What Happend to Time!!???

Since school has started I seem to have lost something very dear to me.....time. I don't know what has happened...even more disturbing to me is I could have missed the House season premier and not even known!!! It seems that I have more papers, projects and over all reading to do in all of my classes this semester than in others. I have 3 papers due in two weeks!! Ok, I'm going to try and stop whining long enough to tell you about my classes. My first class is Foreign Policy. It's been kind of a let down so far. The professor also teaches at HCC. The good thing is that means this class shouldn't be too hard, but we are going on the 3rd week of school and have not had a real class yet not to mention a syllabus. (Oh wait I did say I wasn't going to whine anymore didn't I?? OOPS.) My next class I enjoy a lot!!! It's Social Policy. It seems like it will be a really really cool class! We are reading a book called Class Matters. (While finding a link to this book I saw another site by The New York Times, which is referenced in this book a lot. It will give you a really good idea about the book). My third class is Hindi. The professor is super nice and very, very, very (I really can't say very enough) supportive of students who are not accustomed to the sounds of the Hindi language. It's a far cry from taking Spanish in PI with all the Hispanic kids dying laughing as I was reading for the class. Thanks to PI, this has been a very hard to get over. My fourth class is Public Administration. The professor is very nice. She is also a high school History teacher. (Ok this is really where I'm going to break my no whining statement)...My fifth class is The Politics of Developing 3rd World Countries. I was looking forward to this class. The operative word being was. This class is a HUGE let down. The teacher is a Grad student that gets his notes directly from the book. He reads his notes word for word on a sheet of paper and loses his place ALL THE TIME. He will say the same sentence about 3 times and at the slowest pace imaginable (and with long pauses so he can find where he is at in his notes) and then spend five minutes explaining an easy concept. He did this when he was explaining to us that (get this) Children from poor countries have more cases of malnutrition then rich countries! He even went as far as to draw a graph for five minutes!!! But there is a silver lining to this...a guy told me that his friend took it last semester and said that it was an easy A.

Ok moving on to how y'all can help me. This is one of my papers...and I have no clue who to write about. I have an article by Time Magazine on Hillary Clinton...but to be honest I don't think she has much of a chance. Here is the info about the paper. We have a presidential election coming up in 2008 and the candidates are scrambling already. Your policy project during this semester is to (1) pick one person with a realistic chance of becoming a nominee, and whom you might support, (2) pick an issue of social policy which is almost certain to be debated in the 2008 campaign; and (3) write a memo to your candidate preparing him or her for the election campaign concerning this issue. You should pick one of these issue areas (and only one of these): immigration, health, income/poverty, race/gender/affirmative action, education, the federal budget, or biology and policy. This is really a research project that is due at the end of the semester but I need to turn in a proposal for this project. (On Monday September 19, turn in a “Resource Base Project.” Include a one-page statement of who your candidate is likely to be and why your issue is an important one; include five tables, graphs or charts on this issue; include copies of two New York Times or Washington Post articles on this topic since the semester began; include a description of one major law and one major court case in this area. This is worth 5% of your course grade). I am really looking forward to this paper. I think it is a great way to get people (me especially) ready for the election. I personally would really like to focus on Poverty and its effect on education provided there is enough info linked to a candidate. I really think that besides helping me for this project that this is a good discussion for my blog. Who do you think is a good realistic candidate?