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lesson planning with the accompany of my beloved new mug<3

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18|04|2024

First day of slowly getting back to my studying routine. Today was mostly organizational after my first week of lectures, but I accomplished a few things on my to do list. Tomorrow I will focus on fixing my notes, and maybe start planning everything I have to work on in the next couple of months. I am starting with small steps to get back into the habit and not to go from zero to a hundred and burn myself out again.

some things I did today:

read first thing in the morning

enjoy some good music

planned my to dos for the rest of the week

downloaded a bunch of materials for my class (which is technically a laboratory on modern history)

wrote down the calendar with relevant info for each lecture, and annotated some useful infos for the exam

spent the afternoon with my brother to finish our lotr rewatch and we had such a great time

practiced Irish on duolingo

📖: Nona The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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morning diary and planning before our PM duty tonight. 😊

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The first week of University

8th of April to 14th of April

I fell into a new semester, a new schedule and another job without much rest. Nevertheless, the first week has come and gone and I am content. The classes I chose are engaging, my professor and the rest of the project team are incredibly kind and welcoming and so far I have been good to myself: prepping food, enough rest, much time spent outside walking with the dog, a clean environment, no overstimulation or multi-tasking. The digital detox greatly improved my focus as well as my mood and I intend to keep my use of digital devices to a minimum. The last few weeks I have made time to read more, go for hikes, meet people and was overall more present in the moment. I have never felt more at ease.

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2024.04.14 | Day 85/100 days of productivity

Sunny day today! Likely going to the beach in a bit but I’m try to get prepared for the week ahead.

Today’s goals:

Drink water (2/3)

Finish statistics study guide

Draft email to qualitative methods professors

Draft an email to my supervisor

Sleep enough

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20240414. 【💐】

Easter, week three: Kiss your friends.

It’s been a busy week getting through work and attending social engagements. Seeing my friends and the people I love will always make me smile. Being loved is a privilege and I cherish every instant.

One more week to go to gather my things, and then the final stretch. Once again that strange time of year and turbulent emotions. My mind is heavy but one must move forward.

☞ studygram

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❥﹒♡﹒☕﹒ 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 ( + some youtube channels )

here are some spotify playlists / youtube channels that i put in the background and help me concentrate on studying for hours.

🎧. this spotify playlist

🎧. this spotify playlist

🎧. this spotify playlist

🎧. this youtube channel

🎧. this youtube channel

🎧. this youtube channel

🎧. this youtube channel

🎧. this youtube channel

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found out discord added polls and had to immediately poll a server full of marine biology students

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“ dopamine detox ,, and why you should delete all your social media right now

"just five more minutes" and then you end up scrolling on instagram or tiktok for hours. i know that feeling. even if you know rationally that focusing on the really important things ( such as studying, working, learning from books or whatever ) is much healthier for you and your future, you can't help it.

you know that start studying for the exam you have next week will benefit you much more in the long run, but you still prefer watching tiktoks and scrolling on instagram. you could say that is pretty obvious: one activity is easy, and doesn't require much effort, whereas the other one is difficult and implies that you are focused.

but it's actually like this? so then why some people manage to be consistent in studying, or working, or exercising? they simply just have more motivation than you? and how can you start having the same motivation as them?

to answer this question, we have to take a look to a very important molecule produced by our brain: dopamine.

dopamine is often considered a pleasure molecule, but it's a false belief. dopamine is actually the molecule that makes us desire things, and it's that desire that gives us the motivation to complete every kind of task. for example, your brain doesn't release dopamine while you're eating a cheesburger, it releases it while you're going to mcdonald's to buy it, because you anticipate that the food will make you feel good, even if it actually makes you feel worse.

to your brain, it doesn't matter if the high-dopamine-activity is damaging to you.

your brain organizes priorities based off how much dopamine is expecting to get:

if an activity releases too little dopamine, you won't have the motivation to accomplish it.

if an activity releases a lot of dopamine you'll be motivated to do it, and repeat it over and over

so, which activities releases dopamine? basically, any activity where you can get an immediate potential reward releases an high amount of dopamine. but if you know that there's not an immediate reward invoved ( such as in studying, where the reward is in the long run ) your brain will not expect to release much of it and you'll be less motivated to do that task.

nearly everything releases some amount of dopamine, even drinking water when you're thirsty, but the highest amount of it is released when you're getting a reward randomly, for example while playing on a slot machine. even if you loose money, you eventually expect to get a bigger reward.

