Stem Academia - Blog Posts

i actually got out of bed and did some work 😳 total 90 mins so far. next on my to-do list is emails and suddenly i want to crawl back into the darkness

i have too much to do but not enough time 🥲

early morning study session! i’ve been at it for two hours and i’ve only gotten through 7 physics problems but that’s the fun part 😁

pretty sure i got one wrong bc one of my solutions is 1.3 x 10^65 hydrogen atoms….

actually studying in the library for once 😊 and yes, i did spend five minutes drawing those gorgeous field lines instead of being productive

random physics comp i probably bombed 😭

classical mechanics is so fundamental but also kind of plain

there's nothing more satisfying than the program finally working!! i went through multiple breaks of despair only for the stupidest line in the code to be the issue

there's always all these trackers and calendars online that are supposed to "increase your productivity" "help you be more efficient" blah blah blah

sometimes you just got to write it down on a piece of paper and take it one step at a time.

i dont know if this is just the monkey brain inside of me but after a couple weeks of trying a new planning or scheduling hack, it just stops working. i feel like it's really difficult to just sit down and get stuff done especially at the times i dictate it.

i just want to go with the flow

i got accepted into the research internship i applied to!!! 🥳 i guess my interview wasn't that bad after all lol

last week this actually worked a little bit, so i'm going to continue doing this. unfortunately, i didn't finish my research paper on immigration by the due date, so i got an extension to this wednesday.

FINISH immigration research paper

submit to photography competition

study for lab quiz :)

gas law and graham's law problem sets

thermodynamics problem set

physics quiz

thermodynamics frq

revise mini-essay

finish enigma machine simulation

probability problem sets

sometimes i feel like school sucks everything out of me. i have all this motivation and excitement at the beginning of the week, but then school happens and i have all this useless homework. meanwhile there is stuff i actually want to do and am interested in... but i never have the chance to do them because i'm so tired and i still have homework to do. i feel like i'm sacrificing a bit too much of my self just to please my school and my teachers

on a brighter note, i think i discovered the identity of the unknown acid! i'm super nervous to go back to the lab now though and collaborate with my team. hopefully i'm right :)

pretty colors~

i LOVE doing titration labs. i used methyl orange since my lab station was in charge of finding the first equivalence point of a diprotic acid. it was kind of hard to tell if the acid was red, orange, or yellow at times though... but the data is good!

i think i’m cooked for this midterm. and i haven’t even studied for hyperbolic paraboloids or hyperboloids or ... i don’t even remember their names

my test is in two days lol

studying from home tip— move your desk next to a window so that you don’t get depressed while you study ❤️

why are there so many variables in physics? it’s like reading a whole new language and i’m dying here 😭

i'm going to lock in for the month of october! so i'm making a list on here of everything i have to do this week and seeing if i can finish it

thermodynamics module

photography composition practice

titration procedure / lab / analysis / presentation

midterm review sheet

immigration research paper

particle motion lab

energy conversion lab

add magnetic field to ising model simulation

finish chapter 2 part 1 of cs textbook

mini-essay of music in great gatsby

practice test for analysis midterm

read chapter 6 of great gatsby

crossing my fingers that this holds me accountable. my procrastination is way out of control...