January 2012
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December 2011
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MIB Desiderata
Penned by a fellow MIB, Mike S.! Absolutely amazing.
Go placidly amid the Hall of Flags, and remember what peace there may be in the library. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with everyone in your finance group. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the MALDs; they too have their story. Avoid career strategy groups, they are vexations to the...
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1st semester of grad school: COMPLETE
After a long and busy semester, yesterday I took my last final and finished my first semester of grad school. As we would say in Egypt, الحمد لله.
My first semester classes consisted of:
DHP-D220 Processes of International Negotiation
DHP-D263 The Arabs and their Neighbors
EIB-B200 Foundations in Financial Accounting and Corporate Finance
EIB-B207 Financial Statement Management
EIB-B238...
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Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons;they are vexatious to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you...
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November 2011
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October 2011
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Life at Fletcher
So the Fall semester is now in full swing and my blogging skills are once again slacking. I finished up the summer with a two week vacation in Germany and France and then moved up to Boston the day after I arrived back stateside. Two days later I started classes at The Fletcher School for an MIB pre-session class on Strategic Management. The two-week intensive course allowed for real bonding...
September 2011
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August 2011
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Summer Travels
After almost a week in Munich I’m off to the South of France! I’ll update and share pictures once I’m back stateside. Bisous!
July 2011
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Inside a U.S. Embassy: Diplomacy at Work
My second Foreign Service - related read for the summer was Inside a U.S. Embassy: Diplomacy at Work, compiled by editor Shawn Dorman. The third edition was just recently published in April and contains a compilation of stories from FSOs and their families. The book is divided into five parts and features profiles of State Department employees in a variety of FS positions and locations...
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June 2011
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“Congratulations! The scores you achieved on your Foreign Service Officer Test...”
– Board of Examiners for the Foreign Service, Results Notification
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Career Diplomacy: Life and Work in the U.S....
So in my abroad blog turned travel advice blog turned grad school and fellowship application update blog, I’ve now advanced to the next stage of blogging. I guess it now stands that I’ll write about a combination of travel (oh haaay, 1 month til Europe!), advice on grad school, and my process leading up to joining the Foreign Service as a Pickering Fellow. Every great project can use...
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“Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office...”
– Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary, 1911
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May 2011
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“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it within...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Oh! The Places You'll Go
It’s summer which is usually when my blog picks up. There’s always more time to think and to write in the summer apparently. And now I feel like I can share my news that I guess I have been hesitant to talk about, for fear that it might disappear. I know it sounds silly, but I’m still getting adjusted to the fact that, in the end, everything did work out more or less and my life...
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How To Live In Washington, DC →
Oh, the District. Gotta love it.
wholestory:
Everything about this is so true. Sad, but true.
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München - 5 months later
It’s been officially summer for almost a week now so I decided to finish where I left off - with Munich. I also visited a few other areas in and around Bavaria, including Salzburg and the concentration camp at Dachau. It was a very busy two weeks and Christophe did a great job as tour guide. Some highlights -
Munich was freezing. As in, very, very cold. It put a damper on the sightseeing...
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April 2011
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Life
Me: i just want to know what i'm doing
Me: cause then i have a lot of stuff to figure out
Me: and right now i am just in this weird limbo
Dylan: weren't you usually pretty good at limbo
Me: well i mean i won a contest once
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March 2011
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February 2011
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I'M A RANGEL FINALIST!
My interview day is March 14th, where they narrow the top 40 down to 20. Learn more about the Rangel International Affairs Graduate Fellowship here.
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“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples...”
– Maya Angelou
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“I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.”
– James Baldwin
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1 year ago today
I was on my way to Madrid. For every person that was part of those adventures, thanks for the memories!
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Lisboa - the San Francisco of Europe
Wow - this was a long time ago. As the last of my trips around Europe during my semester in Spain, Lisbon was a warm and cute city on the coast of Portugal. It actually kind of reminded me a lot of San Francisco, both because the 25 de Abril Bridge closely resembles the Golden Gate Bridge and the adorable trolleys that wind through the tiny streets of this hilly city are also strikingly similar to...