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  1. Chapter Thirteen: The Pursuit of Happiness (~jinghan)

    I have been tossing an turning trying to work out what topic to choose for my Knowledge, Learning and Culture essay… Maths? Teaching? But then an idea strikes me and I know that nothing else will be quite as good in comparison: Happiness. — A great sadness wells up inside me, and pours forth in […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/seconds/2011/04/22/chapter-thirteen-the-pursuit-of-happiness-jinghan

  2. Chapter Twelve: A Day Worth Living (~jinghan)

    “Arg its so early…” I groan squinting at the light and rubbing at my eyes groggily. My sister turns to me with a unamused look. I like to tease her on Thursday mornings – the only morning when I wake up early enough to run into her in the morning. For her this is a […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/seconds/2011/04/07/chapter-twelve-a-nice-day-jinghan

  3. Chapter Eleven: Toning It Down (~jinghan)

    My phone buzzes. It’s a text.  “Oh god jing, can I just quit uni? It’s so overwhelming and I don’t know how to deal.” I calmly punch back consoling words, but what I’m really thinking is how much those words summarise how I’m feeling as well. You think first year is going to the toughest […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/seconds/2011/04/03/chapter-eleven-toning-it-down-jinghan

  4. Chapter Ten: Falling Off The Other Side (~jinghan)

    Being motivated and hardworking: it’s good, but there is also going too far and just burning yourself out. I forgot about the danger of this when I was trying to shake off my holiday-laziness. And then it all came crashing down. It didn’t help that the weekend before I had said something stupidly mean to […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/seconds/2011/03/31/chapter-ten-falling-off-the-other-side-jinghan

  5. Chapter Nine: BrainSpace (~jinghan)

    The water is a perfect temperature on my skin: not too cold and not too warm. Light dances on every atom* of air suspended in the the water; it’s like swimming through sunlight. Surrounded by the blue of the water below and the blue of the sun above, my mind and body relax. Thoughts flow and […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/seconds/2011/03/27/chapter-nine-brainspace-jinghan

  6. Chapter Eight: Slow Torture of the Sleep Deprived Mind (~jinghan)

    It’s Thursday 11am. “Listen to the crackle of the beanbag beans,” I tell myself, “the mumble of a whispered conversation, the quite snore of someone else on the beanbags. Listen to the gentle hum of the air conditioning, the quiet buzz of the film being played through the headphones. Feel the pressure of the ground […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/seconds/2011/03/24/chapter-eight-slow-torture-of-the-sleep-deprived-mind-jinghan

  7. Chapter Seven: Sick and Tired (~jinghan)

    “Ah… but what happened to your negative?” I ask my student knowingly. “But didn’t I factorised it out?” I look at the page again. Shit. She did too. I’m being out-mathsed by a yr12 student. “Oh damn you did too! You’ll be teaching me soon!” I joke, “It’s not my fault, I’m sick.” I make […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/seconds/2011/03/18/chapter-seven-sick-and-tired-jinghan

  8. Chapter Six: Toughen Up. (~jinghan)

    Note from the author: I could be getting some well deserved sleep but this post is a week overdue, pretend I’m writing this five days ago. I’m agnostic. But if I believe in some God(dess) of fixed identity, then s/he is a very sly cheeky deity that answers prayers in the most obscure of ways. It was Wednesday […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/seconds/2011/03/15/chapter-six-toughen-up-jinghan

  9. Chapter Five: Drifting Off and Slowly Sinking (~jinghan)

    My belly feels bloated, and my brain too. But not the crammed-with-interesting-thoughts sort but the blubby-useless-for-anything sort. It’s so bloated that I can’t even work out why I’m feeling like I’m slowly sinking in a world where other people have noble and passionate goals and I’m just drifting through. It’s Monday. And I’m staring at […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/seconds/2011/03/08/chapter-five-drifting-off-and-slowly-sinking-jinghan

  10. Chapter Four: Happy on the Inside (~jinghan)

    I reach for a tissue to blow my nose. No, I’m not sad and blubbering about anything silly. (Not this time anyway.) I’m just sick. I may look like a horrible ugly mess sitting here on my bed coughing and spluttering, but inside I am the happiest person alive. And it’s probably just as well […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/seconds/2011/03/05/chapter-four-happy-on-the-inside-jinghan

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