Life Will Always Take You Back To The Places And People Where You Need To Learn Your Lesson From. Until

it was 6:50am when I took these pictures and the place was empty!! I always try to go to a coffee shop near my school if I have early class just to go through my notes because the air is cold and the streets are empty and the coffee is delicious

pov im a nice and kind person in class, and my AP environmental science teacher just gave me a oreo container (its like broken pieces, but still. I have it.)

You know what makes me incredibly happy?

When my friends show their knowledge of what they've been studying for years in a casual conversation and I just sit there like: Look at you!! So smart with all of your funky words!!!

Your knowledge is mindblowing to somebody who's not in your field

— Richard Siken, from “Straw House, Straw Dog.”

quick study tips now that I've almost finished my masters: follow study with me videos on youtube. download cold turkey website blocker on your laptop and liberate website blocker on your phone. chew gum while studying. play an instrument, knit/crochet, or move while on study breaks instead of going on your phone. always keep your study space clean. wear noise cancelling headphones with no music playing (that's my cue to focus). eat plenty always and bring snacks. know when to stop. learn when you focus best, and only plan to be able to work during those times- schedule errands / meetings / hobbies / rest during times when you know you won't be focused. schedule at least one full day per week where you have no responsibilities. if you're too tired to work, take a nap instead of sitting there numb and exhausted with dry eyes. you can skip class sometimes (trust me). know when "good enough" is enough (and when it's not).

i love people who bring old big laptops to lectures. i’m being so genuine, it’s such a power move to walk into a room where we’re all on our fuckass macs and tablets and u take out your 10cm thick 25inch-screened laptop that makes the sound of industrial grade machinery while opening the oldest version of Word known to man

- Beau Taplin

physics professors are really going through it- every day, I think about my quantum physics professor who once went on a rant about how there's too many types of mustard these days followed by the words "well, at least quantum physics is less complicated than the mustard aisle" followed by one of the most cursed derivations I have ever seen

08.08.2022 | i’m winding up to submit my masters thesis at the end of the month 🌷