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Margaritaville poster. (click for high res)

Designed in Adobe Illustrator.

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☀️ summer homework tips/guide! ☀️

(especially if you struggle with time management/executive dysfunction/anxiety! note that this works for me personally. it might not work for you. but i want to share this in case any part of it does work for you.)

☀️ pick a date at least a week away. for me, i picked today, august 1, all the way back at the beginning of july. this will be the day you start your summer homework!

why have it be a week away? because this way, you’ll have time to think about it. you’ll have time to mentally prepare and solidify that that date is the day you’ll start.

instead of spending every day of summer thinking “omg i have to start my homework but i don’t know when but it can’t be right now because now i’m super anxious just thinking about it” tada! now you have a when! step one complete already!

but make sure, when you pick your when, that you give yourself enough time to do the work. i recommend overestimating. for example, i gave myself a month and a week before school starts, because my energy levels can fluctuate wildly and there might be multiple days where i can’t work at all, or where i can only do an hour of work. and that’s ok, because i planned ahead!

☀️ now, once your when comes, you might have had time to mentally prepare, but you might still be super anxious. remember, small steps are still steps! today is august 1, my when, but guess what? i don’t plan on doing a single bit of homework today.

what am i doing instead of “work”?

cleaning out my folders/binders from last year, because i still haven’t done that

making sure my desk space is organized

picking a summer reading book

looking over my summer assignments. not doing, looking.

making a detailed list of what i have to do based on what i looked at

all that might not seem like “work,” but it’s still productive in the sense that it brings me closer to my goal of finishing my summer homework on time.

does this list seem like too much for you to do on your when? that’s ok! pick less stressful things to start with, and work your way up, day by day. no step is too small— especially if it’s a beginning step.

☀️ make multiple daily schedules! depending on what kind of person you are and what you need, make them strict or loose!

for example, i have two schedules, one for my “i’m ready to kick ass!” days and one for my “i feel like absolute crap” days.

my kickass schedule has more time for work, but i still keep it loose and give myself choices: one block is chem homework, the next is break or summer reading time depending on how i feel, and the next is math work.

my crap-day schedule has very little time for work, lots of either-or choices, and lots of breaks in between. some days i might not be able to do anything. and that’s ok, because i gave myself time.

☀️ give yourself time. time to prepare, time for work, time to rest, time for breaks and bad days. you can do this! i’m rooting for you. ☀️

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tuesday 06.03.25 – "how is it june already?"

my maid of honor dress came in today and it fits perfectly! i finally figured out how to get duotones to look right. graphic design is really fun once you know how to use your program.

☒ personal – laundry – journal (10 min) ☒ graphic design – duotones – overlays ☒ dutch – unit 8 review (finally) – create comparisons

📖 - This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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saturday | may 24

treating myself to a productive morning at a bougie coffeeshop. most weekends i just study in my dorm until the library opens, but getting off campus is a welcome disruption. just a couple more weeks left in the term, something which is both reassuring and terrifying.

in other news, my petition to graduate early was approved yesterday, so i'm officially 1 year away from finishing my degree!

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26.05.2025—rainy monday ☕️

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friday 05.30.25 – "weekend prep & revisiting faith"

yesterday was abnormally productive; i learned the ins and outs of adobe express and played around with some of the generative features (hate) which took nearly all day. today is somewhat of a catch-up day as far as everything else goes. i haven't read the bible in almost a month, nor have i been to church. i have an event on sunday that i'm supposed to be leading worship for, so i have to get my heart right before that. oh to grace how great a debtor.

☒ bedroom – laundry – clear floors ☒ mental/spiritual health – gospel of mark – journal (10 min) ☒ dutch – unit 8 review – start comparisons

🎧 - instrumental worship 📖 - This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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thursday 05.29.25 – "starting over... again."

completely ditched my graphic design program and enrolled in a different one that better suites what i'm trying to achieve. got promoted at the cafe, i'm a shift leader now. when did may get so rainy?

☒ design fundamentals with ai – elements of layout (10 min) – starting the creative process (30 min) ☒ intro to adobe express – essentials, features and templates – quick actions ☒ dutch – forming plurals – unit 8 review

🎧 - "Revery", Electric Callboy 📖 - This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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21.05.2025—been a busy week, but almost done with coursework, yay!

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doing two weeks worth of studies/chores like i’m restoring a ruined village after a war

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[ 6th may, 2025 • 78/159 days ]

-> classes (total: 2h00)

-> EMD worksheet 1 (total: 4h00 - ex 1.1. a-i)

-> journaled

-> finished reading When We Cease to Understand the World, by Benjamín Labatut

-> continued reading The Turnglass, by Gareth Rubin (finished the green side of the book)

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lovely saturday spread

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12.05.2025—late night studying. can’t believe there’s only 2 weeks left of the semester. truly wild

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monday 05.12.25 – "returns and last-minute planning"

i have not done laundry in two weeks. it's finally out of the dryer. where did all this trash come from? tried a new pizza place, the sauce was too sweet but everyone else seemed to enjoy it.

☒ clean room – take out trash/recycling – put away laundry ☐ finish module 4 – rhythm and pattern 1 – rhythm and pattern 2 ☐ dutch – finish 1.5 – start 1.6

🎧 - "hands around my throat", tilian

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03|05|2025

The original plan for today was to fix the notes I took during this week's lectures, but since the professor has not shared her ppts yet I didn't do that. I mostly need to read what she had in her presentations, because there were a lot of direct historical sources and I couldn't get all the useful infos down. I will be doing that on Monday morning before going to the lecture, if she has shared the material by that time. The next best thing would have been to start writing down notes for everything I read yesterday, but I was in the mood to read in the morning, so I decided to continue with that task. I don't think I'll struggle too hard to write notes down even if I have to go back. Additionally I really need to work with whatever kind of motivation I have in the moment. So even if it makes less sense compared to how I normally study I am trying to listen to myself a bit more, both when I need breaks, as well as when deciding what tasks I feel like I can work on.

today's tasks:

continued reading and underlining the book on Magellan

made little cards for each one of the ships that took part in the exploration, that way I can have a visual representation of who is doing what (it just makes more sense for my brain to have a visual, which is also why I am using a map to track the journey as i read about it. I plan on adding informations on the ship cards as I continue, updating who the captain is, and what individual explorations they do also I really like doodling ships idk why lmao)

listened to the first episode of re:dracula (oh, how I missed our dear friend jonathan harker) and also dracula's guest (I had read the short story year ago but I did not remember it at all, and I really liked this adaptation)

Irish on duo

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[research life]

Studied at a few different places this week; sometimes a change of scenery works wonders for my productivity 🤩🤍☕️

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wednesday 05.07.25 – "digitizing notes and painting"

finally back into a rhythm. moving notes from paper to google docs. eating better, staying hydrated, taking vitamins.

☐ mod 4 – fundamentals of shape and color – rhythm and pattern ☐ mod 5 – contrasts in composition

🎧 - lofi study playlist

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07.05.2025—slices of life from the past few days. let me know if you like this style of content, i’d love to post more non-study things