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PSA: Don't use Open Office

I keep seeing people recommending Open Office as an alternative to Word, and uh... look, it is, technically, an open source alternative to Word. And it can do a lot of what Word can, genuinely! But it is also an abandoned project that hasn't been updated in nine years, and there's an active fork of it which is still receiving updates, and that fork is called LibreOffice, and it's fantastic.

Seriously, if you think that your choices are either "grit your teeth and pay Microsoft for a subscription" or "support free software but have a kind of subpar office suite experience", I guarantee that it's because you're working with outdated information, or outdated software. Most people I know who have used the latest version of LibreOffice prefer it to Word. I even know a handful of people who prefer it to Scrivener.

Open Office was the original project, and so it has the most name recognition, and as far as I can tell, that's really the only reason people are still recommending it. It's kind of like if people were saying "hey, the iPhone 14 isn't your only smart phone option!" but then were only ever recommending the Samsung Galaxy S5 as an alternative. LibreOffice is literally a version of the same exact program as Open Office that's just newer and better – please don't get locked into using a worse tool just because the updated version of the program has a different name!

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whenever i'm trying to talk myself out of buying something i don't need i always hear my old russian professor's voice echoing in my head: "WHAT??? WILL YOU DIE THE RICHEST MAN IN THE GRAVEYARD?" and then i make an unwise financial decision

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when she's studying 24/7, is obsessed with “ gilmore girls „ doesn't care about boys, is eating healthy and working out regularly, has a skincare routine, is putting herself first, is getting straight As and doesn't care about anybody's opinion >>>

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Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. If you use your library, please reblog.

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you're getting distracted again. focus.

drink a cup of water, tie your hair up, pull on your comfiest clothes, get your desk clean and ready, print out past papers, set your notes out, turn your laptop on, turn off all distractions, take out your stationary, open your books, take a deep breath, and just start.

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this weekend is a writing-heavy one: tackling essays, both academic and personal

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I love when everything matches within one Color scheme! Currently reading All the lights we cannot see, I’m really liking the experience. ☕️ 🌚 📖

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we shpuld make a tumblr bar with drinks like sonic screwdriver and the baker street mule

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Backpack basics!

Notebooks/Binders

Black & blue pen

Pencil

Highligters

Hygiene kit (tissues, deodorant, period products if you menstruate/have friends that do, something in case of headache/allergy/other)

Textbooks

Headphones

Phone charger

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are u ever sick w longing. and i don't just mean romantic longing. i mean longing for a place you barely get to see, longing for friends you no longer have, longing for feelings you might have left behind in your childhood, longing for creativity, longing for a rich and more expansive life, longing for less inhibition. longing for more passion. longing for ur life to be so incandescent w something it thaws all the frost in ur bones. are u ever so consumed w it it rends ur heart in two. do u understand me

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Dark Academia + Classic Academia

PS: Here you can download my Dark Academia article in PDF "link".

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