There was an article in the Ottawa Citizen the other day about international students. Apparently at Carleton, 1 in 5 graduate students is an international. Of course, this averages across all subjects - my experience is that in Computer Science (and likely the rest of Science and Engineering) the ratio is higher. When I first ...
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International Students
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Time
Being so busy this week has got me thinking about the concept of "having time". We all have 60 minutes in each hour and 24 of them in each day for however many weeks, months, years or - hopefully - decades we have left on this planet. We just can't know how long that is. I ...
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Manic Monday
I've wasted a chunk of the afternoon having a bit of a panic attack. This morning I had physio on my knee, followed by an hour of time hanging out in SITE waiting to meet with the guy who's course I'm TA-ing (I read some of the 60 page book chapter I'm carrying about with ...
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Perseverance
On Wednesday I was getting on my bike, when my kneecap briefly rotated around the side of my knee. It was seriously painful, and I keeled over, bike with me, and my bike frame landed on my hurt knee. Ouch. I got picked up (literally, I was in the road) by some kind strangers and called ...
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