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Day of Action: NAMI

Hey Tumblr, in honor of Mental Health Month and Post it Forward (@postitforward), we’re declaring today as a Day of Action to support NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (@namiorg), because we believe that everyone is entitled to mental health care and support.

What’s NAMI?

NAMI is the largest grassroots mental health organization in the US. On behalf of the millions of people who are affected by mental illness every day, NAMI is dedicated to increasing awareness and resources for mental health conditions, combating the social stigma that surrounds mental illness, and advocating for better and equal health care for anyone seeking mental health treatment.

How can I support?

For Tumblr’s Day of Action, we’re encouraging the community to take the NAMI StigmaFree Pledge. By signing the pledge, you’re showing that you wish to fight the stigma that surrounds mental illness and demonstrating your support for all who are affected.

And, if you have the means, you can donate $5 or more to Tumblr’s Crowdrise fundraiser to support NAMI and help build a national network of accessible mental health support and resources for all.  

While 1 in 5 people will experience a mental health condition at some point in their lifetime, we’re all likely impacted by mental illness—by friends, family members, or people in our community. Together, we can encourage acceptance, understanding, and support for mental health, and ensure that no one is alone on their mental health journey.

<3

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3:56 am | Finals

I don’t pull all-nighters butI have 5 finals to study for next week and here I am watching Youtube contemplating on whether to sleep, or just stay up and study for Chemistry. Stay tuned for what this mess will come to next! (: 

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Pro tip: don’t force yourself to like stuff you hate. You absolutely will end up hating a subject with a burning passion. That is OKAY. For example, I don’t like chem. I really emphatically do not enjoy chemistry. I have accepted that I hate it and I dread doing the work every single day. However, I don’t let this hatred keep me from doing work. I accept that I’m not going to enjoy it and grind it out as quickly as humanly possible. Sometimes that’s really all you can do.

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It’s a good thing I looked out my wind at just the right time! He is so beautiful!!! #blessings #cardinals

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Ummmm why hasn’t tumblr been talking about this Crazy Rich Asians movie?? An american movie with an ALL ASIAN CAST?? WITH AN ASIAN DIRECTOR??? STARRING CONSTANCE WU??? PLUS MICHELLE YEOH?! Ya’ll sleeping.

The story follows Rachel Chu (Wu), an American-born Chinese economics professor, who travels to her boyfriend Nick’s (Golding) hometown of Singapore for his best friend’s wedding. Before long, his secret is out: Nick is from a family that is impossibly wealthy, he’s perhaps the most eligible bachelor in Asia, and every single woman in his ultra-rarefied social class is incredibly jealous of Rachel and wants to bring her down. 

Directed by John M. Chu

Constance Wu as Rachel Chu

Henry Golding as Nick Young

Sonoya Mizuno as Araminta Lee

Awkwafina as Peik Lin

Michelle Yeoh as Eleanor Young

Gemma Chan as Astrid Leong

Chris Pang as TBA

Jing Lusi as TBA

Ronny Chieng as TBA

Tan Kheng Hua as TBA

Pierre Png as TBA

Fiona Xie as TBA

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9.10.16 | 10:28 AM I only have physics homework left and I’m free to relax the rest of the weekend! breaking the habit of procrastinating until midnight on a Sunday night

good morning/afternoon/evening! (depending on where you are) ♡

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I actually like to do coding as a hobby. Thank you for posting this! 

Do yourself a favor. Learn to code. Here's how.

I’ve said this to my non-techie friends countless times. It’s no secret that being able to code makes you a better job applicant, and a better entrepreneur. Hell, one techie taught a homeless man to code and now that man is making his first mobile application.

Learning to code elevates your professional life, and makes you more knowledgeable about the massive changes taking place in the technology sector that are poised to have an immense influence on human life.

(note: yes I realize that 3/5 of those links were Google projects)

But most folks are intimidated by coding. And it does seem intimidating at first. But peel away the obscurity and the difficulty, and you start to learn that coding, at least at its basic level, is a very manageable, learnable skill.

