I should have expected this

First of all, this post is brought to you by the fact that there is no hot water in my building. So, instead of taking a shower, I am posting on the internet. My priorities, let me show you them.

So! Part of the requirements of the grant I received to write my thesis is presenting at a research conference in April. I have to apply for the conference by tomorrow. At the end of the application, there are these instructions: "Please check up to four categories under which your project would fit." My options are as follows.

New York City: Longstanding Challenges and Dynamic Change
The Politics and Economics of Education
Gender Studies: A Global View
Contemporary Global Conflict
Global Issues Past and Present
The International Workforce: Issues in Labor and Economics
Issues in Law, Justice, and Government
Neural Science
Health and Development: Science at the Crossroads
Social Concerns in Health Care
Molecules of Living Systems
Interpersonal Relationships
Literature Through the Ages
Learning and Behavior in Mammals
Access to the Arts: Displaying, Preserving, Performing, and Interpreting
Music: Tradition Meets Innovation
The Urban Divide
Molecules and Materials

Of course, my project fits into not a single one of these neat little categories. Currently I think my best options are "Learning and Behavior in Mammals" (humans are mammals and speech is a behavior, right?) or "Gender Studies: A Global View" (the preferred option to just completely mess with this whole process).

MY MAJOR: Defying categorization since the 1970s!

(Disclaimer: I have edited this thing like 5 times already for typos. It's early and I HAVEN'T SHOWERED so I get a free pass on my not-so-awesome writing skills right now, okay? Okay.)