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monday | june 23 17/100 dop steps: 6.7k

i get to do my first real lab work tomorrow! today i mostly prepped for the week, including reading through a bunch of protocols and organizing my lab notebook.

i also did NOT sleep enough last night, so i'm going to take it easy for the rest of the evening and hopefully get to bed early!

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I started studying the basics of philosophy. I am currently reading A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living by Luc Ferry, and it's pretty good for beginners! ​​

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found café with a cute view of the the church nearby

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• 30 May 2025 •

insane to think that may is almost over with. my little sisters got out of school today, so celebrated that and otherwise had a chill day. went shopping and made some movie plans with friends.

been lagging on some college things, but there isn’t really a rush to do them, so i’m not exactly dreading the procrastinating yet, per se lol.

hoping to begin a more full-fledged summer study plan after graduation trip, and beginning fully in getting ready for august.

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listening ♬

• theseus by the oh hellos

watching 📽

• it (2017) dir andy muschietti

school 🖋

• finish with registration basics

• submit the rest of required transcripts

• make a study plan for the summer

health ⚚

• completely clean bedroom and bathroom

• do a cardio workout for an hour

• close exercise, move, and stand rings

• clean out and organize desk and window

hobbies ⏱

• read the shining for at least fifteen minutes

• crochet at least five rows of fluffy blanket

• leave at least five essay comments

social 🗪

• make movie marathon plans with friend

• call best friend about summer plans

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work day 💼

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16.06.25

unbelievable, but true: i submitted my last assignements!!! the semester is over!!!

this has undoubtedly been the hardest semester regarding workload, so i'm a little scared of the fall semester. 🥲 it's going to be my last year in uni, which sounds absolutely insane. didn't i just start my master's? though i know that the next academic year is going to be a long one...

i'm not sure what this blog will turn into during the break, but we'll see!

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26.05.2025/Monday

Reviewing articles while drinking Turkish coffee ☕️

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04.06.25 | Doing my readings :)

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go slowly.

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Short comic for Akechi's birthday :D

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abandoned & barred movie theater next to my uni & yesterday’s vanilla ice cream

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02/06/2025

Finished reading Henry Henry by Allen Bratton while going through some online Complex Analysis lectures. I am glad I have been able to regain the capacity of balancing my reading list and my studies. Though exams are gone I must delve into some material for my research projects this summer, mostly fluid dynamics, dynamical systems and some C programming… I’ll attempt to pick up some of my forgotten hobbies, such as drawing and painting. I might even develop the courage to start playing badminton again though I have no idea of where or with whom I would do so. Summer has been kind to me so far.

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20250518

I've made the mistake of reducing many of my hobbies to work. Moreover, it has often been work to serve someone else opposed to myself. The key example I inevitably keep returning to is the practice of keeping a notebook, both how I keep it and what I keep. Much of it has been informed by external sources solving external problems, instead of being focused on helping me solve whatever problem I have. To no one's surprise, practices with such flawed foundations often end up being draining. I'm trying to re-evaluate my notebooks, but in a way that I don't overcomplicate things needlessly. After all, I don't live to work.

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Zuni Mountains, New Mexico (above). Clouds above Mount Washington, New Hampshire. Berle's self culture. v.7. 1920.

Internet Archive

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Frederick Mackenzie, The Library of Stanmore Hall, the Seat of Robert Holland, Esq, watercolor.

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a compilation of videos very worth watching! 

the pink triangles: the story of the gay holocaust

nawal el saadawi on feminism, fiction and the illusion of democracy

life beyond: alien life, deep time, and our place in cosmic history 

life beyond II: the museum of alien life

stephen axford: how fungi changed my view of the world

man spends 30 years turning degraded land into massive forest 

the prisoner of azkaban - why john williams’ score is the best in the series

video essay: the world of wong kar wai

how much is enough?