#university of edinburgh

[peacefulandcozy]

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#edinburgh #cockburn street #university of edinburgh #scotland #uk #united kingdom #dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #streets #fallblr #fall aesthetic #fall leaves #fall vibes #autumn aesthetic #autumn vibes #fall colors #cozyblr #cosy vibes #cosy

[dallasdoesntexist]

What to do when you didn't get the score you expected

Sometimes you score lower than you thought you would, or you studied relentlessly and still ended up with a pass but not as high a pass as you thought you deserved.

Remind yourself that there's always next time

Tests often measure performance, not competence; you likely know more than the test says you do

All in all -- relax! Don't let it get to you. Grab a cup of tea or coffee and remind yourself that this is an opportunity to look your weakness in the eye and grow

Take the feedback into consideration. Where were you lacking?

Re-evaluate your study methods. What wasn't working? What did you miss? How can you account for that next time?

Properly hydrate and properly nourish yourself (and brain).

Do practice questions

Alternatively: make practice questions for later

Also alternatively: Make a blank copy of the test to sit again in a few weeks' time

Remember the forgetting curve. Interrupt forgetting

(I find this particularly useful when deciding what to study on what day)

#writing #studying #study motivation #studyblr #student life #study blog #dark academism #dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #chaotic academia #chaotic academic aesthetic #classic academia #light academia #test #studyspo #study aesthetic #edinburgh #university of edinburgh

[markscherz]

Hi Dr Scherz, what were your favourite subjects back when you were studying undergraduate zoology? 🍀

Totally different than what I expected! I thought the core zoology courses would be my favourites, but in the end, I think my favourite courses were Molecular Phylogenetics, Evolutionary and Ecological Genetics, Evolution of Sex and Breeding Systems, Evolution of Parental Care, Developmental Biology, and Parasite Biology. I can attribute 80% of my enjoyment of those courses to the fantastic lecturers that we had at the University of Edinburgh, who conveyed both deep knowledge of and enthusiasm for the subject matter.

My least favourite courses were also the courses I fared worst in, i.e. Medical Biology, Principles of Ecology, and Population and Community Ecology. Surprise surprise, I am no ecologist. I should by rights also probably have failed Biological Chemistry in my first year, but somehow I scraped by with a tolerable mark.

#undergraduate #zoology #animals #biology #university #undergrad #University of Edinburgh #BSc #about me #answers by Mark #tzatziki-boy

[science70]

Freddy II experimental robot, Department of Machine Intelligence and Perception, University of Edinburgh, 1973.

#technology #robotics #Freddy II #Department of Machine Intelligence and Perception #University of Edinburgh #Edinburgh #Scotland #UK #1973

[ratacademia]

more dorm room views <3

#edinburgh #scotland #old town edinburgh scotland #mylne's court #sorry guys more tags for exposure and reach and whatnot #chaotic academia #studyblr #dark academia #light acamedia #university aesthetic #dorm view #university of edinburgh #classic academia #stone building #rataesthetic #rattravels #ratposting

[theinsomniacextraordinaire]

#edinburgh #museum #museum of scotland #history #history student #University #university student #university of edinburgh

[scotianostra]

On April 14th 1582 a Charter was granted by James VI which would lead to the foundation of University of Edinburgh the following year.

Previously on 13th March 1567, James’s mother Mary, Queen of Scots had signed a Royal Charter granting the Town Council of Edinburgh all the lands, buildings, and revenues formerly belonging to the monastic orders abolished during the Scottish Reformation of 1560. These were granted for the support of the clergy and the poor, but a clause was inserted whereby all existing prebendaries, chaplains, and friars were to retain the life-rent of their respective benefices. The Town Council were frustrated in their hope that Mary’s charter would permit monastic properties to be used for educational purposes, having earmarked the Collegiate Church of St Mary in the Fields (or ‘Kirk o’ Field’) as a potential site for a college of higher education. The Town Council nonetheless proceeded to negotiate the sale of the site with a succession of Provosts, and were finally able to buy on 30th March 1581, paving the way for the plans to finally come to fruition.

On 1this day in 1582, James VI issued a further Royal Charter on  extending his mother’s  charter of 1567 to permit the town to use monastic properties for educational purposes. The Charter ratified the sale of Kirk o’ Field to the Town and empowered the Council to appoint and remove professors, and to build houses for their accommodation. And so it this date that recognized as the enabling charter leading to the inception of the University.

The University was the sixth to be founded in the British Isles, and the fourth in Scotland. By the 1700′s the University of Edinburgh was at the heart of the wide ranging revolution in thinking now known as the Scottish Enlightenment, a revolution that led the French philosopher Voltaire to say “we look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilization”. Despite this, until the start of the 1800s, the university had no purpose built buildings, instead occupying a wide variety of rented accommodation. In 1827 this changed with the opening of the Old College, built on South Bridge by the architect William Henry Playfair to plans by Robert Adam.

