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It goes without saying that you don’t need to be perfect. However, sometimes it takes more than a bland reassurance to make you feel at least a bit better. If you’re looking for some concrete ideas and thoughts to latch on when you start feeling less than stellar, take a page out of my uneducated and unsolicited advice book, and try out one or two of these tricks.
It's On Us: Education Review
2020 is going to be my sixth year studying at a university level and the anecdotes and lessons I’ve accrued over these years are so many that it is difficult to choose just one aspect to address for this particular issue.
A New Lease Of Life
On June 25th, I cried for solid fifteen minutes after I opened my email and logged into Opintopolku website. There it said, “The University of Helsinki – accepted”.
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.
Transitioning into student life hasn’t been all sleek and smooth. It has felt similar to re-learning snowboarding every winter. My sedentary triceps burn and ache from continuously having to push myself back up, I have an impressive array of multicolored and shaped bruises and I can’t sit without howling in pain. Yet I’m beaming because nothing beats the joy of getting down that terrifying hill of ice in one piece.