☀️ Day Off Diaries 🫐 The Freedom Of Having No Set Routine...🧋

mutuals. c'mere. this is a checkpoint. i am checking in. i am wrapping you in a blanket and giving you a nice warm drink. also some pretty flowers. it will be ok.

This is for the people who didn’t party in their teens and twenties. For the people who didn’t have that “coming of age” movie experience with shenanigans and revelations. This is for the people who mostly keep to themselves. Who maybe prefer things to be quieter and gentler. This is for the people who don’t feel like they belong in a culture that values loud parties and flashing lights. I see you. And you are valid.

the witchy urge to just be naked and swim in a spring under the full moon.

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

25/02/07

Daydreaming about earlier this week when I wasn't sick and left the house to work. Mind you, I'm willing to bet the study session on the left is where I picked this up.

A non exhaustive list of creators making "study with me" videos and that I like to watch while studying (as the YouTube algorithm just hide some creators from me after some time without watching them) :

tani study (english student, ??)

a vet student (veterinarian student, french)

yulma (?? student, korean)

love, Nika (stem student, english)

Mindful studying (code student, ??)

Maria Silva (med student, ??)

Celine (??, ??)

fayefilms (med student, malaysian)

Sean Study (IT student, english)

(I'll add more when I'll find other channels so feel free to tell me yours and i'll add them to the list 🩷)

Your boundaries, schedules, discipline, habits and routines = your life’s outcome. They are everything!

Finally passed my web development exam! Onto statistics.

the vibe I bring to the function:

going completely insane in the name of eduction and knowledge is the only path to glory it seems.