#language arts student

[smuglyankabrazilyanka]

like dude i am literally college educated and even so i feel dumb while reading the original translation of the illiad. when is the part where the gays do stuff or did hollywood lie to me

[thedungeonbat]

no sleep, no coffee🌛

Just like the night before I slept less than 4 hours tonight, yay…Our coffee machine didn’t feel like doing its job at 6.30am (me too, my dear, me too), so the only thing that made me feel somewhat alive was todays sunset. Since the term is almost over we’re not doing too much in classes anymore. Gladly that means I can more or less relax until February. Except for homework and teachers getting on my nerves (my tutor huh). Who didn’t get on my nerves though was a friend of mine! They asked if I could give them feedback on their writing samples for their uni applications and I really enjoyed reading and reviewing it! It was a mix of short stories, text excerpts and poems; their last poem was my personal favourite :)

Now: watching soccer match, hoping to sleep >4h

[isaiahpadams]

I am romanticising history again. Emotional about Mesopotamian scribes learning from a list of words essentially that was continuously copied with little change throughout the 3rd millennium, a span of nearly 1000 years. Incredible. They read and copied out what was already an ancient text to them, with sign forms and vocabulary that had been "obsolete" long before.

I don't know, I'm doing some key reading for university, ''Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond." and the idea that our history had a history too, its so terrifyingly beautiful.

Did they also imagine what the worlds before looked like? What it would be like to have those languages no ears will ever naturally hear again as your mother tongue? Even if they were not necessarily literary texts, the words and signs were still older than they could comprehend, and they kept writing it over and over.

"This suggests that the lexical lists had a value beyond their use as simply lexicographic and instructional tools. Likely, their prestige stems in part from their cultural value as symbols of the scribal profession, the tradition of their scrupulous transmission from one generation to the next being intimately bound up with scribal identity." - Christopher Woods

[expiationist]

happy fdoc ✨ peep me and my best friend under the cut~

<im on the right, holding the sign>

[stealingpotatoes]

I've seen you allowed someone else to draw Luke's students, so I drew her 👀

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[mishkakagehishka]

But honestly i do judge people who use chatgpt for their college work. Literally if you chose to study something, why would you use ai for your work. If you chose something you want to study, doesn't it feel like a waste to not do your own research and work for essays and the like.

[casjam]

Day 4/100 days of productivity

🇯🇵 - Finished section 1 unit 1 on Duolingo, though I forgot if that was today or yesterday.

🇪🇦 - Completed a big assignment for my Spanish class yesterday (finally).

[cinemaocd]

At the University of Minnesota you can major in Dakota.

[emrys-rusts]

quick practise on structure with Wirt from Over The Garden Wall to prepare for life drawing lessons!

I'm also trying out different pens again :)

[smuglyankabrazilyanka]

Public university in brazil really is something: just received an audio of a girl in Latin 101 class beating the shit out of another girl because of a disagreement over soccer and WhatsApp 💀💀💀

[mistyjessart]

Some stills from the storyboard/colour script of an animated short I’m working on this year about being aroace in a society that revolves around romance

[firewalkwithmme]

☾𖤓 — 21 October 2024

˚˖𓍢ִ໋🦢˚ — Today’s accomplishments:

planned my film class midterm paper and wrote two paragraphs

Studied two units of economics

studied for my music history test

completed the prep work for tomorrow’s psychology lab

attended my art history lecture and film lecture

practiced polish

Today was my first day back at university after my fall break and it was a very productive day for me, thankfully. My motto of something is better than nothing has been helping increase my productivity, encouraging me to do work a little bit at a time! I started the day by reorganizing my desk space with my new candles, worked on my studies, then after my lectures, studied in the almost-empty bio building (they have trees inside!). Then I had a really nice walk home, my campus is beautiful in the fall. I’m going to try to be locked in for the rest of this week as well since I have a midterm exam, a test, and a paper due, and today was a good start so I’m feeling more motivated. I also ate 3 meals today which is always good, and I even got out of bed at a reasonable time (shocking, I am a chronic late sleeper). Tomorrow my goal is to be as productive as today.

