#academia

[nadjacestmoi]

This is every. single. lecture as a comparative lit student ✨

[somerunner]

Right now I'm struggling to do like...any homework. One of the homework assignment types is readings, which I use a little trick to get done. This trick addresses the facts that I have to focus to read it, and I also have to be able to tell myself that I really did read every word.

So I just open up a little Notepad instance off to the side, and rewrite the reading word for word as I read it. If I forget a sentence or otherwise lose pace, I can just look back at the Notepad instance to see where I left off. Do I internalize any of the info I read? No. I am focusing entirely on typing. In fact, after writing, I do a quick skim of the reading to actually understand it.

I periodically delete my transcription, as it's really just a focusing tool and not a note-taking method. And, after writing anywhere from 2-10 paragraphs, I can finally just focus on the reading and finish it out without doing this manual-copying thing.

If it works, it works.

[haileyyscomet]

baking aesthetic 🍰💞

[dark-wackademia]

and have some more fav quotes about love and life!

Maggie Nelson, Bluets

[jolivers-wonder]

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[aahistaa]

she's the whisper in darkness

[briechyne]

A Little Bit of Life When Studying

[bluegangster]

and me. 🖤

Franz Kafka, 1912

[knjiznicarka]

This semester aftermath in notes

[joytri]

[dionysian-mystery]

Wikipedia / Image from pinterest / Machiavelli / George Santayana / Thucydides / Image from pinterest / Abba - Waterloo / J. M. Barrie - Peter Pan / Fibonacci spiral / Catherynne M. Valente

[gizlisevgili]

Anlar ve simgeler.

In the times of great chaos, I shall find my peace.

[shisasan]

19 February, 1927 The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941)

[diaryofaphilosopher]

"The shift from the Afro-Caribbean zombie to the U.S. zombie is clear: in Caribbean folklore, people are scared of becoming zombies, whereas in U.S. narratives people are scared of zombies. This shift is significant because it maps the movement from the zombie as victim (Caribbean) to the zombie as an aggressive and terrifying monster who consumes human flesh (U.S.). In Haitian folklore, for instance, zombies do not physically threaten people; rather, the threat comes from the voduon practice whereby the sorcerer (master) subjugates the individual by robbing the victim of free will, language and cognition. The zombie is enslaved."

— Justin D. Edwards, "Mapping Tropical Gothic in the Americas" in Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture.

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[fromdarzaitoleeza]

{Words by Anaïs Nin, from The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 4 (1944-1947) / Cynthia Cruz from diagnosis,The glimmering room}