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50 days until finals

So... we’re doing this. A countdown to the final 50 days. Which is mildly perturbing because I can remember when the number was 90!

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its me. im the april fool.

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56 days until finals

Had a few really productive days and where I’ve powered through a lot of reading. Sitting in the library with friends and sharing ideas... there’s nothing quite like it to get academic thoughts flowing📚

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59 days until finals

College looked good this morning.

I’m trying my best to sincerely interest myself in my subject. It’s often quite hard when it’s some obscure area of statute with barely any relevance to modern life. But it’s the only way I’m going to really crack revision, and I have never felt so determined and present. This is my moment and I know I can do it!

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okay but waking up in the middle of the night to soft rain and knowing you’ve got hours to sleep, when you’re toasty warm and comfortable and sleep has made you forget all your worries and you go back to sleep feeling as content as ever.

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it’s never too late to start again. 5pm on a thursday can be your new monday. you don’t have to wait until the new year to better yourself. time is an illusion, don’t forget that. just because you woke up at 1pm, it doesn’t mean you messed your whole day up and that you can’t turn the mood around. it’s never too late to start again!!!!!

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60 days until finals

When my friend pointed out that it’s two months until finals I kind of freaked out. Out of a four year degree... only two months left! It’s such a tiny fraction of time.

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Sometimes, you just have to say "fuck it" and start romanticizing the hell out of your own life.

• Studying? Listen to aesthetic music and drink your favourite hot beverage with determination.

• Taking a walk? Stop to pick flowers with the intention of drying or hanging them later.

• Reading? Go to an obscure coffee shop and dress mysterious so as to capture the attention of beautiful people only to vanish without a trace.

Steal all the traits and hobbies of your ideal partner or adventure buddy™. Become the person you've been missing in your life and learn how to love the world again.

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62 days until finals

The final day on revision of my core topics! An exciting day and even though there are some parts I’m not the most confident on, I have to keep moving on and get onto content for my mock exams.

Trusting in the process and knowing I have good notes to come back to us keeping me going (... oh, and coffee ☕️!)

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5.4.19 Working in the day through to the night is not that fun but sometimes it’s got to be done.

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64 days until finals

Work has been on and off all day - I find it really hard to really understand trusts, especially when my tutor seems to have such niche opinions. I’m also having to cover so much ground daily because of imminent collections! I’m just trying my best to understand what I can... 📖

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𝑾𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒑 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒗𝒊𝒃𝒆𝒔. 🌸

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If I get at least one thing done in a day I’m a genius if I get two things done I’m a god

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How To Do Everything Last Minute: A Novel by me that I am going to write later

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my profs’ advice/comments on impostor syndrome –

“i’ll tell you how i’ve learned to deal with this sort of thing. i didn’t develop a sense of joy in my academic study until i realized that what really matters is the work itself. it’s not about trying to impress anybody or trying to earn a specific grade. it’s all about loving the work, the reading, the writing, the critical conversation. and i think you do love those things, and you do enjoy your academic work when you can get out of your own way about it. now, where i’m at in my career, i have to think about what gets me up in the morning, and that’s not publishing 20 articles a year or seeking external approval. what it is, is writing, reading, and teaching about what I love, my own little academic world that i’ve created.” – prof c

 “i wrote shitty papers in college, and i still got a phd. you’re not supposed to know everything yet! you’re still learning! you know what, write that on a post-it and stick it on your laptop. you don’t have to know it all yet. you don’t have to be perfect.” – prof s

“while i can assure you that you should not feel like an imposter, i can also confess that the syndrome is common at all levels of academia – so you should not think yourself abnormal to be experiencing it.” (x)

“i hate to say/write this, but it’s sort of true: that you having these impostor-syndrome reactions, these worries about disappointing those you respect … to me, that sort of signals that you do have traits common to many successful academics! even people who have masses of success behind them – and, come to think of it, particularly the people who have a lot of cred *and* outside affirmation of it – suffer from impostor syndrome *if* (and the if is important) they genuinely care about the quality of their work. so: if it’s possible to think of these feelings as symptomatic of a characteristic many good academics share, then please do.                                                                                          (…) the important thing is this: how counterproductive it can be for self-sabotaging people to think of themselves as being ‘born’ to do something. it makes any possibility of missing the mark immediately existential. academic work is something one chooses because one has a strong interest in a certain field of study, an ability to study and produce credible work (as judged by ‘authorities’ in said field), and a social possibility to choose to proceed in that direction. sometimes, i, at least, find it helpful to remind myself of the simple facts of this.                       (…) i do think it’s important to put the activating gesture of entering grad school very firmly in your own hands. you are choosing this. you are choosing it because you want it, others have said that you are capable, and you have the practical possibility of choosing it. this is enough. the work will be enough without the existential heft, and the existential heft will not make the work better.” – s

 from my lit teacher’s wife, an english prof at ucb who graduated from yale – ”yes—i feel like this often—and so does every person i’m close to in academia, and every graduate student ever. the key is to just feel the fear and do it anyway, especially when ‘do it’ means ‘write.’” 

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68 days until finals

Today’s lesson is resilience. Sometimes I feel like the uphill climb 🧗‍♀️ is impossible; I make mistakes and I miss obvious points. I run out of patience and interest and skip reading. I give wrong answers in tutorials and on exams.

I’m trying to tell myself that these things don’t define me. It’s becoming hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel with finals so close, but getting up and making the effort every day to get better will pay off.

We can all do it, and that I truly believe 🌈

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a list of things every studyblr experiences

failure

stress

disappointing results

procrastination

problems finding a work, life and study balance

nervousness

not always great or consistent grades

varying degrees of mental health issues

situations out of our control

that ‘i’m not good enough’ feeling

anxiousness

lazy days

regret

tiredness

burning out 

low confidence

sickness

and many more

having a study blog does not mean that person is a perfect human with everything in life on track, in balance and with complete happiness. as a community, we need to remember not everything goes to plan and no-one should be expected or seen as perfect x