Best expression for this

I am trying to write something like this:

"To this day, I still vividly remember my undergraduate days when I sat in the "foreign journal" room in my college library reading Time and Journal of Political Economy, (with?) the joy of the former supplementing the confusion of the latter. "

What I want to express is, I read those two journals at the same time, often times with joy when reading Time and with confusion (better word?) when reading JPE. Is there anything wrong in my sentence? Is there a better expression?

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