double-posting is so lame, but really my research and writing paper is even *more* lame. so i will favor you with an almost unbearably prescient entry from exactly three years ago, when i was just about to finish college.
i wrote:
"at some point...January, i think...i wrote here about how, as we get older, more and more things about our lives begin to be irrevocable, or at least practically so. this is one of them: i can't any more decide that i don't want to be a social scientist. i'm not going to wake up and decide that no, i really should have been pre-med. there are no take-backs on an investment of four years and immeasurable exhilaration, stress, worry and developmental turmoil. i don't have the will or the hundred and thirty grand to do this again...which is fine, as it turns out. mostly, i've done the things i wanted to do here.
there's just always going to be a part of me that wonders how the whole course of my life would be different if i had stayed a math major."
not entirely seriously: i wonder what the take-back rules are on an investment of six years and a bunch of opportunity costs?
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by day a political scientist! by night a significantly less intellectually responsible political scientist!
amelia.hoover@[university].edu
welcome to my blog. i'm a ph.d. candidate in political science at yale, a native midwesterner, and a happy californian. right now my research is about armed organizations and how they organize their violence against noncombatants, or fail to. i'm also interested in intentional community, gender in the academy, grad school pedagogy, fat politics, the religious left, my partner, our local farmers' market and idiosyncratic capitalization practices.