#anyway time for my midterm wish me luck

[supernovaa-remnant]

just got the worst case of deja vu yet whilst playing sudoku :/

[crybaby-bkg]

I have like 2/3 chapters left of my novel and it’s making me so emotional bc I’ve been writing this baby for my entire college journey!!!! so she grew as I grew and it’s just!!!! being able to see the transformation of my writing and my characters and it just feels so surreal that so many of my ideas and daydreams have been put down for so many to read 😭

[victory-cookies]

shoutout to the cashier in the sandwich shop on campus, I came up to the till with my sammich all wrapped up and announced that it was a build your own, and he just looked at it and went “are you sure? It’s so small” and I was like “I don’t really like veggies on mine” and he nodded and went “okay well I’ll give it to you for half price then, since you aren’t getting as much”. Like king you don’t have to do that like it’s my decision to not go all in on veggies but I do appreciate it

[syn4k]

anyways it sucks that nano said that about ai generated writing but im broke so im not gonna be giving them money in either case.

my approach to this is going to be: in my creative writing class, one of our midterm grades is to compete in one of three writing related contests, one of which is NaNoWriMo. HOWEVER, since our class has a high percentage of disabled people (both physically and mentally) who are incredibly prone to burnout when it comes to participating in traditional NaNo, our teacher (also disabled so she Gets It) edited the challenge slightly this year to make it easier for us to participate.

instead of writing 40,000 words in one month, our goal is to write 10,000 words a month for four months, starting in August and ending with 40k at the end of November. this is much more manageable and realistic for us, it still provides a challenge, and it also means the participants write an entire novel in four months, which is still a big deal for obvious reasons especially considering the majority of the class are very much amateur writers.

i've adopted this much more relaxed model while writing salt & the sea and will probably continue to use it next year regardless of if our teacher keeps it in the rotation for our midterm grade or not. if traditional nano has been too exhausting/intimidating for you in previous years for whatever reason like it has been for me, you're welcome to join me in participating in this unofficial offshoot of it!

another thing: i am a fast writer. i write a lot and i write very quickly. however, due to burnout, depression, the time of year that NaNo happens in, and a couple other things, 40k words in one month is a goal that i simply cannot hit in any way without hurting myself a LOT right now and that's okay. Reaching a goal means nothing if you destroy yourself in the process of getting there. It's okay to make a huge challenge easier for yourself in order to accommodate for your own disabilities, workflow, etc. or even just so that you aren't put off trying in the first place!

I don't have a name yet for this edited NaNo challenge and it probably won't go anywhere which is okay but I'm thinking of referring to it as Mini NaNo, Mitosis NaNo, or something else that preferably emphasizes it's an unofficial offshoot of the challenge.

(my) monthly goals:

Start: Aug 1st (you can dust off an old draft or concept if you'd like)

August 31st: 10,000 words

September 30th: 20,000 words

October 31st: 30,000 words

November 30th: 40,000 words

Current word count as of Sep. 2nd (started this draft on May 30th, I know, I cheated a bit): ~19,000

wish me luck!

[thelittolpinkstudent]

hello, hello! apologies for not posting yesterday; i was very tired and focused upon getting to sleep on time last night. i was successful! it’s been pretty rainy here, but i actually kind of enjoy it. we’re getting a taste of march’s classic weather a few days early. it also makes me feel so cozy throughout the day. i’ll do a quick review of yesterday and then we can move on to today!

yesterday (2/27/2024):

✅ make an appointment with the health center to check my knee

✅ readings for thursday’s fiction writing class

✅ review third section of anthropology study guide

✅ look over practice pieces #3-5 and write questions for conference

attended appointment with health center after classes; unfortunately, i am out of dance until further notice… T^T

✅ email ballet professor about situation with knee

started watching a k-drama “oh my baby!” on netflix 📺 i love anything concerning families and motherhood i find them so interesting

today (2/28/2024):

conference with my fiction writing professor; talked specifically about one of my pieces i’ll be revising for class on tuesday

✅ german homework (i groaned when i saw it was listening)

