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actually studying in the library for once 😊 and yes, i did spend five minutes drawing those gorgeous field lines instead of being productive

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random physics comp i probably bombed 😭

classical mechanics is so fundamental but also kind of plain

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there's nothing more satisfying than the program finally working!! i went through multiple breaks of despair only for the stupidest line in the code to be the issue

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there's always all these trackers and calendars online that are supposed to "increase your productivity" "help you be more efficient" blah blah blah

sometimes you just got to write it down on a piece of paper and take it one step at a time.

i dont know if this is just the monkey brain inside of me but after a couple weeks of trying a new planning or scheduling hack, it just stops working. i feel like it's really difficult to just sit down and get stuff done especially at the times i dictate it.

i just want to go with the flow

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spoiler alert: they did not lock in for the month of october

(i'm back lol)

i'm going to lock in for the month of october! so i'm making a list on here of everything i have to do this week and seeing if i can finish it

thermodynamics module

photography composition practice

titration procedure / lab / analysis / presentation

midterm review sheet

immigration research paper

particle motion lab

energy conversion lab

add magnetic field to ising model simulation

finish chapter 2 part 1 of cs textbook

mini-essay of music in great gatsby

practice test for analysis midterm

read chapter 6 of great gatsby

crossing my fingers that this holds me accountable. my procrastination is way out of control...

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i got accepted into the research internship i applied to!!! 🥳 i guess my interview wasn't that bad after all lol

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it's okay not to be productive some weeks.

i feel like i got so little done this week. i had to ask for an extension on my physics work and my essay in english. i barely managed to finish the work i needed this week. but that's okay. sometimes its good to have mental breaks.

a good advice i was given was to separate the work from relaxation.

when you are studying, you are studying. less distractions when you are working, and good mental breaks (like going outside or grabbing a snack). but when you are relaxing, you are relaxing. don't let the guilt of not getting stuff done eat at you.

put it in your schedule to relax or something, but sometimes you need breaks. sometimes its difficult for me to get up and do work, and i feel horrible for not being able to do that. but at the same time, its a sign that my mind and my body needs the rest.

go to sleep <3

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i went to the dentist yesterday... and they were so perplexed.

the first dental person came in and she started taking pictures and x-rays. she was very judgmental at first, but then she started looking at the pictures she had taken and started listing of theories for what could be wrong with my mouth. at the end, she was like "i don't know for sure..." very reassuring. great job.

the next dentist came in, and he wanted more pictures since he saw this like weird spot in my mouth. he showed it to the dental assistant, but the assistant was like "i can't see" and the dentist scofffed. he asked the dental assistant to take pictures and then he left.

the dental assistant was very interesting. he got the pictures of the spot with my mouth open, but he was really struggling to get the pictures when i was biting down. i kid you not, he was literally telling me, "i don't get what he means when he says to take a picture of the spot when you are biting down, i cant see!"

the dentist comes back in to check on the assistant, and he's like "NOOOOO, why are you struggling so much..." turns out the dental assistant was taking pictures of the wrong thing :/

anyways, the dentist ended up giving me this weird mouthwash that he said could turn my teeth black if i took too much of it and told me that my issue would go away in five days.

just to show that the learning process never really ends. the dental assistant was such a vibe lol

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only 3K words????? for the amount of pain this paper has caused me???? im so glad im done with this.

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Messy notes are so nice to make! The diagrams just hit different. Reading back through it is a pain though.

I love aesthetic notes but its not realistic for a lot of people. If it is for you, that is amazing! But this is an appreciation post for messy/near-unreadable notes, notes that still work as notes and help you get good marks but don't look pretty "like they should"

(These are my revision notes for C7 Chemistry)

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last week this actually worked a little bit, so i'm going to continue doing this. unfortunately, i didn't finish my research paper on immigration by the due date, so i got an extension to this wednesday.

FINISH immigration research paper

submit to photography competition

study for lab quiz :)

gas law and graham's law problem sets

thermodynamics problem set

physics quiz

thermodynamics frq

revise mini-essay

finish enigma machine simulation

probability problem sets

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sometimes i feel like school sucks everything out of me. i have all this motivation and excitement at the beginning of the week, but then school happens and i have all this useless homework. meanwhile there is stuff i actually want to do and am interested in... but i never have the chance to do them because i'm so tired and i still have homework to do. i feel like i'm sacrificing a bit too much of my self just to please my school and my teachers

on a brighter note, i think i discovered the identity of the unknown acid! i'm super nervous to go back to the lab now though and collaborate with my team. hopefully i'm right :)

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pretty colors~

i LOVE doing titration labs. i used methyl orange since my lab station was in charge of finding the first equivalence point of a diprotic acid. it was kind of hard to tell if the acid was red, orange, or yellow at times though... but the data is good!

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i think i’m cooked for this midterm. and i haven’t even studied for hyperbolic paraboloids or hyperboloids or ... i don’t even remember their names

my test is in two days lol

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studying from home tip— move your desk next to a window so that you don’t get depressed while you study ❤️

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why are there so many variables in physics? it’s like reading a whole new language and i’m dying here 😭

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i'm going to lock in for the month of october! so i'm making a list on here of everything i have to do this week and seeing if i can finish it

thermodynamics module

photography composition practice

titration procedure / lab / analysis / presentation

midterm review sheet

immigration research paper

particle motion lab

energy conversion lab

add magnetic field to ising model simulation

finish chapter 2 part 1 of cs textbook

mini-essay of music in great gatsby

practice test for analysis midterm

read chapter 6 of great gatsby

crossing my fingers that this holds me accountable. my procrastination is way out of control...