Just in time for me to come home and render this irrelevant (this is what happens when you take 17 credits and work 3 jobs, things like blogs and sleep get neglected!), here’s an update on what I’ve been up to for the past 4 months …

Courses in a nutshell:

Multicultural U.S. Literature was interesting but basically a cakewalk, which was what I thought it would be so no problems there.

Arabic as a second language is for masochists. I’m set to take another 3 semesters of it. Yay.

Intro to International Relations was amazing, and basically covered everything that I was originally interested in when I chose my major, so real yay for that.

Intro to Sociology was fine, easy work and very nit-picky professor pretty much evened each other out.

Environmental Science was very cool, and I got to do my final project on the Kyoto Protocol … you can take the girl out of the wonky political science/law classes, but you can’t take the policy geek out of the girl

Jobs in a nutshell:

Early on this semester, I started peer tutoring at Trinity, meaning I tutor other Trinity students in classes I’ve already taken. Signed up mainly to be an English/humanities tutor, ended up almost exclusively tutoring math because that’s what they needed. The fact that I actually despise math doesn’t seem to bother them, and they are paying me, so that’s OK on balance.

Mid-semester I started also working with TU’s athletics department, mainly doing things like videotaping basketball games, because I needed to supplement my tutoring hours so as to avoid bi-weekly paychecks under $20. All of those extra hours became slightly trickier to juggle towards the end of the semester, because …

At the beginning of November, I started an internship with the Department of Commerce! Unpaid, but still basically awesome because I’m accruing some nice resumé material while working in a fun office with cool people. I’ll be continuing with the internship into next semester, and should be getting credit for it as well, which means I’ll be breaking my personal record and taking 19 credits. Caffeine donations are always welcome.

House/Life in a nutshell:

Somewhere in the middle of all this I’ve been living in a house off campus, which equals making my own food (yay!), living with my three awesome roommates (who I adore), and having free laundry and and a couch for people to crash on and fun stuff like that, so basically I’m a happy person.

I’ve also been doing my usual non-school stuff; going out with my girlfriends, doing Aikido and my karate practice, etc etc. Despite it all being somewhat insane and hectic and occasionally a bit overwhelming, I wouldn’t give any of it up; as long as I get some sleep, some coffee, and the occasional vacation, I think I’m set. And so we go!