Academia

5 ways to raise money to study abroad

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The skeptic in you will always ask, can I afford studying abroad? I'm here to tell you that yes, you can.

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The Sheikh and the City

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Thinking of Leipzig I thought of learned middle-aged men, feverishly working printers and book publishers, and a gallant beau monde. Times seemed to have changed and I should have known.

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The problem with the Ivory Tower

For me, there is something pressing and ominous about a book I cannot finish.

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Saying hello (for lack of a better headline)

It was learning German, a break from my English-language academic writing, that brought me back to poetry. I found myself on a bus from Berlin to Leipzig writing a very basic-worded break-up poem in German, just for practice. (I will share said poem here once it has been properly proofread.) The next morning, I found

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