So I essentially fell off the face of the earth for two weeks. Sorry about that. It wasn't only here, if that makes you feel any better. I didn't leave my room for an entire week, and the week before I only did for two classes and grocery shopping once. It was kind of frightening, … Continue reading I Suppose Some Apologies Are in Order
How Being an Avid Fiction Reader Can Make You Feel Dumb
Before I knew it it was four in the morning and I had to be up in six hours and I simply didn't care. I momentarily thought about going back to that academic reading since I was now so awake, but I knew it wouldn't work. I knew that my energy was really adrenaline from the plot, and that no matter how much I live and love to learn, working-class politics of Victorian London was not going to inspire the same kind of focus and alertness in me as Dashner's plot twists. And to be honest, I felt a little dumb for it.
The Norwegian Weekend of Festivals
Never before have I heard of one place having so many festivals in one month as Oslo is this September. The busiest weekend I would have to say was the one that just passed, of the 12th and 13th. "But Amanda," you protest, "the 12th and 13th were a Friday and Saturday, what about Sunday?" … Continue reading The Norwegian Weekend of Festivals
It’s Just Been One of Those Weeks
Little victories matter. Feelings matter. So please, if you're feeling down, know that it's okay. Tomorrow is a new day. As they say, Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither will your success be dependent on one day you may spend in bed because you just really don't want to see the sun and the people enjoying it
My 10 Greatest Literary Loves
Now, I already have a reading recommendations page on here, but there's this silly thing going around Facebook that I was tagged in, challenging me to list the top ten books that have affected me in one way or another. All of these are on my reading recommendations list, but I thought I would spend … Continue reading My 10 Greatest Literary Loves
Be Democracy
Does having democracy so available to us make us more involved, or more apathetic?
Quirky Cultural Differences #4: Norway
Professors don't only use slides/whiteboards, but it is still very common to see chalkboards in the classes. Instead of an eraser for said chalkboard, the professors use a wet sponge. Girls lift weights just as much as the guys in the gym. In humanities classes in particular, it is common that the student must first … Continue reading Quirky Cultural Differences #4: Norway
Of Morning Classes and Motivation
I'm not always a doer, but I am a planner, so I have all these plans now, and I'd love it if you could help hold me accountable for seeing them through. I'm posting them here, so even if no one reads this post, it's out in the world that these are the things I am setting my mind to do.
Quirky Cultural Differences #3: Norway
Some of these aren't so quirky anymore, but I like the title. Professors and people of higher stations prefer to be called by their first names more than more formal titles of respect. Student organizations/unions aren't always school specific. People often travel alone. The public bathroom at the McDonald's had a small room with a … Continue reading Quirky Cultural Differences #3: Norway
The Catcher in the Rye
"It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques." - JD Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye pg. 131
dream.think.work. 