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Friday 30th October 2020

I’ve been working on Korean a lot lately and it’s coming along nicely.

3.16.21/Day 4-6

zoomester studyblr challenge. 

4: For my researching fellows, what are you researching on? If you’re not currently researching, what is the topic within your field that you’re most passionate about?

While I’m not actively researching this, I am passionate about Afrofuturism, more specifically black science fiction, and how it can be used to understand our past and reimagine a future for the black diaspora. Black women and black enby writers have always been so ahead of the game when it comes to this. 

Also, I’m really into music of the black diaspora. Its forms, its histories, the dances created from it and vice versa, the music that has been birthed from movements. 

5: Tag 3 studyblrs that you like seeing on your dashboard.

(Note: Not all are really considered study blogs, but def faves that I love learning from. If anyone doesn’t want to be included in this post lmk and I’ll remove you immediately!)

@sib-studies, @blacklinguist, @notchainedtotrauma

6: Quickly! tag urself! 

eight pm.  netflix. cuddles warm sheets. indoors life. loves singing but can’t. sweats. never sleeps.

my housemate gave me the prettiest wine bottle to use as a vase and now i’m determined to include it in all my photos 🌟  ig: studylustre

11.10.20 / i spent the morning flipping through a japanese translation of the hobbit because i had a dream about the person who gifted it to me a long time ago. that set the ruminative mood of the day. right now i’m trying to consolidate research i’ve done throughout the week for my historical fiction wip. overall, my weekend has been peaceful. how’s your sunday going? hope you’re well ♡

MARCH DESKTOP WALLPAPERS

Hey everyone! Spring semester started last week, so I’ve been busy yet again, but fear not, I didn’t forget about the wallpapers :) I’ve made a couple fun designs just in time for International Women’s Day on the 8th, let’s go ladies!

This month’s designs are:

minimalist floral

minimalist floral 2.0

International Women’s Day specials: maxi pattern and simplistic

quote of the month:  women like you drown oceans. (→ in Quotes folder)

I’ve included both Monday and Sunday start calendars, and there are multiple colors available: from pastels to muted shades, to black versions for those who prefer a dark theme.

you can find the wallpapers here

✎ LIKE/REBLOG if you like and/or use the wallpapers so more people can see them :)

do tag me in your posts if you post pics of them (#bulletnotestudies), I love seeing how they look on your laptop/tablet :) and if you have requests for April, let me know - new designs, designs you want to see again, new color schemes, any holidays you celebrate, all wishes are welcome!

and lastly: please don’t repost these or claim as your own, as i did spend quite a lot of time designing them

I start writing my dissertation officially tomorrow. However, currently I’m spending this evening writing up a dissertation micro-structure (consisting of bullet pointing every single thing I want to say on separate word documents designated to each section). I have also just sent off a couple emails about my abstract and also about having a consultation booked. I’m both excited and nervous. I’m also not sure if I have explicitly advertised my dissertation topic on here yet? Well, here is the text I am writing my dissertation on: Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies (1405).

Over 500 years before Virginia Woolf imagined a room of one’s own, Christine de Pizan imagined a whole city.

ig: rhiharper

Hot tea is refreshing to me the same way rain is. They both make me feel like I have a fresh start. I’m late again, but Day 11 of the April challenge by @journa

Someone please teach me how to study properly

it’s been such a nice week off from social media, but i miss posting and interacting with you guys on here🥺 how have you all been?🥰 . while i’m on my summer break, i want to try and keep myself as busy as possible while still taking time off to rest and learn new things!✨ some things i want to work on this summer include: playing the violin, posting on my blog more consistently, maintaining a healthier lifestyle balance, and reading of course!📖🎻📝☁️ (at Perth, Western Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CH79oUnji9q/?igshid=1b679bfarutxs

march 1st, 2021

isn’t it funny how time seems to stretch and shrink constantly? now that march is here it feels like last march, pre-lockdown, has been both forever and just yesterday. are you feeling it too?

in the meantime, I’m taking deep breaths, prepping for a data science midterm, and enjoying the linguistics unit in my cognitive science class. 

