Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Academia

Memorable Papers I Wrote in College:
-Animal Imagery as Mimetic Metaphor in Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob le Flambeur and Le Samourai
-Brain Washing and Propaganda in Maoist China
-French reception of Wiemar cinema in the interwar period (not yet written)

Majors I Could Have Done But Never Tried:
-Linguistics
-Political Science
-Anthropology
-Psychology
-Neuroscience
-English Language
-English Literature
-Classical Studies
-Scandinavian Studies (emphasis in Humanities)
-European Studies
-Geography
-Economics
-Philosophy

Languages I Wish I Studied:
-German
-Danish
-Finnish
-Dutch
-Japanese
-Mandarin
-Latin
-Classical Greek
-Hebrew

Graduate Schools I Wish I Could Get Into:
-Johns Hopkins
-Yale
-Northwestern
-Berkeley
-Cambridge

Options for Post-Graduate Life:
-Internship (USA, Canada, or Europe)
-Volunteer work or something similar in Africa
-Mission
-Grad School
-Work (to fund one of the above options)
-Psychosomatic Reintegration?

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Things I worry about on a daily basis:
-Graduate School
-The GRE
-Cleanliness
-Health
-My spinal cord
-My lack of motivation towards school work
-My immediate future
-My distant future

Things I worry about on a weekly basis:
-Cleaning my car
-Laundry
-My bank account
-Cleaning my house
-My eyesight
-Chores and errands
-Groceries
-Sleep

Things I worry about on a monthly basis:
-My gas tank
-My future between the immediate and the distant
-My sanity