Hey guys, I'm Katie! Welcome to my blog, where I ramble on about anything and everything. I'm 21 years old, a rising senior at Boston College and am pursuing a major in International Studies and a minor in French. I just returned from studying abroad at Sciences Po in Paris, so most of the entries from the past five months consist of my cultural experiences, my passionate love affair with French food, my close encounters of the third wine, and my ramblings about crazy French people. I love photography, traveling, reading, and cooking. I love all kinds of music; check out what I'm listening to at last.fm. I also enjoy a good tweet now and again. Check out some more random facts about me, if you're so inclined...
France, vous êtes tellement bizarre.
I think I’m overdue to give you guys some rants.
Keyboards: All the letters are in different places. You have to press shift to type numbers. And the period. COME ON, it is used so commonly it should NOT be a shift-key button. And the @ sign is pretty much impossible…it took me 10 minutes to figure it out.
Printing at Sciences Po: THE WORST THING IN THE WORLD. Takes at least 25 minutes to snag a computer (because I mean, 20 computers are sufficient to serve 9,000 students who need to print things), and then once you actually figure out how to print, you have to wait in line at the printer while 3 people ahead of you each print 400-page articles. It only takes a few years.
Lack of Marsala Wine: All I wanted was a little bit of Marsala dressing. I just wanna cook me some chicken Marsala. THEY DO NOT HAVE IT IN PARIS. I mean I know it’s Italian wine (from Sicily, I believe!), but seriously…?
Inefficiency: Administrators say their office hours are, for example, from 9-12 and 2-4. They leave at 12…and sometimes just don’t return. No big.