Weeks 8-11

Since I have gotten myself pretty far behind, due to a barrage of term-papers and assignments that I have fought through over the past 4 weeks, I have decided to skip in time a bit, up to week 12 I believe. The four weeks in-between were mostly comprised of me honing my weakly work schedule. It is so interesting to look back at how overburdened I felt ding the weekly assignments, ONLY, during the first half of semester one of this thing we call a masters program. But now, it is a walk in the park. I don't have a care in the world on weeks that I only have to read ~400 pages of content and around from 7-10 pages of informed discussion/reflection content. Yeah, that is a per-week estimate, for anyone who might be interested in this program at some point. By the way, I would still fully recommend it. It is worth it. Ooh, and a rundown of some grades that I received during the time skip that I am about to embark you upon. For my Comparative Politics Midterm I got a 93. For Conflict Management's midterm I got a 87.5. Although this is not the "A" I had hoped for, I am still pleased, as I have seen this as by far the most demanding course of this semester. 

I also must share this link to an eye-opening documentary that covers the global water shortage crisis that is emerging. It looks at it from many views, including environmental, political, and as a means to assert structural violence on the poor. You need to watch this. I guarantee you will learn a thing or many. The bad thing is that it is not free. You must order it or find it at a library (cough it is on thepiratebay.org cough), but it is well worth the price. You can find it here:

http://www.bluegold-worldwaterwars.com/