✅ food outbreaks for public health

✅ finding clinical trials for public health

✅ final review for anthropology midterm; assessing significance and finding or thinking of strong examples; reading over all of my terms

and that’s about all! in regards to my knee, i haven’t been officially diagnosed with anything, just vaguely, as i’d need an mri for that, but i have an appointment on monday with our campus’ sports medicine doctors that specialize in orthopedics. right now, a lot of icing, advil, and ace bandaging is necessary. until i’m cleared, i’ll be sitting out of ballet class and writing observations. even just today i learned a lot from observing my classmates! in regards to my anthropology midterm, i’m a little nervous, but hopefully my studying over the past few days will have been beneficial. i know what to expect, but i also don’t know what to expect. my prof tries to be clear, but sometimes it just confuses me more!

gratitude: burrito bowl wednesday!

days until spring break: 9

anyways, wish me luck on my exam! 🤞to all of you also currently in midterm season, good luck to you! you’re going to ace your exams 💪 see you all tomorrow! 💕

[klebald]

hello hello, goodmorning…or good-whatever it is for you, right now it’s morning for me… anyways!

it’s good to know that you remember me—and i appreciate you calling my emoji choice cool! i grew such a liking to that emoji before and after using it (and i still do…) it’s also good to hear that you have many backups, i do have to say once you disappeared i was disappointed since i enjoyed having these little anonymous talks with you, but now i know i won’t have to worry about that!

good luck/job on your midterms! i’m sure you did well, and i read that you’re going out with a B+ to a B? i think that’s still good, what matters is you doing your best… no worries about talking about school, it can be tough and stressful so i definitely understand!! it’s good to hear you had a good halloween, what you did sounds very awesome and it’s nice to know you get to relax now… (even if it’s for a little while).

i’m sorry to hear about the scarring, unless you like it? well, i’m doubtful since you referred to it as disgustingly, and i hope your ankle heals fast so you can get back to walking normally!! make sure to rest well and take care of it + yourself. :)

i’ve been…alright, definitely better, it was my birthday 4? days ago now, that was fun… i didn’t do much except chill (as usual) and hangout with my family.

— 🫀

Hello! Late good morning, that is closer to afternoon-stepping-into-evening. It is dark out. It was morning for me when you sent this, as well. It both saddens and relieves me to know that you were disappointed to see me go. No further worries, though. I will be around as long as you are, fascinating emoji choice and all. You are more than welcome, by the way. I will continue to offer anonymous talks about our day for quite some time, I have little better to do, especially on a weekend. I am also somebody who happens to enjoy the indulgence that is writing about myself and drooooning on. Apparently, others read through it, meaning that this works out well. Thank you for your kind words on my schoolwork, consider me charmed. Heheheh. Hard work is what I focus myself on when I'm not scorching my retinas with my laptop screen scrolling through Tumblr, and it seems difficult to be anything BUT good at that. Managing a B+ is still better than the grades I was pulling say three years ago, so I suppose I'll take it. Next quarter I am really going to try and keep my grade steady as an A for that class, fuck youuuuu, Computer Science. With the way my Halloween went, I really do hope yours went fairly, as well. I would only wish to be even. If not, I will give you a bit of my candy, as I really don't need it all.

Maybe if the scar were in a better place, I would like it. Unfortunately, my knee just happens to look red like I banged it, so there are less pros to it than I would have assumed falling that hard. If only you didn't explode it, or opted for a little bit higher, I could look badass. I hope that my ankle heals quickly, as well, and I thank you for your well wishes. You are very considerate, anon. I just got off of it after being on it for a short amount of time, meaning that I am back to resting indeed, but it hurts enough I cannot manage keeping a shoe all the way on that foot, so I am under the assumption I messed it up pretty badly. There was also me looking like a moron, limping with my foot halfway in a sneaker and the entire thing not even touching the ground that came with it, so I am a little embarrassed to have to had left the house just now. Oh well, I'm the most worried about playing DDR this week with it. Pray that it heals quickly, as you have been, for Dance Dance Revolution (StepManiaX) 's sake! I am also glad to know that you have been alright. The nice thing to do was to check up on you, of course, seeing how long it'd been. Happy belated Birthday! I'm relieved that that went well for you. Sometimes chilling really is what is best for the soul. Take this, a late present of sorts. :-)

[sorryimananti-romantic]

Hi yumi

I'm here to cry about something happened today

It's finals week so my afternoon exam was Persian language to be honest I'm bad at it but i was trying my best

