Week 5 – It’s already October?
Hi everyone,
Hope you have a had a good week so far. I’m sending you greetings from an adorable wee barn in the Lake District (photo below)! A very short break away from work (uni is portable luckily) which is needed and will definitely help refreshen my spirits for the upcoming intensive courses! However, pretty lake & mountain views also gave me plenty time for some reflection on how my degree is going & this week’s conclusion is that at this stage I feel like a sponge – I’m just trying to absorb as much information as possible. And that’s a great thing a) because I LOVE learning and b) I feel super inspired! Yay!
Here’s a few experiences that shaped this week (& either taught me something or inspired me).
PhD fair
I think I have mentioned in a previous blog posts that I would love to pursue a PhD after my masters and when I’ve seen that there is a PhD fair at Summerhall I just had to give it a shot! While a lot of the information on how to apply was not really new, it was still nice chat some different admissions teams. And it also made me realise that I need to get going if I want t apply for 2023 – tight deadlines! While that might sound a little stressful, it also made me think about my PhD idea again and see how my current modules link to it or might have a completely different approach! I certainly think my masters modules will reshape my PhD idea significantly, but maybe I can also try and look at the idea through my new “EFI” lens?
First intensive done, 2 ahead
I have really enjoyed my first intensive on “Exclusion & Inequality” and I have two weeks of new intensives ahead of me which I am super looking forward to. The new readings are already super interesting and have already led to long discussions with my boyfriend on the motorway down south. However, I have also started to work on my post-intensive (personal) reading list which I will share here with you. Any recommendations are welcome!
- Africa is not a country by Dipo Faloyin
- In the Camps by Darren Byler
- A brief history of equality by Thomas Piketty
Learn from your classmates
I find it super inspiring to discuss the content of the modules with follow classmates or even friends outside my course. For instance, it was super interesting to meet up with a friend of mine studying Mathematical Physics and exchanging what our courses are currently covering (she always used to tell me what her modules were) and we have agreed to meet up one night and talk through how our degrees interlink. I think I can learn a lot from her insights and vice versa. And massive thanks to Rhi as well for recommending Hans Rosling to me! I am really enjoying his Ted Talks and I love his enthusiasm! So really I should title this section “Trying to learn as much as possible from as many people as possible”. Which I am definitely taking on board when it comes to coding as well. The more I do the better and I am really enjoying learning more about Phyton!
On that note, I will head off and stay open to what might inspire me on this trip!
All the very best,
Kassandra
#lilac
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