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[chemcurie]

2.19.25

So I'm a second year PhD student now. I work in an organic lab, I work on photoclick chemistry and sequence defined polymers. I lso teach Organic Chemistry 1 labs. It's been a while. Grad school has been hard. I have been working 70-80 hour weeks for so long I don't know what it's like to be rested anymore. It took me seven months to complete one synthesis. However, I feel like an academic for the first time. I have finally started actively keeping up with literature, writing all my notes down, collecting textbooks, applying my own knowledge to make reactions...etc. Right now I'm making more of my starting molecule to make the backbone of my polymer, and there's a Friedel-Crafts stuff that is unbelievably difficult. I'm running a column on that right now. I'm also trying to manage my lab time better so I'm efficient.

[raining-tulips]

hi! i just found your blog :) love your commonplace book scans! if you don’t mind me asking, could you give a more in-depth explanation of what commonplacing is exactly and what your process is? i’m intrigued and considering getting into it but i wouldn’t even know where to start! thanks a lot xx

Absolutely! So my commonplace is specifically all movies, qoutes, articles, tumblr/Instagram posts, book excerpts, etc. that either resonated with me or I think I'll want to reference later. That is the heart of what common placing is - saving things for later physically rather than digitally.

Some of these just pop up in my feed, and I'll hit the like or save button. If it's an article, it usually first pops up as a preview on my Instagram and I'll open the full article on my desktop than bookmark it in a specific folder for common placing.

Sometimes, when I want to actively find something out (say, about if perfume is really bad for the environment, or I want to look at author interviews because I just loved a book) I will go out and search for that information.

Then, usually once a week I compile everything I'd like to print - i print the sources bc my handwriting is messy - into a word document formatted for two columns. I try and hold off printing until i have a full page worth, or two full page worth.

For images, I have another word document (these are printed in color, and i usually have to jigsaw to fit as many images on the page as possible, so different word document). Same thing, I try and wait until I have a full page to print. Usually x2 a month. I sometimes will print with an HP sprocket but the quality is really bad and the pictures are thick so, it's for when I'm out of printer ink or I think a photo will look okay with a sorta...uneven look.

I use just a Staples brand journal, TruRed. Cheap and easy. I draw a line at the top so I can write the date, and in the future if I want to tag it with a colored sticker or something, I can. My layouts usually include divided space on either the left or right of a page. The article goes in the bigger open space, and then the source (always write your source!!) and any commentary goes in the smaller margins.

Commentary is usually why I wanted to print it, what it reminds me of or makes me think about, etc. What I think the argument was missing, etc. Can be as little or as much as you like. As emotional and deep or as plain-jane as you like. There are no rules!

I trim printed text and images with a 12 inch trimmer bc I've got wobbly hands, but some people just use a little (blanking on the name) exacto knife? Any 12 inch trimmer will do mine is expensive but I also scrapbook so I use it all the time.

I paste things in using a tape runner (again, because I scrapbook and found a tape runner and my mom sells scrapbook supplies they're very accessible to me). Some people use tape, washi tape, glue sticks (liquid glue I've never seen).

And yeah, then I just decorate and play around. It doesn't have to be pretty. It can be really pretty if you want - I'm motivated by aesthetics, so, I like mine to be a little pretty.

If you'd like to see how I actually put it together and why I print certain things, my YouTube channel is the place to go.

Some people tape in movie tickets, receipts from where they shopped or ate, pictures from daily life. Some people mix common-placing and journaling, so including diary entries about their day or about a topic they love, or their thoughts and feelings (I keep mine in a separate journal, explained in this video). Some people mix common-placing with bullet journal or planning. Some combine all three!

At the end I just use a printer scanner (HP Envy 5500, cheap) and post them online that way bc I love the look.

People who have other styles you might try and look at are @petite-gloom (an OG who inspired me and many others) @fakelavender , @teddybearsticker .

[deadlywaltz]

[productivity days : 23/100]

love studying with some studyspo in the background !! stubyblrs are what I live by during exam seasons ! 🌫️🤍

🎧 | the room where it happens — hamilton musical.

[anascoldcoffee]

Hello, everyone! I'm definitely not new to studyblr (I think I created this blog six years ago lol), but I was a little inactive here. Now, I'm planning on posting more, because I have to study for a really important exam coming up and posting here is something that always motivated me to study more. I also want to interact with more active blogs.

About me

Ana, 27 years old. They/them. Brazilian, taurus, lesbian. I've already gratuaded (I have a degree in journalism) and I have studied more things after that (also have a degree in creative writing). Recently I'm a lot more interested in learning languages (I'm learning Korean and I want to start Spanish this year), but, as I said, right now I'm studying for a really important exam that's happening in May, so until then I probably won't study anything else.

Stuff I like

I love reading books (my goodreads here) and watching movies. I love kpop, my fav groups at the moment are bts, loona (and all the new derivated groups like loossemble and artms), tripleS, red velvet and (g)i-dle. I also love to write. My main goal in life is to be a writer and get a book published. I also have a writeblr blog (@arcanowriting), but it's also a little inactive. I'll only be able to be active there after May.

Recadinho em PT-BR

Se tiver mais gente por aqui estudando para o CNU, dá um oizinho, bora ser mutuals. Estudar para essa prova está sendo foda e preciso de gente para reclamar sobre isso kkkkkkk.

That's all for now. Feel free to message me anytime. And please, reblog this post so I can check out your studyblr/meet more stubyblrs.

