Bahh!! Damn Erica. Not really, she's absolutley brilliant! I love talking with her because she's one of the few people here that I can be nerdy with and talk about literature and French stuff.
She's working on getting her PhD in French literature and we were talking about that and again it just reminded me how much I love political science, specifically political theory. I just find it so facinating and would love to teach it in French, using both degrees.
However, I've always considered myself a more or lessp ractical person. Studying French, though not officially considered practical, turned out ot be a great boom professionally. However, while studying French, I knew I didn't want to study literature because it wasn't "practical," so I took the translation approach, hoping to find a job one day in the translation field.
I took a similar approach to my poly-sci studies. Choosing international relations as opposed ot political theory, even though political theory really interested me.
Now I'm going back and forth with what I want to do for graduate studies. Do I be pracitical and go for interpretation, or do I study politics and try to get some interpretation skills on the side?
After all, I still want to do inteerpretation. I love it, and translation. I also just love politics!!
damn, growing up bites sometimes.