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Day 102:

The Life of a Student: 


The works of Milton on her bedside table.
          A copy of Ancient Rome on the bathroom sill.
In her room - a piano, anchored solidly next to the bed.

Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (First Movement).

Form of music? Pop-Opera - Il Divo to be exact.

A desk larger than the dinner table
littered with Spectroscopy notes, and biological musings.
Textbooks lay strewn
at the foot of the bed.

On the whiteboard - Vergil
...macte nova virtute... sic itur ad astra...




Study break update...reminiscing over Semester 1...













Edit:
Woooooow.... I've gone past DAY 100 without realising it! Talk about tempus fugit! Went to the  fantastic Bigger and Better Event run by I Am Challenge this afternoon! Keen to see what teams ended up getting for one dollar? Check out: www.facebook.com/iambiggerandbetter - they've gotten bikes, fishing rods, an incredibly unique photo frame and even a Louis Vitton handbag... 

Day 94

Was walking down Symonds St. on Friday evening against the tide of people heading home (I was heading back to IC4) when an approaching guy suddenly goes from being pan face to cracking this massive grin and greeting me on the way past!

'Hi Carmen!!'

That completely made my night. :)
Couldn't help but grin while studying Medsci.

Day 92

I found this really interesting. Definitely worth a read!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19876494

'An infant must know that it's loved because only then can it trust the risky business of coming to love others. This first love resources us as life unfolds, bringing confidence and courage, spontaneity and drive, a sense of safety and of being grounded....What good self-love achieves, Aristotle continued, is the capacity to get over yourself. Then you are liberated to see that there's a world around you. You are not king or queen. Instead, you know you are one of many, and those many are there to love and be with, to be known by and to get to know. You have time for others because you do not need to have all the time for yourself. You are a delight to be with, having taken in the first love of your parents and now being able to live it yourself.'