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| Temple of Zeus...what's left of it |
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| Temple of Hephaestos |
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| Acropolis in the background |
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| Syntagma Square sans protests |
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| sunset from one of the hills overlooking Athens |
25 February 2012
Athens
20 February 2012
new semester of classes
My Conflict professor, John (75ish year old retired British war vet), took us all for a coffee after class...loving the tradition of getting drinks with profs post-class. He still thinks Germans are the enemy which is also super-funny. More or less, he says stuff like this: "making a dirty bomb requires wrapping some nuclear waste with explosives and making it go boom"...in a British accent.
The SciPo library is not the place for me, so I'm going to pick up drinking coffee since it's cheaper at cafes than hot chocolate. Except whenever I drink coffee I feel like all the cells in my body are going to vibrate off and I can't do any useful work. Can't wait until my internship apps are in, regardless of whether I get the job or not. These apps are making me grumpy...so grumpy that I get into fights with bouncers at clubs over checking my jacket. Can't wait for the next unlucky Parisian who incurrs my wrath.
Got an email from SciPo today saying that my administrative registration or some jazz like that is incomplete and I'm not registered. Now I don't have access to my grades. I'm hoping that SciPo sends them to BC (I think they have to regardless of whether or not they let me see them on my espace etudiant) and I will be able to see them in a nice new updated transcript on my BC portal...then I can send this newer awesomer transcript to all my internships and they can be impressed that I did better at Sciences Po than I did at BC...ignoring the fact that this happens to most American exchange students and most of my classes are in English and that is my first language and school in France is much more conducive to actually learning instead of pretending to learn to get good grades.
Also I have 4 huge papers in the next month. ALSO I'm going to Greece (Athens, Santorini, Mykonos) and Turkey (Izmir and Istanbul) on Friday. Going for a week...super pumped to stay in a cool cave-hostel in Santorini...and do nothing but look at impossibly blue water (have you all seen Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants?)...so you may be in for some new pictures. I haven't actually used my camera since Morocco, I think.
Anyways, so much more to say but typing is boring me and I'll wait til I have cool pictures to show you.
SOMEBODY FIND ME AN INTERNSHIP.
The SciPo library is not the place for me, so I'm going to pick up drinking coffee since it's cheaper at cafes than hot chocolate. Except whenever I drink coffee I feel like all the cells in my body are going to vibrate off and I can't do any useful work. Can't wait until my internship apps are in, regardless of whether I get the job or not. These apps are making me grumpy...so grumpy that I get into fights with bouncers at clubs over checking my jacket. Can't wait for the next unlucky Parisian who incurrs my wrath.
Got an email from SciPo today saying that my administrative registration or some jazz like that is incomplete and I'm not registered. Now I don't have access to my grades. I'm hoping that SciPo sends them to BC (I think they have to regardless of whether or not they let me see them on my espace etudiant) and I will be able to see them in a nice new updated transcript on my BC portal...then I can send this newer awesomer transcript to all my internships and they can be impressed that I did better at Sciences Po than I did at BC...ignoring the fact that this happens to most American exchange students and most of my classes are in English and that is my first language and school in France is much more conducive to actually learning instead of pretending to learn to get good grades.
Also I have 4 huge papers in the next month. ALSO I'm going to Greece (Athens, Santorini, Mykonos) and Turkey (Izmir and Istanbul) on Friday. Going for a week...super pumped to stay in a cool cave-hostel in Santorini...and do nothing but look at impossibly blue water (have you all seen Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants?)...so you may be in for some new pictures. I haven't actually used my camera since Morocco, I think.
Anyways, so much more to say but typing is boring me and I'll wait til I have cool pictures to show you.
SOMEBODY FIND ME AN INTERNSHIP.
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