I'm writing my term paper for my Contemporary World class on school shootings, described as a plague. Of course, my main focus will be Cho and the Virginia Tech tragedy. But I'm also focusing on the Columbine Massacre that happened 8 years ago. I was reading about Columbine all over again and couldn't read more than a couple of pages before I had to stop and think about something else.

What I have been reading about Columbine in the past few days is far more in detail and far more twisted than I had remembered. I actually found a site that had some of Harris and Klebold's journal entries posted, it made me sick just reading what they were saying and then thinking about what they had done. I don't understand why people would do things like this. One of my main points in the paper is that it's so hard to distinguish a true danger from a semi-normal teenage kid.

I remember writing less than cheery poetry in high school, and so do most people, I'm sure. Before the massacres, what made Harris, Klebold, and Cho any different than nearly a quarter of young men their age? Their parents all made statements that they never could have dreamed that their sons would do such a thing. Well, what parent would? If I were to find that my son (or daughter) has been writing similar journal entries (or blogs, or whatever else) I'm not sure what I'd do. Talk to him? Have him committed? Have my husband deal with it? Do nothing?

Of course my heart goes out to the victims and their families, that goes without saying. But, I'm not sure anything like this can be detected early enough to prevent something from happening...

I'm a little confused as to what to do with my last year of undergrad. I'm set on getting my degree from Benedictine University, I just can't decide what to get it in. I have 11 classes left until I can graduate. My current (newest) major is Management and Organizational Behavior. I have 4 classes left until I'm done with the requirements for that degree. However, I have not yet met my the 120 credit hour requirement, which means I need to take 6 "free elective" classes. I am taking one class, online, over the summer - Management and Labor Relations. After deciding on that I got to thinking that 6 classes is a lot, especially if I just take 6 random, GPA boosting, classes. So, after talking to many advisors, here are my options...

-Double majoring. Management - Organizational Behavior and Marketing.- Taking 6 random electives (classes that interest me or easy A's).

- Getting a minor. Most likely in Psychology. Or maybe Law, History, Communications...?

- Use the 6 classes and try to fit in as many classes in foreign language as I can. Either more French, or maybe learn some Spanish?

- Spend my last semester (Spring of 2008) studying abroad. Benedictine has partnerships with schools around the world. Copenhagen Business School (Denmark) and Strasbourg University (France) are the two that stick out to me the most. Studying abroad would really set me apart from other applicants while going after positions in business. It also shows that I'm flexible and have the upper hand in International Business. Plus, I'd get grants, so it wouldn't be anymore expensive.

Benedictine has many other partnerships in countries such as: Japan, India, Greece, Mexico, Ireland, China, Scotland, Australia, Spain, Korea, Italy and of course France and Denmark.

Just kind of thinking out loud. Comments are more than welcome.

Anova manova, hahaha.

I'm starting to lose it. 13 months to go.

It's been a very long time. I was just reading the posts and comments from October 2005, a year and a half ago. Pretty neat. I just felt like I had to add a new post. I'm sure I'll be back later when I'm not trying to finish up a paper that's due in a couple hours...