#alexistudies

[alexistudies]

wednesday, march 13th 2024

i think one of the best things to come out of my PhD (so far) is that i am learning to embrace finitude, and focusing more on the aspects of "what did i learn from this" instead of dwelling on getting a great grade. let me explain.

let's say i was taking this intro to neural engineering class in undergrad, where these hard as hell MATLAB assignments were due like once a month. i would be literally shitting a brick about trying to get it right, staying up late and compromising my health for the assignment, and then stressing like crazy over the grade. for it to all, subsequently and eventually, end up being fine and not the end of the world.

now, as a 1st year PhD student, in this exact position of having a hard as hell assignment that i kind of just figured out as i go, i'm not even trippin. like, i'm probably going to get half credit and i'm genuinely fine with that. why? because I: 1) embraced finitude of knowing that it's just not going to get done and 2) am celebrating the fact that I even learned the concepts to get half credit.

this...is a big mental shift that i'm really trying to cherish, because it took soooo long for me to get here. i also realize that i'm able to have this change in attitude now because undergrad is over, and for a PhD program, grades don't really matter as long as you meet the requirements to stay in your program. in undergrad, you're aiming for good grades because you want to have access to the next goal (job, internship, or grad school). but my god, is this such a RELIEVING mindset shift.

#alexistudies #alexi's phd year 1 #studyblr #studyspo #smartspo #genspen #morningkou #hey gen #studyign #stemblr #collegeblr #uniblr #phdblr #gradblr #grad school #study blog #study #studyblr community

[tarttwannabe]

hello! i’m not new to studyblr + langblr, i’ve had a blog previously but i deleted it a few months ago to start fresh. this is my dark academia studyblr & langblr!

about me — 

you can call me c! she/her. i'm 19, & i’m studying undergrad as a stem student (computer science), and an aspiring classics major in uni (second undergrad & masters). i’m an intj 5w4 & i love making new friends, so feel free to reach out <3

i’m tracking #tarttwannabe so please tag me in posts!

why i started this blog —

to hold myself accountable and be more productive

to interact with a likeminded community as i work towards my goals

to keep myself motivated & to share my love of academia with the world

to meet new, wonderful people

because i miss the golden age of studyblr + need a way to force myself to make my life more beautiful

what content to expect —

study notes, journal spreads etc

masterposts and resources, study tips

aesthetics. a lot of aesthetics.

since i study both computer science (officially) and classics (unofficially), expect to see both!

my study aesthetic — chaotic/dark academia

currently studying — computer science at the undergrad level. learning french, and russian. i play the violin and the piano as well. i am also self-studying A levels for my second undergrad, in the subjects ancient history, classical civilisation, and latin.* 

i'm also a writer. my classics/writeblr blog is @iliadesque (although i suspect i won't be using it all that much)

things i like — the classics, the goldfinch, autumn, dark academia, gone girl,  thunderstorms, tarot, tennis, waif aesthetics, museums, earl grey, pilates, ballet, black coffee, reading, learning, and apples. i am a romantic at heart. i am also an olfactory enthusiast & have a modest but growing perfume collection.

my inspirations — @frenchiepal @studywithavalon @learnelle @lottiestudying @berlinsct @romanticize-until-you-drop @starrystvdy @caffeinatedstudies @alexistudies @woodlandhalls @studywithvictory @oneardentstudybuddy @shlrleystudies (hope none of you mind i tagged you <3)

*i'm studying (untested, mostly for personal satisfaction) gcses as well, in the subjects eng lit, ancient history, classical civilisation, and latin.

#studyblr intro #studyblr #langblr #langblr intro #dark academia #academia #chaotic academia #darkest academia #studyspo #new studyblr #french langblr #bujo #c.txt #academia aesthetics #literature #classics #tagamemnon #long post

[selkiestudies]

I was tagged by @ben-learns-smth to create a mood board for my url and I really like it! I need more photos of seals tho is what I’ve learned from this exercise.

