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4-days-week sounds good. But I won’t mind 5-days if it was 9-3 and not 9-5.

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so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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brontë sister supremacy

coffee_n_classics on instagram!

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but seriously, taking notes, reading, and tracking your academic progress is underrated. if you have done at least some amount of learning today, it's great. if none at all, then it's still okay. you will get to it soon. don't give up.

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the one with the brains

[top right picture belongs to @sadcypher]

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Manifesting academic success and an unlimited supply of cute stationery for the person whom you reblogged this from

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not so much study tips, more thoughts on university/studying in general

although these posts are abundant, i like to have my own collection of study tips/uni thoughts

- i’ve been viewing my studies as an office job, mostly because of the 9 to 5 mentality. i am not one for night studying, i have tried and tried and felt guilty when i heard others talk about their late night study sessions, but it is just not for me. which is fine, because with this 9 to 5 idea i have created working days for myself and i can use my evenings for extracurriculars, books, friends, netflix 

- the train has (weirdly) become one of my favourite study spots. of course this really depends on the public transport you use. i am on a train for two hours a day, no transfer, and i either go to a silent area (have not yet seen this elsewhere, but dutch trains have carriages in which there is complete silence) or i put in my earpods. i love this because when i come home, i have already done so much work, e.g. organized my lecture notes of that day, inserted my professor’s comments into my paper etcetera

- although i’ve also learned to recognize when i am just done. sometimes i have had enough and it is way better to accept that and then i either listen to some music and stare at the passing landscape, or i watch an episode of the crown. when feeling exhausted, there’s no point in pushing and forcing yourself

- this goes for many many aspects: comparison will kill you. it is often still my tendency to compare myself to others on all levels - grades, kindness, clothing, weight, work ethic - but i make the effort to not ‘indulge’ in it. what my therapist told me has really helped: just notice that the urge to compare is there but then leave it be. like it’s a tiny spider crawling on your leg; you don’t have to do something with it

- on the topic of work ethic: don’t listen to your fellow students. don’t listen to what some wonderful academic says (online). don’t even listen to what your professors say regarding study hours. it has often made me feel very uncertain, but i think it is way better to figure it out yourself. to build up a feeling of trust towards yourself, so you can really start to notice, to feel, when you have done enough. that is something only you should be able to judge and not some external source

- sometimes i get overwhelmed with this sensation that i have not done enough, that i am lazy and have accomplished nothing. however, every (every!) time i have noticed this to be untrue. so perhaps i have not studied every chapter, but i have studied other chapters. i found the cliché of looking at what you have done to really be true. it helps me put things into perspective, i think we can really underestimate ourselves in how much work we have done. what you consider to be 20% may actually be 60%

- motivating internal monologues are completely normal and actually very good! give yourself that motivating speech, it’s like a snow track that becomes deeper and clearer everytime you repeat it 

it helps me to look back on these at times, has been in my concepts for a while now (like some kind of motivating internal monologue) but i want this to have a place on my actual blog, because i believe tips like these (less focused on studying and more on coping with the whole world of studying/academia) are important as well 

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mood

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I’m at my parents house this weekend, and i’m thrilled to have a beautiful kitchen table to get some work done at 🌤📚

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my study and one of my favorite outfits which makes me feel like a peaky blinder. ☕️🕯🗝

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31.10.2021 // yesterday i had my free day of the week so today i have to push through to finish all my lectures and tasks. i still struggle with finding a routine and everything feels very all over the place. and the only thing i really want to do is reading and staying in bed.

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02.12.2021 // i really love doodling in my bullet journal during online lectures. it keeps my hands occupied and i still can listen to the prof, which is nice. what was in your advent calendar today? i had a new pen and a nice tea.

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05.02.2022 // finally found the motivation to do something for my bachelors thesis. i read the first paper (though it wasn't the first attempt, tbh, i just didn't understand anything before that). and i wrote some descriptions of experiments. now i'm looking back into spectroscopy because i have no idea what i'm actually doing in the lab (what's new about that?).

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17.02.2022 // had an online exam today and the weather was all over the place. sun, rain, hail you name it. i also worked on my bachelors thesis for three hours in the morning. i'm nearly finished with the theory part which makes me very happy.

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Women in STEMB. Science technology engineering. And blog

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Realization: now that i am graduated, i can learn the fuck i want with no deadline or restrictions

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la luna 🌝 isn’t she beautiful?

something about the moon during the fall looks brighter and bigger during the nights. i guess the moon finally has more time to shine with the sun going down sooner.

which is why this month, i decided to bring back the black scrap paper into my spreads with the moon and stars inspiring me every night 🌙✨