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[whichvvitch]

studying laws for my animal license here in germany 📝 ☕️

[theyuniversity]

🎓 Latin is Hard, Okay?

You graduate and think you’re done with confusing terms.

Then someone asks:

“Are you an alumnus or an alumni?”

Cue the internal panic. 😱

💡 Alumnus = one male grad 💡 Alumna = one female grad 💡 Alumni = group of grads (all male or mixed) 💡 Alumnae = group of women grads

But honestly? Just say alum.

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[ohthehumanities]

25 September 2023

Another day of learning, another day of adventures!

I started teaching religious education yesterday: At least, I would have, if any of my kids had shown up to class! I have to send an email out to the parents introducing myself. As of right now, there are only three kids in my class.

I need to prepare today for two job interviews that I have tomorrow. Both are with eating disorder treatment places near my house. I doubt I'll get a job offer due to how recently I've been in treatment, but I'm feeling a really strong pull to continue exploring a career in mental health treatment.

To-Do

Finish book two of De Doctrina Christiana

Read Apologetics and Catholic Doctrine, chapter 10

Read Apologetics and Catholic Doctrine, chapter 11

Watch Fundamental Theology lecture 6.1

Watch Fundamental Theology lecture 6.2

Review Resume

Practice interview questions

15-Day Language Challenge

Day 4: The most challenging thing about your target language

Each language has a language-specific challenge (something I find hard specific to the language) and a personal challenge (something I find hard about the language due to my learning disability).

I find Spanish a relative easy language to study. Because I've heard it my entire life, a lot of the properties come intuitively. As I advance in my studies, I notice that I have trouble with the more complicated verb tenses, as well as the conjugation of haber. Those are the language-specific challenges. My personal challenge is that I have aphasia (an inability to recall words), which hinders my ability to name objects in my original and target languages. When I can't put words to the images in my mind in Spanish or English, it presents some obvious difficulties, which are more pronounced when I speak Spanish.

My main language-specific challenge with Hebrew is the lack of Greek or Latin cognates. When I can use cognates, it makes learning vocabulary a bit quicker because I can draw comparisons more easily between languages. Without them, I'm learning entirely new terminology for languages.

~ Esther

[phdingifs]

Every conversation between me and my friends “on the job market”

[art-thropologist]

13/2/23

I have reloaded the queue!

[babydinosaur930]

Look I was made to go to bed last night after half time because my friends think I need this thing called “sleep” and I woke up to a torrent of emotion on my dash and I’m about to walk into a meeting with my advisor like “sorry I need a moment. I’m processing the events of an episode of adults playing pretend that I haven’t even finished yet. Sorry if I cry.”

[neat-deadandlive-things]

How to make friends as a grad student.

1. Speak and move in a calm way. Don't yell or make sudden movements.

2. If your local bylaws allow it, leave food and presents out.

3. Establish yourself as the source of the food/presents. Sit quietly a ways away from them, but still visible.

4. On hot day fill a shallow tub full of fresh clean water for them to drink and bath in. Change this water often and clean the tub.

This works for crows, I haven't tried it out with people yet.

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