Student life - 3 days before exams...
So you´re at the end of the rope, you´re worn out, torn up, exhausted, feeling braindead, living in a bubbleworld and is just longing for freedom - knowing that breathing again only is days away now!!
That´s how it feels like today (just look at those dead roses on the picture!), being a student, 3 days before my exams start. Not like August, the beginning, when I poured over the books, a whole new world opening up to me, so excited and with a hunger to learn. Now it is all about discipline, getting up, getting to the library, not ending up on Facebook or online news, and reading the same thing over and over trying to get it, because in a few days some professor will actually ask you what you know about this topic, and you can´t say you remember you read about that somewhere, and please, give me a minute, and I´ll check it out.
But.... what has this year contained, is it possible to sum up a little bit of what I´ve learned and what I now have to show after 10 months of studying? Will the work I´ve done so far just end up in the back of my storage, will anyone ever read any of my work or ask me to use the knowledge I´ve acquired? Am I a wiser person now, more educated - yes - check - but am I wiser? More able to handle life? Do I have a deeper understanding of what´s going in the world today, and in people´s lives? Has studying made me A Better Person?
So... the works I´ve completed - are 4 essays - about:
- Christianity in northeast Asia, with focus on South Korea
- Religion in diaspora communities, with focus on South Koreans emigrating to the USA
- Confucianism - the history and the change in a globalized world
- Confucianism and human rights in China
I´ve also studied the topic of war, terrorism and torture and co-written another essay on Globalization/Anti-globalization - a theoretic perspective on trends in globalization.
The topics we have studied so far are vast, but a lot of it is about seeing how globalization historically and up to today has been and is changing the world in all kinds of different areas - finance, politics, religion, philosophy, how the nation state works, and so forth. We´ve read about nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction as well as the relationship between the North and the South, the East and the West, we´ve gone through all kinds of religions and philosophies and their ethics today, briefly looked at colonial time with all the empires, but focused on the era after - post colonial times with the nation state in charge, starting to see how this world perception is rapidly changing and the affects it is having.
One of my exams next week is one not related to the master, but so interesting, I had to do it - Culture and communication in China, asking questions about how China has been able to rise from ashes in 30 years without anyone really noticing, taken over most of trade, and might be the new empire of the future, with all the challenges and changes that could mean for the whole world.
Well, most of you might have skimmed through the last two paragraphs (that´s okey!), and take it easy, I´m not gonna make my blog into a discussion forum for my studies... Though I will continue to blog about my personal experience of grief and give advice on how to get rid of acne-problems, I might pop in an article here and there - about the crazy effects of globalization, my Faith, my opinions, with the goal of not just opening my own world, but challenging others to do the same.
And also - I thought I´d let you know what I´ve spent most of my time on the last 10 months, because it is changing me, and it is opening up my world and it is, hopefully, making me a better person!
Well, my break is definitely up. Peter at the coffee shop Mezzanin is telling me how scientists have said that you don´t remember anything you read the 3 last days before an exam (hey, thanks Peter!) - and I understand why. It´s 11.54 and I haven´t started studying yet, but now I will, trying to put all the scientists to shame! Wait and see!
That´s how it feels like today (just look at those dead roses on the picture!), being a student, 3 days before my exams start. Not like August, the beginning, when I poured over the books, a whole new world opening up to me, so excited and with a hunger to learn. Now it is all about discipline, getting up, getting to the library, not ending up on Facebook or online news, and reading the same thing over and over trying to get it, because in a few days some professor will actually ask you what you know about this topic, and you can´t say you remember you read about that somewhere, and please, give me a minute, and I´ll check it out.
How student life was in the start... and still is! My for ever amazing study friends Ina and Maria, having lunch at the college cantina. You´re the best!
But.... what has this year contained, is it possible to sum up a little bit of what I´ve learned and what I now have to show after 10 months of studying? Will the work I´ve done so far just end up in the back of my storage, will anyone ever read any of my work or ask me to use the knowledge I´ve acquired? Am I a wiser person now, more educated - yes - check - but am I wiser? More able to handle life? Do I have a deeper understanding of what´s going in the world today, and in people´s lives? Has studying made me A Better Person?
So... the works I´ve completed - are 4 essays - about:
- Christianity in northeast Asia, with focus on South Korea
- Religion in diaspora communities, with focus on South Koreans emigrating to the USA
- Confucianism - the history and the change in a globalized world
- Confucianism and human rights in China
I´ve also studied the topic of war, terrorism and torture and co-written another essay on Globalization/Anti-globalization - a theoretic perspective on trends in globalization.
The topics we have studied so far are vast, but a lot of it is about seeing how globalization historically and up to today has been and is changing the world in all kinds of different areas - finance, politics, religion, philosophy, how the nation state works, and so forth. We´ve read about nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction as well as the relationship between the North and the South, the East and the West, we´ve gone through all kinds of religions and philosophies and their ethics today, briefly looked at colonial time with all the empires, but focused on the era after - post colonial times with the nation state in charge, starting to see how this world perception is rapidly changing and the affects it is having.
One of my exams next week is one not related to the master, but so interesting, I had to do it - Culture and communication in China, asking questions about how China has been able to rise from ashes in 30 years without anyone really noticing, taken over most of trade, and might be the new empire of the future, with all the challenges and changes that could mean for the whole world.
Well, most of you might have skimmed through the last two paragraphs (that´s okey!), and take it easy, I´m not gonna make my blog into a discussion forum for my studies... Though I will continue to blog about my personal experience of grief and give advice on how to get rid of acne-problems, I might pop in an article here and there - about the crazy effects of globalization, my Faith, my opinions, with the goal of not just opening my own world, but challenging others to do the same.
And also - I thought I´d let you know what I´ve spent most of my time on the last 10 months, because it is changing me, and it is opening up my world and it is, hopefully, making me a better person!
Well, my break is definitely up. Peter at the coffee shop Mezzanin is telling me how scientists have said that you don´t remember anything you read the 3 last days before an exam (hey, thanks Peter!) - and I understand why. It´s 11.54 and I haven´t started studying yet, but now I will, trying to put all the scientists to shame! Wait and see!
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