Admittedly, I am not always a very environment-oriented person. If I need something, I buy it from a store without considering a second-hand item. I often leave the tap running when I brush my teeth. I’m not a vegetarian. However, there is one aspect of ethically conscious behavior I have taken part in more than [...]
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A Conscious Adoption
Admittedly, I am not always a very environment-oriented person. If I need something, I buy it from a store without considering a second-hand item. I often leave the tap running when I brush my teeth. I’m not a vegetarian. However, there is one aspect of ethically conscious behavior I have taken part in more than [...]
Picture Time!
Photos courtesy of the Kristiina Nieminen Collection. Captions courtesy of Kristiina Nieminen’s brain.
But Hey, It Looks Good!
This fall has brought a big change to the university campus in the center. Namely, the opening of the much-hyped, eagerly anticipated Kaisa-talo, the modern main library of the university. I walked in through the revolving door on the opening day and looked up. At first glance, I was blown away by its beauty, its [...]
The One Where I Show My Love For Bicy...
During the past few years the bicycle has been rising in popularity as a choice of transport within Helsinki especially among young adults. Or it might have always been popular, I don’t care, I don’t know, I haven’t lived in the capital long enough to have collected observations from a long period.
Birth of a Thesis: Over and Done With
If you detect some annoyance in my final piece about me and my BA thesis, I can tell you that before sitting down to write this, I chased my suitcase from Helsinki-Vantaa to Espoo as someone mistook mine for theirs. Moving on! It’s been a while now since I handed in my essay and the [...]
BTSB and Vappu
I never thought much of the Eve of First of May or First of May until I moved to Helsinki. In my small town, these days consisted of seeing more balloons than usual and going to a special lunch with my parents where some people wore their student caps, but that was it. So when [...]
Birth of a Thesis: Of Janet and Frust...
For the past few months, I’ve thought about Janet Schaw and her travelogue almost every day. It’s strange to think that almost 250 years after her journey, I am delving into her experience of the West Indies, trying to decode what her text reveals about her and her surroundings. I’ve imagined her standing on the [...]
Toy Stories: His and Hers?
I will never forget a conversation I had with a childhood friend who was about three years younger than me at the time, maybe 9 while I was 12. We were in my backyard enjoying the sunny day when I told her I’d recently become interested in Star Wars. She looked me in the eye [...]
The Birth of a Thesis: Nice to meet y...
Somehow the fall semester has flown by and I’m halfway through my proseminar. It’s been rather interesting and, at times, unnerving. What was all fun and games at first gave me a bit of fright in the beginning of November. I spent the first two of months of the course familiarizing myself with 19th century [...]
