Hi everyone! It’s been ages since my last post (see my Stockholm visit), and I know I could have been writing more during the summer. But as John Lennon said, “Life is what happens when you’re busy making plans.” So, I had a well-deserved summer and am now in Dublin.

I’d like to share a 12-step survival guide for MSc students, inspired by the 12-step programme for fighting addiction. It’s meant to be fun and maybe even encouraging for some of us to succeed on this route. (Side note: I don’t want to offend anyone with the inspiration.) 

1. We admitted to feeling powerless under our course load, realising our lives had become unmanageable.
2. I came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to humanity and shape us into the ultimate graduates.
3. We’ve decided to entrust our will and lives to the care of the MSc in Digital Marketing programme, following their lead.
4. I embarked on a searching and fearless moral inventory of myself.
5. We’ve admitted to ourselves and each other that there’s nothing left to do but study and follow the syllabuses. 
6. We were entirely ready to have an MSc in digital marketing programme that would teach us the best practices in the sector. 
7. I made a list of all the assignments we had to finish, and I became willing to follow the plan.
8. We made the most of every day and every minute, using them to our advantage.
9. We continued to take personal inventory, and when we strayed from our programme, we trusted our programme managers to guide us back on track.
10. We improved our performances by studying and meditating, following the plan. 
11. We realised we had to take it one day at a time. 
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to MSc students and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

***Special thanks to my classmate Dominic for the inspiration.