Please Please Please Remember That No Matter What Your Manager Says, It Is Never That Serious. Unless

On today's todo list:

Draft and schedule emails

Review existing literature on my PI's current research direction

Review previous NSF GRFP applications

Look into other national fellowships (listed)

Brainstorm about personal statements + project proposals

I've unfortunately fallen off my daily journaling/work routines the last few months, and I'm working on getting myself back into good habits. Today, my main goal is to schedule all my emails to other PhD programs their declining offers of admission. I just finalized everything with my chosen program this week, and the April 15th decision deadline is looming. I feel terrible for dragging my feet on communications, but I want to make sure I send personalized emails to each professor I interviewed with. I know this is part of the process, but I still hate disappointing people.

On the upside, I've already set up my graduate school accounts, put together a preliminary schedule of my classes in the fall, and set up my new email. I'm eager to get back to work

whoever invented beds was a fucking genius im just all cozied up in here like u don't even know how cozy i am

☀️ day off diaries 🫐 the freedom of having no set routine...🧋

... is kind of driving me insane tbh, but i really want to finish this manuscript before i go on my trip, so i'm giving it all my energy 🤗 i can do it for at least another week before i really lose it officially 😂

🧘‍♀️ meditation

🦵 physiotherapy exercises

✒️ wrote 2k words for my sci-fi novel

🇯🇵 japanese lesson

🎧 korean input

📚 read The Apothecary Diaries

❤️ family time

🚶‍♀️ went for a walk

🎞️ movie night

📒 journal + come up with a more sustainable writing routine

💌: i just realized that i don't really know how to enjoy my hobbies casually 😅 i always go all in until i either burnout or achieve something, whichever comes first 🙃 anyone else do this or is this just my weird habit? 😶

enough reclaiming slurs, I think in 2023 we should reclaim nascar. they banned the confederate flag on all properties & their stance on lgbtq+ isn’t just performative bc in 2013 they fined a driver 10k for using a homophobic slur, condemned indiana in a statement for an anti lgbt law, and partnered w carolina’s lgbt+ chamber of conference in 2022. nascar was founded by anti-cop moonshiners/bootleggers who drove suped-up fords to out-run the police. #yaaascar

the least helpful study buddy

[01/05] life has been so peaceful lately. (maybe because I have been neglecting the 7 courses I have to attend to. maybe).

11 more days of the semester (5/2/2025)

Went to a lunch banquet for my research group :) it was kind of fun

Took another break day before finals week (also just me being straight up exhausted!! I don't know why I've been so tired lately)

⎯⎯⎯⎯✮ 4/3/25 ✮⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯

→ Thermodynamics Exam today

→ Engineering mechanics HW Wednesday

→ Math quiz Thursday

→ Computational exam Thursday

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✮⋆˙ Busy busy week and I HAVE been studying daily, just, not maybe the right things whoops

✮⋆˙ Yes I got a coffee today, Frappuccino 8.5/10

✮⋆˙ Lent began on the 3rd and I'm giving up desserts and Instagram. I still open the app reflexively and I'm starting to realize yes maybe it really is that damn phone

✮⋆˙ Anticipating my after-exam dinner (burgers and fries because I've been craving)