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one of the biggest things I can advocate for (in academia, but also just in life) is to build credibility with yourself. It’s easy to fall into the habit of thinking of yourself as someone who does things last minute or who struggles to start tasks. people will tell you that you just need to build different habits, but I know for me at least the idea of ‘habit’ is sort of abstract and dehumanizing. Credibility is more like ‘I’ve done this before, so I know I can do it, and more importantly I trust myself to do it’. you set an assignment goal for the day and you meet it, and then you feel stronger setting one the next day. You establish a relationship with yourself that’s built on confidence and trust. That in turn starts to erode the barrier of insecurity and perfectionism and makes it easier to start and finish tasks. reframing the narrative as a process of building credibility makes it easier to celebrate each step and recognize how strong your relationship with yourself can become

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Bought some native milkweed seeds today because it's western monarch day!

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JOMP Challenge | February 1 | February Goals

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Have you ever spotted a fairy lantern? Members of the genus Thismia, these plants don’t use chlorophyll to photosynthesize. Instead, they feed on fungi in the soil. Growing just a few centimeters tall, their unusual-looking, vibrant flowers bloom briefly to attract pollinating insects—like fungus gnats. There are more than a hundred known species of this elusive plant around the planet, ranging from parts of Asia to Australia to the Americas.

Photo: Matheus Moroti, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist (Thismia mantiqueirensis pictured)

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Parts of the pea plant.

Jung-Koch-Quentell Wall Tables. 1970.

The Memory

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manchester university press has an open access initiative. you can browse over 3,000 items online from books and journals.

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02.02.2025 [15 Days of Productivity with @a-fox-studies and @winryrockbellwannabe]

📊Iris: 6hrs

📊AJ: 4hrs

📊Nan: 6hrs 46mins🦾

• Had to move to the floor to switch things up.

• I still haven’t finished going through all the exercises🤡. I’ll try to get up early to do that and make my formula sheet.

• I felt very unmotivated for most of the day and kept getting distracted until like the 3rd hour of studying. Writing the letter to myself for the letter challenge really helped.

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sunday 2.2.2025. birthday month is here! just in time to get over the cold i had last week. since i can finally walk without wheezing like an elderly cartoon, i changed my sheets, took a shower, and changed my toothbrush head to clean away all the germs AND i revived my sourdough starter so i can hopefully make more bread this week. all i managed to study today was reading for tomorrow and catching up on the stuff i didn't do when i was sick last week, but it feels good to be on top of my assignments again. next on my list to attack (aside from regular readings) is to finish revising my notes and start outlining for my exam classes!

total study time- 7 hours

1 hour 30 minutes reading crim pro

2 hours 30 minutes reading legislation and doing practice problems

2 hours reading sales, doing practice problems, and watching the lecture recording from last week

45 minutes reading employment law from last week

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01.02.2025

The first day of February was frosty and sunny, both of which we haven't had for some time.

I think it's incredible and so funny that I wished to get a second-hand Teach yourself Icelandic textbook for my birthday around 8 years ago, got it from my cousins, and after letting it sit on my bookshelf for so many years, I finally get to use it. I wished for it back when I wanted to learn Icelandic for the first time, before I fell madly in love with Swedish. For the first couple of years I kept thinking I'd get to Icelandic later, but eventually lost interest in it. Funny how things turn out. Now I have the opportunity to go to Iceland for a couple of days in April, which I never counted on, and I thought it would be good to learn some Icelandic basics. And I have to say I'm enjoying it enormously! I can't say almost anything, I feel like my memory has got so bad over the last couple of years, but I enjoy learning about the grammar and listening to the language. For some reason it feels refreshing and not at all frustrating, but maybe the frustration will come later on.

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☕ 27.01.2025 // I completed my to do list and had a latte with a friend (Yes, we both took a latte ahah) 🩷

📖 X

🎧 The adults are talking - The Strokes

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february mornings: iced latte in a mug, journaling, flipping through magazines. ☕️

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The vegetarian is too disturbing for my night reading. Change of plans.

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the most revolutionary maple latte ever, most likely... finished editing a journal paper (finally!!) and did some work on the new chapter of a phd section I'm focusing on now!

ig: a.rchive98

listening to: scitalis, burn before dawn

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And a reminder that higher education cannot be considered truly democratised if students can still be doomed to poverty with multiple or advanced arts and Humanities degrees...

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🌿Study with me! 29.01.25🌿

📖 Subject: Academic Planning, French Writing

⏳️ Time: 45 minutes

📍Location: Bush House, London

Here's me getting my act together and doing the damn thing! First off downloading all the pdfs I need for my Writing Fiction course, then the ones I need to read this week for Understanding Modern France, and organising them all. If anyone else has an android tablet I highly highly recommend Flexcil for annotating PDFs! (and canva for converting things into pdfs for free because I'm not paying for Adobe)

Then I'm writing out my answer to "Expliquer «La société de l’entre-soi»" for my French Writing seminar tomorrow. We are reading and examining Maurin's «Le Ghetto Français» for this class this semester. Later I have a q&a session for any last minute year abroad questions before the submission deadline on Sunday. Exciting!

🎧 Pomme

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29.01.2025 [15 Days of Productivity with @a-fox-studies and @winryrockbellwannabe ]

📊Iris: 8hrs🦾

📊AJ: 2hrs

📊Nan: 7hrs 16mins

• I’m not as prepared as I planned to be. But I’ll have some time tomorrow to fix that. Still haven’t made my formula sheet lmao. Back to doing that on the day of the exam.

• Took a walk for the first time in a while. If nothing else, exams force me outside so I can justify taking a stupid long break.

• Finished season 1 of Supernatural.

• I have a violin lesson after my exam that I’m not prepared for at all. Usually I wouldn’t care but it’s a group lesson and I don’t want to embarrass myself lmao. I’ve just been listening to the piece repeatedly since I don’t have time to practice. Do do glad I chose 2nd violin this time.

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