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"But you always were wrong: only I can't help loving you."
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
frantic writing and study halls
let the Christmas spirit thaw your frozen soul. warm it in the fiery glow of nostalgia, in the lingering embers of bygone days. remember the warmth -- even if just for a little while, my dear
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
- George Orwell, 1984
"All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream."
- Edgar Allan Poe
what if the light at the end of the tunnel is a mere reflection of what has already passed?
the heart is ever searching for its truest home
"We know what we are, but not what we may be."
- Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5
time has no compassion on the sorrows of the soul, yet it heals all wounds
together, we are lost
but it's better to be lost than alone
The UK’s academic pipeline is failing to retain Black, Asian and other ethnic minority chemists, an analysis by the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Inclusion and Diversity team has shown. The figures are particularly stark for Black students, who are far less likely than white students to be pursuing a PhD and higher academic positions.
While the numbers of UK domiciled ethnic minority students entering chemistry degrees mirror the general population, the figures change dramatically as these students advance through academia’s career stages. At undergraduate, Asian students are around 14% of the population, dropping to 7% at postgraduate. For Black students, the drop is even more severe, from about 5% at undergraduate to just over 1% at postgraduate.
‘Beyond the PhD, the numbers absolutely diminish to the very senior levels of academia, where it is essentially barren ground for Black chemists,’ comments Robert Mokaya, who works on sustainable energy materials at the University of Nottingham. ‘When I was promoted in 2008, I was very aware that there was a lack of others like me but was unaware that I was possibly the first Black chemistry professor in the UK,’ says Mokaya. ‘My hope then was that there would be others. But I don’t know of any other appointment since then. And of course that is really very disappointing.’
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i miss those wistfully melancholy summer days
the future is unknown
yet ignorance is bliss
sky is womb and she's the moon
since when did we grow so d i s t a n t
A Fragmented Gaze
Tears fall on my face
I am met by a strange gaze
The mirror is a slight haze
But I am set ablaze
In this strange place
That runs at a rapid pace
I meet a gaze
My own self in frays
I am trying to find ways
To clear the haze
And recognise this gaze
But a monster stays
With its strange ways
And a mocking face
Sheer terror weighs
In the greys
A crying face
A laughing face—
Who did I raise?
the sun rises and sets in your eyes, my everlasting Love
i need the rest of the infinite forest, the endless fog, the eternal neutrality
i just want to exist in a library, hidden among the pages of Homer, the smell of coffee and Greece and books filling the air
"the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
- helen keller
Hi all, here are some Diotima quotes from Plato’s Symposium that are making me lose my mind at 2 am. All quotes are from the Cambridge University Press (2008) Translation.
getting straight a's in any writing based subject but not being able to subtract functions for the love of god is so infuriating
I love the smiths but how could a man ever know how joan of arc felt
still cannot fathom how Oliver said like the most romantic thing ever to Meredith and then went to jail for James 5 minutes later
if I had a nickel for every time politicians were thrown out the window in Prague I'd have three nickels. which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened three times???
writing monstrosities in my diary but it's okay because it's in latin and I'm using a glitter gel pen
do it for the morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs