wednesday, jan 6 • sometimes your desk is messy, and that is ok

here’s your smol reminder that it is okay to have a messy desk at times, and not everything is always as nice and clean as you may see on studyblr !! normalize the clutter and chaos of daily activity !! (o・_・)ノ” hurrah !!

4-6/100 days of Productivity

Gloomy days & warm sunsets. (Also Tom Scott somehow fitting into my linguistics course ha)

june 7 2021

just because I'm done with undergrad doesn't mean I'm done learning! this summer I'm going to be studying, practicing, and coding a lot for different reasons: my job, tying up loose ends of my thesis, and for plain old fun (okay, as much fun as I can have when I feel like throwing my computer out the window). I guess that means this is a CS studyblr now too? honestly I'm a little shook to find myself on this path. no one ever encouraged me to do CS in high school and I always just assumed I had a humanities brain! stay tuned for more emotional breakdowns as ya girl tries to stumble her way through some complex tasks with a basic knowledge set...

11th of March 2021

Today I spent a lot of time on NMR spectroscopy. I really struggled to understand it in class, but after 1,5 hours of watching youtube videos and practicing it myself I finally understand it. Yay!

I also had a class today on physical chemistry, and I dont like that class at al. It’s too much physics for me haha.

Have a great evening!

Today is my first day of summer holidays! Unfortunately, we are still under lockdown so no travelling around :’(. So i’m spending it by giving my students extra support for the next academic year. What are your plans for the holidays?

13/10/20

43/100 Days of Productivity

Attended online classes

Made flashcards

Studied English

08 may 2021

It is reaching a point where I just want to cry and give up. I found out that the database work that I thought that was almost finished, beside one doubt I had, isn't finished at all. Turns out I still have 36 variables to create and put the answers for 150 people in each of them. Minutes ago I also found out that no one in my groups upload or sent the presentation support to the teachers after the presentations which means that we are sending it late as hell...

「  Day 30 of zoomester studyblr challenge - What’s the best advice someone has given you?」

It isn't because other people always go for a more usual path that you should. It is a good thing to be different and wanting to discover where you can go with your life. Don't guide yourself by the norms!

14.03.21 //meal log+weekly spread+some french notes— I'm a day late I mean all the things in the photos are from yesterday 😅 //

2/100 Days of Productivity

W/@amareteur , @billichat , @teaandbiscuitstudies @immortallycelestial & @meichenxi  

Zoomester Studyblr Challenge

Day 5- Tag 3 studyblrs that you like seeing on your dashboard.

IT's too difficult to choose only three studyblrs 😖@chazza-studies-alevels ,@study-van & @boldlystudy ; I really love their words and posts 💚

Name the book challenge

23. Where are you from? Name a book written by an author from your country!

El jamón del sánguche by Graciela Bialet(5/5🌟the best book of an argentinian writer that I've ever read💚)

20 days back-to-school challenge!

6. do the handwriting tag! write “the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog” in lowercase, uppercase, and cursive.

I do two different types of cursive ywy

26.-27.5.2020 / 12:39 (17-18/30)

it was so warm yesterday i couldn’t believe it, and now it’s cold and rainy (my fav weather) i’m getting ready for my swedish exam, it’s all online and monitored via zoom

your first (conference) presentation ☁️

time yourself, please: i practiced once with the presentation in front of me, twice more while driving, and then again in front of a couple of colleagues. each  stop time was different, but i had a good gauge of how much content i would be able to cover. be the person who finishes two minutes early, you’ll win hearts.

use notes if you want, just don’t go overboard: depending on your field, the norm might be to stand up and just read your paper. if that’s you, ignore this, i guess? print out your presentation (at least a version of it), and jot down notes to help clear your head. make sure they’re easy to follow. honestly, notes are a smidge overrated. two of my colleagues were unable to use their (quite extensive) notes during their presentations, and did perfectly! trust yourself to know your material / research...you are the expert!

be comfortable: no need to dress ritzy, just dress confidently. whatever that looks like for you, that’s what i’m talking about. i wore a skirt and shirt, and some wedges (in hindsight, a great choice because the the podium was really tall...and i’m not). someone else wore a smart blouse and pants, and was sitting on the floor playing with a puppy right before our panel! they were definitely comfortable. 

breathe: if you don’t have time to edit, fine. if you do have time, then don’t. you know how it goes, when an artist is never satisfied, and eventually their changes ruin their entire work? applicable here. if you have anything to add, it’ll come to you during the presentation, or someone will ask you about during the Q&A session. what’s done is done, and within the next two hours, this will all be over!

