On Graduate School and Studying Abroad

I didn’t take anyone’s advice when I went to Maastricht. If I did, I probably would’ve ended up somewhere much less interesting and the experience would’ve been much less fulfilling. In addition, I’m absolutely terrible with these things, especially when my mind’s made up and I’m all set to go. Basically, I took care of…

I Have My Masters Degree: Looking Back

Exactly a year to the date that I moved to Maastricht to start this adventure I keep talking about, and get that highly coveted Masters degree, I got an email confirming that I had passed that pesky thing that kept me up for nights on end and had me learning complicated statistical methods- my thesis….

Getting Lost, Getting to Know Another

In Lebanon, I used to pride myself on my excellent sense of direction- you could put me in any car and I would know exactly where I going. And I thought that skill would be transferable once I moved to NL, because I could read a map. Turns out, I was very wrong. Although my…

Why Maastricht?

I could’ve easily gone back to AUB to do my masters. The program I plan on enrolling in is offered there and I have the grades to get me in. I would not have had to pay anything other than tuition and transportation and would have still gotten a high-quality education.I could’ve oh-so-easily applied to…

Being Unconventional

I’ve always had the penchant of being unconventional. When almost everyone I knew enrolled at university to study Engineering, Business Administration, or follow the pre-medical track, I chose to take the road less traveled: I studied Environmental Health and minored in Public Health and Creative Writing. “Ah, interesting, good luck with that! Bas inno shu…