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20 June 2025 // finishing up my conservation bio class next week

i have had a hard time locking in on this topic. like i enjoy learning about it but this class just hasn’t held my attention

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friday | june 20 14/100 dop (two weeks in!!) steps: 10.0k

officially done with the first week of my summer research job! i'm giving a presentation on my project next week, so i spent most of my workday prepping some slides. i also got in 50 minutes of strength training in the morning and made dinner with my housemates after work.

goals for the weekend include fulfilling some house-cleaning responsibilities, a bit of meal prep for the week, and spending a good chunk of time on grad school research, which i've more or less abandoned for the past week.

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19.06.2025—studying from my mum’s office today!

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writing and writing and writing

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hi sorry if this is weird but i’m at a point where I need to choose my uni course and I am genuinely stumped. I was accepted for a physics course but also for law course — the law being more of a “safe choice” while physics being something that actually interests me.

My problem is I am not exactly sure of my maths capabilities. I know physics uses a lot of theory as well (which I love) but it also has insane amount of mathematics. I do enjoy maths but I have always been average at best in it. Would you still suggest I’d pick the physics course?

Again sorry if this is weird I just really like your account and saw the physicsblr hashtag so I thought I’d ask for some advice :)

hey, first of all congrats on being accepted for the physics and law courses, that’s genuinely impressive & something to be proud of, and best of luck in whichever you choose :)

there are a lot of factors that go into choosing your uni course, so i wouldn’t be able to make a suggestion solely based on this. but if it’s just the maths you’re worried about, i hope this helps.

for context: i’ve always been average at maths too. my first level of university is spread over two years just so that i could bring my maths up to speed. i also hadn’t studied maths or physics for ~6 years before starting my uni course. now, i just finished my first year, and i averaged +95% across the board.

point is, if your maths ability is your only worry, coming from someone who jumped in at the deep end & is rapidly getting better at it - don’t let it hold you back. my personal advice: you need to love it, want to understand it, and be willing to put in the extra time & effort to get there. like you said, there is a lot of maths in physics, so if you don’t have that drive, you will probably end up resenting it. if you do have drive, you can absolutely succeed & improve.

it might help to figure out what your motivations are for choosing physics - they’ll be what keep you going when the maths isn’t making sense.

i hope this helps a little? feel free to send another ask if you have any more questions - it’s not a weird ask at all. and thank you, my account is only ~2 weeks old so i really appreciate that :)

let me know which course you go with!

p.s. if your chosen course doesn’t work out, remember you can pivot. (i also did that)

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Who am I?

I’m Glass, or Grace. Call me whichever you want. I use they/he/she pronouns. I’m a 20 year old college student studying Human Development and Family Studies with the goal to transfer to the University of Alabama to concentrate in Child Life. I volunteer at my local Childrens hospital twice a week and my hobbies include art, poetry, writing, journaling, and gaming.

I am visually impaired and am going blind as well as being chronically ill and disabled. I’m also adhd and have anxiety and depression.

My study routine may not look the same as others because of that and I am a firm believer in doing what is best for you and your body.

This page is about studying and working towards my goals.

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being a chronic procrastinator and having a debilitating fear of failure is wild bcoz like. why am i sprinting at a wall i built myself.

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The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

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Happy Friday friends:

Registered for fall classes, diving deep into summerween, and turned 25!🩷✨🎃

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18/06/2025

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The book I'm currently reading and my new favourite bookmark :)

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your email has found me on the fucking brink

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18 june 2025

my presentation went well, my advisor asked a lot of questions,, but I could answer most of them. he's given me some direction on what I should read next so I'm starting that :)

🎧 | flowering - lucy

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16.6.25 (13/100 days of productivity)

over the past couple days: worked a 9-5 shift at the medical centre, finished an online maths course & applied for a graduate skills summer course, started a new zealand itinerary for a friend, & cleaned my sad rusty car. also continued this book after putting it on hold for months

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Bonfire again! This time with some chicken and pine nuts :)

I'm replacing reading on my phone with paper books again; so I bought some old ones, because it makes me feel more comfortable "ruining" them by taking notes and scribbling. I kind of love getting books that were clearly loved by someone, too; slightly yellowed pages and little notes taken by someone else.

I finished The Picture of Dorian Gray a few years ago, but re-read it now from the Oxford Bookworms collection (which is a shorter version; I bought it thinking it was the original but oh well). Finished in two days, and it made me remember how much I love, love reading. I used to binge-read series in under a week before, yk ... Gen Z's go-to phone addiction. I don't have that much time anymore, but I hope I can make reading paper books a habit again from now on.

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monday | june 16 10/100 dop (@tea-ckles we're a tenth of the way there!!) steps: 15.3k

possibly the busiest day i've had all year, and that's saying something. some of the highlights:

~5.5 hours of work, including a meeting with my PI

moved into the house i'm subletting for the summer

30 minutes of reading

30 minute bike ride (in other words, went to the store)

2 hour dance class

house meeting with all my new housemates

and all that on the snatches of sleep i managed to get on the plane! looking forward to another productive (and hopefully better-rested) day tomorrow.

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16/06/25 || Monday

Trying water colour for the fifth time in the laat ten years lol. Did it work? Hell no. But my mom loved it so I'm counting it as a win. I'm done with most preparations for travelling abroad so now I'm learning German, keeping up with my hobbies, and hoping I don't forget Physics.