This isn't going on my travel blog ...

... because my mom reads that and I don't want her to find out about the whole North Korea thing.

Anyways, my International Relations major is spectacularly useless for the job market, which when combined with a side order of "All my worst grades were in my International Relations classes" and "I rarely got over a B+ in a single one of those classes" means

1. I SHOULD know shit about current events but didn't pay enough attention in my class to actually LEARN anything and mostly absorbed a few things via osmosis,
2. I never learned anything practical, and yet
3. I can never go into academia, either.

Now, this has ended up working out for me so far, but I felt that it was appropriate to tell you how my choice has benefited for me.

So. Four Pros to being an International Relations Major:

1. It sounds glamorous when you tell people, and tricks them into thinking you have global know-how.
2. You can reassure people back home that you're not going to die in a North Korea nuclear attack and sound like you know what you're talking back (even if you don't, really)
3. You know just enough more than the people around you that you're always itching to interrupt them in conversations about global issues (though you never know enough to actually have anything really insightful to say)
4. You think you would know if South Korea were ever REALLY at risk of war. (Whereas in fact you would probably be the last to know, as with today, when your students had to be the one to tell you that there'd been shots exchanged.)