Life has been treating me well lately even though I’m having a little trouble keeping up with work. Nonetheless, I feel really blessed :)

This is all about Jote now

06.11.23, monday

resorted to the last-ditch effort of procrastination; I cut my hair, and am now currently trying to pull off the world’s choppiest short bob

hypixel parkour housing is the 10th circle of hell

Very sorry for the lack of posts, you guys- I want to post things, but I am very busy in real life, and for the past few weeks, writing Tumblr posts takes time that I just do not have. I still check Tumblr pretty regularly, so I don't want you to think I'm dead.

12/16/2022

Snowy morning coffee hot chocolate runs >>>>

06/09/22 planning, reading and more matcha 🍵⏰📒

There is a lot of math studying waiting for me in the near future.. algebra is a b*tch, and I am not gonna start college classes until I’m more than proficient at it darn it.

the only porn brain rotted person here is the op who saw some very carefully wrapped tamales by their own grandmother and thought “ haha just like in bdsm amirte guys 😂”

my hot take is the whole "search for life in the universe" thing is truly just a spin to put sparkle in children's eyes and make dumb congresspeople who like the idea of aliens fund science that actually helps people

the endeavors bring about a ton of great science that is related to health and ecology and atmospheric monitoring and all sorts of stuff and understanding how our planet and life was former and the scientists who do this research and stare at radiograms and try to figure out if that chemical stretch is a C-S or a C-C or a C-O bond, are amazing scientists

but god do I have no interest in "uwu we might have found signs of life on other planets!"

the first time was vaguely neat, now we know it's entirely possible and not novel and probably there's phytoplankton (at best) in some ocean planets that we will never ever visit woo hoo

most of the astro people I know working on these projects are mostly interested in the spectroscopy part too and not the whole search for alien life thing so it's very hard for me to look at the press releases with anything but weariness

no one's interested when we figure out what metals are in the active sites of proteins or that actually a redox inactive metal mutated into this other protein actually increases its activity bc the mechanism involves redox active ligands and cofactors, rather than the metal itself. just. you know. as an example. but every time there's a little blip of "oh there's NOx and SOx and VOCs on another distant planet according to this one spectra--" gets a front page news thing.

28.06.2022

I went on a vacation for a bit and now I'm working on my moot. I had some troubles managing it with my vacation but now that I'm home I'm able to work on it with a clearer head. Let's hope this one's as good as my last one💗

Listening to: Clean by Maude Latour

What's the average age for finishing college and finishing university where you're from then? :O

If you go to uni directly after high school (for the record, I didn't) and follow the most "traditional" system (aka you don't extend, interrupt, become a parent etc.) at most unis it takes three years to get a bachelor's degree and two more years on top of that to get master's. So in the best case scenario you can get a bachelor's degree at 23 and master's at 25.

If you want to continue to PhD, that depends on the university I believe - for example, my friend does PhD in biology and it's 4 more years on top of master's - she'll be finishing the course next year when she's almost 30.

We truly spend our entire twenties at uni over here :'D

I've heard of skipping high school and that's also completely bonkers! :O I mean, there are exceptions here but you usually have to be some kind of child genius/prodigy if they let you skip just like... a grade :'D But at the same time, we don't have middle school, we have primary school where you go for 9 years (grades 1 - 9, ages 6 - 15) and then you go to high (also called secondary) school (grades 1 - 4, ages 15 - 19).

The only comparison I can draw from is when we had an exchange student from the US for a year. She was freshly 16 and was put in our class of 18 year olds because we both were in "the third year of high school", except in different systems. I believe she also skipped a grade at home, so she was way younger than the rest of us and we were very protective of her because of that :'D

But when it comes to getting a degree, it must be said that if you go to a state funded university, all your first degrees are free. So if you don't change your course (we don't have majors, we apply directly for an exact faculty from the beginning - e.g. you apply for biology, you do entrance exams from biology related subjects, study biology and cannot switch to IT halfway through. If you want to switch your "major" you have to terminate your current course, re-apply for IT and go through the entire entrance exam process again), then you can get all your degrees for free. If you switch, however, then you pay for the new course after a while but compared to the US pricing, it's nothing. People are definitely not getting loans to study. Which is also another thing absolutely incomprehensible to us, getting education shouldn't put one into a life-long debt. It's insane.

But yeah. Hope this makes at least a bit of sense!

Liz. Quarantine H just bought a new red ferrari!

That’s a life crisis right there

I find it fumny that people say that Elon Muskrat has the mentality of a 6 year old.

Which is offensive to 6 year olds. They're often very smart and if you explain to them what's happening they reason it and accept it.

You know what mentality he has? Of a far right aligned male, and I know this because I've met tons of them through the years and they all act the same. Hell! I live with one!

And it's always the same story. They refuse to lose, they know everything and more than everyone else, they won't listen to your arguments because they're already convinced that you're wrong, they will even deny actual data!!!

And that's what makes them so dangerous, they have absolutely no capacity for introspection.

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