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cynicalcharisma · 7 months
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leaving ur country does feel surreal at times. like i have looked forward to this day where i’d leave the violence and trauma behind (at least physically if not emotionally). now that it's coming near i have so much cold feet. maybe i don't want to leave. maybe i’ll miss the food, the weather, the language, and so much more.
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Reading literary articles as a baby scholar...
Honestly, you don’t (strictly) have to be new to academia to follow these tips. This is for anyone who is, in any way, struggling on how to read through literary articles. Maybe you’re having trouble understanding the text or you simply have too many things to read for your upcoming literature review or essay, etc. Either way, hopefully these tips would help make reading a little easier:
Read the abstract or summary: this might sound obvious, but it really helps! Reading through abstracts or article summaries can give you an idea of what the article might be about and if it’s relevant to your research. It can help you narrow down articles you need for further reading and give you a place to start. Some articles also include a list of keywords that you can look through to see if they fit the theme of your essay. Sometimes if the abstract or summary is detailed enough, and you are in a time crunch (emergency use ONLY), you can just refer to that instead of reading the whole article.
Read the book review or peer reviews: sometimes literary scholarship can be a little too dense and you might have trouble reading or understanding the text. Or sometimes there is just too much stuff to read through and the words start to get a little blurry🙁. In that case, instead of slogging through and reading the whole article/book/chapter read the book review or peer review instead. Not only will a review help you summarize the key points of the article/book/chapter, but the included commentary or criticism on the weak points of the text would help you get a clearer picture of both sides of the argument. This is also a useful tip to use if you’re just having trouble accessing a particular resource; you’re more likely to find and access reviews on it (especially if it is a book or chapter). 
Read the first and last lines of each paragraph: this will give you a general idea of what each paragraph is about. Usually, the key points can be found in the beginning and end of a paragraph so reading the first and last lines should give you a mini summary of what the text is about. It’s a great way to speed read through your articles.
Search up keywords or phrases: if your research article comes in digital format you can just do a search of keywords or phrases of what you’re looking for. Then look at the highlighted words or phrases and just read the lines for context. This way you can gauge the article’s relevance to your research topic. You can set these aside for later in depth analysis as well.
Hope this makes reading dry, literary articles a little bit easier! 😊
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gravedigginbbydoll · 4 months
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Hey !
I would normally never post anything like this but I’m in a desperate situation!
As you guys know, I’m moving in January across the world for grad school.
What you don’t know is that I’m struggling to find a way to bring my cat.
Most pet shipping companies (which is what all international flights require you use) charge around 8,000 dollars (which I don’t have)
But I can’t imagine life without my little sweet Carmilla. She cuddles me when I cry and makes me laugh when I’m sad.
She’s talkative and so sweet and just melts everyone’s heart.
So I made this GoFundMe in a last ditch effort to try and be able to take her along with me.
Don’t feel like you have to donate, share if you can. It would mean the world to me.
https://gofund.me/cd7d1f20
Also some pictures of my precious stinky baby:
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thebrownbunnygrad · 3 months
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A Third of the Way There
Officially, I am a third of the way done with my Master's degree!! OMG. I'm 33% of the way there to calling myself a Master of Nutrition for Global Health.
This is a milestone in my personal life. For the first time in 23 years, I spent 3.5 months learning to live by myself, how to navigate adulthood, and so much more.
My takeaway from all of this. I feel that the biggest fear is actually getting started. Those anxious thoughts of Can I do it? how will I do it? If anyone is reading this and feeling the same way, take it from someone who has no real-life skills, you can do it.
Also on the last day of my last class of the first term, I lost my lunchbox on the bus. So... a great way to end the term!
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✌🏾 ~Brown Bunny 🤎
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theinashow · 4 months
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The international students office had a promotional pictures photoshoot
I think I looked pretty swell
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ethrealstudies · 1 year
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i can’t believe i started this blog in high school to help me self study korean and now i can finally say i’m going to seoul to study abroad this fall… it’s been my dream for so long it still hasn’t fully sank in. i can’t wait to take all of you along with me on this journey 🥹
in preparation, i’ve restarted my korean diary and will be adding any vocabulary i didn’t know to a quizlet set i will link below!
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lightningmonarchda3 · 7 months
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my first GCSE year in my new school, in my new country, spoken in my second language will start around 11 hours.
how im feeling? well...
two days ago:
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me this morning:
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me now:
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wish me luck!
(and social skills... please)
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sunscreenstudies · 1 year
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mindofmellilla · 7 months
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alone at brunch
i’m sitting at this cafe i love when this family walks in and they sit at the table next to me. the mother sits on the bench with her youngest son and her daughter on either side of her. the older son takes the chair in front of them and the father glances over at my table and graciously asks if he could please have the empty chair across from me and i agree. i sit there reading my book while sipping my green concoction of ice and matcha as this family interacts and converses. the youngest son, also the one seated closest to me, fiddles with his shoe laces as the daughter asks her mother if she could tell her about her latest discovery about the planets. the father is trying to figure out that qr code menu while the older son decides to dump the sugar packets from their container onto the table and arrange them like some sugar packet castle. as i glance over to them before looking out the giant window near them i can’t help but think about my own family, about my mother and father and my sister and brother, about how i was with them just a few days ago. about how we were laughing together and debating acting performances in a film we had just seen. and i can’t help but smile, i miss them it’s been barely three days but i miss them terribly. i think about calling my mom right now, but i decide not to, she’s probably at work anyways. i could message my dad but he’s got lots to do. my sister maybe, but what would i even say? would i ask her about her search for colleges or if she’d finally decided what major she’d apply to? no, that would only annoy her, i don’t want to be a grievance. i could message my brother, send him a quick text, but he’s 12 and i don’t really know what to say to him, talking to him is always weird because he’s quite mature but acts like a 3 year old and i never knew how to talk to him when he was 3. besides his phone is probably out of charge. i usually love being in my own company. i usually love eating by myself. but right now with this family right next to me with eldest son having completed his castle of sugar, and the mother taking a picture of her daughter as she bites into a strawberry, and the youngest son licking his spoon clean of chocolate syrup, i see just how alone i am. ‘i love being alone,’ i remind myself, ‘i love being alone.’ yes. i love being alone; i hate being lonely.
i hope you enjoyed this little entry, writing it was somewhat cathartic. xo mellilla
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uh-velkommen · 8 months
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I'm really upset with where I am in life right now. For the past year, I have been planning everything in order to go to Grad school internationally, find a job in Norway, and live abroad for at least a couple of years. But it's just been roadblock after road block. I'm now at a place where my options are use what little money I have and get rid of everything I own to do MAYBE one year of my Grad program and risk getting sent back to the US with nothing and no where to go or stay here and get stuck living in my poverty, drug, and crime riddled neighborhood making minimum wage for the rest of my life. And I know those seem like two big extremes, but anything that happens in between is means to an end. And those ends will either be in my favor or against my favor.
The thing that's killing me is that I just don't have money to do what I want to do. I have all this ambition, I have the education, I have to drive and people to vouch for me, I'm a hard worker, and I leave an impression on everyone I meet. I just don't have the MONEY. It's so frustrating. I figured out a way to finish my first year abroad. I have an idea for how to survive the second year. But after that who knows if I'll have the money to stay long enough to find a job. The Swedish Migration Agency says I need about $10,000 USd in my bank account in order to obtain a residence permit for one year. But all this time I should've been planning to have three times as much to fit my three year timeline.
So I ask around, trying to figure out how other Americans have planned for this. What I get in return is, "I'm not using loans" "I had some money saved up" "I have family in Sweden." AND ITS SO FRUSTRATING (I need a stronger word than that)
Because WHY SHOULD I be excluded from these opportunities when my merit is all there. I had enough to get admitted, that means something. I'm on par with all these people.
But I was born into poverty. A poor, uneducated family in a brown neighborhood in a country that favors white people. And I really am stuck. This is what we mean when we say it's a cycle. I've done as much as I could. I've researched for hours on end. I pulled money out of my ass and utilized every resource I had access to and yet I still can't progress because I'm poor. It's not fucking fair.
It's not fair that I have the potential to do something great. I have ideas. I have an honest passion and a desire to help and all I want to do it let my educational and professional history convey that so that when people see this weird little puerto rican girl from kensington, Philadephia, they won't judge or let their biases poke through. I want to be on a leveled playing field. I JUST. NEED. MONEY.
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twizzlelutz · 11 months
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one fun thing about being an international student who can't always go home for each break is growing used to everyone being gone for a month or so at a time and then acting like a spooked cat when they turn up again, getting scared shitless by your flatmates, jumping when they come through doors or seeing them in the corner of your eye and freezing in order to process that it's another person
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cynicalcharisma · 7 months
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no human has made me cry as much as my visa appointment (or lack there of) has. oh to be an international student moving from third world to first world. like bye bestie i do give up now.
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School has already started and I'm way late, but if any international students have any questions about starting college, completing your applications, housing, classes or just living in the UK in general hit me up! No question is too dumb or stupid. You can ask me anything, even stuff you think that probably everyone knows the answer to, and I promise I'll try my best to answer it!
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Never grow up is a song that i needed to and didnt need to hear at the same time as a homesick international student
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thebrownbunnygrad · 3 months
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An Existential Exhaustion
I am so tired. It feels like there are days and weeks in a row where everything is the same and everyday I wake up I just feel... tired. I feel like I'm in a washing machine that's constantly going on and on with no end in sight of being done or fresh.
Is this my existence? I know I have so much to be thankful for, I am grateful for it, but there has to be something more, right? Everyday I wake up and I eat the same breakfast, I sit down at the same table, open the same laptop, and continue to study. I've mentioned I'm in London now, but how could I be in a whole new different environment and still be doing the same thing. It seems like people are doing something everyday, why am I not? It's not like I haven't been out and about, perhaps my expectations are too high, that I expect something magical or just different to happen when I'm going out into the city.
Maybe its the weather that has me like this. No sunshine or light to make me feel excited, I'm sure I'll be better on a sunny day. It's probably more so because I'm on a tight budget as an international student with limited capabilities of exploring or having fun. There has to be more to this though, right?
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✌🏾 ~Brown Bunny 🤎
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mannyjayking · 1 year
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Emmanuel Johnson Reflects on his PhD Experience
Excited to have been interviewed as part of a new series called The End Convos. Thanks to Godswill Ezeonyeka and his team for this. Hope you enjoy it!
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