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Feb. 9th, 2004 05:32 pmSo. Frelling. Bored.
I've gotten a lot done, mind you -- 8 chapters in The Modern Price; hotel reservations for DragonCon (woohoo! AmeriSuites!); dates, registration, and hotel information for Cold Wars in Lancaster, PA, in addition to the National Security Decision Making Game details for said Cold Wars; and a brief conversation with a very under-the-weather father in IMs. But, with an hour left to go before class time, I'm still so. very. bored.
Six hours between classes is a tad excessive. I think, out of self preservation, I'm going to have to go home to kill some time. The previous weeks, I haven't had quite the dilemma -- I had books to gather from the library, research to do, professors to talk to. Now that the semester has rather settled in, I don't have as much to do; the books are already in from the library, and I've even started digging for journal articles and such for my senior seminar paper. Ugh. What an overachiever boredom has made me...
Speaking of senior sem... I discussed my topic with one of the professors today. He's rather intrigued and thinks that, if I do well enough, it might should go for publication. I'm very hesitant to publish, however: while I have certainly fashioned my program into a national security policy/foreign relations degree, I haven't had the military science background to give me a great deal of credibility toward the publication of said senior thesis. To be honest, I wish I could have gotten a military science degree in addition to my degree in Politics. Because of my medical discharge, combined with the continued deterioration of my knees, however, I was unable to enroll in any classes ROTC-related. I'm hoping that, with my background, my grades, and (hopefully) this senior thesis topic, I'll be able to land a position where I can later be referred to National Defense University, the Joint Military Intelligence College, or the Naval War College to study on the graduate level. Because these schools require a clearance, I have to jump through several hoops to even be considered for admission.
In addition to senior thesis, I will also be working on a term paper relating to the new defense priorities and the public policies attempting to meet the changing priorities. This, of course, ties in directly with my thesis topic, but will be a great deal shorter -- only 8 - 10 pages. I'll also be working on a 10 - 12 page paper for Statesmanship, profiling Pope John Paul II as a political leader and his influence on the collapse of Communism in Poland. It's an interesting topic, and I can only hope to do a decent job. I could have chosen from several statesmen -- Churchill, Ghandi, Washington, Lincoln, Adenauer. There's probably a few more the professor would have allowed, but they're not part of the course this semester. I chose Pope John Paul because (1) I had studied the effect of Solidarity in the peaceful downfall of Communism in Poland and (2) I thought that everyone else would be going for the other statesmen; few people tend to see past the religious aspect to see the Pope also as a statesman. Still, between this paper, the paper on new defense priorities, and my thesis -- I'm going to be really busy beginning around the middle of this month.
::checks the calendar::
Eeeeek!
Anyway... Going to wander in the general direction of class. Update later if anything interesting happens.
I've gotten a lot done, mind you -- 8 chapters in The Modern Price; hotel reservations for DragonCon (woohoo! AmeriSuites!); dates, registration, and hotel information for Cold Wars in Lancaster, PA, in addition to the National Security Decision Making Game details for said Cold Wars; and a brief conversation with a very under-the-weather father in IMs. But, with an hour left to go before class time, I'm still so. very. bored.
Six hours between classes is a tad excessive. I think, out of self preservation, I'm going to have to go home to kill some time. The previous weeks, I haven't had quite the dilemma -- I had books to gather from the library, research to do, professors to talk to. Now that the semester has rather settled in, I don't have as much to do; the books are already in from the library, and I've even started digging for journal articles and such for my senior seminar paper. Ugh. What an overachiever boredom has made me...
Speaking of senior sem... I discussed my topic with one of the professors today. He's rather intrigued and thinks that, if I do well enough, it might should go for publication. I'm very hesitant to publish, however: while I have certainly fashioned my program into a national security policy/foreign relations degree, I haven't had the military science background to give me a great deal of credibility toward the publication of said senior thesis. To be honest, I wish I could have gotten a military science degree in addition to my degree in Politics. Because of my medical discharge, combined with the continued deterioration of my knees, however, I was unable to enroll in any classes ROTC-related. I'm hoping that, with my background, my grades, and (hopefully) this senior thesis topic, I'll be able to land a position where I can later be referred to National Defense University, the Joint Military Intelligence College, or the Naval War College to study on the graduate level. Because these schools require a clearance, I have to jump through several hoops to even be considered for admission.
In addition to senior thesis, I will also be working on a term paper relating to the new defense priorities and the public policies attempting to meet the changing priorities. This, of course, ties in directly with my thesis topic, but will be a great deal shorter -- only 8 - 10 pages. I'll also be working on a 10 - 12 page paper for Statesmanship, profiling Pope John Paul II as a political leader and his influence on the collapse of Communism in Poland. It's an interesting topic, and I can only hope to do a decent job. I could have chosen from several statesmen -- Churchill, Ghandi, Washington, Lincoln, Adenauer. There's probably a few more the professor would have allowed, but they're not part of the course this semester. I chose Pope John Paul because (1) I had studied the effect of Solidarity in the peaceful downfall of Communism in Poland and (2) I thought that everyone else would be going for the other statesmen; few people tend to see past the religious aspect to see the Pope also as a statesman. Still, between this paper, the paper on new defense priorities, and my thesis -- I'm going to be really busy beginning around the middle of this month.
::checks the calendar::
Eeeeek!
Anyway... Going to wander in the general direction of class. Update later if anything interesting happens.