Happy Easter!

Happy Resurrection Day!

A year and 7 weeks away...

As the busiest term of my time at OSU enters its 3rd week, I am starting to feel like I am making some serious progress towards my degree. The idea of graduating a year from June is actually a pretty good possibility, as long as I work hard and can get in a summer class or two. For a good analogy, this is the equivilant of if I was graduating in 3.5 years instead of 4, so I am pretty happy with the prospect. Of course, it doesn't hurt that this term I am taking the maximum credits allowed without a waiver. When the term is done I will be done with math, halfway through German, finished with my liberal arts core, and ready to write my thesis. In a pre-cursor to my thesis, I am taking a class on how to be a historian. The course brought me to the University Archives for the first time and even inspired me to learn how to use and scan from microfilche and microfilm! I am mulling over ideas for my thesis topic, and currently I am leaning towards exploring the legitimacy of anti-federalist thinking between the American Revolution and the American Civil War (or in lay-man's terms, I am researching if the orginal states thought of the United States of America as the United Countries of Mid-North America, much like today's EU or UN). We'll see where that ends up taking me...