I'm writing this post from Ho Chi Minh City (aka Saigon), Vietnam, where I have decided to spend a weekend. And more importantly, where we IDS students first began our adventures as we read Graham Greene and asked ourselves "do we really get to read novels in this cirriculum?". Being here, and being almost exactly one year into GW's program, it's hard not to think about the beginning of last year when we all met. Speaking as one of the few people who hadn't really traveled much before school, it's kind of hard to conceive all the stuff that has happened between then and now. It also makes me wonder if our new class of IDS students will end up having to read the same things we did. Methinks not.
Now, in the spirit of the upcoming academic year, I will leave my fellow IDSers with a multiple choice question.
Which type of American is it better to be?
A) Quiet (Graham Greene)
B) Angry (Toby Keith)
C) Ugly (William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick)
D) Well-Meaning-And-Culturally-Sensitive-But-Also-Equipped-With-The-Technical-Skills-To-Enact-Meaningful-Change-In-A-Way-That-Incorporates-Participatory-Economic-Development.
If you answered D, you're...wrong. Nobody can save the world with that many hyphens.
I'll see you all soon, but not soon enough.
-Jarrett
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I lean towards A...until I get 2 beverages then I go D...with 2 more I skip B and go straight for C.
Why box yourself in? What are you, a mime?
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