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Lately, I’ve been having flashbacks that seem and feel real. But I realize I dreamt of this last week. Then I question, are all of those I thought were real just a dream?

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Such a beautiful and inspiring song.

Today I realized that I love everything about myself including my flaws and my failures. This is new to me. I have always hated myself and my history. Today I am finally proud of it and accepted how it shaped me to who I am truly are today.

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take care of yourself today and every day :)

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Directed by Wes Anderson

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I have been using this app since 2016 to practice promodoro technique and I am still using it while I study for my licensure exam. I love learning and challenging myself. Does anyone know which job that is applicable? 😅

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save some money because we are all broke students

Are you too completely broke after spending all your money on Urban Outfitters, your Spotify subscription, that new MacBook for the (overpriced) Studyblr Aesthetic ™? 

I recently graduated high school, and now, as a student, I can finally get my account at UNiDAYS. It’s a platform with discounts on basically everything - from the Financial Times to a cute little French Lifestyle Subscription Box I found recently. (Apparently the one for September is focused on weekly planning and stationery!!)

It’s helped me to save money immensely - for example with the 50% student Spotify discount. I’ve also planned to get a new tablet soon - both Apple and Microsoft offer discounts as well.

All you need to do is register here with your university email.

If you’re not in university yet - or already done - please share so other studyblrs can benefit from it!

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Different days

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Help Everyone Find A Job In Their Field

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I just came from a two-month vreak away from my acads and because I am a very rational person, I thought it would be a very good idea to disrupt my body clock, sleep at 5 or 6 am and wake up late i the afternoon (yay me). This has been going on for a month and of course a very rational person like me would think the right time to fix my sleep schedule is a week before my review class starts (yayyyyyy). I have gone into bed before 12 everyday this week BUT I JUST CANT GET TO SLEEP.

So, now I have decided to not sleep at all today so that I’ll be able to go to bed at night (HOPEFULLY) and have my sleep sched fixed by monday. I honestly don’t think this is a good idea but I feel like this is my only option... I have tried a lot, like a lotttt, of ways to easily fall asleep bit I really just can’t get into it!!!...pray for me...

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Book Recommendations

Here is a massive list of books that I have enjoyed over the years. Some of these books I read when I was a young teenager – they may not be as amazing to me now but they deserve a spot on this list if they have some impact on me years later. Remember to read critically but also for enjoyment :)

Published: September 2, 2018. I will update this post as I read more so check back for an updated version.

FICTION

Note: If a book is part of a series, only the first book in the series is named.

1984 - George Orwell

A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J. Maas

A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin

A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr

American Gods - Neil Gaiman

Angels and Demons - Dan Brown

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Benjamin Alire Saenz

The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein

Bloodlines - Richelle Mead

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - John Boyne

Cider House Rules - John Irving

Circe - Madeline Miller

City of Bones - Cassandra Clare

Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare

The Color Purple - Alice Walker

The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Dark Places - Gillian Flynn

Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller

Eleanor and Park - Rainbow Rowell

Every Day - David Levithan

The Fault in Our Stars - John Green

Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Shaffer, Annie Barrows

The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone - J.K. Rowling

The Help - Kathryn Stockett

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

I Am the Messenger - Markus Zusak

The Iliad - Homer

The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde

Invisble Man - Ralph Ellison

It’s Kind of a Funny Story- Ned Vizzini

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Looking For Alaska - John Green

The Lost Hero - Rick Riordan

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

Macbeth - William Shakespeare

The Martian - Andy Weir

The Maze Runner - James Dashner

Me Before You - Jojo Moyes

My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult

Native Son - Richard Wright

The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey

Othello - William Shakespeare

Outlander - Diana Gabaldon

The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton

The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

The Raven Boys - Maggie Stiefvater

Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare

Room - Emma Donoghue

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

Still Alice - Lisa Genova

The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

The Tempest - William Shakespeare

Throne of Glass - Sarah J. Maas

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before - Jenny Han

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Vampire Academy - Richelle Mead

Will Grayson, Will Graysyon - John Green, David Levithan

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

NONFICTION

The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime - Adrian Raine

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End - Atul Gawande

Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance - Atul Gawande

The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment - Babette Rothschild

