Ecuador is go! Well, I still have to apply hah, but the credits will fit in quite nicely in my schedule thing. When I get back I'd only have 3 classes left. Easy breasy! Already asked one prof for a letter of recommendation ( Read more... )

So there's another study abroad program I'm interested in (*_*) This one is a maymester (May 11-June 4) in Ecuador, about environmental politics and conflict resolution. Would fit nicely into my credit schedule. It's not very expensive either - $2,000 includes hotel, food, and domestic transportation on top of course materials. Really I'd only have ( Read more... )

Test was... a success, I think? Prof grades fast so I should know how I did. Pretty sure I got an A, but there were some triksy multiple choice Q's ( Read more... )

As much as tests and papers can be a burden, as I sit here in a cafe, book in lap, notebook and laptop on desk, pen in hand, I realize just how much I love my field of study and learning about it. I'm looking at tomorrow's test as a way to prove to myself that I know thisAnyway, here is an adorable photo taken of me and another girl at Korean BBQ ( Read more... )

So I'm reading up on Japanese NGOs in English, and there are of course several Japanese terms that come up. One was "Shimin katsudou wo saseru seido wo tsukuru-kai," (Association for Institutionalizing Citizen Activity) and I wondered if I would be able to write it in Japanese myself....

市民活動をさせる制度を作る会

And I TOTALLY could. I win!

"Your LiveJournal is 100% saturated with the basic rantings of an anime/j-rock obsessed teenager liek kawaii hotness Dir En Grey OMGZness lololz. =^.^= Since 9 of 10 posts are liek i cant believe toshiya is so effin' hot omgz omgz!!!" - Some chick on facebook

LOLFunny, because I haven't mentioned anime a single time in this journal, and the one ( Read more... )

So I got a ONE-FREAKING-HUNDRED on my Comparative Political Regimes midterm, a 93 on that Locke essay, a 92 on my International Affairs midterm (and I took that shit sick as a dog and really expected a low B or high C), and no major grades in Global Issues yet but I've made A's on all of the quizzes.

I own this major.

Also, SEXY BABIES!!!


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So the school paper is SHIT lately. Someone wrote a crappy article about cell phones and how too many people are talking on them all the time (??) and included this little Pulitzer Prize winner of a comment ( Read more... )

PS changing majors from International Business to International Affairs. For sure. Eff this math shit ( Read more... )

Here's part of my (take home) History of Japanese Language midterm (needs citing ( Read more... )