Today's blog post brought to you by: the snow storm!

(I should be tutoring today 9AM - 4PM but the classes were cancelled due to the storm.)

Happy New Year! 2018 has been busy!

I love this quarter's classes even more than last quarter's! I am in a Spanish class reading Don Quixote and discussing how it influenced contemporary Latin American writers. I am also in a translation class where I get to read about translation theory, do my own creative translations, and listen to guest speakers who come and talk about their work as translators. Checkout the website where I have to post my own translation work each week: https://exploratorytranslation.wordpress.com/. You'll also see the varied and interesting work my classmates do. Lastly, I am in a Harris School of Public Policy, Public Policy Lab. I am working with a team of eight other students to come up with governance and finance models for the Our Great Rivers project. Let me say it again, I LOVE my classes. I am getting to do the fun, whimsical stuff and also practical, real world stuff. I go to class from 11AM - 6PM on Tuesdays. I actually have to run a half mile across campus and had to get permission to leave the translation class early because the class times overlap. It is a LONG day but then I only have class 11AM-1:30PM on Thursdays.

Mondays and Wednesday I work on coursework and/or my thesis. Fridays I work at Experimental Station. Saturdays I tutor high schoolers and Sundays I meet with my Public Policy Lab team to work on our assignments.

This week (deadline is Feb 15) and last week I have been working on cover letters and resumes for summer internships. I am applying to have UChicago fund an internship where I would get to keep working on the Our Great Rivers project with the local nonprofit Metropolitan Planning Council. I am also applying to the Brookings Institution's Center for Universal Education. They are a think tank in DC. That one is a paid internship. I am also applying for three internships that only MAPH students can apply for: editorial intern for the Art Institute of Chicago, curatorial intern for the Chicago History museum, and manuscripts and archive intern for the Newberry Library. WISH ME LUCK.

I haven't been able to get out and run because of the snow so lots of yoga video time.

It has been challenging to juggle work, thesis, and school work. I think my thesis work is going well. I am not always meeting deadlines but I am getting the work in and getting positive feedback. I scored the thesis advisor I was hoping to work with because I think she is amazing.

I hope you are all doing wonderfully! Nana's sweaters are keeping me warm and all of your letters are tacked up in my "office" for me to look at fondly.

See you in March :)

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