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Ocean and dreams Painting by Lee Mothes

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I saw everyone on twitter tearing Emma Watson apart for saying she’s self - partnered instead of single and decided to watch her interview for British Vogue to know what the hell was she trying to say with that. I was very surprised to find a 30 minute video in which amongst other things she talks about the following:

She felt undeserving when she was appointed as UN Women goodwill ambassador and sought out Gloria Steinem to learn about feminist activism.

She thinks the criticism she received for being a white feminist was useful because it made her educate herself.

She says there’s a desperate need to reform the education system in the UK to change the way they are taught the history of how Britain has been involved in foreign affairs and how they profited from slavery.

She felt anxious about approaching 30 because there’s a lot of pressure to have a husband and a baby by then and she’s still figuring her life out.

She was so young when she was casted in Harry Potter that she doesn’t remember much of her life before it and she went to therapy to deal with her issues with fame. She used to feel very guilty for being unhappy because she thought she should enjoy fame more.

The interviewer is a transgender woman and they discuss transgender issues for a while. Emma is in regular contact with a trans child which makes the topic of trans rights emotional for her because she’s very anxious for this kid’s safety.

She talks about her role as Meg March in the new Little Women movie and defends that unlike what many people say choosing to be a wife and a mother doesn’t make Meg a less feminist character and quotes a line from the movie, “Just because my dreams are different than yours it doesn’t mean they are unimportant.”  

She wishes more people would realize she’s not Hermione Granger but also understands why they want to see that in her because Hermione is a symbol for her too.

She used to think she could never be happy without a partner and now that she has learnt to navigate that better and is genuinely happy single she’s started to think of herself as self - partnered in contrast to the time when she thought of herself as single = lonely.

Every media outlet decided to focus in an out of context quote from the three minutes she talked about her dating life when the actual interview had a lot of depth and way more important things were discussed. I’m sad and angry but not surprised.

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first hsc exam is in 8 days! big yikes! been tryna claw my way through my to do lists in time for the big scary exam block and it’s been slow slightly steady and sprinkled with a few mild emotional breakdowns. this chaotic corner of my desk is a pretty solid manifestation of my life right now. life imitates art??? is that you??? anyway life’s been a bit eh because of all this, but i’ve got quite the exciting post hsc list hehe :-)) anyway, wish me luck!!! because i’ll deffo need it ahahah

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(3/17/19) It’s been SO long since I’ve been on Tumblr. These are my anatomy notes from the first half of the course. Looking forward to reviewing them for the final. Good luck to everyone with finals!

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this is the first printable i’ve ever designed, so please forgive me if this isn’t the best! i tried to keep it clean and minimal so it’s easy on your printer. 

about the forgetting curve - wikipedia

how to use

when you learn about a topic, write the name of it and the date you learned it in the first two columns.

review it at each of the time intervals and check off each box once you’ve done it. ( how should i study? ) if you’re unsure of my abbreviations, the time intervals are - 1 hour, 1 day, 2 days, 4 days, 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, 3 months

terms of use 

you can use it however you like, but don’t redistribute without giving credit! i do not have a watermark on this so i’m trusting you all to be honorable and not repost. (reblogging is a-okay!)

+ D O W N L O A D ( pdf ) - in pink, peach, yellow, green, turquoise, blue, and purple

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After graduating from high school, most of us face so many possibilities we can’t even really comprehend them all.

There is so much to discover. So many paths you could take. So many versions of yourself.

You could go to med school. Take a gap year as an au pair. Start working freelance. Commit to writing and enter competitions. Get a degree in computer science. Intern at a large financial company. Volunteer for a political cause. Start your own online shop. Move to another country to learn a new language. Go to a small liberal arts college. Start a traineeship. Online university. Independent research.

This lead us (me and Rona aka @findx) to think about ways that we can display this struggle many of us face. Illustrate the incredible amount of opportunities and possibilities, without seeming overwhelming. Show up alternatives, get you to think of options you may never have considered before, or just dream.

Escaping the paralysis of too many choices.

That’s why we decided to call LIFEBLR – well, into life. With a text-based approach, we want to include as many ideas, perspectives, and paths as possible. To let the player experience both the well-traveled road – and the path less taken.

To accomplish this, we need your support. Contribute either with:

Writing

Help expand the scale of the game. Write scenarios, pathways, and choices. Present your personal experiences and think of new directions. Please include a sample of your work in the application form (found below).

Marketing

Help us spread the game and what it strives to accomplish.

Designing and Illustrating

Design graphics and illustration for future purposes, such as for a possible website, social media accounts etc.

Coding

Help Rona with the technical part of the game, and help expand it.

Other

If you have any other ideas how you could help, just mention them on the application form.

Please fill out the application form here.

Applications are rolling, and the final deadline is Nov 1st.

We are very excited to hear from you!

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just some french notes i did recently. • 🗒: generic college ruled notebook, zebra mildliner (in the colour warm yellow), capped muji gel pen (in the colour black and 0.5 thickness), tombow fudenosuke brush pen hard tip) • from my studygram !! • here’s a song: party poison — my chemical romance • tap/click the photo for higher quality!

