What Studying Literature Feels Like

Ah, the good old taxi driver. I get that one so frequently as well, especially since I dropped out of the teacher-trainee program in favor of a "regular" BA in English. Wether it's linguistics or literature, people struggle immensely with understanding what language might possibly be good for and how anyone might be able to monetize it. (I hate that everything is always about money)

visited a museum today that shows you how blind people navigate through their everyday lives (very interesting btw) and this one lady wanted to know what i'm studying so when i told her linguistics, she honest to god said "what can you do with that except become a taxi driver" 🤡 idk maybe work on those text-to-speech systems that we just learnt about?? yk for blind people??

"fck you my child is completely fine!" M'am your child is reading gossip about dead authors from the 19th century at 3am

“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless : well educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”

-Sylvia Plath, the unabridged journals

~✧°+* 19/100 days of doing better*+°✧~

18.08.2023

Do you also have those friends that you love dearly and have fun hanging out with, but who you simply can't talk about work with? I have a very strict (and borderline toxic) work ethic in which I have very high expectations towards myself and hold myself to a certain standard I feel like I have to meet in order to be worth something (which is crazy, I realize that). I don't hold other people to those standards, but when I do have conversations about work and academia with people who are a bit more relaxed about it I get incredibly anxious. And something like that happened today, which kind of forced me to take a break from the Hamilton essay because I was freaking out, thinking I wasn't doing enough and too much at the same time. I'm pretty sure I'm on the right track but I still doubt myself a lot when it comes to those things, especially when I am talking to people who are older or in higher semesters.

I tried to drown out the buzzing sound of anxiety with Sims and it honestly worked quite well.

Positive things I did today:

organized my Hamilton sources

took a break when I was feeling stressed

took a walk

continued reading Swimming in the Dark

Had a couble of drinks with friends

Hours slept: ~7hrs Screentime: ~7hrs 30mins Steps taken: ~9.100

happy six months baby<3

~✧°+* intro post *+°✧~

I've been here for a while, so I guess it's finally time to introduce myself!

Hi, I'm Sunny and welcome to my tumblr! ☾✧☽

So, who am I?

I'm Sunny

any pronouns

23 years old

German

studying (BA) English literature and (minor) European history

speak German and English fluently, a little bit of French, currently trying to learn spanish

into creative writing

like bands, going to concerts, (musical) theatre, reading, fashion and many more things

And what exactly is my tumblr for?

reblogging everything I like

documenting my studies

talking about books

sharing some of my writing

romanticising the every-day

I'd be thrilled to be part of a community that shares the same values and interests as I do. <3