What I’ve gathered so far: Central Asia after the collapse of the Soviet Union tried to shun and shame the whole Russia/Soviet thing… by incorporating Soviet-era policies. That’s really brilliant.
i’ve been in school too long.
my favorite form of essay is the compare and contrast essay because when you’re 80% done and pissed off with the world, you can basically bitch on for 4 pages without any struggle. et voila! fin!
Ugh
I can’t tell if my professor has Asperger’s or if he’s just a giant asshole. Can you be an autistic asshole?
I’d make a good looking woman.
student evals
do professors even read the student evaluations? if so, i totally wrote “doesn’t have tenure but acts like he has tenure. bad idea. don’t put all of your eggs in one basket.”
what my security studies classes taught me
C. Asia -Pipedreams everywhere. Post 2014, The Silk Road, the whole nine yards.
S. Asia - Pakistan is basically the jilted ex girlfriend of the United States and needs some serious therapy time; India makes me question the efficacy of democracies
E. Asia - islands are stupid, it also needs long hours on the therapy couch, large multilateral institutions are ineffective but they provide photographic gems (like President Bush wearing a Peruvian Poncho at the APEC summit)
philosophy lessons from my economics professor
- prof: i don't think my girlfriend loves me
- j: oh, then why are you still with her?
- prof: beggars can't be choosers
- j: god those anti abortion people are so annoying
- prof: now, now, let's call them by their nice name, "pro lifers"
- mama: is georgetown (university) far from georgetown cupcakes?
- j: no it's only a few blocks away
- mama: good. i will send you texts for cupcakes then.
dev econ non sequiturs
- j: is there affirmative action for grad school? i mean, where are all the black people at georgetown? don't black people want to get into IR?
- prof: they're at harvard
- j: but GEORGETOWN AND SAIS are numbers 1 and 2 for IR according to Foreign Policy
- prof: yes, but the HAAARVARD brand is much more appealing regardless of how Georgetown and SAIS rank.
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