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Life begins on the other side of despair.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Created on 2005-09-16 02:31:25 (#8303925), last updated 2009-11-27

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Name:	I'm a put on a show kind of girl.
Location:	Missouri, United States

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Just a girl making her way through the world via grad school at the University of Missouri for a MA in political science. I graduated MSUM with a BA in political science and a BS in Business Administration. I spent my 4th year of undergrad attending the University of Portsmouth in England. I long to go back.

I've lived in Minnesota most of my life, love the east coast, find California to be overrated, and have spent two summers in Medora, North Dakota.

I get lost easily, though this is better after being thrown into Europe without more than a guidebook map. I love TV (a bit too much, probably), reading, writing, and politics. I participate in everything from choir/theatre/dance, to helping organize campaigns. I am a perpetual student. Mainly, I don't want to be mired down in the 9-5 daily grind.

Me and all my friends
We're all misunderstood.
They say we stand for nothing and
There's no way we ever could.
Now we see everything that's going wrong
With the world and those who lead it,
We just feel like we don't have the means
To rise above and beat it.
--John Mayer, Waiting on the World to Change

This is how it works: you're young until you're not, you love until you don't, you try until you can't, you laugh until you cry, you cry until you laugh, and everyone must breathe until their dying breath. This is how it works: you peer inside yourself, you take the things you like and try to love the things you took and then you take that love you made and stick it into someone else's heart, pumping someone else's blood. And walking arm in arm, you hope it don't get harmed, but even if it does, you'll just do it all again.
--Regina Spektor, On the Radio

If you hear this message,
Wherever you stand,
I'm calling every woman
Calling every man.
We're the generation
Who can't afford to wait.
The future started yesterday,
And we're already late.
Searched for a leader,
But the leader was me.
We were looking for the world to change;
We should be the change that we want to see.
--John Legend, If You're Out There

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.--The Great Gatsby

Burn the land, boil the sea; you can't take the sky from me.

Per Aspera Ad Astra

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Interests (117):

24, alexei yagudin, allison janney, ballet, baseball, battlestar galactica, bond, books, bradley whitford, britain, burberry, business, catholicism, coach, conan o'brien, conventions, dance, david duchovny, defense policy, dior, dolce&gabbana, donald trump, dooney&bourke, economics, elephants, england, eva green, fashion, figure skating, firefly, football, foreign affairs, foreign policy, frank sinatra, game theory, gareth david-lloyd, gene kelly, george balanchine, gillian anderson, government, gre, greek art, green bay packers, gucci, harry potter, heroes, history, hockey, ianto jones, ilia kulik, international relations, ireland, italy, jack harkness, jeffrey buttle, jessica rabbit, john barrowman, john mayer, josh groban, kai owen, kelly clarkson, kiefer sutherland, lilo and stitch, lois and clark, london, mandy moore, mark harmon, misha collins, mn twins, mn wild, monty python, msum, musicals, mythology, ncis, new england patriots, nick lea, philip glass, poison ivy, politics, portsmouth, prada, public administration, public policy, ralph lauren, robert redford, roman art, russia, russian, sci fi, shakespeare, shopping, snow, star trek, stargate atlantis, stargate sg-1, strategy, superman, supernatural, the apprentice, the colbert report, the cold war, the daily show, torchwood, travel, tropics, twilight, versace, victor petrenko, victoria's secret, vogue, watchmen, west wing, wicked, winter olympics, x-files, xanth

Schools:

Eagan High School - Eagan, MN (2000 - 2004)
Stephens College - Columbia, MO (2004 - 2005)
Moorhead State University - Moorhead, MN (2005 - 2009)
University of Portsmouth - Portsmouth, England - Hampshire, United Kingdom (2007 - 2008)
University of Missouri - Columbia - Columbia, MO (2009 - present)

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