Musings
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One of my students last semester asked me, almost apologetically, whether there was any point in her applying for exchange… Read more.
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My DAAD motivation letter went through six drafts before I sent it. The first version read like a resume with… Read more.
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Before I ever set foot in Germany, I spent more hours at the DFA, at NBI, and in line at… Read more.
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The scholarship guides will tell you about tuition coverage and visa requirements. None of them mention the specific ache of… Read more.
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The DAAD stipend sounds like a lot of money when you convert it to pesos for the first time. It… Read more.
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Nobody warned me that the hardest month wouldn’t be the first one. The first month, everything is new enough to… Read more.
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I over-rehearsed my DAAD interview so thoroughly that I nearly talked myself out of sounding like a person. I had… Read more.
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I didn’t think I needed a Filipino community in Dresden. I told myself I was there to immerse, to make… Read more.
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A year ago I was still deciding which documents to authenticate first. Now I have a semester of coursework behind… Read more.
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A rural barangay in Barili, a chance remark about Germany’s tuition-free universities, and the scholarship application that followed — the… Read more.
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Methods
- Weekly field observations along fixed routes.
- Short interviews using a consistent guide.
- Sensor readings checked at the start of each session.
- Cleaning decisions documented as a changelog.
- Processing: normalized timestamps; flagged gaps; spot-checked outliers.
- Limits: some missing intervals during battery replacement.
Data & Ethics
Data
Upon request, sensitive locations have been removed from the public files. License: CC BY 4.0 for shared materials.
Ethics
Consent protocols used where applicable.
Contact
fieldnoteslab@ucc.ie