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Things I need to remember:
• Asking for help is not, as it turns out, fatal.
• Laughing is easier than pulling your hair out, and doesn't have the unfortunate side effect of making you look like a plague victim.
• Even the biggest tasks can be defeated if taken a bit at a time.
• I can write a paper the night before it's due, but the results are not all they could be.
• Be thorough, but focused.
• Trust yourself.
• Honesty, always.
Historians are the Cassandras of the Humanities
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Date: May 4th, 2013 04:01 am (UTC)My problem is that whenever I start to study a new language (I'm up to five, not that I can use any of them really, except German) all the old ones come crowding in to say hello! It's almost eerie how clearly they all reside in the same part of the brain. Oddly, German helped with Hebrew (no clue why, maybe the Yiddish in my genetic makeup?) and Italian came WAY easier than French.
I recall Latin was sort of easy in some ways, but the structure is HUGE. I mean it's very regular, once you learn this gigantic framework. That's what I had trouble with - all those gorram declensions! Ack!