If you wanna try and hopefully haven’t already been tagged, go for it @alexistudies @the---hermit @smileystudies !!

#url moodboard #tag game #mine #h talks

[sophielovesbooks]

"Nine People I Would Like to Know Better" Tag

I was tagged by @rcsthewriter. Thank you so much! Happy to share 😊

Last song: "John Hughes Movie" by one of my favourite artists, Maisie Peters 🩷

Favourite colour: I love anything pastel really! Lilac may be my fave.

Currently watching: Ha. Two shows at two ends of the intellectual challenge spectrum. "Love is Blind" and "The Promise".

Spicy/savoury/sweet: Honestly all three?? Who could choose only one of these?

Relationship status: Married!! (Still blows my mind a little bit 🥰)

Current obsession: The book I'm currently reading, which is called "Penance" (by Eliza Clark). It's so addicitive!

I'm tagging @thoughtsafter3am @eldritchsx @alexistudies @mildly-irritated-scientist @dandelionstudys @mundanemoongirl @vi-is-studying @nanostudies and @halleyys-comet! (No pressure though)

No pressure though!

#tag games #writeblr #gradblr #nine people you want to get to know better

[maeve-studies]

Hey! I'm new at studyblr so could you please recommend some blogs :)

Hi and welcome to the studyblr community!! :) I have had a studyblr for more than 6 years and I have found so much comfort in this community, I hope you do too!

I have a TON of recommendations for studyblrs, and depending on what your academic interests are, it might be worth searching for some who are specific to your field as well! I would highly recommend checking out the following blogs:

@myhoneststudyblr @autumndesk @universallytragicstudies @textbooksanddaydreams @starrystvdy @learnelle @studyblrspace @sweaterstudyblr @sarahstudieschem @adelinestudiess @studyblr-accountant @lattesandlearning @alexistudies @studyviolette @studyign @studybleak @lawstudyblr @castillos-co @patriotstudies @featheredstudies @stuhde @charliewantstostudy @lawyerd @glory-studies @loudemic @loumarch @bennistudies @staudiology

#ask #studyblr

[gushuwa]

to my dear friends (I may forget someone I’m sorry) @cravingstudyvalidation @yughostlavia @nindchan @gentlystudy @oneanxiousstudybuddy @luthiest , thank you guys for tagging me ✨

nickname: Cate (italian), Cat (international)

sign: Capricorn

height: 1.73m

last thing I googled: foods to avoid with yeast infection (tmi? oh well)

song stuck in my head: ITS CORN

number of followers: 1672

amount of sleep: too little, I’m so jet lagged

dream job: teacher, hopefully doing it soon (also tattoo artist, which is still very much a possibility)

lucky number: don’t believe in luck in that way

movies/books that summarize you: Frankenstein Junior is pretty accurate

wearing: jeans, thermo shirt, thermo shoes, glasses (and stinky socks, it’s been a long day)

favorite song: sledgehammer, Peter Gabriel

aesthetic: I go from minimalist to wood to everything colorful to flowers to concrete

favorite instrument: @frenchiepal ass cheeks

favorite authors: can’t remember any atm 🥲

favorite animal noises: purrs are pretty amazing

random: I love Christmas time, I love it I love it I love it

tagging 17 people, trying to tag people who I don’t think have done it already @mangoslixes @linguanna @frenchiepal @strawberrystudies @boldlystudy @einschlunz @natreadsthings @cloudsaremadeofdreams @callibrarian @remindmetoreed @rosyoxymoron @mugoki @aravirstudies @alexistudies @studywiththisgirl @adhd-academia @scoobeedoo 🧡🧡🧡

#tag game #love you all

[petit-langblr]

nine people I want to know better

tagged by @burgeoning-ambition, thank you!

