I think that this blog will still be geared towards links that I find interesting a perhaps some comments on them. I have since left France..... I sorrowfully departed Strasbourg in December 2008 by way of Paris. It was very bittersweet to leave. Mostly bitter. France was a wonderful year and a half and I'm sure I will be returning again. On returning however, I admit that I do greatly appreciate the helpful 1-800 numbers, the extended hours of opening, the stores opened on sundays, and general pro-customer service attitudes that we have in the US. :)
Since then, I have graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in International Relations with a concentration in Europe and International Political Economy (the relationship between world politics and the world economy). I was also accepted into The Elliott School of The George Washington University in Washington DC. My degree is a Masters in International Trade and Investment Policy. At this point I am more interested in the Investment part and am planning to concentrate in International Business. Since I am doing international business, I was considering doing an MBA as well... but since I don't have that much "real world" experience, I am afraid that I will be considered "too educated" when job searching. Plus it will be another year of student loans. :P
Not that I am currently looking for a job. When I was apartment hunting in DC in July, I received a job offer at a federal defense contracting company. yay! I never really saw myself in the defense sector, but I actually like the world. My title is "Associate Program Analyst" which basically means that I am helping our government clients get the funding that the requested from the federal budget all the way down the line. Lots of excel stuff, lots of numbers, and lots of complicated government bureaucracy. :P I would say that I do a lot of accounting in my job, but government accounting is completely different from anything you would see in the GAAP.
SO. That is a lot of changes since last October. That is what I am doing these days. I'm stretched rather thinly between work and school, but love both of the experiences and wouldn't know which one to reduce.
I'll be posting soon a bunch of videos and links that I have found quite interesting lately. Many of them will be political and economic in nature- but all hugely relevant our society. I, in all likelihood, will be posting some pop culture stuff/random interesting stuff here as well.
Stay tuned! :)
