I <3 my major.

My group had a presentation today in US Foreign Policy, so I had to do an insane amount of reading today. However, I did a week's worth of reading in a little over two hours. This puts my USFP workload in perspective... it looks bad, but it really isn't. Besides, it's incredibly interesting. Nonetheless, I feel like an idiot in that class. I don't seem to get the professor's questions. (For example, he asked where it had been said that the Japanese had done something, and I was like "Um... our reading?" Apparently the correct answer was "the textbooks used in Japanese schools.") I want to talk to him and ask what I should do to get caught up with the rest of the class in terms of extracurricular knowledge... but I'm sort of afraid of him. He's brilliant, and I barely participate in that class because I am quite afraid of his opinion.

It's encouraging, though, to realize that despite my angst, I'm (probably?) in the right major.

I have been dreaming of Berlin. In my dreams, my AU friends are there taking everything in with me. I'm a little nervous about going to a new university (well, not new - I have been at die Freie Universitaet before... hee... I feel so cool saying that) without them. However, welcome to the real world. Gotta get out sooner or later. I want to spend a year, but I'm not sure if that's realistic.

Life seems to be settling down a little bit. The year is winding down. I've already registered for next semester, and I'm taking such fantastic classes as American Defense & Security Policy, International Economic Policy, Honors China, Japan, & the US, Honors World Politics (groan), and Microeconomics (groan). I would like to find a way to throw German Conv & Comp II in there, but we'll see... that would require overcoming quite a few barriers, like the fact that I haven't taken the prereq. Heheh.

I'm so excited about fall of '05 being over.

(And about writing EVER SO MUCH on Guardian!)