Skidmore, I love you but...

West Wing Quote of the Day (much funnier if you watch it)
Donna: "Mexico collapsed over the weekend."
Josh: "No, actually, just this morning"
Donna: "How does a country collapse on a Monday morning?"


That quote may or may not justify my entire immigration policy and politics class. Oh well.

Well today was a gloriously gloomy day in DC (pretty misty if I do say so myself). I did not do much to tell you the truth and I honestly don't know why I'm even making a post. Oh well.

Today I bought my books for the semester, one of which I'm really excited about. It's called Half the Sky and it's written by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sherly WuDunn. It's about turning oppression into opportunity for women (or so the cover says). It's also a PBS documentary series. Let me just tell you that the AU book store is two floors (sorry SkidShop they have you there) and I wish I could read all of the books regarding government, international politics, policy, conflict, and the like. What I'm really trying to get at is...there is a lot of variety here obviously in their political science program. However, as much as I would love to take all those classes with all those sweet books, I probably would not give up what I have in the Gov Department at Skidmore. They are just a bunch of such lovable people (including those who shall not be named *cough cough a certain expert on the EU cough cough*).

It was also today that I realized how truly sheltered Skidmore is. Let's be honest here. Skidmore is a small private liberal arts college full of peace loving, tree hugging, skinny jeaned hipsters/nerds/potheads and the occasional athlete. Most share the same political or rather personal view of the world. (This is just a stereotypical overview. There are OF COURSE a variety of people at Skidmore and I am in so many different social groups and I am thankful to all of them). So today while I was getting my ID card on the main campus, which is huge to me, I passed many different dorms. In which, there were a variety of different political viewpoints hanging from the windows. Do I need to be clearer? Okay there were multiple (or maybe just one) Romney/Ryan poster. I know what you're thinking. BD don't you know there are Republicans in the world! OF COURSE I DO. But Skidmore is sheltered in it's own littler bubble of liberality. There are even conservatives at Skidmore but they would be too scared to put such a poster in their window. You know being at Skid you can almost forget that there are people in the world that don't share your own opinion. Yet, I experience different opinions on the daily with my father (yes I've had to listen to Limbaugh).

Putting all these things aside, I know this semester will be life changing. I'm going through so many different emotions right now like... I'm so inexperienced compared to some of these people (job wise), what am I doing with my life (Grad school or Law school or no school), what do I want from my internship, to be social or antisocial, when will my passport get here etc. Those are just my unfiltered thoughts. It's like freshmen year all over again except we've all already gone through it so not everyone is as open and socially awkward. Oh well.

{Just as a note, I'm critically examining AU and comparing them to Skidmore so when I do go back and hopefully rejoin Senate I can bring about some more change. Like for example, a take out option from the dining hall. Today I went to get dinner and took it back to my room. All you have to do is get the container when you swipe in, leave your ID at the swipe counter, get your food, and as you leave pick up your ID. I don't know how we could do it but I'd like to know if the student body would be interested in something like that, granted we could work it out. Who knows? }