Trying to finish this degree. Last exam to go next week. Wish me luck! 🍀

And of course we must always study inside bookstore-cafes ☕

I found this on pinterest and it's really helpful and effective and it's so obvious that I usually forget about it ✨

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You’re never too old to learn something new. Never stop studying. 

Vita carissima

gentle reminder you can rise up from everything. you can recreate yourself. nothing is permanent. you are not stuck. you have choices. you can think new thoughts. you can learn something new. you can create new habits. all that matters is that you decide today and never look back.

having boundaries with yourself

➼ having a bedtime

➼ deciding the minimum and maximum amount of time you can dedicate to work each week

➼ setting limits on the amount of screen time you have

➼ having an amount of time per week you move your body

➼ limiting your alcohol/highly processed food consumption

➼ keeping a budget

➼ deciding how often you will travel or go on vacation and sticking to it

➼ going to doctors and dentist appointments regularly

➼ paying bills on time

➼ doing work (school or not) on time

➼ wearing sunscreen when you go outside

(images from pinterest)

this quote from ovid’s telling of orpheus turning back to look at eurydice makes me crumble

Brown University students are launching an indefinite hunger strike for Palestine

they are asking for their university to divest from companies profiting from the genocide in gaza and openly call for a ceasefire and will not eat until the university governing bodies hears and considers a divestment resolution. if you are not familiar with the physical toll a hunger strike takes on the body, it might be worth looking up to get a better sense of what a significant action these students are taking. the university's highest governing body is having their first meeting of 2024 on february 8-9th so let's rally around them to muster even more pressure on brown university.

brown university contact page: let's state our support for these students and let brown university know the world will be watching what happens next!

additional reading: coverage of this story in the university's student news paper - get to know some of the hunger strikers

Quiet corner to study at campus 🌳

An 11 year old girl made fun of my study buddy (my froggy stuffed frog) yesterday.😑

WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS? THAT WAS MEAN! 😮‍💨

The other 4 years old was trying to steal it but I got it back when she was busy with other toys THANKFULLY

I will succeed. Not immediately. But definitely.

Once you learn something, make sure you stay up to date.

Today's learning, 15/05/23

I am back with another learning of today. So, let's explore together what is in this blog :-

Today was my exam of english and I hadn't prepared anything from the beginning. I woke up at 2:00 am in the morning and learned word meaning, watched summary of three chapters and prepared the internal part, prepared grammar section and answered question and answer to check my progress. And at last, everything was prepared but this exam had told me one thing which is in learning part.

Learning:- I learnt that preparing at last moment shows that how weak you are at controlling your mind. Let me explain this sentence:- It shows that you hadn't learnt to control your mind yet because you had wasted your time earlier(you cannot control your mind) and at last moment, you are compensating for that left work. While preparing at last moment, you are in high pressure, your heart beats are fast and at the same time you have a guilt inside yourself that 'why I hadn't prepared earlier?' and your confidence fall down which is not acceptable. Learn tiny tiny portions everyday. So, that whenever exam date are declared, you are not left with nothing prepared. This is very easy to say but it is very tough to execute in real life. But it is true and logical and you had to accept it. I also learnt that exams are very important because it hurts our sentiments and gave us life changing failures and learning.

things i've heard environmental science majors say:

"For the test we'll need to tell the different flavours of mayflies apart." / "Did you just say flavours?"

"It amazes me how many city kids are in this program." / "We're all desperate to get out of this city."

"I think everyone who attended all the surface water pollution lab sections should be allowed to lick one piece of glassware of their choosing. Y'know, as a treat."

"Professor, nobody goes into this major unless they like to eat dirt." / "Great, so you can talk the Students' Association into convincing the board to give me funding for my trees?"

"What're we toasting to?" / "Nitrogen pollution."

"You look frustrated. What's up?" / "I had twenty-one Leptophlebiidae in my dish. He's going to think I'm lying about how many Leptophlebiidae are in my dish."

"If you weren't raised by Wall-E, do you even belong in this class?" / "The Onceler." / "Fuck, good point."

"Dude, I spent the whole exam trying not to sink my teeth into a really, really juicy bug in my sample—" / "Cranefly?" / "...yeah."

"Well, just make sure you're not (person)'s lab partner. Last weekend's trip involved him leaving too many fish in the dirt for the professor's liking."

[exhausted chorus] "And the fish go belly-up."

"What's the major difference between east coast and west coast soils?" / "Alcoholism."

"Got any plans for the holidays?" / "Gonna go home and listen to my entire extended family call me a tree-hugging hippie." / "Aren't we all?"