do not rush your presentation: know what the main points of your presentation are. there have to be some things that are more important than others. if your moderator is flashing five minutes, skip the little details! DON’T speed read your notes / the presentation / talk at 200 wpm. your audience will not be able to keep up. maintain your poise and control. the important thing about practicing your presentation is learning how to adapt it to the time constraints you have. 

enjoy the Q&A session: if you are getting questions, that means your presentation really made an impact. congrats! don’t drop the ball here, but continue to have that confidence. if someone asks you a difficult question / one you didn’t consider, thank them for bringing up the topic, and say that you would like to look into that further (even if you never do lol). heck, you may come away with some helpful information!

finally, some short points:

do not read from your slides. explain / illustrate them. your audience can read!

do not read from your notes. they are there for little reminders (key words, quotes), not as a crutch.

gesture and move about. have some energy in your presence, and loosen up. if you seem happy and excited, your audience will feed from that.

it’s okay to pause. if you’re out of breath, stop. if you need to collect your thoughts, stop. do not follow it with an apology, it’s natural!

no ‘Questions?’ slide!

saturday, march 6 • a february recap & march setup

my march bullet journal spread was inspired by my recent feb-cover-up situation 👀 because i’m actually quite liking the additional pOP! of color that i can add into my bujo with the random construction paper i have lying around uwu but ya dis an overview of my spreads that i made in a 10pm-dimly-lit-tired-trance last weekend hAHaha

also im not sure of where to take photos now in my new apt (i miss my old room’s lighting during golden hour ft. the nice flowy curtains), but i’ll figure it out this is small potatoes u know what i’m sayin’

2/100 days of productivity

I did more of my Linguistics course today in my makeshift window study nook, replied to emails & took a long cycle around the little town with my film camera, soaking everything in before the new lockdown starts tomorrow 📸

july 10th 2021

(where did my caption go?? that was weird)

hello hello! I'm just about halfway through the summer program I'm teaching at, and fifty days from moving abroad. between those and all the other things I've been up to, I've had to leave my language studying by the wayside and haven't felt as inspired to work with my bujo either. HOWEVER, this week my best friend got me into SIX and I'm already obsessed--hence this spread! I'm still so pleased to have decided on this theme for my sixth week on the job.

(ps I've started working with notion as well to store all my coding notes and I'm planning to share some of those soon too ;) )

🧷 12102020 :

last week’s not-so-productive bujo spread + a dressmaking project i’m working on!

#1 protip if you just can’t seem to complete your to do list

if you’ve got A Lot™ on your plate and you just can’t cross everything off, no matter how hard you work every day, try switching to a work-oriented to do list instead of a task-oriented one.

but sabrina, what’s the difference? glad you asked!

instead of writing down: ☐write essay ☐revise bio ☐clean room

switch to pomodoros/timeframes: ☐pomodoro 1: work on essay ☐pomodoro 2: bio revision ☐pomodoro 3: clean room

this way, you can adjust your pomodoro length to the time you’ve got left - your first pomodoro can be 50min long, but if you find yourself with 2 unfinished pomodoros and it’s already 9pm, you can switch to 25min, complete them, and still be able to cross them off the list by the end of your day :) now of course this won’t work as well if you’ve got 5 assignments to turn in by midnight and haven’t started on a single one, but this method is lovely for everyday studying in workload-heavy academic programs where you've sometimes got 10+ tasks daily, so i’d recommend this for college/uni students especially!

i’ve just recently switched to this method myself and it’s improved my study-related stress a lot, so i thought i’d share it with you and hopefully help my fellow stressed af students x

Sunday // 1/8/2020

It’s already August! Time has been flying by so fast and I’m getting really anxious about my scholarship application and my IELTS. I’ve just booked my IELTS exam yesterday and I have another 2 weeks left to study for it. AND not to mention my impending end to glorious summer holidays :’). I’ve been taking advantage of my time during the summer and have been going out to study. Being at home makes it difficult to concentrate so sometimes I like to take the train and just find a place to study. This is what’s in my bag whenever I go out to study. Best part of it is that my bag is two-way so it’s super duper functional and I had it thrifted for RM30. SUCH A STEAL GUYS. Same goes with my snoopy mirror and pencil box (both were RM2). As for the drawstring pouch, I had crocheted that last year during my winter vacation and I use it to store small things like my mirror, earphones and mouse! Wherever you guys are, I hope you’re staying safe and healthy. Please wear a mask when you head out and don’t forget to sanitise and social distance yourself whenever possible!

listening to: dreams-the cranberries