First Week Back At University! (Literature Student) 

Update: As the pieces of music are being discussed in the comments I'll send a book to the FIRST person who sends me an e-mail guessing them all right :D You can find my e-mail address in the description box!

As a language teacher, I'm awestruck by your command of English idioms. Then there's the piano and the other languages. Bravo! I agree with your reservations about post-modernism. The history of the novel seems like a far more worthy pursuit.

I loved, loved, loved the everyday aesthetics, vibes and content of this video. I agree with another viewer that it’s the best so far. Thank you for creating such an enjoyable video. Hope you have a successful and enjoyable Semester 🎼📚

The first one is: Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor Second one: I couldn't recognise:/ Third one: Chopin Mazurkas, Op. 67: No. 4 in A Minor, Moderato animato (Lovely piece)

I loved the spontaneity of this vlog. Totally captured me.

I’m watching your video on Oscar night here in the U.S. and I must say yours struck me as cinematic. The editing was fun! The train, sitting on the steps with your friend, the way you had built up tension going to the psychiatric poetry seminar and then you did such a quick cut saying didn’t get it. And the piano playing! My goodness when you started the dramatic Bach! And the candles were visible in the reflection. You play so well. Wow. What a renaissance person. Finally, at one point t I felt you were reading my diary. Each class I take I learn so much and realize how little I know. I listen to the professors dissecting each line from a novel, discussion allusions to classical texts I don’t know and I’m exhilarated and discouraged at the same time. Exhilarated because I love it so much and discouraged because I think - I’ll never be able to teach like that. But I don’t have time to be discouraged. I have essays to write and more reading to do and reflection. So, I continue with faith because I love reading and writing and discussing authors and connections them with other authors, it’s all such joy. So, congratulations on expanding your video landscape, it was so enriching and inspiring to see how wide ranging your days and interests are!

Ooo ooo a vlog! How excited I am. So lovely 😍

Great video! Really inspiring to the see amount of work you've put it 😊 Best of luck with the new semester!

I loved this VLOG format. ❤

Beautiful video Maria, thank you for this channel and your time 🙏

I appreciate your fine music selections that cameoed @ the start of the video. There's a kind of retro-vibe I'm picking up, quite soothing for the weekend. So you study in Vienna! That's awesome. I've been there in 2007 with mum. One of my best traveling experiences in my lifetime ever ✈, hands down! Remembering the old, idyllic cobbled streets, horse drawn carriages, imperial palace. Just a whole another world altogether. Ever thought about learning French in Montreal?

I am also reading Der Zauberberg! I must say that I am very impressed by the evolution of your channel.

Wow, Maria, this was fun to watch!

I love your videos, I study Literature at my Uni and your vlogs give me a lot of comfort. Thank you

Ahhh some of these shots were so beautiful. Really enjoyed this video again. And thank you for the little shoutout ❤❤

I loved this format it really inspires me as I am too studying first year at uni as an almost 30 yo trying to juggle everything in life!!

So nice to get a glimpse into your life!! The vlog was lovely and very calming/relaxing to watch. It's great to hear you talk about your studies, and the doubts and insights about the classes you (want to) follow. I understand your doubts about Postmodern literature; I don't always like it and there definitely needs to be a sort of emotional element for me, a care for the characters, and not solely a smart and intellectual story in terms of the form (this is also I think where something like the new sincerity movement and someone like David Foster Wallace comes in). One of my favorite postmodern stories is the short novel Pnin by Nabokov. Have you read it? By the way, the blue baret looks spectacular and suits your hair and eyes so well

I must comment: this vlog was amazing, cool and lovely. Keep it coming pleasse :) Bisou

More day in the life! You'll love Never let me go and of course The Remains of the Day (gorgeous prose). The movie's excellent too. Anthony Hopkins is the GOAT.

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The three songs were: "Great", "Greater" and "Greater still"! More piano please Maria, such Fun.

ive missed you!

loved this video :) have you read Kate Briggs's "This Little Art"? A lot of it talks about translating Mann's Der Zauberberg into English - sounds like it is up your alley !

7:20 i have played this piece so much. currently im practicing The Chopin 24 preludes!

It would be worth softening the wax at the bottom of the candles, and forming them into the candle holder. Loose candles always seem to have a way of falling out of candle holders like that.

Thomas Mann m'étonne toujours

Nice content....

Hi! Your fountain pen is a Lamy, but not a Safari, what kind of Lamy is it? Your videos are amazing! Inspiring! Thank you.

Do more of this....

aaaah, I love Norwegian, I hope you're having so much fun learning it 🥰

our lives are freakishly similar, lol.

Scott here. How you doin'? Can you study the Psychiatric Writing course at some point in the future?

Just wondering Maria, but do you pop Eric into a cupboard when you are filming?!! He ain't never in the background!

Do you read ramayana ,mahabharata ,and bhagavadgitaa

Hello.

Where you from

Do you edit your own videos ? This is by far your best . Have you thought about film school. ?

How do I send an email to you....i think I got all three