Last Song - Fuyu no Hanashi (English Cover)

Last Show - Yuru Camp

Currently Watching - wayyy too much lol but extraordinary attorney woo, tokyo mew mew (both new and old), spy x family, and batman the animated series just to name a few (i'm a big cartoon nerd lmao)

Currently Reading - zachary ying and the dragon emperor by xiran jay zhao, because I loved iron widow and absolutely needed to read everything else by the same author.

tagging: @learnelle @jpn-langblr @selkiestudies @bulletnotestudies

@nordic-language-love @lagom-languages @lemonadeandlanguages @alexistudies and @justanotherstudyblrinthecrowd and anyone else who wants to do this! ^^

#posts from the spaceship #tag game

[remindmetoreed]

nov 19

hoping to finish The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman this weekend. I have about 45 pages left to go, but I have some academic work that desperately needs my attention (if you wanna follow my studyblr: @alexistudies)

also, i'm liking this rhythm i've found of reading 1 fiction book and 1 nonfiction book simultaneously.

next nonfiction read: the molecule of more by daniel z lieberman and michael e long

next fiction read: if we were villains by ml rio (gotta keep the dark academia vibes going, yk?)

#remindmetoreed #the nineties by chuck klosterman #nonfiction #pop culture #bookblr #the molecule of more by daniel z lieberman #if we were villains by ml rio #reading #book blog #book lover #book addict #books

[manicato]

17 people, 17 questions

tagged by @ghostystudiesy! thank you for the tag <3

nickname: Silla, Stitchie, or manicato

sign: Sun:Libra Moon:Scorpio Raising: Scorpio (yes I'm one of those peoples)

height: 5’0

last thing you googled: How to shuffle a deck

song stuck in your head: Valorant Champion's Die for you

no. of followers: 6

amount of sleep: 6 or 7 hours

lucky number: 3

dream job: Honestly, I wanna do something that helps others in poverty or homelessness. That's my dream job.

wearing: White shirt and green pants

movies/books that summarize you: Take Jannette Wall's Book "The Glass Castle", and cross it with Esmeralda Santiago's memoir trilogy "When I was Puerto Rican"/"Almost a Woman"/"Turkish Lover", that's the most direct summary you'll get lol.

favorite song are: Save the best for last by Vanessa Williams and Sanctuary by Joji

aesthetic: I genuinely don't know. Can straight-up Chaos be an aesthetic????

favorite authors: Elizabeth Kostova, Esmeralda Santiago, Ellen Hopkins, Khaled Hosseini, Mo Yan, Debra Harkness, and Scott Westerfeld.

favorite animal noise: Happy noises. Like when a puppy, cat, goat, cow, bird- you name it, and it makes a happy noise? YES.

random: I am a very isolated person, but I am always watching/listening/reading something.

tagging: @castudies, @tmbg13, @libraryofjessica, @hufflepuffmacchiato, @alexistudies, @study-honey, @studyspiration-coffee, @septemberstudies, @coffeestainedprogress, @ghiblisstudies and anyone else down to participate, I just don't know 17 people T-T

#Yall can ignore this if you want really #about #about me

[cyberstudious]

thanks for the tag @notetaeker ! <3

https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/643839

I'm tagging @getbreaded @nerdinaomi @lifebuoyjournals @alexistudies @girl-please-study and anyone else who wants to join!

#alas I don't have an undercut irl but maybe someday lmao #this was fun! #tag game

[alexistudies]

monday, march 11th 2024

spring break came and went in the blink of an eye, but it was lots of fun! met up with friends from HS, went to disneyland, and spent time with my family. I also still did some work over break that was time sensitive, but I can't really complain :)

its officially past the halfway point of the semester and i can see the finish line. ahhhh. i also realize i need to start studying more for my classes because things are getting more complex... BUT WE WILL SURVIVE

follow my studygram if you want a more frequent, up close in my daily academic life - IG: lexthephdstudent

#alexistudies #alexi's phd year 1 #studyblr #studyspo #smartspo #phdblr #phd blog #phd student #grad school #graduate student #stemblr #collegeblr #uniblr #studying #hey gen #genspen #morningkou #beautyinmechanical

[a-fox-studies]

Note-taking tag game!

