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Days 7 & 8/30

12/18/24

Finishing touches for my partners new apartment

Run!!

Reading

Work emails (including setting boundaries!)

Meeting around Farm to School curriculum

Bullet journal set up for 2025

12/19/24

Finished book 52 for the year!

Tackled the closet situation (took more time than you’d think)

Got so much rest

Planning for tomorrow

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12/17/24

The unpacking process continues…

Furniture got moved today and the old apartment is officially behind us

Spent a fair amount of time wandering the computer store picking out my partner’s new monitors

Really just focused on putting stuff away today

Little bit of reading (The Spellshop)

Need to take some time to respond to emails and do other work stuff tomorrow as well as tackling the closet situation.

Day 6/30

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Day 2, 3, 4, & 5/30

Busy!!

12/13/24

Packing

Worked on job application

Cleaning

Grading final papers

Finished The Serviceberry (so good!)

12/14/24

Did NOT sleep (major fail)

Small faculty get together

Graduation attendance (best one I’ve been to!)

Finished packing for all my travel

Flights!

12/15/24

Moving my partner into a new apartment

Mitigating in law arguments around moving

Final grades put in

Attempted run (knee still messed up)

Dinner at a crazy cool Brazilian restaurant

12/16/24

Managing the WiFi and gas people

Setting up the new bed

Short bike

Tried a new restaurant nearby

Little bit of reading

Finished cover letter and sent in job application

Going to attempt to be more on top of posts now that my partner is mostly moved in.

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12/12/24

Going to do a winter break productivity & recovery challenge because I have a month off and stuff to do!

Today I:

Walked outside & worked out inside

Did some speaking focused Italian Duolingo

Cleaned 3/4 of my house

Read and took notes on a book for work

Found some jobs to apply to

Slept! So much!

Day 1/30

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11/18/24

I’m so sick for some reason but I felt alright for about four hours today so I did some reading for work and some Latin exercises around meetings, emails, and grading.

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Recently:

reading about greco-roman mythology and history

writing to-do lists and journaling in italian

walks in the snow

dreaming about thanksgiving break

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Soft-Feeling Latin Words & Phrases

Another list of Latin phrases, this time with soft/warm meanings. It is 2:39am as I make this list.

a te pro te: from thee for thee

ab imo pectore: from the bottom of the heart

volat hora per orbem: time files through the world

coelum versus: heavenward

concubia nocte: at dead of night

crepusculum: twilight or dusk

crescens luna: a cresent moon

cum corde: with the heart

labores solis: an eclipse of the sun

in horam viviere: to live for the moment

in rerum natura: in the nature of things

in tuto esse: in a safe place

ingens aequor: the vast ocean

inter vivos: among the living

januae mentis: inlets of knowledge

jenuis clausis: in secret, with closed doors

littera scripta manet: the written letter remains

lux mundi: light of the world

lux vitae: light of life

meo voto: by my wish

mox nox: soon night

multis cum lacrimis: with many tears

ningit: it is snowing

occidui temporis umbra: a shadow at sunset

opinio vana: an illusion

osculum pacis: kiss of peace

papilio: butterfly

par pari refero: tit for tat

per vian dolorosam: the way of sorrows

philtrum: a love potion

pluvia: rain

res rustica: a rural affair

ros marinus: rosemary

semel et semper: once and always

silva: wood or forest

sinus urbis: heart of the city

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Reference: Latin for the Illiterati: a modern guide to an ancient language by Jon R. Stone, second edition 2009.

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moments from fall bathed in gold

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September Vibes

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summer books & adventures

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things i've heard environmental science majors say:

"For the test we'll need to tell the different flavours of mayflies apart." / "Did you just say flavours?"

"It amazes me how many city kids are in this program." / "We're all desperate to get out of this city."

"I think everyone who attended all the surface water pollution lab sections should be allowed to lick one piece of glassware of their choosing. Y'know, as a treat."

"Professor, nobody goes into this major unless they like to eat dirt." / "Great, so you can talk the Students' Association into convincing the board to give me funding for my trees?"

"What're we toasting to?" / "Nitrogen pollution."

"You look frustrated. What's up?" / "I had twenty-one Leptophlebiidae in my dish. He's going to think I'm lying about how many Leptophlebiidae are in my dish."

"If you weren't raised by Wall-E, do you even belong in this class?" / "The Onceler." / "Fuck, good point."

"Dude, I spent the whole exam trying not to sink my teeth into a really, really juicy bug in my sample—" / "Cranefly?" / "...yeah."

"Well, just make sure you're not (person)'s lab partner. Last weekend's trip involved him leaving too many fish in the dirt for the professor's liking."

[exhausted chorus] "And the fish go belly-up."

"What's the major difference between east coast and west coast soils?" / "Alcoholism."

"Got any plans for the holidays?" / "Gonna go home and listen to my entire extended family call me a tree-hugging hippie." / "Aren't we all?"

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Well, I got most of it done but I had to push back several of these tasks due to a surprise project I got handed last week. Maybe this week will be the week to finish these?

Unfortunately this is a very important work week for me and I have so many things to do before a bunch of March 1st deadlines, so I’m leaving a to do list here for motivation.

