Today I start my final semester of grad school. It will be full of thesis lamentations, desperate job searching and (almost certainly) way too much TV watching, followed by complaints that somehow I don't have enough time to do any work. Looking forward to it.
Mostly, I'm looking forward to the class on Politics and the Media that I'm taking with Paul Begala. Yup. This guy. My goal for the semester is to work up enough courage to (a) talk and (b) get him to sign my copy of The War Room. If you're not into politics, imagine being into sports and taking a class with...let's switch to movies. It would be like being into movies and taking a class with Roger Ebert. In other words, awesome.
Another goal for this semester is to apply to at least one job per week and to fully enjoy being a student. Because I remember the first year out of undergrad, thinking I had not appreciated how amazing being a student really is. You work with little to no pressure, there are very few real consequences for being unprepared and no one expects you to even be conscious on the weekends. I am taking full advantage of this this time around.
One more goal: work on finishing my DC checklist. There are all kinds of places around the city I have been meaning to visit but haven't put the effort into making happen. For example: more than 5 minutes at the Vietnam Memorial, Spike's food truck (it's kosher!), a live Political Gabfest, tour of the C-SPAN offices. If this list/the rest of this blog had left it unclear...I am a nerd.
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