There are a lot of resources out there to teach you. I’ve found a couple to be particularly successful. Here’s my list of resources for learning to code, sorted by difficulty:

Novice

Never written a line of code before? No worries. Just visit one of these fine resources and follow their high-level tutorials. You won’t get into the nitty-gritty, but don’t worry about it for now:

Dash - by General Assembly

CodeAcademy

w3 Tutorials (start at HTML on the left sidebar and work your way down)

Intermediate

Now that you’ve gone through a handful of basic tutorials, it’s time to learn the fundamentals of actual, real-life coding problems. I’ve found these resources to be solid:

Khan Academy

CodeAcademy - Ruby, Python, PHP

Difficult

If you’re here, you’re capable of building things. You know the primitives. You know the logic control statements. You’re ready to start making real stuff take shape. Here are some different types of resources to turn you from someone who knows how to code, into a full-fledged programmer.

Programming problems

Sometimes, the challenges in programming aren’t how to make a language do a task, but just how to do the task in general. Like how to find an item in a very large, sorted list, without checking each element. Here are some resources for those types of problems

Talentbuddy

TopCoder

Web Applications

If you learned Python, Django is an amazing platform for creating quick-and-easy web applications. I’d highly suggest the tutorial - it’s one of the best I’ve ever used, and you have a web app up and running in less than an hour.

Django Tutorial

I’ve never used Rails, but it’s a very popular and powerful framework for creating web applications using Ruby. I’d suggest going through their guide to start getting down-and-dirty with Rails development.

Rails Guide

If you know PHP, there’s an ocean of good stuff out there for you to learn how to make a full-fledged web application. Frameworks do a lot of work for you, and provide quick and easy guides to get up and running. I’d suggest the following:

Cake PHP Book

Symfony 2 - Get Started

Yii PHP - The Comprehensive Guide

Conclusion

If there’s one point I wanted to get across, it’s that it is easier than ever to learn to code. There are resources on every corner of the internet for potential programmers, and the benefits of learning even just the basics are monumental.

If you know of any additional, great resources that aren’t listed here, please feel free to tweet them to me @boomeyer.

Best of luck!

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week 34 • i let go of my claim on you. ⌛️🖋insta

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Being uninspired.

Hi everyone! First things first, I apologize if I haven’t been active on here and on my social media accounts/blog. School and my personal life took a toll on me the past couple of months I’ve been gone. I also have been feeling pretty uninspired and as if I had to “force” myself to make content. Consequently, I decided to step back and figure out what I want to take out from this tumblr. After some careful thinking, I’m back! I decided to change my url/username to pa-pathy because this tumblr is one dedicated to Pre-PA/prospective PA students and my current studies on becoming a PA. I will be posting more in about two weeks since my finals will be next week. Thank you all for understanding and I hope you all are doing well and I know you all will do well in whatever you’re currently doing! <3 

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Recently, I experienced a really large rejection. 

So, here’s a guide to help you deal with rejection in all areas of your life. As you grow, you’ll meet rejection many times. It won’t stop you. You’ll learn from it and become stronger.

You’re not alone.

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Calling all studyblr's

I’ve been inactive on this account for a while because I’ve been out of school but I’m starting again this fall which means over the summer I’m going to try to get back into the studyblr community so I’ll be back by the time classes start. If you’re a studyblr please like/reblog this and also leave some of your favorite studyblrs for me to look at! I need the motivation to get back into everything. Thank you all in advance!! :)

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I got my heart broken and I survived, I failed 3 courses in university and graduated, I got rejected in the very first job I applied for and got promoted yesterday, I went through hard times with my family but then two years later, we laughed our hearts out over lunch, The closest friends disappointed me several times but I made new friends and loved them with all my heart. I did it once, I can do it again.

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I just had to inform a very nice dad that he cannot spend the easter with his family bc he has one week old child and one year old… Bc i really think he might have measels. I just I am SO ANGRY

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reblog and make a wish! this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)

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Hey guys! I’m on hiatus so I didn’t want to try to find the original post, but I’d love to get 200-300 more responses on this by mid April, so please please signal boost! It takes less than a minute probably (they’re almost all yes/no) and it’s super helpful (and the amount of responses I have will hopefully knock the socks off the judges).

Thank you!