#starting a studyblr

[learnelle]

My uni semester is done done done ! I received my good results, so I can finally exhale. My friends and I reread the Bell Jar and went to see the Dead Poet’s Society in theatre, and it was SO nice to think about something other than my uni assignments ☕️

[why-the-heck-not]

the saturday-sunday night diabolical "life is falling apart"- to do list followed by a mad scramble

[tea-tuesday]

what i've been up to lately in the city (grabbing coffee, gallery hopping, exploring potential pottery studios) ! honestly, after the election, the future's been feeling bleak but i'm trying to be optimisitc and show up for my local community. if anyone wants to vent, my dms are always open for you 🫶

[romanticize-until-you-drop]

2024-10-06

There’s nothing more satisfyingly productive than coming into an empty library in the morning and leaving only when it closes.

In other words: it has been a long weekend of studying.

[volchiitza]

clearly trying to stop fixating on "productivity" has actually improved my focus

[studiousandrogynousfox-blog]

trying really hard to catch up....

[questwithambition]

Been making the most of the holidays by enjoying slow mornings reading, journalling and sipping coffee ☕️

[frenchiepal]

07.10.24 🎃🍄 seven hours at the library and the semester hasn't even started yet....ough ough

[the---hermit]

11|04|2025

Honestly it doesn't feel like I have been on a break for almost two weeks. I don't feel rested at all. Sleep fails to come at night, and when it does it's agitated and restless. I feel like Monday's therapy session will be an intense one. I have been trying to fill my days with relaxing activities like gardening, reading and finally continuing working on adding stuff in my commonplace book. My focus hasn't been the best so these activities have rarely been linear, I might start reading, then lose focus for ten minutes and then start reading again, which of course makes it sometimes more tiring than relaxing. Overall I have to admit this isn't my best mental health period. I have been doing my best to be kind to myself, trying to accept that some times are more challenging than others, and I'll get out of here one way or another.

Some recent joys in no particular order (because I refuse to give all my attention to the horrors™):

Got new plants for my herb garden since last year I had to get rid of a few that were destroyed by the behated slugs

Music, my number one companion through bad mental health periods since forever, I will never be grateful enough to the beloved tunes that make my days better

Got a very thoughtful and beautiful card from @ben-learns-smth and I might have gotten a bit emotional about it but they were good emotions bc I have great friends <3

Books and the joys of escapism. I have indeed been struggling with focus but it's still worth it when I can make my brain shut up and travel to lands far far away

Spent a whole morning with my brother, we were running work errands, but we had some great silly times together and it was very good

No emails at all! Which is great because the last thing I need right now is something important requiring my attention so it does count as a joy that professors are ignoring me lmao

Had a lovely meal with my mom for lunch in a restaurant, the food was amazing and despite the fact that usually my anxiety fucks up my ability to eat outside of my home I enjoyed every single bite with no problem at all

📖: Emily Wilde's Compendium Of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett (80 pages in and ngl I am not getting into it as much as the previous two books. Maybe this one just had a slow start. I am also not super focused rn as I said so I might be part of the problem)

[erbiumspectrum]

12 December 2024

Trying to study for the chromatography final next Tuesday but the subject just isn't interesting to me. Got a low grade this week and I'm working on understanding that getting a lower grade every once in a very long while doesn't make me a bad student. I'm a good student, not a perfect one (perfection isn't attainable)

[i-read-in-five-languages]

yesterday Chinese class before 老师’s power outage and 我的 internet issues

[why-the-heck-not]

me, a responsible being, working on the coding project as I should vs. me, a dysfunctional shithead, getting distracted by reading about brains (once aGAIN damnit (it's my favorite "I need to study my field but bc I should do that it's an impossible unthinkable feat now, so I'm reading about something else to fool my brain I'm still being productive"-topic))

[learnelle]

I got accepted to study biology in France 😭

[tea-tuesday]

(belated) new pen alert + updating my 5-year hobonichi ! a few months ago, i got a lamy safari in the piña colada colorway. unfortunately, the EF nib was SO scratchy and awful, but i got a replacement nib and switched to a different ink, and it flows much better! it is not my favorite fountain pen but i do love how colorful the body is. i'm also behind on my 5-year hobonichi so i have been filling in past missing entries, such as my trip to copenhagen and stockholm last month 💆‍♀️ although not being a student anymore feels strange, i have so much time to catch up on my previously neglected journals :))

[martiestudies]

[230824] officially survived my first week of the new semester!! i have so much to do

[kitkatstu-dies]

6/11/2025

Hiii. I was in the lab for most of the day- another simple experiment, and then set up a Western blot in the afternoon. I read some of The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus. I'm working on finishing my presentation for tomorrow + updating my lab notebook!