I have had remarkable moodswings about the MFA scholarship, vacillating from reassurance about how well my diplomat career could turn out, to depression about how mundane and unintellectual a lot of the work here is (today). Nearly two weeks of internship have passed and only one thing has become clearer: I am still as uncertain as ever about what lies ahead.
There is a joke running around MED that there is a word that is apt in nearly any situation, and I cannot agree less;
Inch'Allah.
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I could borrow from someone stupid enough to lend me $70,000. Or I could split up this figure between a few stupid people, so that even with the ridiculous 5% interest rate, I could pay back less than $95,433.32 (see Exhibit) over seven years.
My picks:
- Alabaster
- Black Gold
- Total Life Forever
- 2 Trees
The rest are harder to listen to. I'm happy to hear Foals' signature guitars.
"En ce sens, il appartient à Sciences Po d’encourager chez ses élèves certaines attitudes comme le courage intellectuel, la capacité à affronter les difficultés, à assumer la complexité, à défendre le respect et la considération comme valeurs fondatrices de la civilité et, plus largement, de la citoyenneté."
Je crois profondément dans le projet éducatif de Sciences Po.
L'école à Singapour nous apprend beaucoup, mais ne nous éduque pas. Les options sont subrepticement réduites, donc pas besoin de réfléchir sur une décision - hop, c'est déjà faite pour vous. Vous ne connaissez pas la difficulté, la complexité, de devoir faire une décision.
Est-ce que je me fais peur ?? Est-ce normal ?? Je lis et relis cette lettre par une ancienne boursière du gouv. Et je vais passer le reste de mes stages en parlant et reparlant avec les gens qui puissent - j'espère - m'aider.
A mes futurs camarades d'école:
J'attends que vous me changez.
Not a very good life motto.
And Japan - when will it ever end??
First I saw the statuses of the Menton sophomores: "what the f*** israel..........!" and "FUCK Israel..."
And then I found the reason.
I wonder how long Obama will stand for this.
I want to cycle to work. But there are a few things missing (hint hint):
BIKE KITgloves (thanks SC)
shorts: FBTs are a bit too revealing for the road, and bike shorts will never get caught in anything. don't know if I should get a bike shirt though...
front and rear lights
FACILITIES
parking space near the Treasury - need to check Esplanade; Bike Boutique?
Route's more or less done up. I'm just left with drawing out the last section after Nicoll Highway to wherever I'm going to park my bike. There's the Bike Boutique, which has bike lodging, but the minimum duration is a month. It's not going to be extracircuitous transferring from Amoy Street to Tanglin.
Oh apparently you can also choose to pay $10 each time. That's not too pricey to keep my bike safe. But now... how am I going to get my bike to Amoy Street without becoming roadkill?? (The rest of my route relies heavily on park connectors / paths with low ped traffic. CBD is a different ball game.)
Alternatively, find any bike parking lot and lock my bike there with my current relatively thin lock.
:-(
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