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An extremely productive weekend that led to a great Monday // Fingers crossed we continue on this pace

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to everyone else in school right now: 

please use sparknotes. please use khan academy. please listen to school house rock songs and watch the history of the entire world i guess and tim and moby and bill nye. any documentary you watch in class can be found somewhere online with a quick google. get your books from project gutenberg and z-lib. download textbooks off the internet whenever you can find them. use desmos for a free online graphing calculator. if you’re learning something and you don’t get it look up the wikipedia page on it and put it into simple english to get the gist, then put it back into regular english to get the full story. cheat if you have to. school sucks so bad rn and if you’re like me and you get all your materials secondhand or from the lost and found, online resources are really useful rn; all of the above have helped me pass a class in some way, and i hope they can help you too.

stay inside and stay safe. best of luck to all the students out there. 

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Shoutout to people who’s lives aren’t idyllic. People like me who have a messy dorm and a roommate they don’t get along with. People like me with a fridge not filled with health foods and tofu but monster energy drinks and a single loaf of bread. People like me who want it to be pretty but just don’t always have the energy. You aren’t doing it wrong, you’re not alone. Be messy, just never stop learning.

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ready to take on another month 🌼

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— a couple more late nights and then... freedom!

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you can tell a lot about someone based on their phone background. it shows what’s most important to them

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good morning from all this light and all the books i have not read but am using for zoom set ups

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somehow I got 95/20 on an assignment

I hope they never fix it and leave it this way forever

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mental health tips i wish i’d been given before starting university

trying is much more important than succeeding

10 minutes of studying > not studying at all

being a college student is more than academics. it’s also learning how to enjoy your own company, learning and occasionally screwing up meals, wandering outside campus like a tourist, questioning your ideals and presuppositions, discovering new talents and skills for the hell of it, and SO much more. if you feel burnt out in one dimension of college life, that’s a sign to spend some time relishing in another dimension.

if you need more time, take a deep breath and shoot that email to your professor/TA asking for an extension. at worst, they say no. and don’t stress over properly explaining yourself/your situation. hell, just email them: “Hi, Professor. I need your help. Sincerely, y/n.” all it takes is that one initial reach out and the rest will follow.

failure does not reflect character. read that again. remind yourself as often as you see fit because at one point or another, you will feel like you’ve failed. it’s growing pains. once you’ve accepted that, learn to view any setbacks as a hint that you need to try a new method/approach. didn’t do well on that math quiz? don’t beat yourself up over it–instead, regroup with yourself and see which metaphorical gear got stuck in your personal learning process machine. for instance, maybe you used flash cards and that wasn’t really your style. act like a detective, not a bully.

THERE IS NO NORMAL TIMELINE FOR YOUR COLLEGE CAREER(!!!!!!). a lot of people need more than 4 years, a lot of people need 4 years, and a lot of people need less than 4 years. and every single one of those timelines are valid. the worst thing you could do is squeeze the living hell out of yourself into some rigid schedule that is incompatible with who you are and how you learn. trust me when i say u will find yourself doing the best work when u do it at YOUR pace.

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college is catered towards the able bodied and able minded. school applauds people who can stay up all night, skip meals, and work endlessly. that kind of extreme contribution is expected. why are disabled people being squeezed out of academic institutions? why should I feel inferior because of some arbitrary and ridiculous standard?

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11.11.20✨

Last week’s weekly — really like the look of maps on my spread. Here’s the mta subway map in nyc (currently taking it as I’m writing this 😅)

Here’s my Instagram where I’ve been on a lot more now if you’re interested in seeing what’s up

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28.03.2020

Still munching on mums cupcakes, drinking iced coffee and catching up on Uni work✌🏻

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✨ Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight, never running from a real fight, she is the one named Sailor Moon! ✨

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october 20th, 2019