Week of 2/19-2/25

Pick breakfast recipes

Email breakfast ingredients to C

Have full draft of fellowship application done

Recipes for camp cooking sessions selected

Figure out second field trip

Set up guest lecture w/ D

Meet w/ Z about professional curriculum plan

Finish fact sheet for Y

Email fact sheet for PS

Finalize and send grant survey

Confirm beekeeping lesson w/ A

Finish program change edits

Email program edits to T

Catch up on grading

Dishes

Recycling

Laundry (S - W - D - F - A)

Set up car appointment

Clean up books

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Unfortunately this is a very important work week for me and I have so many things to do before a bunch of March 1st deadlines, so I’m leaving a to do list here for motivation.

Week of 2/19-2/25

Pick breakfast recipes

Email breakfast ingredients to C

Have full draft of fellowship application done

Recipes for camp cooking sessions selected

Figure out second field trip

Set up guest lecture w/ D

Meet w/ Z about professional curriculum plan

Finish fact sheet for Y

Email fact sheet for PS

Finalize and send grant survey

Confirm beekeeping lesson w/ A

Finish program change edits

Email program edits to T

Catch up on grading

Dishes

Recycling

Laundry (S - W - D - F - A)

Set up car appointment

Clean up books

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2/19/24 - good books & goofy deer

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best part of summer

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“source?” i can feel it in me bones

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More thesis writing tips from someone who just finished writing their thesis

I have already made a couple of thesis related posts in these past months: thesis writing tips from someone who is currently writing their thesis, my thesis notebook, my process for writing a chapter of my thesis. After finishing my thesis here are some more tips and useful things that came to mind! (If you are interested I documented the process of my work in specific daily posts all tagged as #thesis diary).

ask all the more technical information ahead of time, margins, font, size, the way the footnotes should be written, how you are supposed to include quotes in the text, everything. The early you know about this stuff the better because it will be less likely for you to miss something when fixing the final version.

copying all the chapters in one single file will cause problems, be aware of it.

I personally wrote individual chapters on different files in order to then send them to my professor. I ended up having to rewrite the whole thing in one file cause by just copying and pasting it the file got messed up and didn't show both the footnotes and the page number. I would recommend maybe writing everything in a document with all the correct settings and then copying single chapters in different files to send to professors. That way you shouldn't have my problem. Or simply calculate more time to rewrite everything, that could also be a tecnique to make sure the texts works as a whole.

if you have long chapters that touch multiple subjects make sure you have a list with the order of everything in the chapter so that if you have to add new information regarding something you won't have to reread the whole thing just to look for the paragraph you need. I would have needed something like this at the very end but I unfortunately did not have anything like it.

rembember that people reading your thesis don't know as much as you do on the subject you are writing about. This means that you probably have more material than you think you do, because you'll need to explain even what you think are basic facts of the subject, and that you need to repeat certain informations more than once. If you are talking about someone don't assume people will remember about when you first introduced them 20 pages ago, add a brief line to remind everyone who they are.

highlighters and colourful tabs are your best friends when organizing what piece of information goes in which chapter. I personally did a big rereading of all my notes with different highlighters in hand, I associated a colour to each chapter and then just marked all the information I wanted to include with the right colour.

before starting with a chapter create a big brain dump even if you have more or less a good idea of what to include, often you get even more interesting ideas that you can add.

having someone to help with rereading everything can be super helpful. I was personally very grateful to my family cause having them reread the stuff I wrote helped me find so many typos and mistakes I made like repetitions of words I had not seen. When you know what you are about to read you can often skip errors you made.

fiding titles for the thesis and for chapters is a nightmare. I struggled so much cause I had no idea where to start. What you want to do is individuate key words that can represent what is included in the chapter and work from there.

if you write a thesis that includes a research you personally did in the conclusion make sure to add prompts for further researches that could be made on the subject, that is always a nice addition to make.

you will rewrite things a million times, be aware of it from the start, and accept it as your fate.

synonyms, look for synonyms when writing. If you are anything like me you tend to use some few words more than others, but with this type of writing it is necessary to vary your vocabulary. Plus when looking for synonyms you might find words that work much better that what you had in mind.

you will find yourself struggling with writing certain sentences. Sometimes you have the informations but you sentence just does not work, it can be too long, too wordy, too confused. When that happens deleated it. Think of the key words of the sentence and what you want to say and try to write it down in a completly different manner than before, sometimes that can help with finding the right set of words.

you will have to write a bibliography, my advice is to store all the sources you use in one file as soon as you have used them in the thesis. This way you'll make sure you don't forget any. Then make sure you have written them all in the same style, and after having them in alphabetical order you are good to go. (pro tip: if you're graduating in history make sure to separate the primary sources from the secondary sources, that will look even more professional, plus if you like me had to work with particular sources like hadwritten ones make sure you specify it)

do your best to highlight your original work, your hypothesis, your thoughts, the difficult stuff you did for the research (like in my case working with handwritten sources). It is very important even if you use an impersonal tone while writing (which tbh is much better for a thesis).

you have doubts on something? Something cannot be said for certain? You had a specific question you wanted to reseach but didn't find much? Write about it. Say there is an hypothesis but it's not clear and explain the reasons why (both why you have a certain idea and why it cannot be said for sure). Say you looked for informations regarding something but you found none, or very little. Those are all precious informations for a reseach even if it doesn't look like so right away.

it's also important to analyze sources that have previously researched the subject you are talking about. Include that, talking about the sources you used as well as the previous researches that have been done is fundamental, and elevates your work.

These are all the tips and advices that came to mind at the moment. I am sure I am forgetting about something, because there is so much that can be said on this subject. I really hope this was somewhat helpful, especially alongside my other posts. Here's also a link to my masterlist of studying tips post just in case.