#unitwin

[helenstudies]

I got accepted into two free online courses offered by Handong Global University through UNESCO Unitwin program for Burmese people! I'm enrolled in "Worldview Studies" and "Health Psychology" for this semester!^^ If I pass this, I get 3 credits and a free certiticate for each course! I'm not enrolled in any universities and I don't even think I can actually use these credits... but I still like it!

[helenstudies]

11/21 days of productivity

wrote 13 reflection papers (yes, 13) for my worldview studies course

they're about biblical worldview, deism, naturalism, nihilism, existentialism, marxism, postmodernism, hinduism, buddhism, new age, islam, confucianisma and social darwinism

also took my finals on this course and I wrote about marxism and buddhism AGAIN

it's only about one page each but took me eight hours because there were 50 slides to go through per topic and I need to go lie down RIGHT NOW

[helenstudies]

I'm suffering from incredible chest pain but on the flip side my midterm for Worldview Studies came back well!

The question was "what was the most important and influential worldview out of 8 views you've learned so far" and I basically said it was the biblical worldview, especially the Christianity because it went hand in hand with colonization and we all know how that influenced everything. I can't believe I wrote that essay in 30 minutes and still got 86% 😭

Anyway, back to suffering in my bed. I just finished legally blonde and I must find another movie to take my mind off of this pain.

[helenstudies]

5/21 days of productivity

got 80% on my Health Psychology final! Yay!

taught my Chinese class and read tarot for half an hour

A little talk about productivity under the cut.

People always ask me "how are you always so productive?" after seeing my achievements but the truth is I'm not. I only do my work for three hours a day and when I study I do it three hours a day at most as well. And I only do those every other day. Only deadlines or exams would make me work more hours than that.

This is what I have learned during the last year: work and money doesn't save me from pain. I've done so much during my teenage years and now I'm suffering the consequences. I get sick a lot, I am in pain most of the time and I can't enjoy things like I used to. So I'm not going to make that mistake again. I refuse to work myself to bones at this age. I'm young and in pain. But I wanna live. So I will work less, earn less, read more and study more. I will put my health and my quality of life first.

And what do you know, that mindset actually helped me with my productivity!

Since I know I can't do more later, I work hard in two to three hours. Since my social anxiety interferes with my ability to respond well to my clients, I employed someone else to do it for me as a part time job and now I don't have to worry about that. Since I know I'm not going to do things "later" I start things faster instead of procrastinating. I know I'm doing as well as I can, so I have such a better self-image of myself and my stress and anxiety dwindle.

I know being able to make my own schedule is a privilege. And I'm grateful for it. But I work less knowing I will earn less because I'm not going to die a workaholic.

To summarize: people think "productivity = busy" but it's really not that. This is especially true with studying. I am a bit sick today (my canker sore is making me cranky and sore. heh) so I will take things easy. I'll do a couple things for myself like stretching even though all I wanna do is sleep because stretching and exercising is the self care I need today. And I'm going to do less work today because I'm in pain and I need money, but I don't want to be making mistakes and I wanna put my health first.

Do not fall for toxic productivity. I've seen it destroy too many people my age. We should live while we can.

Remember to rest, and rest well.

[helenstudies]

58/100 days of productivity

Finished my midterms! Yay! I got 80% for Health Psychology but I have no hopes for my Worldview Studies exam lmao.

I'm still trying to rest and recover from my cervical spondylosis flare up... it's going. Not well, but it's going.

[helenstudies]

Midterm week for my Health Psychology course and Worldview Studies course are here and I haven't studied a single hour since the first week. Brb cramming.

[helenstudies]

Handong University | UNESCO UNITWIN

Just took the final exam for Politics (Fall semester) and got 100%! Well, I took it until I got 100% but I think that's still something.

Handong University, with UNESCO's unitwin program, helps Myanmar students by allowing us to attend 3-credit courses (up to 3 courses per person per semester) and issue certificates for free if we have a good attendance and pass the exam! Y'all don't understand how big a deal this is. Through this program, I've gotten 9 credits for free. I hope I can use all these knowledge to help others during this time.

[dworaczek-bendome]

Paris, 4 novembre 2022. Dernier jour de la conférence internationale pour la célébration du 30ème Anniversaire du programme #UNITWIN/Chaires UNESCO, avec le soutien de la Commission nationale française pour l'UNESCO. Avec 120 pays et 900 institutions, le programme #unitwin, est le plus grand réseau universitaire au monde. #UNESCO https://www.instagram.com/p/CkiYAFML3yr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=