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7 Isolation Activities (That Have Nothing To Do With Your Degree!)
I’m positive every last one of you have gotten an email from your professor or boss or person-you-report-to listing all the things you can still do to work towards your degree at home. This is completely excellent, and a very effective way to help people through a very uncertain and ever-changing time.
However, if you’re anything like me, you can blow through a list of targeted objectives like that in no time when you are stuck at home. And not only are you left with nothing to do at the end, you feel completely burnt out and the LAST thing you want to think about is work, school, or your project.
Fear not, I have a handy list of seven things you can do that have nothing to do with your degree that will (hopefully) distract you from social distancing and shelter-in-place orders.
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Inclusion: Adults with Autism
While our nation is flooded with support for young children on the autism spectrum, many forget to consider the adults within our communities that live everyday on the spectrum. The entertainment industry, however, has helped launch this topic into discussion. The award-winning 1988 film Rain Man realistically illustrated the daily challenges for adults with autism with an all-star cast including Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman. The recently developed TV series The Good Doctor has showcased the social stigmas surrounding autism and highlights the unbelievable talents that individuals on the spectrum have the ability to develop in order to help others in their community. In 2017, Netflix released Atypical, a series that follows a high school student as he begins to discover the possibilities for independence through education, hobbies and relationships while addressing the life-long affects an autism diagnosis can have on a family.
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Cultural shock as an international student- Part 1: “Sumi masen, Nihongo Wakara nai”
Hello friends! Just before the holidays, I decided to lift my spirit and think about all the funnier things that happened to me in the recent years! Who doesn't’ need a little break during a semester end season, after all, right? Moreover, I think everyone’s life has been filled with more seriousness since this COVID-19 happened! (well in a good way I find it’s easy to put the blame on covid and corona these days, on whatever bad or unexpected happens!)
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Out in the Sunny Fields
Tifblue, Premier, Brightwell, Climax. They may sound like random company names or movie industry terms, but these are actually just four of the twenty varieties of blueberries you can find at Moorhead’s Blueberry Farm. My husband and I first drove down last year, carpooling with and invited by local friends. We hemmed and hawed at first – a 1.5 hour drive one-way amidst busy work schedules, classes, lab meetings, and paper deadlines? Could we justify it? But our lives cannot be purely school and work labor, and an outdoor, sweet reprieve from paper and pen sounded like one way we could balance work and play.
