The suggested cuts to 1200 university jobs might serve as a foghorn at the Finnish government, signaling what austerity measures fully mean when directed at institutions of higher education...
Not everything that the university has to offer is overtly advertised: sometimes you have to do some digging to find the most fascinating courses, teachers, and clubs that your school has to offer.
Recently, I had the pleasure to attend two filmed theatre pieces. One of them was filmed live from London (Rocky Horror, gasp!), but the other was just a recorded showing. When Frankenstein’s monster shouted, “Come on Frankenstein!” and disappeared into the fog, my friends and I started clapping in a relieved frenzy. This instantly aroused some snarky, supposedly-under-their-breath comments from our fellow audience members.
For many, student organizations, parties, and *gasp* getting passing grades take up most of their precious time, especially in the early stages of student life. But then there's the type for whom it could very well be something like writing for BTSB that offers some of the most fulfilling endeavors for a university student.
Recently, I've been marveling at the mystifying symbiosis of tragedy and comedy in the first season of AMC's “Better Call Saul”, which finds its hero, everyman lawyer Saul Goodman, wallowing in various pitiable states of existential crisis...
Sister started her session characteristically chatty and ended it two hours latter terse and covered in a sheen of sweat. I started mine characteristically terse and ended it thirty minutes later passed out in a public place.
Such is life that the early bird gets the worm, and as a googly-eyed night owl, I have no hope gaining a coveted seat at Kaisa. Public libraries come to the rescue for students such as myself. I first came across the Kallio library in a search for an alternative study space...
Dedicating Yourself to Passion
Every athlete goes through a stage where motivation drops and one finds oneself questioning the direction they have taken for their life. Is the amount of work put into sports ever going to give back as much to compensate?