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19.05.25 🍓 ☕ 📚 somehow this semester is not stressful enough to complain about but just stressful enough to feel tired all the time, so i let myself be peer-pressured into drinking coffee for the first time :') bitter af

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morning journaling 💬

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Discovered a new favorite cafe today; it was quiet and super nice for concentration! >_<📝💡

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T-1 day until my physics II final and the last exam of my undergraduate degree! 🎀

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Remember what life is all about

I was so concerned with my final year of college, finals, entry exams, that it felt like i was going through life head bowed, just walking on autopilot and staring only at the ground

I need to remember to enjoy life more often

The exams will be there, the time will pass anyway

So i choose to spend my free time remembering that there's life outside of university and the oh-so-important future

Smell the flowers, sit in the sun, go for a walk in the rain, watch children play, dance in your room, feed some ducks or squirrels (do some research about what is ok to feed them beforehand though)

Remember what life is really about

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you can learn new things every day with the courage to be unashamed of your ignorance and the good humor to tolerate being taught

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Just because you have to study to achieve your dreams doesn't mean it can't be enjoyable

College has been a whole process for me. I did not know how to study, i did not know how to put effort into the right things, and most importantly, i did not know how to accept that my actions (or lack of) were the problem.

It took me years, but I've learned to accept that it's ok for me to need to study to be good when it comes to a subject, that college is a place for learning, not for being instantly good at something.

And now i can finally say that, without the subconscious frustration, i truly do enjoy learning new things, studying new subjects, and studying for the sake of knowing more, not just to pass exams.

It takes work, but it's all worth it.

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New college, Oxford

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3/100 days of productivity

the study

anki review

cardio videos & anki: sensory receptors of vasculature, board-style question, auscultation, heart sounds, cardiac cycle

the life

went for a walk outside!! easing myself back into moving my body

set goals for may

wrote in my notebooks <3

cleaned my apartment

updated ynab

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Rules to not feel like shit:

sleep. for fuck's sake just sleep.

take care of your health! u can't study while being in p a i n

exercise or stretch every day please please your knees need it

do not!!!!! leave things for the last fucking minute!!!!! i beg you!!!!!

Yea guess who's feeling pain everywhere and can't barely keep her eyes open but has to cram a presentation for tomorrow!!! AGAIN!!! AAAAAA

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Taking breaks is also being productive

Studying constantly only leads to burnout. Go take a walk. Feed some ducks. Admire a pretty building. Try to cook something new.

You might feel guilty at first, but nothing in excess is ever good, not even studying.

Dont forget to live life

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41 more days of the semester (4/02/2025)

Crammed for my immunology exam (8 hours)

Got my allergy shotssss (another month and a half of this)

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march 29th, 2025 || last weekend before classes start again so i treated myself to brunch at the bookstore cafe :)

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Every page you read is a step closer to your dreams

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You are smarter than you feel and you know more than you think.

Always while studying or right before an exam i feel like i don't know anything, my thoughts are all jumbled and I can't find a straight answer for a question i ask myself for funsies.

That's ok.

I've come to know that, despite feeling like i don't know anything, i hold all the necessary information. When it counts, when you have a specific problem right in front of you, you will know the answer.

You sometimes just have to trust yourself.