Ahoy studyblrs! Tag game for ya ;)

Rules: Describe your note-taking methods, attach pictures if possible :D, and then tag as many people as you want to do the same!

I usually keep a notebook for scribbling down whatever the teacher says during class, and then convert them into decipherable notes later. I type the fresh notes in OneNote, and the important points that are needed for quick review before exams in paper. I annotate my textbooks and use colorful sticky notes.

Tagging: @sysy-studyblr, @spacetime-singularity, @alexistudies, @mystudydiary-blog, @greenhouse-studies, @xiacodes, feel free to ignore if you're not interested :)

#studyblr #studyblr tag games #studyblr tagging games #studyblr tagging #studyblr tag #tagging games #tag games #tag #tagging #tags #note-taking #notes #note #note taking #studyspo

[selkiestudies]

Hypothetically, you are only able to keep 20 of your books. Only one book per author/series. So what books are you keeping?

Oooh!! Thanks for tagging me @fluencylevelfrench ! This is so hard omg… okay here we go:

The color of magic by Terry Pratchett

Tigerlily by Jodi Lynn Anderson

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

The Council of Mirrors by Michael Buckley

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

American Gods by Noel Gaiman

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

The Green Book by Jill Paton Walsh

The Dorito Effect by Mark Schatzker

Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith

Refuse by Julian Randall

The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant by Drew Hayes

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher

Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera

I tag @bennistudies @alexistudies and anyone else who wants to do it!!

#mine #h talks #bookblr #books #tag game

[oceanok]

13th Oct. 2020

Now it's finally time to study Linear Algebra!

I'm gonna have a test this weekend and I'm panicking because... err... I haven't touched anything about Algebra since classes re-started........... but that's ok, I still have a few days which I'll be able to study so even if I can’t cover ALL the test's content, I’ll still be able to learn something.

Actually I started to study for Algebra before the pandemic was declared and after reviewing these exercises I did in March it seems that now I learned the content better! So it’s a good thing!

#mine #algebra #brrrr #studyblr #konaeco #productivearlgrey #learnelle #lookrylie #chazza-studies-alevels #heycoral #athenastudying #alexistudies #studypetals #starrystvdy #stillstudies #stemblr

[scorpiostudies-blog]

mood: forever missing paris. the book on the left is, fittingly, les liaisons dangereuses currently listening to: easy, mac ayres (go!! listen!! now!!) my dash is super dead so comment if ur an active langblr/studyblr/booklr and i’ll check u out!! esp if ur a german studyblr

#mine #studyspo #booklr #studyblr #paris #photography #stillstudies #athenus #studylustre #studyplants #studypool #notes #books #alexistudies #milkteastudies #estudied #einstetic

[gushuwa]

🌨 Rules: spell out either your name or username using only books or only movies that have your vibe, and tag some people. Thank you @mangoslixes for tagging me 74 years ago 😗

Il Gabbiano Jonathan Livingston, Richard Bach (Jonathan Livingston Seagull)

Una mamma per amica (Gilmore girls) …kind of a big movie if you think about it

Sweet bean paste, Durian Sukegawa

Heaven, Mieko Kawakami

Un’estate con la strega dell’ovest, Kaho Nashiki (I haven’t found an English edition)

Promising Young Woman, movie by Emerald Fennell

Alcune questioni di filosofia morale, Hannah Arendt (Some questions of moral philosophy)

🌨 I’m tagging everyone I love here @yughostlavia @callibrarian @elinoreblog @cloudsaremadeofdreams @oneanxiousstudybuddy @caramelcuppaccino @linguanna @frenchiepal @einschlunz @scoobeedoo @alexistudies @debussyandbooks @luthiest @amandaswork @stark-reading-mad @violetsnotebook @cravingstudyvalidation @mairithepotato @maeve-studies

#chaotic academia #tag game