Here is a good analysis of Powell's presentation, with excellent sources, good point-analysis format that is pretty objective, and a quick easy read. We as Americans really should keep informed and ask critical questions about our foreign policy.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,889844,00.html

(Even though it's "The Guardian" and may be seen to be too leftish for some, it seems very objective and should be informative to those on both sides of the issue)
I'm finally done with my State Dept background check forms! Doesn't sound like a big thing? Well, I didn't think so either, but it's taken all of my (otherwise) free time for the past week. It was actually due Saturday (at latest Monday), but I've been spending all my time on it the last few days. It's not hard, but just extremely tedious - you have to basically describe accurately and in detail every bit of your life for the last 7 years. Who remembers their room number in 1996? I don't. Oh, and you have to give a name of a person to verify every piece of information you put down, and their current contact info. Thus a trivial task turns into a nightmare.

Anyways, today was also the end of add-drop for school. So here's my class list this semester:

International Monetary System

International Trade System

Applied Econometrics

China's Economic Reforms since 1978

Sound fun, huh? Today marks the end of the 2nd week of classes - I've had quite a bit of a hard time deciding on which classes to take - I've been sitting on at least 8 different classes - so now I'm way behind on everything. I guess I'm overcompensating for last semester's lack of class shopping which I ended up regretting.

Oh - today was a good test day. Amy kicked ASS on her GRE's today. Everyone sign her guestbook and congradulate her! I also re-took my CAL Chinese proficiency test today for the Hopkins Nanjing center application. 2 1/2 hours of toil.

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