Hopping from event to event these days. Heaps of students everywhere! Uni was a ghost town last week; the students really pump strange fashion (short dresses with high tops?) and life into Victoria. I am attempting to talk to every librarian at Victoria- librarians will forever hold a special place in my heart. The geography department has it’s own library, a private meeting is in the works tomorrow with our geography librarian, Rohini. So fun!!!
There are only 5 geography graduate students, a PhD candidate, a “diploma” student, and 3 MA students. We are a small and non-united group, being that we all have different schedules. Oh well, my office is EXTREMLY social, people seem to pop in quite often for hot gossip. The office will be much like a revolving door for the next 6 months, with some half way done and others just starting.
Students cried to God, overwhelmed with bibliographies. God then intervened and gave them EndNote. Pretty sure that’s in the Bible somewhere. As an organization enthusiast EndNote is the last word on organization. You plug in all your references manually, or automatically through select academic journals. Once your references are logged into your EndNote library you can “cite while you write” with whatever formatting necessary. God does exist.
The Journal of Happiness has been of immense interest over the past couple days. Oh of course the Dutch started it/house all the information in the world on happiness. Journal titles being read at the moment range from, Mixed blessings of material progress to Quality of life of HIV- infected people across different stages of infection.
At the moment I am very concerned about the future of young people, so somehow that's going into my thesis. Unemployment contributes greatly to suicide rates. There are so many talented, educated young adults that are forced to take “run of the mill” jobs- jobs that will not pay off their massive loans. Kiwi’s suffer from this predicament as well. New Zealand, after Finland, has the highest rate of death by suicide ages 15-24. Why is that? Long small countries near poles are not so keen for young adults. Geography is just a place to start looking.
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