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02/19/2019–Hey everyone! I just want to share with you the stationaries I freshly bought. I got 4 packs of these 4-in-1 notebooks with black pages and a black blank journal with pages that are perfect for watercoloring.

The little ones don’t fit my traveler’s notebook perfectly but they are perfect for note-taking on the go, like Field Notes. And I’m so excited to try the huge black one so I’m looking forward to document my travel experiences with it.

Some news about my reading: I just finished Beyond The Chocolate War and oh my! What an awesome story! I gave it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 rating on Goodreads.

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2.1.19 // happy february everyone! very excited for what this month will bring 🧡

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13/02/2019

Just some physics notes :) I’m meeting up with some friends tomorrow for a horror movie night (great way to spend Valentine’s Day I know lol)

Hope you all have a great day tomorrow no matter who you are spending it with

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13/2/2019

Studied some more law today. Remembering all these articals is going to be really though! Luckily, I had no Japanese homework today, so I had the time to read all the pages and enjoy my huge glass of green tea in peace. I also managed to make some arrangements for my trip to Japan, so it was a productive day!

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the beef between STEM and arts + humanities is so tired. science and art are the same. sister subjects. they’ve fueled one another for years. one cannot exist without the other. they’re both made of the same kind of wonder, one tries to attain long sought after things in reality, and the other impliments the stuff of dreams. logic and emotionality. they’re both exercises of imagination. it’s all just beautiful, academic sludge.

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new theme, new me! these were taken in my school’s library, and the fake plants there make me feel like a high class b. anyways, i’m going to be more active i swear!! i was going through a lot of changes school-wise but it’s mostly over now. i love u guys <3

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[ 29/12/18 ]

two of my travel spreads from this month! also travelled to china but i didn’t start journaling till after so got too lazy to make one hahah + the really cute totoro pins i bought!

still figuring out how to hand letter nicely ✊🏼 any tips? hope everyone has a great day!

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things to do during break: create reading lists and work them off one by one, watch movies in foreign languages, attend lectures or seminars at places you’ve never been to before, discover a new library, visit museums and galleries, send postcards to your friends, take up a new skill like photography/digital drawing, write a daily poem, take an online course on something you always loved, pick flowers and press them, rate 10 cute cafes in town, test how much you can buy for 5$ on a flea market/in second hand shops, just start walking and see where the day takes you, plan a walk/hike/bike tour, start a new blog, create a vision board, write a letter to your future self, go to indie concerts, send cute anonymous messages, try out new ice cream flavors, make your own smoothies, buy artsy magazines, take the train/subway to nowhere, go to a party where you don’t know anyone, ditch a party and spend the whole day reading outside, set up a bullet journal, jot down 5 things you are grateful for each day, create playlist for different moods, try out a new language learning app, unwind and do not use your phone for a day, try meditation, go to a food market, sleep the whole day because you can, go to the theatre/cinema/opera, take aesthetic photos of the prettiest buildings in town

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2019년 02월 13일

Some day these are the last notes I ever wrote…

Global Civilization was one of my favorite classes ever. It’s really great to take a history course with a professor who’s actually passionate about history. 

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working on an anatomy project for the week!! i know y’all can’t see the paper marks but boy oh boy this is an Entire Trip and i’m drawing so many bones aaaaaa :0

studygram: tbhstudying

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13.02.19

Hello! I started the new quarter this Monday and I’m already busy 😣 But at least the new subjects are really interesting and I’m sure I’ll enjoy them 🤞🏻

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31/01/2018 :: Due to unexpected family stuff, I haven’t managed much college work these past few days, but now I have to really get back to it again as it’s mounting up!

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i domt wanna go to class 2day

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⭐how i stay organised ⭐

Hey dudes, today I wanna share how I stayed organised in my first year of uni. This system worked super well for me and going into my second year I wanna try new systems, but I thought I would share because it may help or inspire you.

🌟 Onenote

This is my main organisation system and place where all my uni work goes! Im gonna show picture of my last year set up and what ive altered this year to work best for me. This is the most important part of my organisation system!

*SEMESTER CALENDAR*

What I do is make a table with my classes and their colour code going along the top and each of the weeks within the semester going down the side (I also add the dates). When I finish a week I make the boxes another colour so I can see where im up to. This is where I keep all the tasks I need to do each week like textbook readings, assessment and modules I need to complete. This year im also adding when ive got my tutorials so I know when I need to be on campus. So I have a key for all my stuff: for my readings and other tasks I use the to-do box tag a, for my assessment I use the important/star tag and for my tutorials I use the cute little rose tag. A thing to note is that last year I had to participate in psych research studies so theres another box called studies in the table where I tracked that.

In the same notebook i also have my timetable and the yearly calendar for my uni. i use to also have a grades and thoughts tab but i never used it cause i track both on my phone notes.

