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My first entire year at the University of Illinois is nearly complete. At the end of it, I will have improved my GPA (albeit slightly), gotten and broken up with a girlfriend, shut down my old xanga site, built a professional site for myself, started a political blog, and completely renovated my old website. In retrospect, it hasn't been a bad year at all.

The summer is already shaping up to be an interesting one. Mom, Eric, Nick and I are taking a trip out to Philadelphia at some point over the summer. This could facilitate a brief romp through Philly proper with Scott, even though he lives in Boston. On July 25, Mike, Dan Reid, and I will all be heading up to the University of Michigan for NOAC 2006. I'll see Carl for a few days, I'll see Greg for a few more, and I'm sure I'll catch Allison for a bit while she's home.

As for the rest of the year, I have a 3,000-5,000 word paper due tomorrow. This marks the first time in college, outside of a foreign language class, that I've been given a target number of words instead of a page count. Anyway, it's tentaviely titled Diamonds Are a Rebel's Best Friend: Security Concerns in Sub-Saharan Africa. I also have a five page paper for Political Theory due sometime next week, and two finals to study for. It's all coming to a close, and I can't say that I'm disappointed.