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patriotstudies · 2 days
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one of the biggest things I can advocate for (in academia, but also just in life) is to build credibility with yourself. It’s easy to fall into the habit of thinking of yourself as someone who does things last minute or who struggles to start tasks. people will tell you that you just need to build different habits, but I know for me at least the idea of ‘habit’ is sort of abstract and dehumanizing. Credibility is more like ‘I’ve done this before, so I know I can do it, and more importantly I trust myself to do it’. you set an assignment goal for the day and you meet it, and then you feel stronger setting one the next day. You establish a relationship with yourself that’s built on confidence and trust. That in turn starts to erode the barrier of insecurity and perfectionism and makes it easier to start and finish tasks. reframing the narrative as a process of building credibility makes it easier to celebrate each step and recognize how strong your relationship with yourself can become
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patriotstudies · 4 days
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5.1.24 🌨️ was productive during my cinema shift. then i had to walk home in the snow because the busses were all cancelled 😩
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missed annotating and analysing books tbh, thank the gods for yale open courses
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22.03.2024—feeling pretty good given that im running on 4 hours sleep and spent the next in the ED
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patriotstudies · 4 days
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one of my favorite ways to study is by copying down the short stories in the back of the genki textbook for writing practice, and translating it as i go~
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march 14th/15th
between all the planning and the personal stuff, I gave myself a break to read something while I was waiting for my stepdad in the car. the sunlight was so nice!
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patriotstudies · 4 days
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wednesday, march 13th 2024
i think one of the best things to come out of my PhD (so far) is that i am learning to embrace finitude, and focusing more on the aspects of "what did i learn from this" instead of dwelling on getting a great grade. let me explain.
let's say i was taking this intro to neural engineering class in undergrad, where these hard as hell MATLAB assignments were due like once a month. i would be literally shitting a brick about trying to get it right, staying up late and compromising my health for the assignment, and then stressing like crazy over the grade. for it to all, subsequently and eventually, end up being fine and not the end of the world.
now, as a 1st year PhD student, in this exact position of having a hard as hell assignment that i kind of just figured out as i go, i'm not even trippin. like, i'm probably going to get half credit and i'm genuinely fine with that. why? because I: 1) embraced finitude of knowing that it's just not going to get done and 2) am celebrating the fact that I even learned the concepts to get half credit.
this...is a big mental shift that i'm really trying to cherish, because it took soooo long for me to get here. i also realize that i'm able to have this change in attitude now because undergrad is over, and for a PhD program, grades don't really matter as long as you meet the requirements to stay in your program. in undergrad, you're aiming for good grades because you want to have access to the next goal (job, internship, or grad school). but my god, is this such a RELIEVING mindset shift.
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patriotstudies · 4 days
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February 12th, 2024
Today I started to work on the paper I have to hand in in March. It's only 25 pages and rather practical. Feels like a walk in the park compared to the PhD. Still, a walk which I don't want to be on and which takes longer than I wished. I don't feel motivated at all, I just want to sleep and do nothing for a while...
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march 18th
a lot of paperwork, pdfs to read, one meeting with my internship supervisor, and the feeling that things are going to be alright!
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first weeks of february 🎧
i’ve been trying to change the way i decorate the journal spreads in my hobonichi weeks, and i think i’m really liking this new style 💌
the strawberry and cherry illustrations are megan rhiannon’s stickers/printables!
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|| Mar. 13, 2024 ||
Don't you just hate it when they include stuff on the quiz that wasn't on the lesson? I do. I got a 12/20 on the GT.
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Current mood: wishing we got snow days in grad school ❄️
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my bookstagram
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22|01|2024
Today was a calmer study day. In the morning I had my monthly therapy session, and when I got home since it was quite late I decided to postpone my studying to the afternoon. I then made a final study to do list for the next two weeks and highlighted some of the notes I had not fixed yet.
calm hobbit winter activities and productivity:
read first thing in the morning
therapy
continued my witched rewatch
planned my studying for the next two weeks
reread and highilighted notes
daily Irish practice on duolingo
listened to the latest episode of the books unbound podcast
cooked for my family
📖: A Day Of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon
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monday july 6 2020
quarantine has turned me, a former morning person, into a night owl, sometimes i stay up until 2 am to read 🌙
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had a wonderful morning breakfast date with my beau, who’s always happily indulgent of my small things wants. we talked and i wrote my morning journal, and then left at half past 9am. now i’m back at home, doing all of my laundry because i will not be able to do so in the next week because i’ll be on chronic PM duty (6pm-6am) + daily overtime for conferences so i’ll be on survival mode 🌷
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wednesday | march 6
finals countdown: 4 days
today was the last day of covering new material before finals! i've finished all of my "normal" homework for the term, so now it's just a few more days of intense studying and then i'm done. in some ways this is my favorite part of the term - i get to study in my own way, on my own schedule, and then show off all the things i've learned at the end of it.
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