2018 layout + scroll through:

2019 layout + scroll through (not yet completed but you get the gist):

*CLASS BOOKS*

For all my class notebooks I have a syllabus tab, a textbook tab and a tutorial tab. In my syllabus tab I have the dates of each week and what we are learning in the lecture & tutorial, what the readings are and if there is an assignment due. In my textbook tab I just keep all my reading notes. Then for my tutorials tab I just take class tute notes. You may be wondering where I keep my lecture notes, I type them out in word and save them to my class folder. Nothing really has changed here from last year.

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🌟 Edo Agenda

This is a great website (plus app) that I feel like not a lot of people know about! This is by far the best calendar I have ever used, it is so practical, simple and functional. 

Heres an example of mine from last year.

How I use it is each class has a colour that is the same as on onenote. Each week i look at my onenote trimester calendar/table and put down all the tasks i need to complete on certain days and when i should start assignments and studying.  I add the task using the ‘task’ function that gives you a checkbox. When its completed I check it off. Anytime that I had an exam I would add it as an ‘event’. A great function is that you can drag tasks between days making it super easy to reorganise your week. 

Heres a little walk through of the functions i use:

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well i think thats about it in terms of how i stayed organised in uni last year. hopefully it made sense. if i find anymore methods this year ill be sure to post about it. if this helps you out please let me know!  have a great day!!

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a reminder for fellow students to be realistic about their productivity. real life will get in the way - trains get delayed, books will be on loan, classes are rescheduled. take a deep breath and problem-solve. adapting to the situation is not failure, but we are setting ourselves up for failure if we leave no room for it. 

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JSkjsalfdkfjkf i submitted my assignment this morning and then i just realized i might have spelled my prof’s name wrong on the title page....and the submission box is closed so i can’t change it....rip

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On Using Slowly

I discovered Slowly back in September after seeing it on the homepage of the app store. I’ve always been fascinated with the concept of penpals and writing letters to people although this would have been a logistical nightmare since my country’s postal service is notorious for their penchant to lose mail. 

Slowly is not your typical networking or dating app. 

We’re bringing the traditional pen friend experience to your smartphone.

The app is created for those who yearns for meaningful conversations with people in the era of instant messaging. We hope to connect people around the world at a slower but better pace – one letter at a time.

Meet a new pen friend, seal your letter & place a stamp - start connecting with the world on SLOWLY!

Letters actually mimic the amount of time it takes for snail mail to be delivered in the real world. So for example, my letters to Germany take a day to deliver while those to Brazil take two days. Whereas countries nearer to where I am, like Thailand and Taiwan, take only a few hours. 

I’m the worst textmate ever since I take forever to answer and this is why I find Slowly so great; it takes away the pressure to reply quickly. I’ve also found my conversations to be more meaningful and since the app matches you with people who share the same interests as you do, you immediately have something in common to talk about. 

So this is how my profile on Slowly looks like. As you can see, your profile photo isn’t a picture of yourself, but rather, a cartoon avatar. There are loads to choose from and they even have an option for individuals who identify as non-binary, which is super cool.  

Another thing that I really like about Slowly is that you can add as many languages as you want, which is helpful for those looking for language-exchange partners like myself. 

Finding penpals is extremely easy on Slowly and you can even use their auto-match option. I’ve used auto-match a couple of times, but I honestly prefer to explore manually. 

Since I primarily use Slowly to practice my language skills, I filtered my matches to show me users living in countries where my target language, and any other languages that I’m interested in learning, is spoken. 

Slowly lets you save your letters as drafts so there’s no pressure to finish it in a single sitting. I normally take a couple of hours to compose my letters since I try to write in my target language. 

I think that feature also makes the experience more meaningful because I actually have time to think about what I want to say and how I’m going to respond. I’ve definitely had more sincere conversations on here as compared to other language-exchange apps like Tandem and HelloTalk. 

I mean, no offense to those apps. I also love using them, especially HelloTalk, but I’ve found Slowly to be an avenue where I actually get to hold conversations and learn more about a person, as opposed to simple small talk and correcting each other’s grammar. 

You can also add stamps to your letters, which makes the writing part more fun. There are stamps specific to your location and any other new stamps that you receive from your penpals immediately gets added to your collection. There are also limited edition ones like a Christmas tree stamp for Christmas and a Grim Reaper stamp for Halloween. They also recently opened the Stamp Store where you can purchase stamps with cool designs on them, but I’ve never used it since they cost real money and I’m a broke university student. 

Slowly lets you have up to a hundred penpals and you can also delete those who are inactive, have deactivated their accounts, or those you aren’t interested in talking to. 

Right now, I have about four with whom I’ve been talking to for a few months now. It’s great because I love conversing with them, learning about their experiences, their culture, and what they’ve been doing on a daily basis. I’ve also received lots of book and film recommendations, which is super nice. 

It’s been a couple of months since I first started using Slowly, but I still get that feeling of excitement when I see letters arriving or when a letter from my penpal has been delivered. This is definitely one of the best apps that I discovered this year and I highly recommend it, especially to those looking for language-exchange partners or those who are simply interested in learning about different cultures and walks of life!