Guess who got into Cambridge on Monday!!

To do Classics! - the subject I love SO SO much… oh my gosh…

I finally did it, I finally made my dreams come true. I can finally release all the excitement and all the want that I made myself hold in and suppress because I didn’t want to tempt fate. And after my interview experience I wouldn’t even dare think about a future where I went to Cambridge. I was dealing with a lot of family issues at the time and my second interview was just a slow and painful death by Latin grammar, I remember sitting in silence for what felt like forever after logging off of that final zoom, just thinking I had thrown it all away over the ablative case. And I spent weeks thinking that. And I was wrong. And I have never been more happy to be wrong in my life.

And so the semester two begins! My lecturer says that this reading will only take 2-3 hours, but it’s 4 chapters worth of reading so I’m not too sure about that. I probably already spent at least 3 hours on this, and I’m not even halfway done. Then need to do reading for my Environmental Psychology module, and make some sort of progress with my research project. I think I will be able to start collecting data soon, so that will be exciting!

Also, I finally have a lamp for my desk so no more burning of candles for the sake of being able to see!

I’m actually sad that once I finish this essay, I will be done with this module. Learning about an evolutionary perspective for psychology really shifted my whole worldview on the subject :) also, kudos to Randolph M. Nesse for writing his book which literally answers my essay question 

candle lit december evening & messy desk

Me:I should probably study

Me:*scrolls through studyblrs/langblrs for hours*

Studying ft. My cat

How to get better at reading

1. Pick something on your level

- pick a genre you enjoy and start off with a short story or article then move on to longer text once you feel comfortable reading longer pieces.

-You can also find a book you already read in your native language translated into your target language

2. Read the text multiple times

- just read through it first

-Read it again and look up words you don’t know.

-Once you know the vocabulary read it again

- make sure you write the words you didn’t know down so you can practice them.

3. Read whenever you can

- The more you read the better you’ll get

4. Read out loud

Fall vocabulary

I want a pen pal that I can practice korean with. Like we send each other cute stationery and other standard pen pal things but we write in korean sometimes. And we can like share new words we learned in korean and try to use those words in our letters.

Why did you start learning Korean?