For the sake that we never separate...

...post some blog entries!!

(I'm referencing sp1.) Anyway, I spent today thinking about whether I'll major in Japanese or French, and the first four days of this week I was seeing all of the great sides of the Japanese major: overall better teaching, the professors are more motivated to try to court people over to the major so that means they care more about the students (in this case, it does, anyway), a culture so fascinatingly separate in appearance from our own, a language so undeniably different from ours, an AMAZINGLY beautiful country (upon visiting both France and Japan for 2 weeks each, it was by far the more beautiful country just speaking visually), a (allow me to use the word again) fascinating drive to constantly get more modern (what does that even mean?), and did I mention my homestay mother was crying when she said goodbye to us after just spending the weekend with her as my host for a homestay? And the Tufts program is in the prefecture right next to the one where she lives, so I'll definitely be able to visit!

But today, my mood was totally French major. Easier to fulfill the requirements, I can actually take and fully comprehend all the courses in the language (most Japanese culture courses are in English here as they are in the Tufts program in Kanazawa, and the couple that aren't I'd have to go to Kanazawa in order to take, and I wouldn't get to take those courses until senior year), I can read in the language (to be able to read a Japanese newspaper takes 10 semesters at least of study. Or was it 10 years?) and that means bury myself in some good literature at a Paris café, the abroad program forces immersion unlike the Japanese program which doesn't so much (they put all the foreign students in a foreign-students dorm), the social structure isn't so rigid, France doesn't have that drive I see in Japan to get constantly more modern (you see how that could be a bad thing in Japan if I ended up living there?)...

I really don't know. I'd go for the triple major, and that's also another option (actually, right now, dropping math as a major would be really cool, I think, but my parents wouldn't like that), but what I need the most is time.    time    To relax, to think, and to be human. That's what I had freshman year, and that's what lacks really badly right now. That's what undergrad is for.