Anyway i had 1h to do my exam everyone started to leave the class very fast i end up thr only one left with the teacher she said i still have 5 minutes i was trying to rush and right something anything and the 5 minutes is up i give my paper and leave when i go to the bus stop i look at my phone i still had 20 full minutes it was 12.40 i should have up to 1.00 i could have finish that long 40 points question

I wish will get the passing points at least and i will never step in that faculty building again and it's not like the first time that teacher do something , my friend get 80 on her midterm but the few days later she saw her grades was 60

Uni will give me gray hair one day

I study Arabic + Turkish language translation and adding Persian was the right thing to do

🦝

oof that sounds like bad luck but fingers crossed you'll be okay 🩷 this has happened to me a few times too 😭 uni does give everyone grey hair lol

ooo that's a lot of languages that have quite some similarities, i hope you're having fun learning about them!

[mochinon-yah]

uh i may have sent my ask too soon without completing it hejsjdjsksj im using mobile 😭

ANYWAY midterms are over thank god but i'm back at school again cuz spring break was only a week long and i turned 20 since it happened to start on my bday back in march mweheheh

BUT YEA AJDJSJJDHDJS LIKE I WOULD EXPECT A HIGH SCHOOLER TO KNOW WHAT A FRIGGIN SCORPION IS??? LIKE HELLO??? but yea! my bf is like albedo but edgy/emo? like usually wears darker clothing and hoodies, but he's really cute (will deny being called that and insists im cuter) and he's super sweet too so things are going rlly well!

anyway social anxiety is like. the bane of existence. especially as a college student and being an adult so thats fun to deal with aha :"D i don't really like the attention either since it makes me feel cornered so i just kinda make myself as small as possible or hide next to one of my friends- like. i make my body language pretty obvious when i don't want to socialize but people do it anyway hhhhhh

also nw! i've never read pride and prejudice but it sounds interesting! :D but i can relate to not being able to sit and read for long periods of time ehe (meanwhile i'm having an artist block-)

NUU DONT APOLOGIZE TAKE UR TIME-

KSWMJWWKQM YEAH, YOUR LAST WISH IS NOT HAPPENING LMAO 😭☝️since i'm on a break from school, i got extra lazy and just played hsr/draw smth inside my room for most of the time, sleeping at 5 am and waking up at 2 pm has been my new sleeping schedule 😭😭 i hope your sleeping schedule is much better than mine lol

*cough* anywayyyy

Weweweee, i don't know how many people have said it to you, but happy birthday and congratulations for making it to 20! I'm sure the journey for you to make it this far is not smth small, so i wanna shout out to you that you're verryyy amazing, and you earn a head pat and also a hug from yourself or from someone that you're already comfortable with 🫂

Well, you earn more than just a head pat and a hug, but i'll just say those two to make it simple :]

AND AYOO???? "will deny being called that and insists im cuter" THAT IS SO CUTE FROM BOTH YOUR BF AND YOU JSJSJAKQIWK- what is this cutesy couple thingy that i have only heard from people.... it was actually real???

Moving on lmao- YEAH, ME TOO!!! I make my body language obvious to people when i don't want to interact but people do anyway, altho if they were just asking for a way to a place or smth simple, i'm like okay with that. But if someone talks to me when i really don't want to talk, i'd be making a weird face (honestly i look like i'm constipated-) first for a quick second before i face that person lmao

Actually, i started pride and prejudice because of a fanfic LMAOOO. The fanfic itself was just a bunch of things from classical novels, and i got interested real fast since it was yandere-themed lol (the fanfic was so SILLY SKWKWSK i lop it)

I'll just respond you with this after you said that you're having an artist block:

Good luck, vivi 😭💪

[fiapartridge]

Daisy wakes up in a horrible mood, and Will sends her messages periodically just to check in on her

omg yes if will's away and can't physically be with her, he'll be sending messages throughout the day to make sure she's okay

will: rise and shine, baby!!!!!!

daisy: morning

will: you okay???

daisy: no, the coffee machine is broken. and i have an 8 am class today and then i have ballet practice later and drew is making me help him study for his history of sports class because he said i "owe him one" for the time i bailed on getting ice cream with him. so no. i'm not ok.

will: wish i was there, i could've beaten fortescue's ass for you :(

daisy: eh, i could do that on my own

will: 100%

daisy's typing...

