Update for Everyone IV - Hungover

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Seeing all of my semester school friends go home for spring break doesn't help my motivation to study for finals.

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I got to meet Chris Christie today. Even though I'm not a fan of his policies, it's really easy to see why people considered him a frontrunner for President before all of the bridge stuff. He comes off as really natural when you speak to him.

Also, after around 20 years of living in this country on a greencard, my aunt's getting citizenship next week so she can vote against Trump.

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In admittedly less dramatic news, today I taught my third round of sections, and for the first time I can say it went reasonably well. Far from perfect, mind you (I have that one class that where nobody ever participates and that one where they participate too much and kind of anarchically), but decent. I'm starting to be less stressed out about it.

Out of curiosity, which class?

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In admittedly less dramatic news, today I taught my third round of sections, and for the first time I can say it went reasonably well. Far from perfect, mind you (I have that one class that where nobody ever participates and that one where they participate too much and kind of anarchically), but decent. I'm starting to be less stressed out about it.

Out of curiosity, which class?

Intro to Comparative Politics.

Is it with Thies this quarter? I had him last Fall, and found that class really interesting.

Hey guys slept a little bit because it's about to start getting really bad. Currently the winds are at 40 mph gusting to around 60 mph in some OF the storms we didn't get a chance to board all the Windows so that is our biggest concern is thwm blowing out.

Good luck. When I was in the Northeast, we could barely handle a Category 1. Can't imagine what that's like...

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Apparently, there's a writer on our student newspaper who got married over the summer. I don't know him very well, but it's so weird that people my age, and are in a similar place in life as me, are already getting married.

In admittedly less dramatic news, today I taught my third round of sections, and for the first time I can say it went reasonably well. Far from perfect, mind you (I have that one class that where nobody ever participates and that one where they participate too much and kind of anarchically), but decent. I'm starting to be less stressed out about it.

Out of curiosity, which class?

Intro to Comparative Politics.

Is it with Thies this quarter? I had him last Fall, and found that class really interesting.

Wait, you're an undergrad at UCLA? Awesome! What's your major? If you're planning to take more poli sci courses maybe you'll have me as a TA some day.

Yeah, it's Professor Thies teaching it. He's also my graduate advisor, which is part of why I wanted to start with this class. And I also found that he has a great teaching style.

I'm a PoliSci/Econ major, and I'm planning on concentrating in Comparative Politics, so maybe I'll see you. I did find him to be a better professor than a lot of other people said, but that might've been because I spend too much of time on Atlas

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I'm not sure if there's a worse feeling academically than screwing up an exam which you studied really hard for and was feeling really confident about...