Off topic: I feel like I'm getting better at this whole "thinking-on-my-feet" teaching thing. The last few weeks I've had successful classes that included totally spontaneous parts of the lesson.
I came home and looked at more programs. I think I'm looking at Public Policy/Public Affairs programs. Sometimes I'm just astonished by the cost of school in the US. Even as an international student, attending school here is cheaper than in the states - even in LONDON. Ok, granted I haven't done all the math. But, after the conversion, tuition at LSE is $35k; at University of Chicago it's over $46. It's possible that living in London is $10k more a year than in Chicago but I'm not convinced. At the Hertie School of Governance it's somewhere between 13 and 25 thousand euros for the whole program. In Italy, it's 8k. My parents were wonderful to take on such a big financial burden for my undergraduate education, because I can't fathom doing that for grad school. I guess I've never been that convinced of my success after school that I'd take on so much under my own name. Then again, maybe if I had more financial risk riding on my success, I'd push myself a bit harder. Who knows? But it also doesn't seem like a wise way to find out.
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