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“I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life, and start figuring out the one I have.”

— Holly Black

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“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”   ― Oscar Wilde

1,3. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 2.Anne Carson, Euripides | 4.Malcolm T. Liepke | 5.@i-wrotethisforme | 6,9,11,14.Hanya Yanagihara | 7.Arnold Lobel | 8.E. M. Forster | 10.Peter Wever | 12.Joseph Lorusso | 13.Ocean Vuong

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“She watched the stars collapse knowing that like her, they held onto their light for as long as they could.” - Wilder

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My moodboard for 2022

2022 is a year of growth and joyful days. Not taking stuff too seriously and to live life to its fullest. Definitely a year to take a huge leap and be bold about it.

Here's to more colourful days that are yet to come 💫

My moodboard for 2021✨

My plans for 2021 includes gardening, painting, drinking lots of boba, eating delicious food, wearing clothes that I like, playing with cats and keeping up with my studies in uni.

I will cherish myself more and be more confident in myself. I will not be ashamed of what I like and I will not be deterred from doing things that I would want to do. Cheers🥂

#my post #light academia aesthetic #light academia #aesthetic

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what was one of ur weird little girl traits...mine was reading infectious disease encyclopedias cover to cover when i was like ten

#I read an oxford dictionary #i wrote all new words n interesting ones in another book #i still keep the book till now

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pressing more flowers today 💐

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your hand touching mine. this is how galaxies collide. ― Sanober Khan

― Carolyn Forché / Katatsumori (Naomi Kawase, 1994) / John Berger / Katrien de Blauwer / Hélène Cixous / Bruno Munari / Eli Craven / Sharon Olds / Hart Crane / A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick, 2019) / Mary Ruefle / Robert Bly / Hans Bellmer / Richard Siken / Eli Craven / Cassandra Clare / Katrien de Blauwer / Louise Glück ―

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“Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they’re also what tear you apart.”

— Haruki Murakami

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I'm sorry, professor, I consider publishing your course a day late, having a mandatory live zoom meeting during business hours to stay enrolled for an asynchronous class, and requiring students to use a $60 ***pdf*** that you wrote as their textbook to be exceptionally unprofessional and since I've still got 14 days to get a refund I'm totally not paying $150 to take your class.

Also, for all the newbie professors out there: a syllabus is not just a greeting and a list of assignments. If you haven't given your students AT LEAST your office hours, your late work policy, and your preferred method of being contacted, then you have not given your students a syllabus it's just sparkling announcements.

But really. Sir. SIR. You teach Speech 100. This is one of the most basic classes with like, 20 of the most widely available accepted textbooks and you want me to pay sixty dollars for a pdf of a book that you rewrite every semester so that there are no previous editions?

Buddy this is interpersonal communication, not introductory rhetoric. Why is one of your *four* total assignments about Socrates?

Maybe it's the fact that I've taken Spch 100 interpersonal communication three times already, maybe it's the fact that I grew up with somebody who taught Spch 100 interpersonal communication from 1981 to 2018, but buddy what the fuck are you doing?

"Some of our lectures will only be available for 24 hours so it is up to you to stay on top of it."

Friend, you are teaching an asynchronous online 100-level class at a community college during a pandemic. Get off your high horse, a third of your students are probably parents. There is no reason whatsoever to limit access to course materials to 24 hours unless you are doing it to be a controlling asshole.

Also YOU published your class a day and a half late! You don't get to publish your class late with an incomplete syllabus and tell students to "stay on top of it." Especially not since that means that people have two fewer days to buy your PDF textbook and only one full day to prepare for your mandatory 1pm on a Tuesday zoom meeting!

Why do you require me to have access to a printer for an online class? Oh yeah it's because you expect me to print out and draw on sections of your $60 ebook.

SIR. No thank you.

Kids, new students: this is a level of bullshit and disorganization from a professor that you do not have to put up with. This is a neatly ordered series of red flags that say "this professor is going to be absolutely unbearable."