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extremely extremely stressed about prelims 😔😞☹️

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02.10.2018 // busy rainy day

- went to study at a public library today - a good meal during midterm seasons is a must - as you can see I get motivation from food lol - also went to the hospital for an appointment w/ the psychiatrist - I’m still looking for a hi-end lipstick for Mom’s b-day, any suggestions?

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when mental illness affects your studies

all of us mentally ill students finally reach a point where we think it’s so, so hard that we are unable to keep going, keep studying, keep living like this. I have reached that point again recently, but this time reached out for help, and am now trying to learn how to function at school now that I’ve come to terms with my illness. so, I thought I could share some advice based on my own experience.

to you who are now struggling, please don’t give up. do just that. you can overcome this and that is a fact.

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for the love of God, tell your teachers.

sadly, deadlines don’t really care if you’re currently at your lowest point or just happen to be ‘in shape’ for completing assignments – you have to hand them in on This Day, period. But sometimes you feel so bad that you are either completely unable to finish that one essay or end up forcing yourself to write it and do it while gritting your teeth and crying like I did with my History essay earlier this year. when receiving feedback from my teacher (negative, of course, because the essay was utter shite), I wanted to answer her question why it was SO bad with ‘I am just very, very sick’ and ‘Please don’t think I’m not ambitious or hardworking anymore, I was doing my very best to deliver this and I’m sorry it’s bad’… but I didn’t. I was too afraid that she would think I was lying and too lazy to write a good essay, and that she wouldn’t understand. A few months later, my headteacher and I had a conversation during which she asked me if she should tell my teachers about what I’m going through, and never before in my life have I felt as relieved as in that moment when I was saying ‘Yes, please’.

not having to worry about what your teachers are going to think about the actions caused by your illness can be life-saving. If you think they won’t understand your struggle, you’re probably wrong – you are not the first and only student suffering from depression, anxiety or other mental illness; they have met many like you in the past and know exactly how to act to take some weight off your shoulders, and trust me, they will do everything they can to make it easier for you.

change is good (really)

if you think there is no way out of your situation, stop for a minute, talk to someone, and change whatever you can, even if there’s only a tiny, tiny chance it will make you feel better and take some weight off your shoulders.

i thought I was stuck with Computer Science on Higher Level – although I try my hardest to understand what it’s about, I get grades below average and am really disappointed in myself. It became one of my biggest struggles, and I’m not even planning to become a programmist… It has been making my depression worse for a whole year, but I didn’t do anything to change it, just kept wishing I had picked Biology last year. I mentioned it during a conversation with a trusted teacher and she thought of a solution, asking me if I wanted to change my Language A level to Higher and then take up Biology on SL. And I was like ?? Life-changing?? Of course, I will have to study hard during the summer holidays to catch up with a year worth of material, but I’m more than willing to do that if it means not having to hear about Computer Science ever again. and once again, so much weight off my shoulders. Why I haven’t even thought of making that change before is a topic for another discussion, but my point here is, go make that change if you can. If there is another door, open it. Although it’s scary, it’s definitely worth it.

don’t suit your goals, make your goals suit you

one thing really hard to accept is that an accomplishment for you, a mentally ill student, might be different than an accomplishment for a healthy student. For you, passing this class alone may be a goal, not necessarily with the highest marks, while others strive for straight A’s. You have to understand that, in order not to add more to your worries, you need to have a realistic approach. For me, it was the hardest part, because I’m usually really ambitious and have a tendency to set the bar too high or compare myself to others. But what I needed to realise was that others are not ill, and I am, and if an achievement for me is something that they do effortlessly, there is nothing to be ashamed of. I am the sick me and they are the healthy them, and that is fine.

find a good therapist

therapy, carried out well, can save your life, and I’m sure you already know that (because everyone keeps repeating that, literally everywhere, and it’s becoming highly annoying). I hadn’t realised that, though, until I experienced it myself. I have been suffering for almost two years before I finally scared myself so much that I needed to find a therapist as soon as possible, as I realised I was slowly becoming dangerous to myself and therefore people close to me. I was lucky enough to find a good specialist right away, who quickly diagnosed me, sent to a psychiatrist that prescribed me medicine, and continued therapy with me. But before I found this one, I had been to three others who did not understand me at all. I stopped searching, which was a mistake – please learn from my experience and don’t do that! If you can feel that the therapist you found isn’t right for you, look for someone else. Just don’t give up, because therapy really is important. You need to know that you can get out of this, and you need someone who will guide you and help you overcome whatever you’re going through.

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AUG 22 2018 [TUES] — i finally started university and here’s me taking notes for my first set of college readings !!

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i’m active on studyblr again, i guess?? lmao i started this blog 3 years ago and have abandoned it like 10 times, oh well.

i’m pretty sure no one will see this, so i feel like i’m shouting into the void a little but anyway here’s a bit of an update:

i’m in year 10

i go to school in qld, australia

i got my learner drivers licence!!

a lil stressed out because i need to decide what subjects i want to do for the rest of high school

i’m pretty sure what i want to do in uni (biomedical science)

i want to go into medicine one day

ummm yeah i think that’s about it

thanks for coming to my ted talk

#studyblr #maetalks

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more psych notes!

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8.5 stay at home studies

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guess who managed to only buy one highlighter :)

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i haven’t been on studyblr in a hot minute

#maetalks #its probably been about 2 months

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