Wish that I were more outspoken, more bold, more intellectual, more arrogant, less concerned with treading on others' opinions or being proved wrong. I think it'd help me a lot in history... Also, being more interested in the workings of the medieval papacy would help. It just doesn't interest me as much as the earlier secular troubles did in the Merovingian and Carolingian periods... or even focusing on comparisons between the interaction between church and secular leadership at a particular time. I don't know why. And it saddens me that Brown can't cover the fascinating parts of the secular progression in this course... he skimmed over vast amounts of it today, and I know what everyone's missing. It's so much more interesting when presented in depth, and merits more than a couple sentences in a lecture. Ah well.

Also, why is it that the only time I don't bring a mapped-out 4 year plan to a meeting with Prof Brown, and Joe does, I look like an idiot?