On My Own

Hi Everyone,

Well, this is the first week of my weekly check in. Hopefully, I'll do better on this year's resolution. I have not much to report on this week. So I will talk a liitle about what I've done this week.

Well, I found that the link I put up on Tuesday didn't work. I apologize for that. The point of that was to point out that I was excited about this. I knew that a lot of people in higher education wrote books and published editorials in newspapers. I just thought it only extended to professors in ivory-tower institutions like Harvard, Stanford, USC, and those places. I didn't expect that it would extend down to an institution like the one I attend. So that got me excited when I saw that.

Anyway, my parents were out of town (yes, I still live with them, even though I'm in college), and so I have been with my older brother. On Tuesday evening, he went to go join my parents back east, and I had to stay here on my own. I was here by myself for two nights. IT made me somewhat sad to be living by myself for the first time. Luckily, I wasn't all alone, I had my cat to keep me company. Unfortunately, she only seemed to want to keep me company when I had to do my homework.

Speaking of which, I had to do an interesting assignment for a political science course I have been taking this semester. It was a two-page paper, not an essay, but an "issue brief" about a subject. It had to do with what would happen, and what would happen to the international political scene. For research, I looked at a magazine called "Foreign Affairs." There was also a piece by Frontline shown to us in class. This episode came out a few years ago. It was interesting, because they say the recent political unrest in Iran is likely to have a lnger impact on the country than other such episodes in the past. It took my mind elsewhere to work on this the night I was alone.

Anyway, the semester is almost over now. I am, of course, liking the summer, however, I also find myself sad, somewhat. You see, I took a theater acting coures this semester. I already told you about the course. I enjoyed it immensely, and the professor was a big part of what made it work. The energy and attitude that she brought to it made the experience work.
It has been an experience. There are those classes that are experiences, not just you going back and forth, to and from class, mindlessly taking notes, studying for tests, and then going on to the next thing.

This was something that I put myself into, along with the others in the course. I had never thought about acting before. I had thought about it, but I could never concieve of myself doing it. I am too self concious. Well, this helped me let go of that, if only for brief times, and connected with the people just as mush, maybe more than I usually would. So I visited the woman's office hours about what I could do.

What sort of thing would I do about this? Well, there's another acting class next fall. I think I'll take that. See ya there, and see you all next week.

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