This ferret, named Felicia, cleaned the proton synchrotron particle accelerator at the National Accelerator Laboratory in the 1970s. (The accelerator was always turned off during cleaning, and Felicia had a happy retirement and died of old age.)
"You're not being asked to come up with something pretty, you know. No one gives a damn about pretty."
-Anna Gavalda, Hunting and Gathering
Just finished this book, needless to say, I cried -a lot.
if academia ever makes you feel like you're not good or smart enough . . . it's not you, it's academia.
-Ali Hazelwood
Today’s soundtrack ✨
"I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have."
Stephen Chbosky, The perks of being a wallflower
Rainy Day impressions
Sometimes I see the academia aesthetic on tumblr and I’m like … not once in the entirety of my academic career has it EVER looked like that lol
Do you ever feel like it was way easier to find friends, when you were younger? I don’t know what happened, but somehow between the age of 13 and now, I lost most of my social skills. I get really bad anxiety when talking to strangers and now I only have one friend at Uni and she’s skipping classes pretty often so I don’t know if she’ll pass the exams. All of my close friends live far away, I’m scared of being lonely.
Well, at least I have the neighborhood cats, that’s step one of my 15-year-plan to become a crazy cat lad 🩵🤍
"Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it."
-Joyce Carol Oates, After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away
omg i love your pfp <3
Omg, thank you so much! Love your username :D