i really should try to make myself follow my weekday sleep schedule during the weekends bc dammit i'm so tired and it's affecting my mood.
finished mol bio quiz and peptide charge practice
finished biochem hw
struggling through the biochem discussion asst for this week which opened just today and is due tmr - the patient's results have befuddled me. 😑 [update: i think i got it? anyway, wrote part of an answer, continuing tmr.]
worked on mol bio notes, started biochem notes
started psyc lab
🎶 moonlight sonata - 3rd movt (this was like...the only song that played in my head today, same as the past few days....that is not a good sign, is it? 😅)
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FINISHING 100 DAYS OF PRODUCTIVITY!
This has been crazy... 100 days straight of work and constant study and it's brought me so far in life and studies. This is gonna be a little reflective post of how this series has impacted me and why it has been so important to me since January of this year.
PROS!
constantly kept me up-to-date, it was like my little public to-do list on my life and what I needed to do in the day
a little diary! whenever I felt terrible for not doing any work, I'd sit and write an entry for this blog and it made me realise that all this work allowed me to have a break every now and then
MOTIVATION! Giving you all a little update on my life motivated me that little be more everyday to keep striving and doing my best
CONS :(
It's easy to get sloppy, there was a few days where I really started to lack and drag behind, but I always wrote down what I did so that I could write it a couple of days later
OVERALL!!
I have absolutely adored doing this series. It has made me so much more confident, happy, self aware. I am so much closer to myself and my studies and I am so unbelievably happy because of it. It's helped me commit more to my work, find what I love and enjoy work.
If you are looking for something to keep you motivated - this is it!!
In terms of the future, I will continue to post every now and then, and perhaps start again in the next academic year! I will be constantly updating studies, posting blogs on my life and continuing to write reviews for books, etc. I'm looking forward to posting my introduction post once my notes for subjects are updated :)
and THANK YOU AGAIN! I couldn't have made it through this whole thing without you guys :)
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Funny story from today. This morning I found out we’re taking a vocabulary test in Latin, with a total of 122 words. Was told at 8 am and wrote it at 13. Got a A, and managed to learn all the words in maybe 2 hours (I also had lessons so just counting the breaks).
Moral of this funny and stressful story. Don’t let unplanned events demotivate you, you just gotta push thru them.
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Franky The Green Octopus
Before I post this this is just a quick note! I would like to thank whoever reads this cute tale of Franky the Green Octopus, he was inspired by a job interview that I applied for (didn't hear back but it's ok because Franky was born from this) and I just wanted to put the story out there. I used to write and I am scared to put my work back out there, but I'm in a big self-care journey and this is part of it. Hope you all enjoy it!
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Franky the Green Octopus
Franky was the green octopus that everyone had admired dancing across the screens of millions of computers. He had the rhythm of a human but the personality of, well, an octopus. Franky thought he would never get out of that slimy aquarium. It was cramped, dark, and growing things on the side that even scared him, and he was a predator! Being in this cramped, algae-filled tank kept his skin tone a forest-green color.
Franky lived his days wallowing in the shallow aquarium hoping for a chance to break free. But one day, he heard an intriguing rhythm vibrating through his tank. What is this magical noise? He thought to himself. He had to know more. He slinked out of his tank and onto the floor, trying not to knock any of the other exhibits over with him. He inched closer to the locked door where the human caretakers ate their food, and the magical noise grew. Franky had never felt this feeling before in his year of life.
“I'm on tonight
You know my hips don't lie (no fighting)
And I'm starting to feel it's right
All the attraction, the tension
Don't you see, baby, this is perfection?”
Franky started to bob his head to the song, not missing a single beat. He had never heard anything so fantastic. He inched back to his tank, hoping not to get caught, all while bobbing his head. As the music grew, he swayed more and more, until his tentacles and head moved with the rhythm together as one. He hadn’t noticed the human caretakers come into the room, and as he looked in their direction, he noticed them pointing a brick-like device toward him. Nervous, he stopped his swaying.
“Oh no, keep going!” Said the first human.
“He could make us millions...” Replied the second.
Franky was puzzled, but slowly began to bob his head, making the first human’s frown turn to a wide smile.
“Yes! That’s it, Franky!”
Franky then began to move the rest of his body with the rhythm, resulting in applause from the two caretakers.
*3 days later*
Franky was feasting on some of the leftover crabs given to him for lunch. He hadn’t had an appetite for a few days. He craved more of that joyful noise that was coming from his human caretaker’s room, but he didn’t know when they would decide to play it again. The first one was all smiles around him, which was odd. He didn’t know what he did to attract such attention from them. He belched the leftover crab and decided to close his eyes for a few minutes. Until…
The first caretaker entered the room with one of those strange things that they first took him to this place in. It soon got dark, and Franky was trying not to panic. It was a few hours later and he was dumped into a larger, yet magnificently cleaner aquarium tank. There was a crowd of people surrounding the aquarium.
Franky couldn’t move. He hadn’t been in front of this many people in months. Not since his mate died…
He understood that he could have gone on with life, but this mate was different. She got sick in that exhibit with him, but she didn’t make it past the first day of sickness. She made a turn for the worst and Franky…he got better.
He then heard the joyful tunes that he once heard that very night. It seemed louder this time.
“Come on Franky, show ‘em what you got!” He recognized that voice. It was his caretaker. His body eased up and he decided “Why not?” as his head began to slowly bob to the upbeat song. Faster and faster, he started to move his tentacles to the beat. He was swaying from side to side, doing flips, and having the absolute time of his life. By then, he noticed the room started to fill with people of all ages. He danced his little heart away and never thought that his life would change forever…
*1 year later*
Franky was on top of the world. He was on almost every computer screen in America, capturing their hearts. Franky lived a happy life, which being in captivity, he lived until he was the age of 5. He left behind a son and daughter, Sam and Ronnie, who took on his legacy as the green-dancing Octopi.
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Thank you for reading if you got this far and I hope you enjoyed!
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