Law Clerk and Student

I believe in free education, one that’s available to everyone; no matter their race, gender, age, wealth, etc… This masterpost was created for every knowledge hungry individual out there. I hope it will serve you well. Enjoy!

FREE ONLINE COURSES (here are listed websites that provide huge variety of courses)

Alison 

Coursera

FutureLearn

open2study

Khan Academy

edX

P2P U

Academic Earth

iversity

Stanford Online

MIT Open Courseware

Open Yale Courses

BBC Learning

OpenLearn

Carnegie Mellon University OLI

University of Reddit

Saylor

IDEAS, INSPIRATION & NEWS (websites which deliver educational content meant to entertain you and stimulate your brain)

TED

FORA

Big Think 

99u

BBC Future

Seriously Amazing

How Stuff Works

Discovery News

National Geographic

Science News

Popular Science

IFLScience

YouTube Edu

NewScientist

DIY & HOW-TO’S (Don’t know how to do that? Want to learn how to do it yourself? Here are some great websites.)

wikiHow

Wonder How To

instructables

eHow

Howcast

MAKE

Do it yourself

FREE TEXTBOOKS & E-BOOKS

OpenStax CNX

Open Textbooks

Bookboon

Textbook Revolution

E-books Directory

FullBooks

Books Should Be Free

Classic Reader

Read Print

Project Gutenberg

AudioBooks For Free

LibriVox

Poem Hunter

Bartleby

MIT Classics

Many Books

Open Textbooks BCcampus

Open Textbook Library

WikiBooks

SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES & JOURNALS

Directory of Open Access Journals

Scitable

PLOS

Wiley Open Access

Springer Open

Oxford Open

Elsevier Open Access

ArXiv

Open Access Library

LEARN:

1. LANGUAGES

Duolingo

BBC Languages

Learn A Language

101languages

Memrise

Livemocha

Foreign Services Institute

My Languages

Surface Languages

Lingualia

OmniGlot

OpenCulture’s Language links

2. COMPUTER SCIENCE & PROGRAMMING

Codecademy

Programmr

GA Dash

CodeHS

w3schools

Code Avengers

Codelearn

The Code Player

Code School

Code.org

Programming Motherf*?$%#

Bento

Bucky’s room

WiBit

Learn Code the Hard Way

Mozilla Developer Network

Microsoft Virtual Academy

3. YOGA & MEDITATION

Learning Yoga

Learn Meditation

Yome

Free Meditation

Online Meditation

Do Yoga With Me

Yoga Learning Center

4. PHOTOGRAPHY & FILMMAKING

Exposure Guide

The Bastards Book of Photography

Cambridge in Color

Best Photo Lessons

Photography Course

Production Now

nyvs

Learn About Film

Film School Online

5. DRAWING & PAINTING

Enliighten

Ctrl+Paint

ArtGraphica

Google Cultural Institute

Drawspace

DragoArt

WetCanvas

6. INSTRUMENTS & MUSIC THEORY

Music Theory

Teoria

Music Theory Videos

Furmanczyk Academy of Music

Dave Conservatoire

Petrucci Music Library

Justin Guitar

Guitar Lessons

Piano Lessons

Zebra Keys

Play Bass Now

7. OTHER UNCATEGORIZED SKILLS

Investopedia

The Chess Website

Chesscademy

Chess.com

Spreeder

ReadSpeeder

First Aid for Free

First Aid Web

NHS Choices

Wolfram Demonstrations Project

Please feel free to add more learning focused websites. 

Renshuu is, to this day, the only learning site I have spent money on, because it gave me an absolutely complete experience without spending any money, and the unpaid content also gave me the necessary evidence to be sure that what I paid for would be worth it.

Put pictures from your phone on an external drive

Hand in bills to your insurance (if you need to do that)

Put your bills for your taxes for 2024 in one place

Clean your desk/ apartment/ house

Throw away things you don't need anymore-> give them away: maybe: decide on only one place to clean up; e.g. drawer, books, desk etc: don't think you have to clean up everything!

Put dates for the new year into a calendar

Big events/ important events for January? write them down and what you need to do before them

Reflect on this year: What were highlights? What were hard things that made you learn a lesson? What were things you do not want to repeat?

Vorfreude (=the joy of looking forward to something): note down things you're looking forward to/ books you're looking forward to read/ films/shows you're looking forward to watch/ other goals!

11 August 2024

networking isnt going to job fairs and accumulating a collection of business cards and having a good linkedin profile

networking is meeting someone on a dating app and even though you never get the chance to meet up irl you talk a bit on discord and they offer to help you job hunt because they have good technical writing skills and they really think youre cool

networking is meeting someone at a sports event and becoming friends and when you need a new place to live they already have a friend of theirs who just so happens to be looking for a new roommate

networking is joining a club and making really good friends with older members who just also happen to be good professional connections

3.22.19 //

What to pronounce as a set :

en/an/ean/em : en. Jean-Paul, temps, la vie en rose

in/un/ain/ein : un. Alain Delon, c’est un endroit

er/ai/ai(en)t/é/et : é, not eee-rrr. champs élysées

ou : ou (not ooo-uuu). à minuit ou à midi

o/au(x)/eau(x) : o. aux champs élysées

eu : eu. le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain

gn : nieu. montagne 

on : on (not ooo-nnn). bonjour, Paris!

eil-le : eyy. bouteille

oe : eu. coeur

What NOT to pronounce :

1/ The last letters :

