As long as you don’t have symptoms, assume you are healthy, and stray separated. Obviously, if you already got Covid yesterday, then that ship has sailed, but what if you didn’t? What if your immune system is still fighting it off and will give out in two hours? Chances are slim, but not none.
The role of school is not (only) to prepare for a job, but to develop your knowledge, such that you can build further from there. In this context, a lot of online working environments are counterproductive: they break down tasks to minimal, destroy overarching meaning, erode concentration. They don’t sustain learning, they oppose it.
Good point!
Other hypotheses: we say “true happiness” when it’s sustainable (for a bit) without obvious negative effects. Thus drugs are stereotypically not sustainable and with negative effects, so they are not true happiness [obviously many would disagree, e.g. Baudelaire] and finding true love is true happiness. Thus, stories are also true happiness.
I think the concept of “false happiness” is given by the ends result of such behavior. Doing fruits gives you a high, but also addiction, so in the long run it’s bad for you. Having a fake relationship does not allow you to develop a real one, thus being a negative over time. True happiness is something that should make you happy in the moment and in the long run.
For this reason, media is true happiness.
I wad happy reading the lord of the rings and I’m happy I read it. The happiness reading produced has kept being a source of additional happiness. I remember Bilbo’s songs, and think about them when I take a walk. I remember small little details, or big plot points, and I’m happy to remember them. Same can be said about films and video games (I am just less passionate about them, but that’s just me)
I agree on the first part, I am unsure about the meaning of the second one. Reading a book is for me a great source of happiness, and I wouldn’t completely replace it even given infinite resources.
Personal must try in Munich that hasn’t popped up yet: the Residenzmuseum. In general, the whole city center is incredibly pretty, but the museum of the palace of the “kings” (not always really king, I mostly forgot the story but the local area boss) is positively stunning. Each new big boss built a new section of the palace, making a very complex architecture with the specific intent on impressing the visitors. Even hundreds of years later, it still does its job.
Neuschwanstein is the Disney castle. Equally fake, equally magnificent.
If you go in September, you have to pass by the Oktoberfest. It’s a huuuuuge town fair, mostly centered around beer, rowdiness and chanting, but if you go before “drinking time” (aka 4ish pm) it’s quite family oriented, with plenty of food stalls and general fair flair.
Tollwood has already been pointed out, there is the summer version and the winter one. It’s a “hippy” festival centered around discovering world cultures. Lots of music, from local artists to world known (for which you need to buy tickets in advance).
If you go not in winter, you have to try out a beergarten, traditional places with beers and a limited selection of local pub foods. If you go in winter, the Christmas markets are fun, even if the Munich one is not particularly well known.
Have a good walk by the Englisher Garten, a massive park in the city center. Avoid eating at the Chinesiche Turm, that’s too much of a tourist trap.
As others have pointed out, you are in the middle of Europe, so you can easily consider small trips all around: Berlin, Paris, Vienna are all a direct train away. Rome, Madrid, Barcelona, London have direct flight connections.
The pycharm AI integration completes each line. That’s very useful when you are repeating a well known algorithm and not distracting when you are doing something unusual. So overall, for small things AI is a speed up. I haven’t tried asking chatgpt for bigger coffe chunks, I haven’t had the greatest experience with it up to now and ii don’t want to spend more time debugging than I am already.
Thanks for the chuckle! Considering the health advise is specifically about two beers, saying a couple in context seemed confusing. Thus the quotation marks.
I’m a social drinker, so I’m more likely to drink “some” drinks once a week than a little every day. The latter is really not appealing!
I would like to know if, health wise, it’s the same to drink 2 drinks per day or four every second day (excluding the obvious short term effects)
Thanks for explaining why I “love” green+purple, but somehow always shy away from it… looks great, feels odd
Being the governing body means having responsibilities towards the population. They want to erase the population, obviously they don’t want to be in control when that happens!
The one thing that surprises me the most about US nowadays is that revolutionary violence is not significantly more widespread. I posit that it’s a combination of too much to lose and no hope for success, but u don’t really understand it
The Trump presidency is eroding the international US standing at a pace that leave me speechless. He is shooting in the foot all the US historical allies and enemies alike. Even Europe is slowly distancing itself from US, that was unfathomable a decade ago.
Unfortunately, that’s becoming more and more true, and the quality of college classes has to adapt to a student population that is more and more divided depending on the quality of their high schools.
Students coming from good high schools have already internalized effective studying mechanisms, and often the basics of many topics in the first years of college, while others coming from worst high schools have no clue how to organize themselves to be successful. Often, they lock themselves up and spend unreasonable amount of time trying to make sense of things they don’t have the perquisite for. A good read in this direction is Whistling Vivaldi. Obviously, high school quality is very connected with the whiteness and affluence of their location, putting poorer and minority students at a disadvantage even before the starting block.
Mini-rant incoming
There is that, sure, but also courses are structured to make sense as a whole, such that the end connects to all the pieces you have been gathering along the way. Therefore, it is often easier and mire fulfilling to study at the end of the semester, when the end goal of the techniques studied is shown. On the other hand, postponing all to the end is obviously a bad plan. So to avoid that, courses are structured with mid-terms and homework hand ins and so on to force students into learning a bit at a time, thus often loosing track of the global picture and making studying feel harder and less motivating. Plus, constant testing is a source of increased stress and lower productivity (who would have guessed).
I don’t know the solution to this conundrum, I just rant about it.
When I was a student, I tried to take rest days before exams if possible. During my bachelor I had a strict rule of never studying more than 6 days a week, 10 hours a day (including commute). Having some time off was fundamental. I dropped that rule during the master and barely graduated :/
Now as a teacher, I often see students not able to pace themselves, giving it their all and collapsing half way through exam season. Understanding your own limits is rough… in particular when it had worked for so many months. But they overlooked how each month took a toll and at some point you can’t keep it all together.
If you see your burnout lasting more than a couple of days of rest, reach out. The sooner the better.
Get in contact with student support services, most universities have some sort of mental health “crisis” support system. (Crisis between quotes because what they can handle varies wildly). They can not only help you with your burnout, but also get in contact with your prof and let them know. You could (likelihood depends on the university) get a second chance at a later date without having to retake the full course.
Unfortunately, burnout and similar health issues have skyrocketed between university students since covid, the universities try to keep up, but… funding processes suck, so it really depends on the state/county/specific university.
All the best!
As a general statement: worrying doesn’t help, only raises your stress levels and negatively impact your immune system.
There are here causes for concern, and your fear is justified. Other than isolation from your wife, there is not much to do.
As a side note: being in constant contact with other humans raises your immune responses, because you are constantly trained to fight off mild infections. Coming back from full isolation was really rough on my partner, they kept getting “the flu” (something or other) every time they went to a crowded place, even just the supermarket at rush hour. It took them a year to develop a normal immune response again.