A Beginner’s Guide To Dark Academia

mental health tips i wish i’d been given before starting university

trying is much more important than succeeding

10 minutes of studying > not studying at all

being a college student is more than academics. it’s also learning how to enjoy your own company, learning and occasionally screwing up meals, wandering outside campus like a tourist, questioning your ideals and presuppositions, discovering new talents and skills for the hell of it, and SO much more. if you feel burnt out in one dimension of college life, that’s a sign to spend some time relishing in another dimension.

if you need more time, take a deep breath and shoot that email to your professor/TA asking for an extension. at worst, they say no. and don’t stress over properly explaining yourself/your situation. hell, just email them: “Hi, Professor. I need your help. Sincerely, y/n.” all it takes is that one initial reach out and the rest will follow.

failure does not reflect character. read that again. remind yourself as often as you see fit because at one point or another, you will feel like you’ve failed. it’s growing pains. once you’ve accepted that, learn to view any setbacks as a hint that you need to try a new method/approach. didn’t do well on that math quiz? don’t beat yourself up over it–instead, regroup with yourself and see which metaphorical gear got stuck in your personal learning process machine. for instance, maybe you used flash cards and that wasn’t really your style. act like a detective, not a bully.

THERE IS NO NORMAL TIMELINE FOR YOUR COLLEGE CAREER(!!!!!!). a lot of people need more than 4 years, a lot of people need 4 years, and a lot of people need less than 4 years. and every single one of those timelines are valid. the worst thing you could do is squeeze the living hell out of yourself into some rigid schedule that is incompatible with who you are and how you learn. trust me when i say u will find yourself doing the best work when u do it at YOUR pace.

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الأطفال تتعلم بشكل أفضل عندما يكون بمقدورها التجول في أنحاء الفصل

بالنسبة لمعظم الأطفال، يمكن تقسيم اليوم الدراسي العادي إلى أجزاء من الحركة والجلوس بثبات. الفرصة (الفسحة): وقت الركض و اللعب. حصة الصالة الرياضية: تكرار للفرصة. جميع الحصص الأخرى: قدم على الأرض، الثبات في الكرسي، ويرجى عدم التململ أكثر من اللازم.

 ولكن كما تفسر صحيفة نيويورك تايمز، فإن عددا متزايدا من خبراء التعليم يجادلون بأن النظام المعتاد عليه صارم أكثر من اللزوم. يفترض على الأطفال أن تتحرك كثيرا. خاصة أثناء التعلم.

وليس ذلك من أجل الفوائد الصحية فقط، ان الطالب الأكثر نشاطا، هو أيضا أفضل من غيره كطالب. وقال( ستيف بويل)، المؤسس المشارك للرابطة الوطنية الأمريكية لمحو الأمية البدنية، لصحيفة "التايمز": "لا يفترض من الأطفال الجلوس طوال اليوم وتلقي المعلومات". وضعت منظمته مجموعة من أشرطة الفيديو القصيرة، التي تأخذ الأطفال في جولة من النشاط البدني - توفر للطفل فرصة ل " التنفس، والاسترخاء، وإعادة الشحن، وإعادة التركيز"، كما يسميها الموقع على شبكة الإنترنت. ووفقا لصحيفة التايمز، استخدمت أشرطة الفيديو في الفصول الدراسية ونوادي الفتيان والفتيات في 15 ولاية مختلفة.

الرياضة و الحركة تنشط الذاكرة. ووجدت دراسة نشرت في العام الماضي في مجلة "طب الأطفال" أن إتاحة الوقت للنشاط البدني خلال الدروس ساعد طلاب المدارس الابتدائية على تحسين أدائهم في كل من دروس الرياضيات واللغة؛ وسطيا، كانت الأطفال في مجموعة الحركة تسبق الأطفال في مجموعة الجلوس بثبات بنحو أربعة أشهر في مستوى تعلمهم بحلول نهاية التجربة التي دامت لمدة عامين. إن هبات النشاط هذه ليس بالضرورة أن تأخذ وقتا بعيدا عن الصف: في مقال بمجلة (واشنطن بوست) عام 2015، أوضحت (أليتا مارغوليس)، مديرة مركز التعليم الإلهامي، أنه باستخدام القليل من الإبداع فقط، يمكن دمج الحركة مباشرة في عملية التدريس: وتقول: "عندما يراقب الطلاب بعضهم البعض لمدة 30 ثانية أثناء الركض، يحصلون على فرصة لممارسة أساليب قياس الوقت". "هز علبة من الحليب بقوة كبيرة لتشكيل الزبدة يعلم الطلاب عن الحقائق الصعبة للحياة في ميدان الصناعة وأيضا يعلمهم عن أجسامهم، وحمض اللبنيك وما يحدث عندما تستخدم العضلات بشكل كثيف جدا لفترة طويلة جدا". هناك فائدة في ذلك للجميع أيضا: يحصل الأطفال على فرصة(فسحة) اخرى نوعا ما. ودرس أكثر متعة من المحاضرة أو ورقة العمل العادية المعتاد عليها. وهذا بدوره، يعطي للأساتذة طلاب أكثر انتباها و أكثر اندماجا بالدرس.

