03.11.2022

May 29, 2024 • Wednesday

Hello I am still here

Took a week off studying because I deserved it lol. But we're back! Revamped my digital planner for the month of June, and I also found my samsung tablet! It's an A series tablet (very old I know) but it still works! Sadly it's not S Pen compatible.

But the good news is I won't be using it to take notes lol (paper notes supremacyyy) but rather to sync it with my laptop and download PDFs so I can improve my library study sessions. I've begun to hit the library really often nowadays and it's really helping me study!

Slowly beginning to catch up with uni stuff, let's see how it goes :)

Shoutout to @studaxy my best friend and my new student heehee

🎧 Espresso — Sabrina Carpenter

Every page you read is a step closer to your dreams

[research life]

Spending the day reviewing my readings + finishing my assignments for the next week 🫶🏻🩷 Very productive but tiring! 🤞🏻🍰

While studying for this class right before exams, every time i felt like i needed a break i would make a tiny drawing.

Now my book is full of this type of lil guys.

I am once again going through this book and thought that I'd share the doodles that kept me sane(debatable) during exam season.

hi, sorry if this is a random ask, but do you have any advice for wasting less time between studying sessions? i'm a big fan of pomodoro so I know I am getting 5 hours of work done, but it seems to take me eight or nine hours to do it

so sorry i got to this late, i didn't see it in my inbox !! oh gosh, this is such a good question because i always feel like i'm wasting time in between studying sessions. for me, i force myself to do a few things, which i feel like have helped me these past few years:

go to a slightly uncomfortable place with a few goals to achieve, usually a café or casual restaurant. this is why i'm always at cafés instead of the library or my room—if i study at a place that's too comfortable, i find myself wasting more time. if i'm at a café, i feel pressured to stay no more than 2 hours (a little more if i get another drink!) so i end up trying to finish my tasks as soon as possible because i don't want to spend more money than i have to. i usually go to the library at night when cafés are closed

dress up (makeup, cute outfit + heeled boots, the whole nine yards). i find myself more productive when i'm feeling pretty and good about myself. there's been scientific studies about it! if i'm too chill in pjs or sweats, i find that i'm too relaxed and spend more time scrolling on my phone during breaks. this sounds silly but i'm extremely dressed up when i take exams—someone asked me why i was wearing red lipstick for our financial accounting exam lolol. but i felt confident and it translates! i actually don't even own any sweats anymore haha

if you're not feeling productive at night, just call it a night and start again early in the morning. i'm admittedly a night owl but if it's like 2 a.m. and i just find myself scrolling on twitter and feeling shitty about not being productive, i just call it a night and start again the next morning :))

hope this helps !!

The further i got into the course, the more tired of it i got

So the frequency with which i drew these lil guys drastically increased

Enjoy :)

And at the end of the day... What matters most is if you felt alive

What is the point of high grades if you went days in a row without feeling the sun on your skin, without hearing the birds and without smelling a flower?

Studying is important. Being prepared for your future is important.

But living is even more so.

Don't forget to cherish the small joys of life

1/6 exams to go

09.21.24 || all my studying photos look the same except the drink assortment which is very funny to me

10.04.24 poor Alcibiades

9/02/22

Got a new book today!

It's for a course i highly dislike, but the excitement of having a new book motivates me enough to study. It was a cold day outside, and I got to snuggle with a cat on our porch. Exams are closing in on me, but I have yet to panick about it :)

5/100 days of productivity