will: sorry, my mom is going batshit because my sister lost her lv bag. i'll text you after (tell u if my sister made it out alive lol). i love you, baby ❤️

daisy: i love you! tell grace i wish her luck

will: and me???

daisy: she's not mad at u stupid and plus i like gracie more than u 😇

will: i hate you

daisy: i love you

will: gotta go before the screaming starts i'll text you later, pretty girl

will: i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you

-> 1 hour later

will: hi, baby grace made it out alive sadly :(

will: hope your 8 am wasn't too terrible. you know i hate that old woman's voice she sounds like my great aunt. you know the one with the nasaly voice she really needs to get that thing checked up

will: anyway i love you hope you're okay

daisy: wait my professor??? LOL she's so sweet don't bully her

daisy: and i'm okay. thank u for checking in my love

will: always, baby

-> 30 minutes later

will: hope you didn't kill drew

daisy: will she has me trapped help help help she's gonna kill me SOSOSOSOSOSOS call 911!!!

will: drew give the phone back to daisy and stop harassing her

daisy: hey, i'm not harassing her

will: so how'd you get her phone

daisy: definitely not by jumping her

daisy: he jumped me. that bitch fucking jumped me

will: LMAO DONT KILL HIM WE HAVE A GAME IN 2 DAYS

daisy: don't worry i wont hurt your precious dman

will: thank you love

daisy: but i didn't promise a quick death - he wouldn't feel it... so technically i'm not hurting him???

will: okay i'll help you hide the body when i come back i think there's space in the freezer he's a tiny guy

daisy: he's taller than u willy

will: okay but he's lanky if he gets chopped up those bits and pieces are smalllll

daisy: shit ur right

daisy: you guys are fucking lunatics YOURE GONNA KILL ME AND CHOP ME UP AND PUT ME IN THE FREEZER HUH???

will: stop jumping daisy

daisy: you guys need to stop watching crime docs together

will: yeah yeah give daisy back to me, farts

daisy: forts**** autocorrect i assume

will: nope shit stinks

daisy: hi i missed you

daisy: drew threw my textbook down the stairs and made a run for with my phone so 😀 not much studying

will: i'm coming back today & i'm ready to beat his ass ❤️

daisy: love you gotta go before he starts swinging on me

will: i love you more like a million times more like you're going to get sick of me soon that's how much i love you dais

daisy: not possible <3

-> later in the day - after dinner time

will: how was ballet practice misty

will: hope drew didn't sustain any major injuries

will: also hope your day got better

will: i wish i was there. i miss you so much. all i want to do is kiss you sweet girl

daisy: i love you so much

daisy: practice was good, started the swan lake dance choreo which was so fun but so exhausting my eyes are literally struggling to stay open

daisy: ur almost home and u can come straight to my arms

daisy: i'm sleeping in ur room tonight because drew wanted to cram in some actual studying. he's really worried about his midterm

will: coach says if he doesn't pass the class he can't play against harvard on tuesday

daisy: ouch. i think he'll do fine he's just scared. he knows everything it's just the anxiety that's eating him up

will: hows yours today

daisy: my what

will: anxiety. are you okay? do you need anything? i'm on my way back i can grab you those chips you really like

daisy: i'm okay, my love. your texts kept me from going crazy today haha

daisy: i can't wait to see you. don't wake me when u get home tn. i just wanna be happy to see you in the morning

will: i love you, sweet girl. almost there

daisy: see you in the morning ❤️ i love you

[heylel]

Hey it's been months. Yeah this is my entry for this semester. I know, I know. It's been a while and I'm gonna tell what happened to my life in just one entry but here goes nothing.

I'm a fourth-year student now and to be honest, in a week Christmas vacation will start. Lots of things happened this semester and boy it's a mess. There are fun things too. I befriended a lot of my classmates. We bonded, shared some personal stories, laughed together, were sad and cried together. Name it, maybe we did the funniest and saddest shit together.

The first third half of the semester is fine. I made new friends and not literally but kind of lost one. It's not bad. We did not fight, heck I am not even aware if they were aware that we were friends. HAHAHAHAHA. Well, in short, I left (kind of?) this group of friends that I thought maybe I was a part of. I don't even know if I am a part of the group in the first place but who cares? (I am.) But it's fine, I befriend these new friends I am hanging out with now. I ate lunch with them every Tuesday and Thursday and I always felt welcome with them.

The second third half of the semester is fine too. Nothing memorable happens as far as I am concerned. I am doing fine, be it in my studies, group of friends and family. (or maybe I don't remember much)

The final part of the same has mixed emotions. My birthday came and believe it or not I have three other classmates who have the same birthday as me! Cool right? Then the majority of the courses are fine. (I think?) I feel like I can ace it. We finished one of the research papers and defended it well. Not the best but well it's done already and it's already hard bonded and we passed it to our professor last Thursday. On the other hand, the other research paper slaps us in the face. I don't know what happened to be honest. Maybe we did not give our all and all but it's just frustrating and saddening. We passed the prelims and midterms defence but failed the last one. I cannot lie that it made me cry multiple times whenever I remembered it. Out of 15 groups, only 1 passed, 5 were able to redefend their work and the rest failed miserably. It's my first time failing like that. I'm really scared of bringing it up to my parents but I don't have a choice. (oh, I already did actually, just this morning). I just pray that on Monday there will be some good news. That they at least give us a chance to defend our paper once more. The tuition and miscellaneous fees are freaking high and it's really hard to earn money.

Well, anyway, we still have a week before we officially end the semester. We just needed to take the final exams and finish and pass some of our professor's requirements then that was all. Wish me luck! With us luck.

Until next time.

Heylel.

[lexingtonprincess]

Soooooo, I finally finished my fricking essay that thing took way too damn long. It wasn’t bad though and I didn’t mind writing it but it was just very time consuming especially when I finished it last second anyway. But I did it and I’m pretty proud of myself!!

So cause of choir the singletary center was closed. So we had to go to the Newman center (church on campus) And then the director changes it last second to call backs only. Therefore I was free for an hr. Saw a friend hung out with her then met this other lady. Now we all have a group chat and we can only speak Spanish, learning daily words etc. And now I'm going running with her twice a week. So I guess I can consider myself a runner/walker. I try to run most of it but it goes to walking and then running as I can praying I don’t die because I swear it feels like I might.

I have two midterms this coming Friday, which is Friday the 13th. I’m scared, but I’ll be okay. I really think I got it as long as I pay enough attention and review things like I need to. So fingers crossed I do okay!

Besides having midterms classes have been very fun! Having a work life balance isn’t easy or honestly even possible but I’m somehow doing it, I’m really not even mad about it. I feel like I balance it very well for what I’m doing. For having 20 credit hrs and then already planned to have 21 next semester I think I’m doing really fricking well!!!

Anyway Im trying to keep this shorter since I need to get to bed and get a shower to go on my morning run tomorrow at like 7:30am. So wish me luck and Good Morning/ Good Night y’all!!!

Never forget I love y’all so so much, and I’m proud of y’all!!!💜🫶🏻

[mjprocessblog]

03.10.23

Midterm week

Today we had our practice with Miss Ainur, discussed assignment, future events. So tomorrow we will have a "1 and 1 meeting", each student will have the opportunity to talk to the teacher and get feedback or ask any questions regarding our course.

Miss Ainur has given us a task for tomorrow to finish all the process blogs, and to prepare all the assignments, and to give ideas and plans for the 3rd assignment.

In general, I think such practices as "1 and 1 meeting" helps to improve the quality of learning, and give us motivation to study even better.

And also, in 2 days we have to finish our 3rd assignment. The 3rd assignment is to create our final website, the prototype of which we showed in the 2nd assignment.

Anyway, now i have set my objectives. I have a prototype site, I created it on "tilda.com" . This platform I like the fact that it is very clear, with it there are no problems and difficulties, everything is simple and clear, even a person who has never made a site before, it will not be difficult to create a site from the first time. For my website I want to add more animation,so that is not just text and icons, but when the reader clicks on some icons to make texts, infographics or pictures appear. I think that's what I'm missing for the final layout of the site right now. Wish me luck✌️

[preekar]

05/08 Reflection

Today had its good and bad parts. I woke up in the morning and got a coffee for breakfast and actually made it to my 9am for the first time in 2 weeks. My parents, grandparents, and brother were here to celebrate my moms birthday so i took them to the hill for lunch so they could experience what it’s like to be a sad college kid for a day. they really enjoyed it though and they loved campus so much. After, I started grinding my cluster essay which i still haven’t done and which was due two days ago. I’m literally about to fail a GE bro this is a new low even for me.