[my-math-homework]

This close to making a stubyblr

what i read in aug. 2023:

(previous editions) bold = favourite

race, gender, sexuality

the blind side was always trash

he’s the trans son of an anti-trans influencer. it's his turn to speak

'the eurocentric fallacy': the myths that underpin european identity

is there a sinister side to the rise of female robots?

i call myself a spinster, but that doesn’t mean l’ll be single forever

politics & current affairs

the land beyond the drug war (usa)

how torture, deception and inaction underpin the uae’s thriving sex trafficking industry

wa mp james hayward found guilty of child sex abuse, disqualified from parliament (australia)

a north korean defector captivated us media. some question her story (usa)

history, culture, & personal essays

loneliness: coping with the gap where friends used to be

inside barbados' historic push for slavery reparations

ahead of time: on poetry and mourning

dreaming of water with tiger salamanders

i stole my neighbour's tragedy to write a short story

nuclear tech: war, power, & oppenheimer

the cautionary tale of j. robert oppenheimer

315 nuclear bombs and ongoing suffering: the shameful history of nuclear testing in australia and the pacific

revisiting hiroshima in iran (journal of international security, open access)

japan releases treated wastewater from fukushima nuclear plant into pacific ocean

spectre of maralinga hangs over aukus nuclear waste for indigenous communities (aus/us)

the dark history oppenheimer didn't show

don't let the victors define morality – hiroshima was always indefensible

if you're interested in more peer-reviewed resources on the american bombings of hiroshima/nagasaki please let me know!

[stemstudyish]

possible notion tour coming soon👀

[designstudy]

my friend brought me to an old-style Japanese cafe. it was so nice!

[wnine]

what’s a reliable website to buy english language books that’s not amazon nor book depository?

[anacademicsoliloquy]

~ Capitol Hill Books, Washington DC ~

[chemcurie]

2.11.25

I have intended to start posting here again. I am in my 2nd year of my Ph.D., doing organic synthesis and photoclick research. But at the same time, I think it's not only time to discuss my research, but where academia and scientific research is right now. In the US, there are stop work orders, NIH overhead cuts, funding freezes, research being scrubbed of "woke terms", and cuts to research involving justice, equity, researching specific demographics, medicine, climate change, alternative fuel, and even more. It's a terrifying time to be a scientist. My lab is mainly funded by NIH. All I feel in uncertainty. Scientific fact is fact. Well designed studies with good data collection and analysis are not wrong because they go against your views. You cannot make fact go away because you do not want to see it. To deny scientific fact is to deny reality and sanity. It is nothing but government control, to make the public believe the government and to squash opposition. We live in a time of fascism. To bend the knee of every citizen they have to deny fact. I am heartbroken at how ruined my research and PhD might be. I am full of hatred to what they are doing to us.

[studioplannee]

Undated Weekly Planner

[professor-genderfuck]

Epistemology

The word “epistemology” has two root words: episteme and logos

Episteme is the Greek word for knowledge

Logos is the Greek word for the study of

So, epistemology can be defined as the study of knowledge.

It can also be defined as:

An attempt to learn what knowledge is and where it comes from

An attempt to identify the nature and sources of knowledge

Here are some examples of epistemological questions:

What is the difference between believing something and knowing it?

What counts as evidence that something is true?

Are our senses a reliable source of knowledge?

Can knowledge be innate?

Can knowledge be intuitive?

Can knowledge be revealed?

There are many epistemological theories. Some, but not all, include:

Empiricism: the theory according to which all knowledge ultimately begins with sensory experience

(An example of an empiricist is John Locke, who believed that human beings come into existence as a blank slate and that all knowledge gained came purely from one’s senses.)

Rationalism: the theory that states that at least some (maybe all) knowledge does not require sensory experience because it is innate, intuitive, revealed, etc.

[productivewitch]

Day 5 out of 100 Days I 10.22.2021

Asking for recommendation letter. Wish me luck on this!

🔮 Meeting w/ Thesis Advisor

🔮 Finish reading for Thesis

🔮 Email professors

-MP

[thus-said-the-soul]

“My lover's got humor. She's the giggle at a funeral. Knows everybody's disapproval. I should've worshiped her sooner.”

Latin: Mea amata habet facetiae. Est cachinnus apud funus. Scit improbationem omnis. Lauderim eam citius.

Greek:ὁ ἐμοῦ ἐραστής ἔχει τὴν εὐοργησίαν. ἐστί γελάειν ἐπί τῷ τάφῳ. γιγνώσκει τὴν πάντων μομφήν. σεφθῶ αὐτήν μᾶλλον.

—Hozier, Take Me To Church (2013)

[fencesandfrogs]

i want some proper math gothic. none of this algebra & calculators shit.

like i would love to give an example but i can’t just spontaneously write gothic not my strong suit but i want like....

you’re sitting in the undergraduate math study lounge. it looks the same as the graduate study lounge. you’re sitting in the graduate study lounge. there are no markers. there are only markers in the graduate study lounge. you’re sitting in the undergraduate lounge.

there is a problem set due on friday. there is always a problem set due on friday. you have finished this week’s problem set. it is thursday. there is a problem set due on friday.

you read the proof in the book. you understood the proof in the book. your professor writes the proof on the board. you do not understand the proof on the board. they are the same proof.

& like? i could do better but please.

[productivepasta]

2020.01.05

Here’s my spread from last week. I didn’t end up using it much which is a shame since I really liked the pinky nature theme.So I’m doing something similar this week :)

I’m feeling kind of detached from studies and just most things at the moment, so for finals I’m just chugging along on autopilot while I try to fix up my mental state.