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- cozy vibes

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Cats!

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The latest cover of TIME magazine.

THE GAZA TRAGEDY "Crowds line up in Gaza City to receive food."

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05/08/25

to-do:

create a to-do for today + I woke up early again ^^

reply to Kubra's letter

wash my hair

2-hours of LEK questions practice

2 hours session for my internal medicine courses + 1 psychiatry topic

2 hours of peads lecture

3 hours for data gathering in the hospital

10k steps

Here are my goals for today - very ambitious version. I am working on building a better routine and so far I am not able to complete a certain amount of material or questions per day. I opt for 6 hours for now and later when I get more used to the routine, I will try to set more realistic goals when it comes to what exactly I want to achieve.

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reading crime and punishment in a nyc book themed bar 🕰️

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wednesday | june 23 47/100 dop steps: 16k

my order of primers arrived! it'll be a hectic next few days, but hopefully by saturday i'll have a few more successful cloning attempts to send for sequencing.

++ 30 minute workout, breakfast at a cafe with a friend

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11.5.2020, a ray of sunshine

She's getting ready for tomorrow online midterm (it's at night).

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this is the first time using a hobonichi weeks and i'm really enjoying it!! many a thoughts below......

i bought my 2025 hobonichi weeks planner a few weeks before it started so i decided to experiment with layouts and styles in the back for the last few weeks of 2024. you can really see the evolution from the week of Oct 28 to the week of Nov 18, e.g., how i went from one highlighter color (purple) to a whole system that i'll be carrying into 2025 :))) the colors i chose for the week of Nov 11 were so ugly that no one will be seeing that lolol. one issue is that i still don't know what to do with the empty page on the right side. i did a reflection on nyc one week but i'm not always in a reflective mode (i also do reflections on my life in my vent journal). i tried the alastair method but it usually takes me multiple weeks to complete a task. it was still helpful to see what i eventually need to do so i think the right side will be a very fluid system that changes based on my needs week-to-week. for now, i've been keeping an ongoing "interest log" and writing down quotes and poems that speak to me that week. i might implement a mini habit tracker too since i'm not great at maintaining my daily habits

my "aesthetic" goal for 2025 is for my planner to look as used and loved as possible! i'm not much of an artist nor a memory keeper (i have my 5-year planner for memory keeping) and i don't like keeping receipts but i made a better effort at preserving cute stickers and things from cafés and bookstores and other places (but only if i think they look good hahah). i also want my stickers and washi tape to look cohesive but it's a little hard for me because i operate on vibes (both artistically and generally) and never took any art classes or anything so idk if anything will look as "aesthetically pleasing" as i want it to. the only thing that saves me is my neat handwriting. but! my ultimate goal is to not be so hard on myself about how my planner looks since it's meant to be a functional tool. i do think i'm doing a good job on keeping it true to myself and my life 😎

anyway that was my ted talk and thank you if you made it this far!! qs for anyone who wants to answer: what is your 2025 lineup? are there any things you're bringing into 2025? what's your planner philosophy? i'd love to know !

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08-01-2025 // 3:50 pm

August has arrived, and that means I'm deep in exam season. I'm juggling two projects and a paper. I feel pretty good about the direction of my paper, but the projects are going to be a steep learning curve due to the programming involved. Still, I'm going to give it my best shot. A great grade is always the goal, right?

I finally downloaded an app for a language exchange to improve my German (writing and speaking). If you want to practice your English and are willing to help me with my German in return, send me a message!

Wishing everybody a wonderful day.

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07-24-2025 // 9:15 am

I would say that yesterday went quite well, did ~7 hours of pomodoro until late in the evening and I managed to do a lot of stuff. I honestly don't know if I should more or less. When I do less I feel bad because I could have done more and when I do more the next day I have such low motivation and willpower, it's scary. I think that maybe willpower and discipline really is something that I need to build. I just need to keep going at my pace, a good pace.

Wishing everybody a nice day! :)

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atp i feel like every time i fall into a routine smth in my life forces me to change it, so I’ve been trying to implement small chunks of studying and reading during work breaks.

i feel like today’s little bite of marcus aurelius’ meditations really fit the theme of striving to use all opportunities to do the things you put off or that you want to do/achieve

2.4 Remember how long you have been putting off these things, and how often you have received an opportunity from the gods, and yet you do not use it. You must now at last perceive of what Universe you are a part, and of what Ruler of the Universe your existence is an efflux, and that a limit of time is fixed for you, which if you do not use it for clearing away the clouds from your mind, it will go, and you will go, and it will never return. (Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 2)

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nothing better than a cup of iced coffee to keep you going through a night of lectures

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07-26-2025 // 9:50 am

Damn, even July is close to ending. That's crazy.

Yesterday I spent most of the day studying, afterwards I went to play Basketball with my Uni friends and then I went out with them to a fast food place. I really enjoyed my evening.

Today is a new day and I gotta give it my best! Wishing everybody a nice day! :)

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17 JUL 2025. day 4 of training at my work! pulled double duty and managed to write 1k+ words of application material during breaks after my class finished early

🎧: new beginning - tracy chapman 📚: good material - dolly alderton

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07-25-2025 // 3:10 pm

These are passing by pretty quickly and even though I have much to do, I’m having a lot of fun: I am spending a lot of time with friends, either studying or doing sports, which makes the experience much better. Have a nice day everyone! :)