Hello there,
Okay okay, I admit it to myself. I've been studying almost half a decade. Since the University and the course doesn't really have a proper beginning, half time and end, I don't really feel a time pressure.. which is good I think? Why.. I have many reasons to answer this question. Studying in the "public University of Vienna" has given me a total different view of STUDYING. Unlike in school I was really pressured from the teachers to get things done on a special date, with a tight class schedule - fully loaded is the term my parents use. But in University, aside from my own parents, no one is pressuring me on whether I finish sooner than later. The professors, the institute, my friends.. noone pressures me. Because studying in Vienna is not something where you study for the sake of studying, but you study because you want to gain knowledge at your own pace. There are students who have been studying for 10 years, others have studied for only 3 years.. both of them aiming for the same academic degree. Yet the one studying for 10 years, may have more life experiences than the one who has studied for only three years. Students I meet in courses always tell me how their internship in a third world country was, their voluntary work in that organization. So while studying they get to practice what they study. I, on the other hand am the inexperienced one.. inexperienced in the sense that I don't travel to thirld world countries (aside from the philippines) or work as a volunteer for an organization abroad. I have to admit that I am too scared to do that, and my parents won't let me experience that. But my five years studying wasn't sleep all day and waste the year. I can finally say that I am A L M O S T done... well "almost"... I never knew that I would ever get tired of reading and surfing the internet to do research. Since I have completed all my required subjects and all, my whole attention is focused on my 100 page thesis, which I have to submit in November. And here comes the time pressure, I have to be finished with everything: final exam and all by March 2014.
Once I'll be finished with my studies I want to explore the world. Leave Vienna for a year and travel the world, or at least go to a country by myself...... or at least with one friend. I don't really know if I can handle this "alonetime" by myself...
So in order to do the latter, I HAVE TO RESEARCH, READ, maybe interview AND WRITE that freaking thesis. I need all the angels and saints and Lord Jesus Christ to support, guide and force me to do this all.
THIS IS IT,
not-so-matured-lady
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