail rate." This is what I thought college would’ve been like all along. I told myself, "I will not fail."
I feel like I’ve passed on some great opportunities my past two years here at college. I wasn’t very active, didn’t do much with groups, never did anything with SGA, didn’t care too much about internships and didn’t really have high career or academic goals. Thanks to watching other students succeed where I should be it has given me motivation to push as hard as I can these next two years to get as much done as I can to make myself look good and make my future aspirations even clearer. Right now I’m fiddling with my major just to be sure it’s where I want to be, I’m going to go see advising on Thursday since there are now two other majors that seem more useful than mine. However, when I looked through the new course catalog I find that they are all VERY similar and it angers me because it should be made into one so as to avoid confusion. But, whatever. I’m also leaning towards a second minor in philosophy to help me with logic, arguments, and basically making me even more well-rounded. I’m just not sure if Economics or something else would be better suited to me.
A while back my friends had a Taco Party for my birthday and it was really bad ass. They made tacos for me, they made me a cake (which was delicious), and we all sat around and played Rock Band. It was uber fun. Weird, after writing so many papers and discussions over the past few weeks whenever I write something long I feel like I should be citing sources.
I’ve also become Bianca’s secretary. It’s pretty sweet. I’m also on top of all the stuff she’s got to do, details, and keeping her on schedule/track…at least most of the time. I do suck sometimes. So, she’s going to have to hire me pretty soon and I’ll have two jobs!
I’ve got a cardiologist appointment tomorrow afternoon after my class. I’m a bit nervous and worried. I’ve been having chest pangs and muscle spasms for like the past 8-9 months. I hope it’s nothing serious, I’m sure if it was I wouldn’t be typing this right now.
I miss my family a lot. I get to see them all next month (hopefully) for my niece’s birthday party. And it’ll be the first time a lot of my family gets to meet Bianca. I’m ecstatic. My little brother is going into his senior year of high school and I want him to start looking for schools in North Carolina because I’m afraid he won’t be able to come back to Florida in time to become eligible for Bright Futures and everything. I don’t want to force college on him but I just want him to have a better future than he would if he didn’t go to college, it’ll make him and my family a lot happier if I’m not the only one to go to college. I wish him luck.
I want to do so much these coming years. I need to run for SGA Senate and win a seat, get an internship at the Office of Global Perspectives, start my undergraduate thesis, conduct research under a professor at my school or my own, try to get onto the President’s Leadership Council, become more active in my clubs and possibly (if I have time somewhere) start a club of my own.
I’m also not sure if I want to join the Foreign Service when I get out of college or go to graduate school…and if I do I would ideally want to go to NYU or Columbia. They have amazing international relations schools…I’ve been tinkering with the dream of possibly becoming an intelligence analysis for the CIA…but I dunno if that’s selling out to the Machine or not…I’ve got some grappling to do.
So many aspirations and so little time…college really should be longer.
...A picture will survive, so smile and look alive...
I feel like I’ve passed on some great opportunities my past two years here at college. I wasn’t very active, didn’t do much with groups, never did anything with SGA, didn’t care too much about internships and didn’t really have high career or academic goals. Thanks to watching other students succeed where I should be it has given me motivation to push as hard as I can these next two years to get as much done as I can to make myself look good and make my future aspirations even clearer. Right now I’m fiddling with my major just to be sure it’s where I want to be, I’m going to go see advising on Thursday since there are now two other majors that seem more useful than mine. However, when I looked through the new course catalog I find that they are all VERY similar and it angers me because it should be made into one so as to avoid confusion. But, whatever. I’m also leaning towards a second minor in philosophy to help me with logic, arguments, and basically making me even more well-rounded. I’m just not sure if Economics or something else would be better suited to me.
A while back my friends had a Taco Party for my birthday and it was really bad ass. They made tacos for me, they made me a cake (which was delicious), and we all sat around and played Rock Band. It was uber fun. Weird, after writing so many papers and discussions over the past few weeks whenever I write something long I feel like I should be citing sources.
I’ve also become Bianca’s secretary. It’s pretty sweet. I’m also on top of all the stuff she’s got to do, details, and keeping her on schedule/track…at least most of the time. I do suck sometimes. So, she’s going to have to hire me pretty soon and I’ll have two jobs!
I’ve got a cardiologist appointment tomorrow afternoon after my class. I’m a bit nervous and worried. I’ve been having chest pangs and muscle spasms for like the past 8-9 months. I hope it’s nothing serious, I’m sure if it was I wouldn’t be typing this right now.
I miss my family a lot. I get to see them all next month (hopefully) for my niece’s birthday party. And it’ll be the first time a lot of my family gets to meet Bianca. I’m ecstatic. My little brother is going into his senior year of high school and I want him to start looking for schools in North Carolina because I’m afraid he won’t be able to come back to Florida in time to become eligible for Bright Futures and everything. I don’t want to force college on him but I just want him to have a better future than he would if he didn’t go to college, it’ll make him and my family a lot happier if I’m not the only one to go to college. I wish him luck.
I want to do so much these coming years. I need to run for SGA Senate and win a seat, get an internship at the Office of Global Perspectives, start my undergraduate thesis, conduct research under a professor at my school or my own, try to get onto the President’s Leadership Council, become more active in my clubs and possibly (if I have time somewhere) start a club of my own.
I’m also not sure if I want to join the Foreign Service when I get out of college or go to graduate school…and if I do I would ideally want to go to NYU or Columbia. They have amazing international relations schools…I’ve been tinkering with the dream of possibly becoming an intelligence analysis for the CIA…but I dunno if that’s selling out to the Machine or not…I’ve got some grappling to do.
So many aspirations and so little time…college really should be longer.
...A picture will survive, so smile and look alive...