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After three whole years, my BA Degree is finally completed!!!!🥳🥳🥳

I wish I had shared more of my academic year on tumblr, as I wanted it to be a study blog. Unfortunately, this year was so hectic, not only academically but also mentally, so I kinda gave up on posting regularly. Nevertheless, my hard work in academics this year has paid off, and I couldn't have asked for a better outcome. My degree was challenging due to various factors (mainly terrible lecturers, haha), but I'm glad I got to experience campus life. I think I'm gonna miss the food the most lol😭. Hopefully I can now focus on my hobbies and post about them regularly here as well as start my YouTube channel sometime next year. The next step is to be employed, but I am so glad I'm not a student anymore🫡. Gonna miss this tho

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And now we wait for midnight....

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🚨 Help Us Escape the Devastation of War 🚨

Hello, everyone.

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The Jacaranda Tree reminding me that exams are nearing🫠🫡

(I really just gave up on the productivity challenge and showed up months later😭)

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Roll cake sharks 🍓🦈

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Found an old animation of mine from 12 years ago, please hold your applause

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Forget-me-nots Kitty - Botanimal Pet Portrait

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I’m on Patreon, I sell Prints and I have an Etsy shop.

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Day 14-24

It's been a hectic couple of weeks. After my first exam, I just became hyperfocused on studying and didn't really do anything aside from that. My second media exam was iffy just like the first one, but my 3rd and 4th exams, which were English, were sooo good so I'm happy about that. Now all that's left to do is wait for results. My brain is basically fried at this point, so I'm just going to rest for a couple of days before I get back into anything else.

Took out some pics on the ride home after my exams.

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Day 13

I had such a shitty day lmao. Did my first exam for cinema studies today and it was the WORST. Our lecturer misguided us in the scope they gave us so some things in the exam were so foreign and I was STRUGGLING to make sense of what I was writing. I honestly just hope I did well enough to pass cos I don't have high hopes for this module anymore.

Had a bad headache after the exam so I took a nap. Then got back to studying for my next exam on Cultural Studies cos that's how we move with uni life🥲 the exam is next week Thursday and it's being set by the same lecturer who did today's paper so I'm honestly so scared, but I'm gonna try my best to learn everything I can. I just hope I don't have to write supps for these modules cos those are usually way harder than the main exam. I'm holding out hope for myself🫤🤞

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Memorising silly little info into my silly little brain for my silly little degree.

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Day 7-12

Did pretty much the same thing these past 6 days which is why I'm posting this so late. Continued my studying for Bloody Chamber the first two days, and then only concentrated on cinema studies for the rest. My first paper is cinema studies and its tomorrow! My anxiety is really starting to settle in now🫠 I have like over 12 pages of work to remember yoh. Atp I'm just hoping to pass, even though I know I've studied so much😅

Didn't continue with any of my hobbies that I was doing which was reading and crocheting, since I was starting to get so stressed for this paper. Didn't exercise either. So I'm hoping I get the time to do those after this paper. Hoping tomorrow's paper isn't too bad🙏

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Art by Paul Rabaud

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Day 6:

Ignore how the 2nd picture doesn't really fit the colour scheme lol. Still learning how to edit photos to blend in with each other and didn't really want to spend too much time on this one.😅

Was not well today as it's that time of the month.😓 I was in a lot of pain and was lethargic throughout the day, so I spent the day resting. Idk why it always decides to be the worst during important times in my life yoh.🥲 In the evening, my energy was still low, but the pain was manageable, so I decided to get some revision done. I wrote out my cinema studies notes in order and revised. It was a lot, so it was all I could get done. I had planned to do a bit more studying for other modules, but I didn't want to push myself while I'm not well. I'm counting this small win as productive tho cos I didn't think I could get it done.💪📚

Hopefully, by tomorrow I'm a bit better so I can get more studying done, but that's all for today.😴

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Food Art by Alai Ganuza

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Oh my god, this is like the 10th time I'm trying to post this!🤦‍♀️ Anyways...

Day 5:

Wasn't really productive this past weekend, was just going over what I already had to learn. I could feel a sense of burnout coming on so I decided to take the weekend slow. So that means I'll have to pick up the slack this week since my first exam is next Tuesday!

Sent an email to my lecturer to clarify if the notes I have for my "Psycho" essay for cinema studies are on the right path for what we're expected to write in the exam, and thankfully they were correct. Phew! Will probably start attempting to write out the essay today and Wednesday, and hopefully send it to her again by Wednesday or Thursday for one last round of feedback before the exam. Finally started learning for English and started compiling notes for Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber". I then revised over the other notes I need to know aside from the essay for cinema studies. 📚

Did my 7 min core workout and 10 min stretch. I was thinking of moving on to longer, more challenging workouts but decided not to cos I didn't want to end up feeling too sore because I just know that will make me lazy and want to lie in bed to rest. So for now, I'll just stick to what I've been doing just so that I'm regularly exercising. I'll probably start doing 2 sets of the workouts tho, since they're not high intensity. But I'll leave the longer, challenging workouts for after exams. 💪

Had to unravel the basket I was crocheting lol. I kept messing up and I think it's because this is the first time I'm working on a project in the round. Hopefully I'll attempt it again this week. 🧶

Unfortunately didn't get to read, but will definitely get back to it this week. 📖

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apparently modern medieval scholars have no solid idea why there’s so many old paintings of knights fighting snails.  Like that wasn’t just one weird painting there’s hundreds of those.