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I just want to be beautiful and disgustingly overeducated ✨

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week of march '24. studying for midterms got real.

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“It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.“ 

Alan Bennett

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one of the biggest things I can advocate for (in academia, but also just in life) is to build credibility with yourself. It’s easy to fall into the habit of thinking of yourself as someone who does things last minute or who struggles to start tasks. people will tell you that you just need to build different habits, but I know for me at least the idea of ‘habit’ is sort of abstract and dehumanizing. Credibility is more like ‘I’ve done this before, so I know I can do it, and more importantly I trust myself to do it’. you set an assignment goal for the day and you meet it, and then you feel stronger setting one the next day. You establish a relationship with yourself that’s built on confidence and trust. That in turn starts to erode the barrier of insecurity and perfectionism and makes it easier to start and finish tasks. reframing the narrative as a process of building credibility makes it easier to celebrate each step and recognize how strong your relationship with yourself can become

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26 March '24// I have been so drained during my first semester for the year. I feel like all I do is stare at my screen for far too long instead of taking notes. I am so burnt out from doing Psych, + I am so glad that I am changing into Social Work next semester. Anyone else feeling drained at the moment? I just submitted my first assignment for the semester and I am not feeling the best about it. Maybe I am over thinking, maybe I am not. I could sleep for 100 years right now

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25 MARCH 2024 | 69/100 DAYS OF PRODUCTIVITY

no detailed post today but i need everyone to manifest that i lock in and become an academic weapon for the next three days please and thank you <3

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March 22nd, 2024 | I'm exhausteeeed. But lately I've been 1. Accepted to a summer school in Italy, 2. Taking part in lovely exciting events and meeting ups with friends & 3. Kind of reaching a personal deadline, resulting in a big chunk of work sent to my advisor. Worth it?

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Good books can make you homesick for places you have never been.

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I started going to the gym again and my mental health has been doing a lot better. I’m just enjoying uni a lot more. I’m having fun with my classes, and it’s nice to see my friends everyday. I need to remember to calm down and stop stressing over the small things.

(March 12th, 2024)

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Letters from the Stations of Childhood, Vardges Petrosyan (translated by metamorphesque)

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Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

— William Faulkner.

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@academia-lucifer

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Hey! Here's a tip: Just imagine yourself somewhere better :) Hope this helps (repeated)

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"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]