Kip Ashlynn
@Kip Ashlynn

Been here since January 2025 and still figuring things out. I am a real lady nostrich, I promise I am not a bot and that is not what a bot would say. There will be puppy pictures, her name is Princess Aurora. I try to keep things positive and spread love ❤️. I am a very silly billy. My favorite "conspiracy" recently is around the gifted and talented program some of us were in during elementary school. Did you get the pink drink? Did you listen to the gateway experience on giant headphones? Did you play the beep boop game to guess what happens next? Did you play the Zener cards or make pictures out of abstract blocks? As an adult do you notice you have stronger than usual intuition? Do you have extremely vivid dreams that are sometimes prophetic? Can you hear the click clicks? Do you still have imaginary friends? Do they tell you secrets that are true? Are you just intrigued by any of this? Let's connect and chat! #economics #research #PhD #academia #puppy #dogstr #philosophy #esoteric #spiritual #psychic #writing #writerslife #amwriting #editing #freeluigi #LuigiMangione #bioelectricity #electromagnetic #neuroscience #astronomy #gardening #homesteading #PennedPossibilities #flowerstr #scribesandmakers #sketchstr #gains #deadlift #powerlifting #fitnessmotivation #postitprophecies #bookstr #birding #backyardbirding #sober #dreamstr #shroomstr #psygym #psychic #psychonaut

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Ok so this is a relatively long story but in the hope of making it brief: the exchange program had an English language requirement because even though it is an international program the coursework is in English to create uniformity. The program (really any cross cultural program) can often come with administrative snafus and typically the students are young and don't know any better and they get frustrated but it all blows over. I went back to school when I was 30, after working in areas touching on contract law and policy enforcement for almost a decade. I have a personality that is best defined as "intense" and approach any problem like an American bulldog. During my time in Belgium, they found themselves unable to schedule an English professor for some of the mandatory coursework. This was not a problem for the native French speaking Belgians but half the class including myself were expecting English coursework. I want to take a moment to say I love learning languages contrary to the ugly American stereotype. In Estonia I took time to learn basic Estonian, I've passed fluency tests in Turkish and Spanish although I don't put either on my resume because I don't practice and have a terrible accent (but to be fair I have a weird accent in English too). I had studied French for three years and I was excited to go to restaurants and grocery stores, but I am not so arrogant as to think I could do master's level course work and I would not have applied to the program had I known it would be in part in French. Yada yada yada I was right and I knew it. I flexed and wouldn't budge on my position. They shouted at me about causing a diplomatic incident and I told them I was just pointing out that they were causing a diplomatic incident. I think they were shocked I didn't back down but I guess they didn't expect this type of true grit 🤷‍♀️ Eventually the administration built a separate class in English for the students like myself who refused to take the course in French. I became a folk hero to the other exchange students and became greatly reviled by the professors and everyone in the administration 😅 In hindsight, I wish I could have had a bit more diplomatic tact but at the same time I think my natural inclinations had great utility in that situation. I have since had more experience with frustrating situations and better handle myself with more grace. https://youtu.be/X5hrUGFhsXo?feature=shared

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