The already-generous offer of financial aid I received from the University of Michigan has been unexpectedly upped. I won't say how much, so I don't sound like I'm bragging. Let's just say I'm very, very happy.

On the flip-side, in the same e-mail the secretary for the Chinese Studies department said that I would probably be too busy to TA a class, and that I should take it slowly at first. Good advice, no doubt, but I'd still like to get some more experience teaching. Preferably older kids. My friend Josh wants to be a high school Chinese teacher. Isn't that buttah?