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#academic burnout
magpie-misfortunes · 5 months
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am i more productive at nighttime or am i so choked with responsibility and duty during the day that my free time is now only ever available to me when in exchange for a sacrifice of tomorrow's wellbeing? (because apparently revenge nighttime procrastination is an actual thing??)
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thatwizardofearthsea · 7 months
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I think most of us know about the story of Katalin Kariko. She is the epitome of how much academia is broken. If she didn't transfer into the industry, we wouldn't see the current progress in mRNA vaccines today
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my-gender-is-void · 1 year
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The "gifted kid who didn't need to study" to "neurodivergent burnt out college student who doesn't know how to study" pipeline is very real and I don't like that I'm experiencing it, I need to graduate to get a job and get out of my parents house and get better mentally and physically. 🥲
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Confessions of a Burnt-Out Gifted Kid (part 1/?)
[VIDEO ID: A sketched figure, labelled “me now” looks to the side with a worried expression on their face. They say, “You don’t have to be perfect or exceptionally great. You don’t even have to be GOOD”. The scene changes and it shows a slightly younger-looking figure labelled “teenage me”. They look angrily off to the side and say, “But I do.” They point to themselves. “I have to be all of those things all of the time”. END ID]
(Inspired by this video)
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eat-men-like-air · 10 days
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This post goes out to all the Indian High schoolers who betray their passion for writing, literature, liberal arts, music, theatre, painting, sports and all those interests which were deemed as a total time waste by the adults around you because God forbid you actually are doing something that makes your life worth living. according to them you were put on god's green Earth to spend your teenage years preparing for JEE AND NEET, wallowing in self pity, doubting yourself, killing your self esteem every single day in that coaching institute, studying 12 hours a day and still feeling like you're not doing enough.
I HATE THIS SYSTEM SO FUCKING MUCH
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dearestofallpoets · 4 months
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"Is it finals week or my final week?" except it's not even the second week of the semester
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theidlespoon · 8 months
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a big thing about me is that if there is even a MINOR obstacle between me and a task i need to do i will simply. not do the task.
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tyin-cherry-knots · 6 months
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I hate having to take so much medicine all the time but I’m just chronically ill or in pain and I never get enough sleep because of school and sports and stress and I really miss being well I haven’t been well in so long
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winryrockbellwannabe · 6 months
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✨Coming out of a burnout✨
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well, my dearests, things have been rough
i really think i was going through burnout this last couple of months. I was so, but so tired. I couldn't be motivated at all to classes, i had no joy thinking about my courses, my degree etc. I couldn't even enjoy reading, bc i was so tired, or watching shows except for gilmore girls, bc i didn't want to waste a good show in a time i wouldn't enjoy it as much as i could.
And, the worst part, i didn't enjoy cooking anymore.
I don't think we realize it (at least I didn't), but cooking is such a big part of our days! Food sets the mood, if gives you energy, and cooking is such a nice moment to chill, not think of anything, and maybe watch a youtube video. And it's us taking care of ourselves and allowing us to have nice things.
So, the moment I realized I was finally feeling better was today (i mean, i already feeling better it, but not this intensely), when i had only 1 hour to make lunch, eat it and leave the house again. And it should have been so stressful, but i was having such a nice time cooking. I was just making soup, but it's my favorite, and I have been too lazy to make it in the last months, so I missed it.💜
And now I notice it.
🌻 My sister says I'm sounding more motivated about uni.
🌻 My friends congratulate me for being more present in class, and how nice is that the meds are working.
🌻 I'm more attentive to my long distance friendships (that i didn't even realize i was neglecting.)
🌻 I've found some coping mechanisms that I think are helping me a bit
I won't go as far as to say that Im the happiest to be having classes rn, and that I wouldn't change it for anything. (a couple weeks off would sound amazing rn)
But I'm feeling way more hopeful than before. And way better. So I think it's a win
So, this was all just to say, things will be better. Just give it a little time, don't be afraid to take it easy, and to ask for help. 🦋
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we shouldn't be fighting burnout we just shouldn't be put in conditions that are giving us burnout in the first place
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sage-green-kitchen · 1 month
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I don't have time to both cry and do homework, so I do it at the same time and call it
✨️multitasking✨️
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thatwizardofearthsea · 8 months
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Also PhD and PD periods are super hard on one's mental and physical capacities. There is huge instability. You're constantly expected to fight for having a funding in order to do your job but also live. That is insane. That is an inhumane system to continue. Nobody can be a genius under that kind of pressure. There is a reason of brain drain from academia.
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thasminsfireworks · 11 months
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Therapist: And what do we say when we're experiencing academic burnout?
Me: Omg this is so Rory Gilmore-Core of me
Therapist: no.
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borderline-abnormal · 2 months
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computer: how do i learn to act like myself around others-- quickest route- no masking
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'puter do you hear me?
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remusapprentice · 9 months
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Yes, being an overachiever and striving for academic excellence is fun and mostly rewarding but when you find yourself having multiple panic attacks over a 1.3, that’s when you should maybe ask yourself whether this is all worth it.
Kindly,
A former gifted kid with academic burnout crying in a bathroom after not achieving the perfect grade.
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coming-of-age-witch · 9 months
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my exams are from aug 3rd, i should have completed everything by now and have a top notch preparation but here i am so fucking restless and the inability to sit through and study has crept in my viens, i feel so out of place and i am NOT able to keep myself collected, god i feel like i'm rushing against time , its crippling me from inside but i am surrounded by fog, can't see a way out
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