I am really unsure now if I am good at this.

I know I am interested in this, but I feel like so many more people in this program are better informed about policy and quantitative analysis. I feel like I am better with ideas and theories (and stirring up contradictions) - and not facts. I feel like a kid. I miss linguistics and I miss anthropology :( [I can't get a dual masters at Pitt, because they refuse their undergrads in graduate school.] I'd have to go elsewhere. Maybe I'll use my electives (my two entire electives) to pick up two anthropology classes. I feel like that is how my mind works, although it won't land me a job.
I don't know if I trust myself to make any group decisions for policies. I don't know if I should be having any affect anywhere. I don't know if anyone should be trying to have an affect anywhere in general. I hear something in class and then I agree and then it conflicts in my mind.

1. Stop further deaths from slaughter, disease and hunger by providing
troops to (a) ensure delivery of humanitarian assistance to the various
camps for refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) within
the country; (b) protect the camps from the various militias; and (c) set up a
no-fly zone and provide aerial reconnaissance.
2. Carry out (1), but also provide troops to help police a ceasefire agree-
ment while talks continue between the government and rebels.
3. Carry out (1) and (2), and ensure the resettlement of IDPs and refugees.
4. Carry out (1), (2) and (3), and provide troops to help manage the transi-
tion period after the government/janjaweed and SLA/JEM conclude a
political agreement.
-taken from "Responsibility to Protect and the Responsibility in Darfur"

Some days I am very sure of being in this program and then some days I think I'm in over my head and the very idea of foreign assistance seems absurd.




It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them.
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher