After two days of class I have attended everything I registered for, and I gotta say this will be a fairly chill semester so long as I keep up with my poli sci readings. I'm doing JPN 415 (Listening) and 425 (Translation) as pass/fail, so no pressure on me there at all. Plus, Ogasawara-sensei is teaching 415 which is awesome.
Both my poli sci courses will require a good deal of reading, and since I'm getting a letter grade for both I gotta not slack off. 375 is a law class focusing on constitutional law, and being my first class related to any kind of law it should be pretty valuable. Lots of reading, but no exams and some seemingly easy papers to write. 406 is my captone course for poli sci and the always awesome Mike Shapiro is teaching it. Basically we're going to look analyze cities via films, crime stories, music, essays, what have you. Easy enough.
The only class I really wish I had thought ahead about is my speech class that I'm using to fulfill my oral communication requirement. The class is storytelling, so I'll have to get up in front of the class and tell various kinds of stories like fables, folktales, biographies, etc. I realized at the last minute I should have probably taken this American studies course that would fulfill the requirement but not require speaking in front of lots of people. Oh well, I'll deal if I'm stuck with it.
Giving more and more thought to what to do after graduation. I'm basically acting as though JET will reject me at some point, which is simply a way to motivate me to find some backup options. One thing I've looked into is paralegal, which might serve as a good way to prepare me for law school. Plus it counts as a "real" job. The only difficulty I see there is having absolutely no experience in the field. We'll see how everything goes.
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