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Electrical Engineering and IT student Zürich | IB alumni May22 | 19 | she/her | orig. Latvia

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Spotify gave this to me and I couldn't help it

IB DP finishing their exam session be like

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PaperDragon book club reading recommendations

Starting to post this as a series - a list of books and movies with reviews and additional recommendations. Brought to you by our own book club.

Here comes n1:

Richard Feynman “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”

An autobiography of a prominent american physicist who was involved in the creation of the atomic bomb. It was definitely not the type of book I was expecting to enjoy. It consists of a collection of stories from various periods of Feynman’s life starting with childhood through his university years and further career. I especially enjoyed the light-hearted stories of his university exploits and shenanigans. Experiments are effectively presented as exciting and rare, but compelling insight into the mind of a scientist is given with a personally appealing sense of humor. This is the right read for you if you are looking to inspire yourself in the direction of scientific interests or looking for insight into the working of the mind of a curious character of a fellow human.

See also:

James D. Watson “The Double Helix”

To anyone who enjoyed this as a life recollection story of a scientist I would recommend “The Double Helix”. A recollection of the events leading to the discovery of the DNA structure. It may need some reading on the biochemistry involved in order to be fully understandable, but apart from that a great read.

George Orwell “A Collection of Essays”

Mostly served me as an example of good writing and contributed background knowledge about the history of literature and the Western world.

Yuval Harari “Homo Sapiens”

It was the book that started me on thinking about “the big issues” of the world.

Jordan Peterson “12 rules for life”

I recommend this book to anyone who is likely to listen to me as a general introduction to thinking for yourself and useful principles for life.

With love,

PaperDragon

PS wait for new recommendations soon

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when you and your friends think the test is easy but get completely different answers:

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Can relate

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- Oh, you have such cool eyeshadow, love your style

- Thanks, it's three hours of sleep

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So one of my classmates walked up to me today asking how was one of our big assignments going for me

And hugged me when I said I haven't even started

The most comforting thing ever when you feel you procrastinate too much is to have someone who has it same

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So back-to-school, first day, people presenting their maths IA ideas and...

Every single person who had their presentation in Google slides forgot their Gmail passwords.

Transition from online to offline be like...

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Any other people out there in IB struggling to find CAS experiences during lockdown?

If anybody has valid advice, it would be very much appreciated!