-s, for nouns, pronouns and verbs : les voitures (the cars) > lé voitur

-z : nez (nose, m) > né, entrez (come in!) > entré

-t : le chat (the cat, m) > le cha, tout (everything) > tou

-d : lourd (heavy, m) > lour / prétend (pretends, 3PS) > préten

-ps : temps (time/weather, m) : ten / printemps (spring, m) : printen

-x : bijoux (jewels, m) : bijou / beaux (beautiful, pl m) : bo

-e : arbre (tree, m) : arbr / chaise (chair, f) : chéz

2/ Other letters :

h- : hêtre (beech, m), humain (human, m), hérisson (hedgehog, m)

-s-, sometimes : if you see a word with a ô inside, that accent was very likely an s put just after the o (hostel, hospital) ; if you ever see those words in a french text, you are not supposed to pronounce those -s-

-d-, sometimes, in set expressions : la grand roue (the big wheel) > la gran rou, la grand-mère (the grandmother) > la gran mèr…

About S :

S can be said either ss (Frank Sinatra), mute or z (the zoo)

s- : ss. sucre (sugar, m) : “ssukr”

sc ; ls : ss. fils (son, m) : “fiss”, scie (saw, f) : “ssie”

ss : ss. poisson (fish, m) 

-s (NB : for a not-verb/not-noun) is either ss or mute. tous as an indefinite adjective, a comparative, a superlative or a negative : mute (il n’y a plu(s) de pain (there’s no more bread), c’est la plu(s) gentille (she’s the nicest)) ; as an indefinite pronoun : ss (tous”s” ces hommes)

nb : when -s is followed by a vowel, make the liaison : vous avez (pl you have) : vou zavé, les éléphants : lé zéléfan

About C :

C can be said either ss (science (f) : ssienss), ch or k (carie (cavity, f) : kari)

c+a : k. café (coffee, m), cauchemar (nightmare, m) “cochmar”

c+e : ss. cercle (circle, m), céleri (celery, m)

c+h : ch. chaussette (sock, f), chaud (warm, m) “cho”. or k (exceptions)

c+i : ss. citrouille (pumpkin, f), citron (lemon, m)

c+l : k. clé (key, f), classeur (binder, m)

c+o : k. coquin (naughty, m) “cokin”, copain/pine (buddy) “copin”

c+r : k. croquer (to bite), cri (a scream, m)

c+u : k. culotte, f (panties), cuir (leather, m)

ç : ss. maçon (bricklayer, m), français-e (french)

About G :

G can be either pronounced ‘softly’ : intelligent-e (smart), as in jean (w/o the d), or ‘hardly’ : bague (ring, f), as in game

g+e / g+i / g+y : soft G > gynécologue, gentil-le (nice)

g+a / g+o / g+u / g+consonant : hard G > grammaire (f)

About : the final -r, liaisons, liaisons before h-…

If you want to hear those sets :

Always double check you got the right train ticket for the time of day or those bitches will slap you with a 60€ fine

Make sure you’ve got cash on you at all times cause not everywhere accepts card

Buy a few packs of paracetamol and ibuprofen a the supermarket in Australia before you go cause you can only get that stuff at the pharmacy in Germany and it’s more expensive

Same with cough lollies, most of the German ones taste terrible imo, take some with you

Get in the habit of doing your groceries early on a Saturday cause the supermarkets in Germany close super early compared to Australia and everything is closed on Sunday. Also take a laundry basket to pack your stuff into cause you won’t have time to hold a bag open and pack it neatly.

Don’t buy too much bread at once cause it doesn’t have a very long shelf life

If you’re gonna get a new phone or computer, buy it here before you leave, it’s cheaper

Don’t order water in a restaurant, you might as well get soft drink or juice anyway cause it’s almost as expensive

Stay out of the bike lane

Do your recycling

Don’t throw away your receipts

I’m finishing my blog for LLM Guide with two back-to-back posts. This one is my take on some extracurricular activities at King’s. Next post deals with my overall experience on King’s LLM.

Societies are a big thing at King’s – at least in normal years. They are a good way to meet new people. There are hundreds of societies ranging from activity and sports groups to academic ones. The LLM even has a dedicated society: the Postgraduate Law Society. This year there wasn’t much activity. I was expecting more socials or networking events. But if you feel like making the LLM year amazing for everyone and gaining some leadership experience, you can apply for the Executive Committee. They always look for incoming LLM students around the summer to take up positions.

There are many other volunteering opportunities. I participated in some brainstorming sessions for King’s Climate Action Network, which was set up by King’s Sustainability Team. It is part of King’s effort to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2025. I was on the group for responsible investing. Apart from my contributions about ESG investing, I also learned a lot about how universities manage endowments. The biggest achievement this year was full divestment from fossil fuel investments.

I did some law review work for King’s Student Law Review. I didn’t find this overly exciting. But it’s a good way to keep in touch with ongoing legal developments and to learn to be critical of legal writings. I mostly learned to give constructive and useful feedback.

I’m currently still volunteering with the Human Rights and Environment Clinic at King’s Legal Clinic. I found this a good way to get out of my comfort zone and apply some of the legal skills I’ve learned in law school to newer topics, such as the law surrounding sustainability and climate change. There is also a general advice clinic and other specialist clinics, for example on IP law. Solicitors supervise the clinics and, in some cases, there is involvement of barristers and King’s own academic staff.

LLM students can participate in moot court competitions and represent King’s. I didn’t do this because the time commitment can get quite intense around deadlines.

More academically, there is the possibility of auditing an additional LLM module, taking a language course at the Modern Language Centre or participating in King’s-wide courses. I followed the Associateship of King’s College and Inside Art and Science courses, which didn’t require a lot of commitment but were nonetheless academically very enriching.

30.07.21 | went to the cafe last sunday to clear my head while planning the next (this) week and turns out it was a rlly good idea bc it was a super productive afternoon!