Five Weeks and Counting...

Five weeks till graduating from the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS). My Master of Arts degree in International Policy Studies and my Certificate in Nonproliferation Studies included the study of the workings of various WMD, U.S. foreign policy, the North Korean nuclear crisis, terrorism involving WMD, comparative national security policies, technology and international security, and many more.


In addition, with my fluency in Korean and various experiences, it appears as though I should be some expert fit to analyze and advise on important security issues. Yet I feel so embarrassingly inadequate when I think about it. What have I learned over the last two years? All those hours reading books and papers or sitting at the computer late into the night ... I thought I'd feel properly equipped and prepared to work in this field after MIIS. Rather, as the end draws near, the dominant thought in my mind is, "I'm so ill-prepared to serve ... " It's true: the more one learns and broadens his horizons, the more he realizes how much he doesn't know ...

How ironic ...