And so I just checked my grades....

Mexican Literature: 3.9
Comparative US-Mexican Social Movements: 3.9!!

Padum -ching!

Hooray for me!!

...and I feel fine ( Read more... )

Okay, so I'm really beginning to dislike Carlos. As in Fuentes, that is ( Read more... )

Last week Congress passed an appropriations bill which overturns USDA ( Read more... )

And so I aced paper #2 as well! Ahem. =) Sure makes a girl feel good.

(Now the irony is that I get C's in all the classes in my major, and I seem to ace everything outside of my major)...perhaps it's time for a new calling...

So today in class the professor mentioned how the Maquiladora industry has had the unexpected effect of radicalizing and empowering young female Mexican workers. Unlike the management who wanted to tap into the "cheap labor" market and expected a "docile, subservient" staff of female workers, the exploitation in combination with the friendship ( Read more... )

ha! To all those folks in class who seem to think you have take the highest-level grammar classes to get a good grade, I say ha! Because I aced my Spanish paper - as in 100%! I always wonder if it's worth it to spend so much time trying to conjure up such 'profound ideas' to write a paper about, and if I should just take the easy way and write ( Read more... )

(..Or happy anti-valentines' day, as the case may be, if you're like me and think it's overrated!)

In any case, lots of love to all of you, especially all the single folk!

Argh, I just realized my post yesterday probably came off all wrong ( Read more... )

...all I can think of is Guatemala ( Read more... )