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories From a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook - Bruce Perry

The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science - Norman Doidge

The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity - Norman Doidge

Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience - Sally Satel

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - Atul Gawande

Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science - Atul Gawande

Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche - Ethan Watters

Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create the Difference - Cordelia Fine

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery - Henry Marsh

The Emperor of All Maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth - Irving Kirsch

Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis - Lisa Sanders

Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality - Pauline Chen

First, Do No Harm - Lisa Belkin

The Gene: An Intimate History - Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls

How Doctors Think - Jerome Groopman

How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain - Lisa Barrett

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead - Sheryl Sandberg

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales - Oliver Sacks

Milk and Honey - Rupi Kaur

The Mind’s Eye - Oliver Sacks

Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics is Fueling Our Modern Plagues - Martin Blaser

Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity - Steve Silberman

The Night Shift: Real Life in the Heart of the ER - Brain Goldman

Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell

Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond - Sonia Shah

The Princess Saves Herself In This One - Amanda Lovelace

The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician’s First Year - Matt McCarthy

The River of Consciousness - Oliver Sacks

Saving Normal: An Insider’s Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life - Allen Frances

The Sun and Her Flowers - Rupi Kaur

The Tale of Dueling Neurosurgeons - Sam Kean

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption - Laura Hillenbrand

When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi

Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein

The Women Who Changed Her Brain: And Other Inspiring Stories of Pioneering Brain Transformation - Barbara Arrowsmith-Young

Check out my other posts here.

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How to Feign Your Life is Together

Have a signature accessory, clothing article, make up look, or hair style.

Have a fragrance. Make your hair scents and lotions match your perfume.

It’s okay to dine alone. Bring a book or people watch.

Love your hair. Research the best brands for your hair type and use masks weekly.

Your nails don’t need to be fancy, but keep them maintained.

Stay worldly. Know works of art, artists, designers, films, books, politicians. Spend your lunch break reading the paper or a magazine.

Crying is not a weapon. It’s okay to feel your emotions, but never use them as an excuse to avoid your problems.

Jealousy is boring. Love and appreciate others. If you can’t love them, forget them.

Boost others. Flatter others, but don’t deprecate yourself in the process.

Don’t sulk. Don’t let the whole world know your problems. If you don’t want someone to give their opinion, don’t share your situation.

Your life is between you and the universe. Don’t post your personal matters for others to see.

Don’t emotionally blackmail others. They hurt you? Let them know and then move on. It’s between the two of you and not the world.

Cook dinner. Cook dinner and listen to music, the radio, or a podcast.

Treat yourself to candles and flowers. Be your own cheerleader.

Take naps. Take a cat nap on a Sunday afternoon with the blinds open and the fan on high.

Drink your water, eat your vegetables. Take care of your body.

Never have time to take off your jewelry before bed, but always have time to take off your makeup. Your nighttime skin regime is important.

Mystery is beautiful. You don’t need to reveal much of or about yourself.

Never appear other than as you are. Don’t lie about yourself. Embrace who you are at your core.

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Don’t forget to hydrate!

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I am planning to go back to using standard planner instead of bujo-ing since I may not have the same amount of free time in preparation of my board exam. But I still have a lot of blank pages left in my bujo? Any suggestions on where and how to use them?

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Dream Big and Dare to Fail

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Tomorrow is always a beginning. 

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glamorize going to bed early, like, 8pm early

instead of making high stress levels a competition, brag about feeling whole and at peace.

make is cool as hell to take 2pm naps and go on mindful walks by yourself.

talk about mental health and normalize visits to counselors or support systems

teach kids that being different is beautiful and that it’s healthy to love what makes us who we are.

make #selflove and #selfcare the most common hashtags

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Here’s what I discovered. I am most productive in the first few days of the week. Why? Because I force myself too much to work for, let’s say, the first three days, that I don’t have enough energy for the rest of the week.

So, my solution for this is to work only 3-5 hours a day regardless if I have something due the next day or not. I am most unproductive during weekends which, ironically, is the time that I am most free. It’s not because I dont have anything due the next week, I’m just freaking tired during weekdays!!!

This is my experiment for this week. And I hope I succeed!