More new buildings followed, including a new Medical School designed by Robert Rowand Anderson which opened in 1875, and the magnificent McEwan Hall, which was completed in 1880. The university is now also responsible for the oldest purpose-built concert hall in Scotland (and the second oldest in use in the British Isles) and of course subject of my previous posts, after yesterday's visit, St Cecilia’s Concert Hall, built for the Edinburgh Musical Society 1763; and in 1889 it opened Teviot House, the oldest purpose built Student Union building anywhere in the world.

The origins of the university library date back to a collection formed in 1580, two years before the university itself was founded. It has grown to become the largest university library in Scotland with over 2 million periodicals, manuscripts, theses, microforms and printed works. It is housed in the main University Library building in George Square, designed by Basil Spence and one of the largest academic library buildings in Europe. There are also a number of more specialised faculty and departmental libraries. In 2011 the previously independent Edinburgh College of Art became part of the university.

The second pic shows the "Charter of Novodamus under the Great Seal (the seal itself is not present). This gifted old ecclesiastical revenues to the burgh of Edinburgh to be used to establish a college"

#Edinburgh #university of edinburgh #scotland #scottish #learning establishment #college #history

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Newly created ultra-hard material rivals diamond

Scientists have solved a decades-long puzzle and unveiled a near unbreakable substance that could rival diamond as the hardest material on Earth. The research is published in the journal Advanced Materials. Researchers found that when carbon and nitrogen precursors were subjected to extreme heat and pressure, the resulting materials—known as carbon nitrides—were tougher than cubic boron nitride, the second hardest material after diamond. The breakthrough opens doors for multifunctional materials to be used for industrial purposes including protective coatings for cars and spaceships, high-endurance cutting tools, solar panels and photodetectors, experts say. Materials researchers have attempted to unlock the potential of carbon nitrides since the 1980s, when scientists first noticed their exceptional properties, including high resistance to heat.

Read more.

#Materials Science #Science #Diamonds #Materials hardness #Carbon #Nitrides #Carbon nitride #Materials testing #University of Edinburgh

[t0rschlusspan1k]

I'm currently watching this series of lectures Prof. Mary Beard gave at the University of Edinburgh four years ago about Roman Society (the title is The Ancient World and Us: from fear and loathing to enlightenment and ethics). I was very absorbed by it until I got to the episode called Lucretia and the Politics of S*xual Violence. It's extremely painful watch as a woman but it's a very interesting video, absolutely necessary - dare I say - to understand our history (I'm finding out so many things I had no idea of, even if I had already heard about certain events or celebrated historical figures), as much, if not a bit more than the previous ones...

But I couldn't help but notice how this particular episode has only half the likes compared to the ones I saw before it, even the one about whiteness, white etho-centrism and racism in classical history and settings, which is always such a controversial, inflammatory topic.

Here is the link anyway, for those who are interested. And here is the playlist for the entire series of lectures (believe me, it's totally worth your time!).

#text #history #Prof. Dame Mary Beard #Mary Beard #women's history #women in history #cw: suicide #cw: r*pe #Roman history #cw: misogyny #University of Edinburgh #The Ancient World and Us #cw: victim blaming #cw: forced consent

[semioticapocalypse]

Harry Benson. Prince Philip The Duke Of Edinburgh Just Gets Missed By A Toilet Roll, Thrown by the Students of the University of Edinburgh. 1958

#BW #Black and White #Preto e Branco #Noir et Blanc #黒と白 #Schwarzweiß #retro #vintage #Harry Benson #Prince Philip The Duke Of Edinburgh #University of Edinburgh #1958 #1950s #50s #scotland #UK #royals

[signify-nothing]

Netflix literally made a show about an English literature major at the University of Edinburgh who loves Kundera and Dickens and Hardy. And wants to be an author but ends up teaching for a while and feeling aimless. And falls in love with a pretty English boy who looks like Michael Pitt on Arthur's Seat. Are you joking. Are you fucking joking.

#are you sure ai hasn't already data mined on tumblr #bc i think this show was custom made for my enjoyment only #one day #university of edinburgh #arthur's seat #michael pitt

[dallasdoesntexist]

dark academic things I love since moving to Edinburgh

I recently moved to Edinburgh to study psychology at the University of Edinburgh. These are some things I like to remind myself of how privileged I am to be able to experience when I'm feeling a bit melancholic

The sun against Arthur's seat in the morning

Feeding the squirrels in George Square garden when you got to the lecture too early

The empty Royal Mile on your way to your 9AM

Mourning the loss of Teviot Row House (may she rest in peace... for two years while she gets renovated)

Watching the sun paint the sky pink and the buildings a deep orange as it sets, cup of hot earl grey tea, laptop open, notebooks everywhere, LED candles flickering around the room.

Tutorials where people take things as seriously as you do

Walking around Greyfriars Kirkyard on a crisp autumn evening, sipping chai from a local coffee house

Sharing biscuits with the crows in Holyrood park

Disgracing the architecture of the Holyrood Parliament building -- much preferring St Andrew's House -- but also just disgracing the Parliament as a whole

Not feeling like you're trying too hard; everyone's trying harder than you

Meeting a bunch of Oxbridge rejects. Being thankful you didn't apply (and thus avoided that embarrassment...)

