Facultatea în diferite țări. Partea I: România
Pentru următoarele zile, mi-am propus un mic joc. Un chestionar, mai degrabă. Mi-am rugat câțiva prieteni împrăștiați pe mai multe continente să îmi răspundă la câteva întrebări despre facultatea pe care au terminat-o. Fiecare student a făcut facultatea în altă
Poliția Siguranța Școlară
Întrebare: te-ai simți mai în siguranță dacă ar patrula poliția lângă tine în fiecare pauză? Aș putea spune că le-am auzit pe toate în România, mai ales în mediul educațional, dar se pare că de fiecare dată vorbesc blasfemii. De curând,
Lipsa consilierilor educaționali din școlile românești
Mie mi-a luat o vreme îndelungată să mă întreb - de ce nu avem consilieri acreditați în scolile publice românești? Acum, răspunsul pregătit de administrații este mereu: dar avem psiholog! Vă rog frumos, arătați-mi în ce dicționar românesc psiholog =
On American admissions
It’s like the popular girl. She’s only popular because we believe she is worthy of said popularity. If one day, people decide that Colgate is the best school in the world, then Colgate’s applications will go through the roof. It’s
Reset and renewal
With the only allowance I had, I perturbed my lips with slimed cigarettes covered in my cheap red lipstick and Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking and refused to believe the Russians trotted once where I now take overly
The women who made my a woman – Part IV
March 8th, 2021 Being grateful is the least difficult thing one can do. You list things, you acknowledge their hitherto presence and impact on your life, put down the pen, go back to status quo: ingratitude. Simplicity, Ignorance. The blissfulness of being unaware, Who
What I learned from starting an NGO in the middle of a pandemic
One of my 2021 resolutions should be along the lines of wishing to post more. Let me invoke my constant excuses and admit that I have been both busy and overwhelmed by everything that has been going on in the
From rags to riches, a cliché healing story
One glass of wine in. I think I am ready. It’s been some time. Hi everyone. I am writing this fairly late and it feels despicably weird on my behalf that I sort of abandoned my blog for some time. I may
Dear 15-year-old Julia,
I haven’t written something worthwhile in much too long and with everything I read on the news, it has come to my own attention that I need a break. Granted, I will refrain from using textbook terminology in saying this
Writing Museum Contest, 2020 edition
I want to encourage writers, young or old, to continue polishing and pushing their abilities during this time especially by offering the winner $200 as a reward.