happy march friends 💛

hi friends! i’ve been falling behind with my studies, so i’m doing this challenge to add a bit more accountability. my first goal is to catch up! ✏️ 💪

15/100 days of productivity (02.06.2021)

studied even more; went through notes and formula cards

tried to sleep early for my exam

16/100 days of productivity (02.07.2021)

took what felt like the longest exam of my life

i didn’t do that well, but i did better than last time 🌞

it made me extremely happy that the exam was over. on my evening walk, i was skipping and humming and dancing to the music over my earphones. i must’ve looked weird but i didn’t care at all. it’s been a while since i felt so alive, excited, and energized even though i was sleep-deprived 🌻 🌻 🌻

Ig: pascalfrancesca_

boredom got a new best frand

02.21.21

Good afternoon everyone I hope you’re having a lovely day❤️. Made myself little coffee buddies ^v^

What should the drawing on the next page be?

Listening to: love - Lana Del Rey

• 21.05.17 •

Back on my bullshit, honestly

you know whats very homophobic? the fact that i am not allowed to go to lectures in a hooded coat hiding my face and a sword strapped to my back

New morning, same cafe … | The Missing Bean, Oxford, 14 January 2020

02.14.21 // This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You forget about wishing of dying earlier this morning. You are alive. You’re not just existing. And you open your dad’s car windows and see the city lights on the bridge; you feel the summer air on your face, your hair is blowing in the air and you think about everything that makes you remind of your friend. And you’re listening to her favourite song the one that stops time when she listens to it, and that drive even without the people who you love most in this world makes it better with the thought of the moment when you’ll feel infinite by recreating the tunnel scene with your loved ones. Have you ever felt infinite? Send me an ask about it ♡

14.02.2021

I woke up early today to a white Istanbul and I’ve finished reading Wuthering Heights. It was my first time reading it in English so it felt like I read it for the first time. It took me a bit longer to read it than usual since I wasn’t familiar with some words and old phrases. Also, an old photo from Amsterdam, I truly want to visit there once again.

🎧ella fitzgerald, baby it’s cold outside

09.25.19

wow super old pics post sitting in drafts since 2019 haha - Missing study sessions in cute cafes ~

shop | insta | studygram |

i’ve been spending some more time on my bio notes and the sunlight was just divine today…

maybe trying to read 10 books all at once is not the best of ideas 

[ 003 / 100 ] days of productivity. [10/2/21].

can you tell i’m a little stressed out? i found out today that my literature essay had now been pushed forward from next monday to this friday. a day away.

also, today i managed to work on accounting in class [we had a substitute teacher] for a good 70 min straight.

a quick shot of my study setup one early morning

being sick sucks

FEB 10 / 21

You ever just make a spread dedicated to Pingu ?? 🤪🤩

16/03/19 - A grey morning study session, preparing for all the work I have to complete today… 

“The Roman genius, and perhaps the Roman flaw, was an obsession with order. One sees it in their architecture, their literature, their laws — this fierce denial of darkness, unreason, and chaos...” — Tartt, The Secret History

01.01.2021 | 2020 has been difficult, for sure. I worked as an Operating Room nurse for a few months before med school started. it was full of personal wins, but also loses. I got accepted in my dream hospital right after passing the board exam, worked my dream job, accepted in med school, but I’ve also lost patients more than I can count, heard cries over unimaginable hospital bills, and encountered grief and challenges more than I was prepared for because of the government’s incompetence.

so I tried my best to sort out my life— scrub in surgeries while going to med school interviews, advance study for the incoming sem, stick to my routine and schedule, et al, to feel in control of the things that are in my hands. Perhaps I’m no different than the Romans— in my fierce determination to deny darkness, unreason, and chaos. to provide some sort of structure in the midst of uncertainty.

2020 has been difficult, for sure. but 2021 will—should be different. 2021 will be prosperous, full of hope, and better things. there may be loses too, but I’m rooting for more good things than the bad.

you did good this 2020, and you will do better in 2021. we all will. happy new year, everyone. :-)

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