Little thoughts...

I am a university student and right now I am studying for my spring exams. Studying is a two-fold experience for me. On the one hand I hate it, I hate the hours of concentration, I hate the stress, I hate the drying up of inspiration it causes. On the other hand I love it, I love learning, becoming less ignorant, understanding the subject I love so much so much more and most of all just seeing the world through different eyes.

I love my degree. I study East Asian Studies, not the language, just the culture. Why? you ask, because it is like a different world. To learn about a socialist goverment and the problems that causes for the population, wow for me that is amazing. To read poetry of women from long ago detailing their frustration in not being able to be educated as well as men, so thought provoking. Reading literature written by people suffering from occupation in their country, I couldn't even imagine that before. I am so thankful for my education, which allows me to become something so amazing...

Ah I love it.

(Image is Ban Zhao, a lady from the Han dynasty. She was a very famous female scholar at a time when many women were stunted in their education. She wrote a
classical book and was a teacher to the royal family at the time)