Buying dried herbs from the herbalist across the street from the university to make your own tea blends

Quoting Shakespeare; someone finishes the quote for you

Pondering your own mortality in the many museums across the city (especially the Surgeon's Hall museum...)

Feeling validated when someone mentions they're on their third coffee of the day and it's only 12PM

getting the bus from Old Town to New Town, being able to look out across the North Sea. Mentally conjuring up Siren's songs

Venturing out to Leith for the Witchcraft Market once a month

Pinning handouts of poetry to your pin board in your room. Saves you spending money to print off your own

the Law library

Taking a French class, because Greek clashed with your main course and Latin had prerequisites. Studying all 3 on your own out of spite

Being taught in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre, where Burke and Hare delivered bodies to

It's normal to wear a suit and tie every day; it's also normal to wear a hoodie and jeans if you woke up too late from studying all night

Cringing when someone compares the city to Harry Potter. Then softening as you realise they're just noticing the same magic that you noticed, too, only articulating it differently

Watching the trees turn red and scatter their leaves across the pavement before they're carried away by the wind. being reminded once again of your own approaching doom

Going to the Frankenstein bar, zoning out of the conversation and watching the black&white film that plays on loop. Then talking at the person next to you about the inaccuracy, using quotes from the novel to back up your argument

Bonus points if they agree

Everyone freaking out about deadlines in a few weeks' time; knowing you'll be fine, because you developed your study methods in school

The Christmas market coming up

Farmers' markets on the weekends

Beltane Fire Society, and the upcoming Samhuinn festival in the pitch black of Holyrood park

Imagining the horses and their carriages trotting along the cobblestone roads

Fantasising about moving to Dean's village; knowing you'll have to settle for Stockbridge

Or wanting to move to Murrayfield, but not wanting to be too far from the university

Vanilla room spray. Fresh black coffee. Biscuits to dip into it

Being the one people go to for answers, but only helping them if they're genuinely stuck and want to learn

Cashmere scarf, tweed coat, saddle bag -- copious amounts of compliments on your outfit choice

Watching the bats flutter past your window

Not being able to go into the castle, lest you fail all your exams!

Buying a hefty coat from Armstrong & Son's vintage emporium

Double doors built so small, you have to open both in order to get through. Then feeling like a villain as the heavy wood slams behind you

Dimly lit, dark wooden hallways

Free coffee, if you know where to look

Taking a nap in the library between lectures. No weird stares

Being able to spot the people you know have definitely read The Secret History, or The Song of Achilles, or The Picture of Dorian Gray

Avoiding the touristy areas, but finding places just as good

#writers of tumblr #dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academism #academia #edinburgh #scotland #chaotic academia #light academia #studyblr #study aesthetic #student life #studying #studyspo #study motivation #study blog #university of edinburgh

[lezbe-hella-gay]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH 🏳️‍🌈

PLEASE HELP THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY. It only takes 10 minutes to make a difference 🏳️‍🌈

#lgbt pride #pride month #lgbtq rights #mental health #depression #childhood trauma #trauma #minority #lesbian #gay #help #makeadifference #lgbtq #university of edinburgh

[archaeolorhi]

Vallum Hadriani

Currently reminiscing of my time spent at Hadrian's Wall a few years ago! Itching to get back and explore!

We visited as part of a university trip during our course dedicated to Hadrian's Wall! This segment was reached on foot after a (very long) drive, and is close to the Sycamore Gap! (which unfortunately we didn't make it far enough along to see).

We also visited various forts and milecastles, along with their assoicated museums - which will most likely recieve their own, seperate post in due course!

Even if you're not interested in ancient history, you can't deny the beauty and might of Hadrian's Wall!

#hadrians wall #roman britain #ancient rome #ancient history #ancient britain #vallum hadriani #vallum aelium #roman frontiers #roman fort #roman military #english countryside #english country #northern england #emperor Hadrian #hadrian #ancient scotland #scottish history #scottish archaeology #roman archaeology #university of edinburgh #edinburgh university #chaotic academia #roman milecastle #sycamore gap #scottish youtuber #there is a certain species of lychen that only grows on roman mortar but I cant remember the name of it #and its present along the line of the wall so thats kinda cool #therefore materials were brought all the way from rome to build this massive wall #very cool if you ask me #archaeolorhi

[ratacademia]

so glad the sky cleared up today so that the sunset was visible <3

picture i took while reading by my window bc i had some trouble focusing on my greek studying and homework because i was fasting for yom kippur (shana tova!)

more greek tomorrow!

#edinburgh #university of edinburgh #scotland #mylne's court #edinburgh new college #edinburgh royal mile #uni life #classics student #chaotic academia #old town edinburgh scotland #more for exposure or whatever jshjsksjksn #studyblr #dark academia #light academia #academia aesthetic #sunset #city sunset #stone building #in progress #new blog #scotland sunset #edinburgh sunset #rataesthetic #ratposting

[theinsomniacextraordinaire]

#euripides #medea and other plays #theseus #heracles #heracles and theseus #classics #penguin classics #classical studies #university #university student #university of edinburgh