Category: Blog
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When a moment passes, it passes quickly. But it could feel as if the time is at a pause, and all you think of is the serenity of the moment you’re in. The noise and motion of the whirling movements around you are like a blur at your periphery. It feels peaceful and quiet. Your…
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If you’ve been wondering how I come up with something to write every day, I can tell that it felt dreadful as I started out. “What should I write about today?“ “Do I have the right words to say?“ “Will anybody read at all?“ Sure, we write so that somebody reads it. But what I…
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While still a student, we were used to receiving handouts containing all the things we needed to study for the semester. And living life was way easier then. Just check the right boxes, show up every day in class, and do well in your exams, and that’s it! Job well done. But now that we…
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Five years ago, I used to live in a university dorm. And there was this food nook I frequently go to because aside from being conveniently located near my place, there was also a family of stray university cats living outside it. And I adored those cats that I was known to be the student…
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Perhaps a researcher is paid well because it’s difficult to think about solutions to problems while also thinking about how to meet her basic needs. But when salaries are delayed, a researcher is forced to look for other ways to keep the lights on, figuratively and literally. And the system shouldn’t blame the researcher and…
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I could have asked you, even though I already knew. Yet I never said a word and so did you. But it would have been nice to hear about them from you. This blog post, like a coincidence (more likely a gut feeling that I’ve already written about this before), is a variant of this…
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When you have access to the right tool, you might be surprised how you can do so many things and achieve new goals just because. I remember how my performance wanes whenever I don’t have the tools to move further. So yes, resources matter.
jessa 