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Ice age children frolicked in 'giant sloth puddles' 11,000 years ago, footprints reveal

More than 11,000 years ago, young children trekking with their families through what is now White Sands National Park in New Mexico discovered the stuff of childhood dreams: muddy puddles made from the footprints of a giant ground sloth.

Few things are more enticing to a youngster than a muddy puddle. The children — likely four in all — raced and splashed through the soppy sloth trackway, leaving their own footprints stamped in the playa — a dried up lake bed. Those footprints were preserved over millennia, leaving evidence of this prehistoric caper, new research finds.

The finding shows that children living in North America during the Pleistocene epoch (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago) liked a good splash. “All kids like to play with muddy puddles, which is essentially what it is,” Matthew Bennett, a professor of environmental and geographical sciences at Bournemouth University in the U.K. who is studying the trackway, told Live Science. Read more.

Athletes Go for the Gold with NASA Spinoffs

NASA technology tends to find its way into the sporting world more often than you’d expect. Fitness is important to the space program because astronauts must undergo the extreme g-forces of getting into space and endure the long-term effects of weightlessness on the human body. The agency’s engineering expertise also means that items like shoes and swimsuits can be improved with NASA know-how.

As the 2024 Olympics are in full swing in Paris, here are some of the many NASA-derived technologies that have helped competitive athletes train for the games and made sure they’re properly equipped to win.

The LZR Racer reduces skin friction drag by covering more skin than traditional swimsuits. Multiple pieces of the water-resistant and extremely lightweight LZR Pulse fabric connect at ultrasonically welded seams and incorporate extremely low-profile zippers to keep viscous drag to a minimum.

Swimsuits That Don’t Drag

When the swimsuit manufacturer Speedo wanted its LZR Racer suit to have as little drag as possible, the company turned to the experts at Langley Research Center to test its materials and design. The end result was that the new suit reduced drag by 24 percent compared to the prior generation of Speedo racing suit and broke 13 world records in 2008. While the original LZR Racer is no longer used in competition due to the advantage it gave wearers, its legacy lives on in derivatives still produced to this day.

Trilion Quality Systems worked with NASA’s Glenn Research Center to adapt existing stereo photogrammetry software to work with high-speed cameras. Now the company sells the package widely, and it is used to analyze stress and strain in everything from knee implants to running shoes and more.

High-Speed Cameras for High-Speed Shoes

After space shuttle Columbia, investigators needed to see how materials reacted during recreation tests with high-speed cameras, which involved working with industry to create a system that could analyze footage filmed at 30,000 frames per second. Engineers at Adidas used this system to analyze the behavior of Olympic marathoners' feet as they hit the ground and adjusted the design of the company’s high-performance footwear based on these observations.

Martial artist Barry French holds an Impax Body Shield while former European middle-weight kickboxing champion Daryl Tyler delivers an explosive jump side kick; the force of the impact is registered precisely and shown on the display panel of the electronic box French is wearing on his belt.

One-Thousandth-of-an-Inch Punch

In the 1980s, Olympic martial artists needed a way to measure the impact of their strikes to improve training for competition. Impulse Technology reached out to Glenn Research Center to create the Impax sensor, an ultra-thin film sensor which creates a small amount of voltage when struck. The more force applied, the more voltage it generates, enabling a computerized display to show how powerful a punch or kick was.

Astronaut Sunita Williams poses while using the Interim Resistive Exercise Device on the ISS. The cylinders at the base of each side house the SpiraFlex FlexPacks that inventor Paul Francis honed under NASA contracts. They would go on to power the Bowflex Revolution and other commercial exercise equipment.

Weight Training Without the Weight

Astronauts spending long periods of time in space needed a way to maintain muscle mass without the effect of gravity, but lifting free weights doesn’t work when you’re practically weightless. An exercise machine that uses elastic resistance to provide the same benefits as weightlifting went to the space station in the year 2000. That resistance technology was commercialized into the Bowflex Revolution home exercise equipment shortly afterwards.

Want to learn more about technologies made for space and used on Earth? Check out NASA Spinoff to find products and services that wouldn’t exist without space exploration.   

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That rabbit/hare post is messing me up. I’d thought they were synonyms. Their development and social behavior are all different. They can’t even interbreed. They don’t have the same number of chromosomes. Dogs, wolves, jackals, and coyotes can mate with each other and have fertile offspring but rabbits and hares cant even make infertile ones bc they just die in the womb. Wack.