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I will study more (go for PhD)
Note: to be expanded 2024-2025 was supposed to be the final year of my Master’s degree studies. Some part of me still thinks if it wasn’t just better to have started a PhD straight away, as our Bacherlor’s degrees in Brazil last 5 years, we do research during the degrees, etc etc. In any case, over the past year I have been deliberating and oscillating a lot, considering the options I have before me after my master’s degree finishes.
Read More →Analysis of my Spring 2025
Don’t do as I do, or in other works, how to ask for burnout. As open source developers say: free things are gifts. You should be grateful for having access to opensource software and stop blaming the developers. tl;dr: Only do volunteer work you will enjoy. Sleep better Sleep is fundamental, paramount. If you don’t sleep properly, stop reading now and come back when you do. Learn to detect things to say No to I started my master’s degree in fall 2023, and I was looking for projects.
Read More →Exchanging your Driver's License in Finland
Wanna just jump to the juice? Go to process Commuting It has been around 1 year and 8 months since I moved to the land of 40.000 lakes and thousands of islands. Finland has one of the best public transport systems in the world, notably in bigger urban centers. That means Helsinki and to some extent Tampere. Since I was not located in any of those, things generally go via bus, what is not exactly bad, but you are, natually, constrained to where bus lines pass, plus you are subject to traffic, weather (which really is something during the colder months), and the fares are quite high (3.
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