learning: it is hit and miss!

HIT: i saw richard goldstone speak last night, due to the efforts of our director who is a goddess. yes, my excitement about this makes me a legal nerd: richard goldstone. you lead the prosecution for international criminal tribunal in yugoslavia, and that was your first experience prosecuting, your first experience with the region at all. nelson mandela was telling you, son i'm about to amend our constitution to get you to go and take this job. when you were under pressure to accept from both madiba and your wife, you knew you had no choice. and you learned as you went. you indicted karadic fourteen years ago. you watched milosevic die in prison. you showed those assholes. i don't care if you can't pronounce srebrenica, you're my hero anyways, ok?

MISS: today a professor found it necessary to define the words "war" and "land mines" to us. basic concepts, we can has them?!? it was a little patronizing, i guess.

HIT: the all too short 6 week state sovereignty (international law) class. one of the lecturers, timothy longman from vassar is like The Rwanda Guy and knows so much, he is full of insight. the wits lecturer is excellent as well, so it is win all around. i wish the class was twice as long. we did our evaluations and we all agreed: awesome. more please.

MISS: said evaluations are "focus groups", facilitated by evalutors who are like ad agency ladies. it is like what gatorade might use to try out new flavors or something, very corporate process. kind of made me feel like a consumer and not a student, but a lot of things do these days. because it is the case.