[expiationist]

just a little stem vs humanities student story, since that seems so be a controversial topic in the academic world:

as a language and business double major, i absolutely think stem majors are another breed. hear me out. my best friend of 10 years is a biochem major, and she has always taken the hardest calc/physics/chem classes. she would get As on bio tests like it was first grade math. her knowledge eludes me. i have to try exponentially harder than her in every class we had together, and we barely even had the same classes! she took regular calc freshman year, got an A pretty easily. i took business calc, got an A because i was so close to an A and my professor saw how much effort i had put in and felt bad. i have always thought stem was much harder than anything i was pursuing.

until i heard her pov.

she is also pursuing a spanish minor, and has been taking spanish classes since 8th grade (we took our first spanish class together). i took spanish in 8th, 9th, and 10th grade, then stopped taking it through classes and started self studying japanese my junior year of highschool. she continued to pursue spanish and has taken in every year and every semester since 8th grade. shes studying abroad next semester, and we thought it would be a good idea for me to pick up spanish so she would have an opportunity to teach me and talk in spanish together. however, i picked it up pretty fast after not taking it for four years.

i noticed she felt ~some type of way~ about it, which prompted a conversation between the two of us.

to spare the mundane details, she thought it was insane that i caught up to where she was within weeks, after not having taken a class higher than high school spanish 2. i told her i thought it was insane that she got an A in every calc, physics, bio, and chem class, which i was never able to get a single A in (until business calc in college). she has a 4.0, taking what i thought were WAY harder classes than what i was taking. hell, i couldn’t even get an A in astronomy. astronomy.

she then talked about how i had rarely EVER gotten less than a 93 on essays, even if i had written them the night before, while she has to spend weeks on essays to get a good grade on them.

the moral of this story, is that everyone has their own talents. science comes natural to her. languages and humanities come natural to me. i find her talents way harder. she finds my talents way harder because humanities tend to be subjective, and business requires a certain personality and being good with people, which she doesn’t see those qualities in herself.

personally, i think anyone who pushes the “stem is objectively harder” agenda is probably just insecure in their own abilities to do arts/humanities/business. a real mature student can see that everyone has their own talents and a field that is suited to them! there is no need to invalidate peoples academic pursuits. college should be about finding what YOU love and want to pursue, not invalidating everyone and making them feel dumber because they chose a different path from you.

do what you love, and study hard if you love it! just because someone studies humanities subjects doesn’t mean they aren’t capable of succeeding in stem. and just because you study stem doesn’t make you smarter than someone who doesn’t choose to pursue that.

HOWEVER. from my pov, stem is like actually shit from Mars that i will never be able to wrap my head around, so to be humble ill admit i could NEVER study stem subjects beyond general education requirements. kudos to you guys! but that doesnt apply to every a&h kid out there!

[berryesque]

not gonna lie. looking at university applications kind of make me want to tear my hair out and jump into a well

[wrecklesswriterswrath]

Welcome to my Studyblr!

My name is Kathryn (she/her), and I created this blog to help me organize my many, many hobbies, and see my own progress!

A little bit about me:

I am 19 years old, and I live in the USA.

I am studying Secondary English Education (7-12), and also getting a Luther's Teaching Diploma, allowing me to teach in Christian schools.

I am an avid learner!

Some hobbies of mine:

Writing! I've been working on my novel, Ghostly, for roughly 6 years now. I'm on my 7th draft, and have written over half a million words just in relation to this novel!

Language Learning! English is my first language, but I studied basic Spanish in high school. I am also now self-studying French! Bienvenue sur mon blog!

Fitness! I'm a fairly sedentary girl, yet I'll be taking on the None to Run 12 week program with one of my close friends! I'm so excited to learn to run, as it was something I really enjoyed in elementary and middle school. I also have an E-Bike that I love riding when the weather is nice!

Drawing! I love to create drawings, especially based on my novel characters. Who knows! Maybe I'll post some.

Studying! As a university student, I love to coop up in the library and just absorb into all of my class materials!

Theatre! See why I needed the blog? I have a lot of hobbies! I've been in roughly 20 shows since middle school, and this next season, I have four shows! I'm so excited to take you from audition to show!

I hope you stick around and we get to be good friends. Enjoy my many adventures, and I hope you create some for yourself! Follow for inspiration, a buddy system, or just a friend on here!

Toodles!

[strikeslip]

Anyway, Graul.