Also *any* humanities class where your whole grade is 4 assignments should get serious side-eye. You should be able to pass most 100 level humanities classes by just turning in weekly assignments. 4 assignments means that by the time you figure out how the professor grades you're probably close to halfway through the class. Look for classes that require weekly participation as a major chunk of the grade because that way, even if you fuck up a project in a major way, just showing up can save your ass.

#normalise outting shitty lecturers

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There will always be cities that feel like home.

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this garden in Finland.. yes

(via)

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Listen 🌧️ !.

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Left dormitories today after being cooped up for 7 weeks. I will miss hanging out at the library but I will not miss this dormitory. I painted the mirror during quarantine and I might've fallen in love with mirror painting.

#reblog

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july 19th 2021 • managed to get my hands on she who became the sun on its release day!! (had to go to luxembourg to get it (i wasn’t far from the city) and it was definitely worth it. i think it could very well become a new favorite. i started reading it and i’m very excited! other than that, things have been busy lately, i quit my job at the beginning of the month (officially) and gave back all the things i had from work on friday before my second shot of covid vaccine. now i’m on holidays for a whole month and i’m hoping to relax and make myself ready for the next part of my life. that seems v ominous but that’s how things feel like for now. i’m hoping for more peace, peace of mind, just peace all around ahah. anyway. that’s it for the life update i guess. i’m gonna go back to my book now ^^

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Left dormitories today after being cooped up for 7 weeks. I will miss hanging out at the library but I will not miss this dormitory. I painted the mirror during quarantine and I might've fallen in love with mirror painting.

#dark academia #light academia #aesthetic #academic #chaotic academia #artist on tumblr #studyblr #ramblings #study space #student #mirror #Mirror painting #dark academia aesthetic #light academia aesthetic #enwritings #Cleaning up my drafts

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not everybody has been exposed to what you have, or has seen what you’ve seen or felt what you’ve felt. so their priorities and abilities are different from yours. that’s why you can’t compare their accomplishments or their journey to your own. you don’t see the mountains you’ve conquered as mountains because the view you’re seeing is skewed. you can’t always trust your own eyes when they’re looking at yourself. you can only strengthen your mind; tell yourself that you’re different and your battle is unique. remind yourself that you’re winning your fight just by surviving.

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I LOVE Excel! I took an Excel class during University and I’ve never stopped using or learning about it since. During my summer internship, I would literally use Excel functions and macros for hours every single day. Even if you don’t want to be an Excel fanatic, learning a few basic functions will make your life easier (and even impress a few managers along the way!).

I’ve outlined below some of the most useful Excel functions to learn. Some of these functions are very basic but can make a huge difference. These functions save time, automate procedures, and make your life easier! And if you need some help on how to learn them, I’ve listed some helpful resources to get you started. With all of us social distancing at home, now is as good of a time as any to add a skill to your resume. 

Excel Functions to Know:

SUM: returns sum of cells selected

SUMPRODUCT: multiplies ranges or arrays together and returns the sum of product

IF: return one value for a TRUE result and another for a FALSE result

SUMIF: returns the sum of cells if the cell meets a single condition

AVERAGEIF: computes the average of the numbers in a range that meets a certain criteria

VLOOKUP: lookup and retrieve data from a specific column in a table can be exact or approximate match

LEFT: returns a given number of characters from the left side of text string

RIGHT: returns a given number of characters from the right side of text string

CONCATENATE: joins the text of cells together and returns the joined text in one cell

LENGTH: returns the given number of characters in a text

Resources:

Excel Jet: Very useful as a type of Excel dictionary to look up syntax and specific formulas you don’t know

Excel Easy: almost like on online textbook for Excel (great resource for those who have no knowledge of Excel at all!)

Udemy: paid excel course with lots of videos, assignments, and downloadable resources

Coursera: self-paced learning option, quizzes and assignments, and a course certificate

Excel Youtube Course by Technology for Teachers and Students

Datacamp (7/12/20 edit thanks anon for the suggestion!)

Prologue to my Excel series

I’ll also be posting Excel tips, tricks, function explanations, and some basic Excel tutorials so if you’d like to see more appear on your dash in the future, follow my blog and look for my Excel series.

#excel #reference