therefore it is not so surprising that the most additive social networks ( tiktok, instagram, pinterest ) are designed as slot machines. you don't know what the next post or video will be, but you expect something great, so your brain releases a large amount of dopamine.

in today's society our brains are overloaded with stimuli that induce an unnatural production of dopamine ( scrolling on social media, playing video games, watching internet pornograhy, etc. ).

it's frightening that people don't know how harmful this lifestyle is: our bodies have a biological sistem called homeostasis, which means that our bodies keep the internal physical and chemical conditions at a balanced level, whenever an imbalance occurs, our bodies adapt to it, for example, when it's very hot our body temperature rises and we start sweating to cool down.

but homeostasis manifests through tolerance too. for example, someone who hardly ever drinks alchool will be tipsy after one beer, on the other hand, someone who drinks alchool on a regular basis will need two, three, four beers in order to get drunk, because their body has developed a tolerance to it. it's not much different with dopamine.

so if you get used to large amounts of dopamine, you won't be able to do the things that you did before, because they don't produce as much dopamine and it's more difficult to motivate yourself to do them. once your dopamine tolerance gets too high, you are no longer able to enjoy low dopamine activities.

as if you were a drug addict, there's only one way to get out of it: you have to perform a dopamine detox. you have to avoid all high dopamine activities in order to allow your body to adjust to a normal level of dopamine production and start finding motivation again in the things that improve your personal growth.

it's not easy, you will be nervous and frustrated, maybe you won't make it through a full day without social media, but day by day it will get better and better, and eventually you'll be able to appreciate small things again.

imagine that you're eating your favorite food - for example, chocolate cake - every single day. after a while, chocolate cake doesn't taste good as before, even if it's literally the same cake. on the other hand, if you eat it once a month, it will taste great, because it's not something you've gotten used to.

this is exactly what dopamine detox does. be safe guys, and start recovering now.

[ source: https://youtu.be/9QiE-M1LrZk ]

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08.04.2024

About two-thirds of the length written and it‘s mostly one section… I would feel a lot more confident in my first draft if I had more material for the other sections as well but I‘m just mentally stuck on part 1 :/

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2024-04-01

Found the cutest little tea house today. I worked on a term paper and studied some French while sipping just the nicest tea.

Exiting the house after 3 days of the Easter long weekend has proved to be an excellent idea. 10/10 will do again.

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become so committed to your goals that no amount of failure could ever stop you.

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🌷 12.04.2024 // I studied the whole day, mostly biochemistry and pharmacology. My parents came back from their trip so I'll have to leave their house and the beautiful flowers of the garden :(( (not to mention the fact that within the few hours after their arrival they had already sucked all my energy and I'm more exhausted than I've ever been this week)

Anyway, tomorrow I have to work in the pharmacy and I hope it will go well! I'll also try to go to the library during my lunch and I'll show some books here (so I'll be motivated to actually do it ahah).

(I write it here so I'll have to actually do it but I reaaally need to talk to my "boss" to tell her I can work more when I'm on vacation!!! I forgot to do it for two whole weeks and I can't forget one more :(( )

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12.04.24

i have a plethora of pictures to post on here so disclaimer these pics are probably weeks old. still love this damn song though. been journaling a LOT more and it is, indeed, good for the soul.

📖: Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton | my review

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04 • 13 • 24

Fellas, we’ve officially made it. One more assignment and I’m done the semester. Psych final I bossed the FUCK out of. Bio final cooked me but I pray for the curve… so glad final projects got finished too and I just completed my final for gender class (it was a hustle). Tomorrow I start my summer job again!

Let me tell you about the study group I had. I made a discord for everyone in my psyc class and 50 people joined… there were 20 people who attended the study group and it was so fun! We spent the entire day reviewing and getting to know each other and I found some friends to hang out with in the summer which is so cool!

I neglected bio so hard as a result, but I’m sure I’ll pull through somehow… I pray.. anyways, one more thing tomorrow and then I begin my self care summer WOOHOOO!!!!

I almost forgot, I got 100% on my psych assignment! Improvement from the 69% at the beginning of the sem. So proud of me!

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friday, march 22nd 2024

been working on coursework before the conference each morning and although its not ideal, it's definitely going to pay off! trying to make sure i understand stats because next semester, i'm taking 2 heavy quantitative classes so i gotta have a solid foundation :)

day 1 of the conference was really cool; i connected with so many cool people and learned so much <3

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21/10/2023 | Day 7 of 100 days of Productivity

Organised my schedule up to January, went for a nice walk, set up my new (old) computer and completely drafted my essay! Tomorrow I just have to put into words!

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