How often do you wash your towel? Some people wash once a week, while some, once a year. The towel is a fertile breeding ground for millions of microbes, especially those found on human skin and on the gut. No wonder the towel is one of the objects that facilitate fecal-oral contamination (literally connecting the two ends of the gut). Worse still, most people keep towels in the bathroom (near the toilet). Every flush of the toilet sends mist with millions of microbes, ranging from H.pylori, salmonella and other deadly bacteria and viruses. When you wash your hands ready for a meal, and dry them with your body towel, there's high chance you are directly ingesting your fecal matter, or, if in a shared lavatory, someone else's faeces. Unless cleaned well, viruses such as human papillomavirus (causes warts, anal cancer and cervical cancer) can be transmitted when towels are shared with infected individuals. So, what to do? 1. Launder towels once a week. 2. Use hot water and det...
1. 𝐄𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐀𝐒𝐀𝐏: As soon as you see a scholarship advertised by a professor, email him/her immediately. The first ones get noticed. Later your email gets disappeared in the rush.
2. 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐲𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐢𝐳𝐞: Make sure that the same font style and font size are used throughout your email's body. Any mismatch shows that you have copied content, which might give the impression that you are lazy and careless.
3. 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬: Attach important documents such as CV and transcripts upfront with the email. Facilitate the professor, don't make him/her ask for these documents.
4. 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝: Thoroughly proofread your email to make sure that any titles and names (e.g., professor's name, lab's name, university's name) are correct. Any mistake here will display a copy-paste approach.
5. 𝐊𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐢𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐞: Professors don't have time to read long emails. Focus on key points - your publications, alignment of the research background, GPA, graduation school, English score, etc.
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