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Tanzania: We Went on a Safari!

28th January 2017 6 Comments

“Omg giraffes are the cutest!”…

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Tanzania: Two Nights in an Orphanage

19th January 2017 3 Comments

We flew to the north of Tanzania, near Mount Kilimanjaro, and stayed at a local orphanage. And what a wonderful place it is.

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Zanzibar: Exotic Spices and Historic Stone Town

15th January 2017 6 Comments

We had a long-loooong day of exploring the local spice farm and Stone Town. I took far too many photos.

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Zanzibar: African Village Life

13th January 2017 2 Comments

Suleiman, born and raised in Nungwi, showed us around the village.

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Zanzibar: Rainforests and Giant Tortoises

10th January 2017 2 Comments

So we went on a roadtrip!

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Zanzibar: “Jambo!” aka First Impressions of Nungwi

8th January 2017 2 Comments

Jambo is hello in Swahili. That’s how everyone greets each-other on this small village in Zanzibar, Tanzania.

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New Year New Room

1st January 2017 No Comments

I got to decorate again, woo-hoo!

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Kertu Tenso

Estonian-born former Parisian living in Boston, United States. 💕 Feel free to follow me on my quest for infinite travelling. ✌🏻️

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Can you tell that I’m so HAPPY to be back at hom Can you tell that I’m so HAPPY to be back at home in Estonia? 🇪🇪💙 Here’s a photo dump from my first 3 days. No better place to charge my batteries than Estonia. Been hanging out with fam, soaking in all the beauty, and inhaling all the good food. 😅 I hope you all aren’t getting tired of the Estonia content just yet! 😀 I promise to post some more academic content soon.
Hello friends! I’ve not posted much on my feed t Hello friends! I’ve not posted much on my feed these days so I thought I will give a general update: 🔹On Monday, I stated my qualifying exam. It lasted until Tuesday night. Altogether, I worked on it 12h the first day and 11h the next day, so 23h total. Safe to say that I was EXHAUSTED after the exam. 🔹I spent the next days sleeping and also partying with my cohort mates. We were celebrating the submission but we don’t actually know if we passed yet (🤞🏻🤞🏻). We have to wait two weeks to hear back about passing and four weeks to get detailed feedback. All I want is to pass. I need 7/10 on every question (not the total) in order to pass. 🔹 I did a very limited amount of work during this past week. I showed up at some meetings to keep myself in the loop but did not have the energy to actually do any programming. I have to keep working in Estonia though, because I am leading some projects that have a couple of big deadlines by the end of the summer. So, they are counting on me. 🔹I’ve also been running errands for my trip home. There’s a lot of paperwork I need to bring, and there are some things I need to finish before I leave on Tuesday. I’m also a little nervous about the trip because my second flight is from Amsterdam and some of these flights have been recently cancelled (Covid in NL is bad right now). I’ve tried to contact KLM for weeks (via phone, FB, and now via Twitter and WhatsApp as well) but they have simply ignored me. I really hope everything will go smoothly because I really need to see my family. It’s been two difficult years. 😢 ❤️ Also wanted to say thank you to you all because you were so kind and supportive before, during and after the exam. You all are the best.
24 HOURS UNTIL I WILL TAKE MY PHD QUALIFYING EXAM 24 HOURS UNTIL I WILL TAKE MY PHD QUALIFYING EXAM AHHHHH The exam will start at noon on Monday and finish at midnight on Tuesday. So it will be a crazy 36 hours. They expect us to sleep and eat during it but I guess that depends how well I will do. 😅 The exam was put together by multiple of my professors and the questions will range from theory and study interpretation to methods and designing causal inference studies. But we don’t know exactly what they will ask us to do, so just in case we have prepared a lot - two months to be precise. If (or hopefully when) I pass, I will become a PhD candidate and move on to the dissertation stage. If I fail, I will get a second chance to take it but after that I would need to leave my PhD program. 😬 So this is a huge deal! I have been nervous about it ever since I started my program. 😅 WISH ME LUCK!!!
📚An academic’s paradise! 📚 If any of you 📚An academic’s paradise! 📚 If any of you want to get me a gift then a membership for this library is the way to go. 😅 I walked around with my eyes like this: 😍 PS these beautiful handmade Oxford leather loafers are from @juliaboshoes Thank you for the gift! ❓Is anyone else here a library enthusiast? What’s the most beautiful library you’ve ever been to?
~ Research/PhD progress update ~ It’s been a w ~ Research/PhD progress update ~ It’s been a while since I’ve updated you guys on my PhD progress. That’s because I’ve been busy with studying for my qualifying exam (in my case, it’s an actual exam on all of the courses I’ve taken before, not presenting my research or proposal). It’s in less than 2 weeks from today and I’m getting real nervous. 😱 And did I tell you that it’s 36h long? I have tons of other projects that I’m on but I’ve already told my lab that I will be distracted for a while and I am planning to take the whole week before the exam off to 100% commit to exam studying. So, this is my last week of trying to balance project work with qualifying exam prep. That’s it. Kind of boring but it’s the biggest milestone in my PhD program and I feel like after passing the qualifying exam, I almost have the PhD in the bag. 😜 Just need to come up with a dissertation proposal and conduct the studies - no big deal haha. But for real, there have been people failing this qualifying exam and leaving the program so I really hope it won’t happen to me. 🤞🏻 ❓Any tips on how to calm nerves before and during the exam?
I promise I will go back to my regular PhD content I promise I will go back to my regular PhD content any day now. 😅 I just have to post this pink rooftop bar with Empire State Building views. It was to die for. 😍💕
“Floor 100 please” 😱 #nyc #theedge “Floor 100 please” 😱 #nyc #theedge
Nothing meaningful to say about being a PhD studen Nothing meaningful to say about being a PhD student, except to remind everyone to NOT FORGET TO LIVE YOUR LIFE. I’ll never get tired of visiting this great city. 🥰💙 #nyc #visitnyc
“What does your summer look like?” “Are you “What does your summer look like?” “Are you on summer vacation now?” I get these questions a lot so I thought that I will put together this post to explain what my summer looks like. I definitely don’t (sadly) get the summer off. 😅 ❓What does your summer look like as a grad student?
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