7.21.21 | I got the job! And my parents are visiting, and I had wonderful birthday wishes yesterday.

27. sept 2020

i should be more active whoops haha! this semester has been super hard and im falling behind a bit, i hope i can catch up this week.

good food and good company, pre-lockdown times. now i spend my days with notebooks as company (which i’m not complaining about tbh)

ig: studylustre

25. 10. 19

The past few weeks have been crazy. Lots of readings and essays to write, but I’m almost done so I’m excited to be able to read for pleasure for a while. Yesterday I visited a museum in my city, and next week I’m travelling to another city with my friends, and I intend to also visit some museums and libraries there. Can’t freaking wait!

3/11/2020 | 50/101 Days of Productivity

I'm so burnt out, going to take a day off after this essay is submitted. We've got a flat inspection tomorrow and I've got to spend all night cleaning the flat because I'll be working all day on this last essay, at least it's only 1500 words

I love how stark winter sun can be! This light gives me such good energy especially having to spend the day on video calls ✨

10.30.20

hello! i hope ur all doing well :-)

i’m already on my second notebook for the semester and i’ve been working on using up all my black gel pens (1 down - 4 to go)

items in photo: apple earphones, pilot g2 black 0.5, zebra sarasa black 0.4, muji notebook (pack of 5), blue mildliner, ruler from oomomo (daiso sister brand), random microfibre (it’s my boyfriends and fit the colour theme lol)

03.11.20// so many deadlines this week! I have my first midterm this weekend and I’ve really got to get on top of my term papers ASAP! However, one of my favourite bands is doing a streamed concert on Thursday night and I’ve been looking forward to this for ages!

IG: flatneedledistillery

quiet autumn mornings in london 🍂🍁

truly can’t wait for this semester to end so i can dig into the books i want to pick up

i’ve only managed to read a few pages today so… coffee check?

hi! here are some online class study tips that have worked for me, so i wanted to share them with you guys!! online classes have been touuuugh, but we’ll get through this together! :D

plan ahead. a lot of my professors gave assignments earlier and gave us about a month to work on them. some of us might have the tendency to work on them later on, but working on them as soon as i can and finishing them 2 weeks earlier than the deadline gave me more time to work on bigger, more important projects. this can also give you more time to make changes to it when there are last minute requirements you have to include.

call your friends. when we went to school, we always looked forward to hanging out with our friends after being in class for hours. all that is painfully absent now, so i tried to compensate by calling my friends after classes or designating a specific day in the week where all of you are free and having a fun study session together.

change of scenery. being in the same space every hour of every day adds to the dreadfulness of it all, so having a change of scenery every once in a while can actually make you feel more energized. whenever i got the chance to go out to the park or the library, i would always take it. but!! adding some polaroids on your walls, changing your bed sheets, or even just studying in your dining room are also just as effective!

keep a water bottle next to you. it’s so easy for us to forget to drink water as the day goes by. with this, having a water bottle next to you makes you want to reach out to it and drink water more frequently. not only does this keep you hydrated, but drinking water will also wake you up when you’re feeling snoozy in the middle of a class lecture!

have a group chat where u log productivity. my friends and i become motivated to work when we see that others are working, so we made a group chat where we logged tasks that we’ve accomplished as the day goes by. aside from this, i’m also part of a group in the focus to-do app where you can see other people working as well as how many hours they’ve worked during the day.

wear uv protection glasses. this is one of the most important things i learned during this whole online class experience. my eye grades went from 20/20 to 50/100 in the span of just a month and a half, and i had to get prescription glasses! don’t let online classes ruin your eyesight, people! learn from my experience :(

spread out your tasks. for some reason, professors have given us so much more assignments for online classes compared to when we were in the actual university. it can get quite overwhelming, but spreading out your tasks can help lessen the stress and pressure. i work on small tasks for a short period of time each day to make sure that i’m able to get things done on time without feeling extremely tired. i actually made a post on this here! check it out if you want a more elaborate explanation for this part :)

listen to the live discussions. i used to zone out during synchronous sessions, talk to friends, or play games on my phone, thinking that i don’t have to listen now and that i can just rewatch it later. while being able to rewatch your professor’s lecture is one of the pros of online classes, try to listen to your professor’s live discussions as much as you can! it saves so much time and gives you the change to ask them questions during the lesson proper. if you’re able to understand the lesson during the session, you’d be able to spend your extra time working on other assignments or doing things for yourself. however, there definitely are some classes wherein you’d really have to repeatedly listen to the recorded sessions in order to fully understand the concepts, and that’s fine too! the point of this is to try and listen to the lesson as much as you can so you can spend less time on it later.

hello !

I have a super busy week this week with lots of things to tick off before Friday so I can have the weekend to myself. I also have to prepare myself for a job interview I have next week

I have a proposal due next week so that’s on the top of my to do list

hope you are all well ☺️✨

16/10/2020 | I have so much work to do and I have a presentation this afternoon that I'm only halfway through making so I got up at 6am and I feel like shit

Credits: uyule on ig ; glowenz on we heart it

18/10/2020 | 35/100 Days of Productivity

I bought the fluffliest jumper off depop, I'm in love

Gloomy weekend morning set-up. I just bought this huge pack of paper made from recycled coffee cups, no idea what I’ll use it for yet but it’s good to have more room to play 🤍