Category: About Seconds
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Chapter Five: Dear Jinghan, Don’t Be Brainwashed By Religion (~jinghan)
I’m hanging out with my friend who is also on exchange. She came to visit me in Davis and since I had a long weekend we’re heading down to LA to play tourist, before she heads back to Melbourne from LA airport. We each have our head in a book as we wait for our […] -
Prologue to Third Year (~jinghan)
It’s December 2011 and I walk out of my final exam, a great load is lifted from my shoulders – I survived. The year started with the passing of my grandmother, a broken relationship, a new relationship and a trip into a faraway country. Things weren’t looking so great around June, but somehow having time […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/seconds/2012/02/06/prologue-to-third-year-jinghan
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Chapter Sixty-Two: Uncollege (~jinghan)
Imagine this, you go to check your emails expecting homework, correspondences with people from Australia and some promotional stuff (just for good measure. But instead you have this in your inbox from your psychology teacher. Folks- Below is a link to an article in today’s New York Times. It’s about a young homeschooler that I know from […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/seconds/2011/11/05/chapter-sixty-two-uncollege-jinghan
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3 months to relive [Daniel]
3 months it’s been since I last visited this place. An unkept corner of the internet which except for me had no real patronage, no real life. A ghost town….. or so I thought. Moving back I see words, not mine, on the walls, comments to-ing and fro-ing, more than just a few spatterings of […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/seconds/2011/06/25/3-months-to-relive-daniel
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Chapter Sixteen: The Pursuit Continued (~jinghan)
I have to come out and admit, I’ve had a pretty dodgy semester so far. I’ve been sick, encountered death for the first time, suffered insomnia, struggled to concentrate in class and struggling to feel that same enthusiasm towards my studies as I did last year. It was perhaps an unexpected but good choice for me to […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/seconds/2011/04/25/chapter-sixteen-the-pursuit-continued-jinghan
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Chapter Fourteen: Second Awakening (~jinghan)
I curl up tightly under the doona in my dark room. And hour ago I had crawled out of bed ready to go out: a day with the family and driving hours for my licence. I amble to the loo, pain, and then blood in my urine. And an hour later I’m back in bed listening […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/seconds/2011/04/23/chapter-fourteen-second-awakening-jinghan
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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
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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
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Cristina S and the Chamber of Secrets
Sorry, but every time I think of myself as a second-year student I can’t help but relate it back to Harry Potter. Anyway. Hi! My name is Cristina, surname forever undisclosed because I am the only one of my kind in the world, therefore am easily look-up-able/Facebook-stalk-able. I am a second-year Bachelor of Arts (Media […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/seconds/2011/02/10/cristina-s-and-the-chamber-of-secrets
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Prologue to Second Year (~jinghan)
Note from the Author: A survey of my first-year blog revealed that I had written some fourty-three “chapters” and an estimated 45000 words – so pretty much a novel. I got rather attached to my strange narrative way of blogging during first year, so it only seems fit that I continue the saga with a […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/seconds/2011/02/07/prologue-to-second-year
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