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The view from our balcony in Paris.

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staying sane in the london heat by drinking copious amounts of dalgona bubble tea and iced matcha. yes my bank account hates me. no i don’t want to talk about it.

ig: @studylustre

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07.22.20 | Studying in my parents’ yard, getting through the last few weeks of summer courses. I tired.

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been a rainy couple of days, apart from yesterday which has been unusually warm and humid!!

key points:

• been consistently going to bed at 4am, once the sun is up and the birds start chirping, I know its time for me to sleep

• have been reading for my own pleasure and have just ordered Anansi Bois by Neil Gaiman and Lent by Jo Walton

• its currently 4:54am, the birds are chirping and it has just started to rain, therefore, goodnight!!

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šias pora dienų lijo, išskyrus vakar, tai buvo neįprastai šiltą ir drėgną dieną!!

pagrindiniai punktai:

• nuosekliai einu miegoti 4 valandą ryto, kai jau saulė pakylą ir paukščiai pradeda čiulbėti, žinau kad laikas man miegoti

• pradėjau skaityti savo malonumui ir ką tik užsisakiau Anansi Boys iš Neil Gaiman ir Lent iš Jo Walton

• šiuo metu yra 4:54 ryto, paukščiai čiulba ir ką tik pradėjo lyti, todėl, labos nakties!!

#moodboard

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seems like just yesterday when i said goodbye to may, and yet here i am again, welcoming in july. very grateful for the time/capability to properly reflect & remember the months that pass 🌼

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25.06.20 // 59/100 days of productivity

bujo from and last week and more photos i just found from the butterfly house in vienna :)🌴🦋

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6.29.20 - 1/? days of productivity

reviving my productivity challenge just in time for secondary applications (send help plz). also trying to regrow my ivy because they’ve been dying off one by one.

🎶: jung seung hwan - whenever, wherever

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life gets so much better when you realize that there are no rules. you don’t have to get your license at 16 if you don’t want to. you don’t have to date anyone in your teen years if you don’t want to. you don’t have to move out in your 20s if you don’t want to. you don’t need to go to any social gathering that you’re not in the mood to go to. and you don’t owe anyone an explanation. sometimes you don’t wanna do something just because you... don’t wanna do it. that’s it. live your life how you wanna live it.

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12.19.19 — day filled with cute coffee shop corners and books. not complaining.

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21 June 2020

I recently moved back to my university house (hence the different desk space) so that I could spend the summer with my housemates. We live near the beach so its been really nice on sunny days and I’m so excited for more!

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Here’s a 2020 edition of that coffee post — it seems that no matter what I am still all about iced coffee (with oat milk) when I’m writing on hot summer days 

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29.01.17

“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to.” ― Susan Cain, Quiet

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your bare minimum isn’t actually that bare or minimum. my dad once told me that there’s nothing in this world that’s easy and that’s true tbh. everything we do takes energy, time, and effort. even the little things. if you feel like you’re not doing enough please try to think about your circumstances and what’s currently available to you: chances are, there’s something that’s diverting or otherwise draining you. and to pull away from that and get something done regardless? well, i think that’s really admirable! please try to take pride in the things you do accomplish in a day, no matter how small or trifling you perceive them to be. you can’t be proud of your growth if you don’t notice where you already are!

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20-05-2020 | Studying this morning at my "desk" better known as "plant nursery" 🌱

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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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[ apr. 29, 2020 - 11:06 am ]

writing my final contribution essay for english this morning, almost done with the semester !