Anyway we had a meeting after that i wished i didn’t eat before because i was scared and nervous and was not digesting my food well. But the meeting was bad as usual and i proceeded to facetime my big and talk to her for a while as I went back up to my room to study for my psych midterm tomorrow. Overall mid day i’d rate it 5/10 my family made it better. ABOUT TO PULL AN ALL NIGHTER WISH ME LUCK

[134340am]

i’ve started talking to a boy (ノへ￣、)

[nulla-dies-sine-rosa]

...

[mochinon-yah]

afjdkd silly answer i got stuck in the abyss for a year /lh

but thankies hehee, im glad to be back! and im really happy to see you too mochi!! >:D it feels good to be able to catch up mwehehe and im glad to hear you're doing well too! (and i hope that you feel better soon too /gen)

im doing pretty good too! minus the uh. midterm exams like a week from now at my college hhh. thats gna be a pain to deal with. anyway ye! im happy to share :D the positive stuff? the universe sent me a sign and sent a fckin scorpion last year november. yea that was fun to deal with bc my younger brother didn't know what it was (he's a high schooler btw) and im standing here like "well clearly that's not a butterfly" with a deadpan and like literally a week later i meet my partner who's a scorpio and omg the coincidence :"D

or yk, the person who i'm in a relationship with now and he's so albedo-coded omg. but more silly. and very sweet hehe. other stuff that happened? still dealing with life stress since i have to find a part-time job sadly and my social anxiety hasn't been helping so ye :')

but that pretty much sums it up on my end! what about you? only if u want to ofc! /gen /nf

Sorry for the late answer hehe 👉👈

Anyway, onwards to answering vivi's ask!

but thankies hehee, im glad to be back! and im really happy to see you too mochi!! >:D it feels good to be able to catch up mwehehe and im glad to hear you're doing well too! (and i hope that you feel better soon too /gen)

I actually feel better now! So, thank you for the good wishes despite me answering this late hehe. I was just having minor headaches and turns out it was because of my inconsistent sleeping schedule, so that was that lol.

im doing pretty good too! minus the uh. midterm exams like a week from now at my college hhh. thats gna be a pain to deal with.

I hope that you'll be able to ace those exams!! I had mine like some weeks ago, and I don't think I got good grades lol. Just do your best with studying and well, good luck!

the universe sent me a sign and sent a fckin scorpion last year november. yea that was fun to deal with bc my younger brother didn't know what it was (he's a high schooler btw) and im standing here like "well clearly that's not a butterfly" with a deadpan and like literally a week later i meet my partner who's a scorpio and omg the coincidence :"D

or yk, the person who i'm in a relationship with now and he's so albedo-coded omg. but more silly. and very sweet hehe.

HAHA THIS! THIS IS THE PART OF YOUR RAMBLES THAT I WANNA COMMENT SO BADDD- *cough* anyways, that sounds like fun ngl. The part where you got a scorpion and your younger brother who was just like "oh, what is this?" and you answered with "well, clearly not a butterfly" WJHDSJDLKJDL IDK IT'S JUST SO FUNNY TO ME

And 👀👀👀 albedo-coded?

ALSO, CONGRATS!!! You got an albedo-coded guy, I'm guessing and well hoping that it has been great so far?

other stuff that happened? still dealing with life stress since i have to find a part-time job sadly and my social anxiety hasn't been helping so ye :')

I swearrr, social anxiety is so bad to have 😔 well, not that I'm blaming you for having it! I just know how bad it would get when faced with a lot of situations. Well, I'm already getting better from that stuff, altho, I do still want to run away and hide inside a hole when facing a lot of people. Aahh, I just don't like it when the attention is on me (._. ) I do hope you get better from it!

but that pretty much sums it up on my end! what about you? only if u want to ofc! /gen /nf

For my part of the story, i didn't really do anything worth remembering, so i don't really know what to say haha. OH! There's one thing! I've beent trying to read more books, one of them is pride and prejudice, but i haven't been able to finish it because my desire to draw was higher than my desire to read lol