Education
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The uncomfortable zone
Not yet knowing how to do things feels uncomfortable. Learning something new is where self-doubt rings loud as you pretend to know what you’re doing, even when you don’t. At least not yet. My body always groans when I drag it into learning new things or relearning things I have forgotten. It feels the drag and complains and protests and resists change. My Read more
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Disparity in educational access
Was there anything I’d like to change (if I could) while being in college? Yes. And that would be part of a research team while studying. I wish I had access to research teams before, access to resources that would enable me to improve how I conduct my research, and connections to research-affiliated instructors/professors. We Read more
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I am not just a woman
I never really questioned why it was most men who pioneered so many things, just as we were taught in school, until I watched this: Why do women struggle to get the credit they deserve? From experience, there were times when I was expected to side-step and take on a support role by default—like every Read more
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Visiting Utrecht University, Netherlands, virtually once a week
I wouldn’t have imagined attending a class in Utrecht, Netherlands, without leaving my house. And I wasn’t even in my house but in a rented apartment empty of household pets which I had dreamed of having. But here I am, listening to internationals talk about global earth system governance and learning about the reality of Read more
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Can you imagine a world where classrooms without air-conditioning create equity issues?
Climate change has been a concern since the 1980s, when global temperatures began to be at a record high. I would only exist after a decade and have enjoyed cool days in the Philippines before the turn of the millennia. A typical classroom setup for me would be an array of tables and chairs (or Read more
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Why I go to libraries
I just read about how “Gen Z seems to love public libraries,” and it reminded me of my relationship with libraries growing up, which you can read here. Although the last time I was in a physical library was when I was taking my master’s in energy engineering, I still read books (these days, mostly non-fiction Read more
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What universities are meant to do
The Energy Change Institute is all about what universities are meant to do – they’re meant to take knowledge, they’re meant to teach people, they’re meant to learn stuff and they’re meant to work with the rest of society to take that knowledge and to disperse it. Professor Brian Schmidt, ANU Vice Chancellor (from the Read more
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