I desperately want to study abroad in China for a year but I just had a meeting with my advisor and she said it would be more likely that I could for a semester or summer. That is far too short! How am I supposed to submerge myself into another culture in only 2 or 4 months?I found a program I really like from the State Department. It focuses ( Read more... )

Everyone has posted about going back to school this week I figure I might as well conform ( Read more... )

I just read an incredibly powerpoint for my minorities in America class and it covered genecide. It was the most depressing fourty minutes of my life. It seemed like it would never end. By the end I was very upset but the teacher provided a "ray of hope for humanity" by briefly covering Gandhi, Rosa Parks, MLK, King Gustav V, schiendler, Nelson ( Read more... )

I have hit the ground running. I will add more later

1. DRINK​ING BUDDY​ OF THE YEAR ( Read more... )

is not all it's cracked up to be

I found out a while back that my dad no longer plans on helping me pay for school. I hope to squeeze a degree out in two years. I'll bet it's going to be three though. So I have a question for you: (Which requires some explanation:I am not eligible for financial aid until April, when I get a new tax return.) Since my dad is no longer going to pay ( Read more... )

I wish there was a way to reseal soda cans. You get ripped off if you buy the smaller ones and chris and I don't drink soda often enough to prevent a 2 liter from going flat. And when I get about a quarter of the way through a can, I don't want soda anymore.

Yep, my life is full of problems like this.

So I woke up today at 5 am because I am babysitting Keilan and Whitney has to leave to go to work at 6. He is now sleeping. We are at Chris' parents house. (If we're here I don't have to watch Lucy and Chris can meet us for lunch.) I got a little spit-up on...not so hot. But I have to drop him off with deric around one so that I can be at work by ( Read more... )

I want to go to Washington D.C. for the inauguration and I am trying to convince chris that we will be able to afford it. I really want to go.