!Study like Granger!

I thought it might be helpful to share a list of art history and criticism books for those who are interested in the subject and don’t know where to start. I’ve read as many books as I could on the subject of Western art these last few years (in and outside of school) and the following include the books that I’ve enjoyed and learned from the most (and find myself frequently recommending):

Z-Library is an online database that includes e-copies of over 4,000,000 books. If you’re unable to find any of the above mentioned at your local second-hand bookshop or are unable to afford the rather expensive cost of art books (the unfortunately high price of beautiful colour-printed pages), I recommend looking into this project!

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16.04.19 • trying to get a quiet afternoon of theory in for my thesis before my shift in a few hours’ time 📖 ☕️

to me, writing a paper feels like solving a puzzle, where the puzzle is finding the optimal arrangement of arguments and evidence to logically and sequentially present my thesis to the reader, and the starting point is a mass of chaotic idea fragments and intuition

Don’t worry. Start now. Get up, take a few deep breaths, stretch, count to ten with your eyes closed. Then take out your books and a notebook and a pen. Get on with it. Start reading, annotating, take down your notes. If you feel your focus faltering, sit back, take a few deep breaths, walk around a bit, get back to your books. It’s never too late.

14/June - 2015 Reading ahead and making notes for ethics

Some nice views from my room whilst I was staying at Hertford College, Oxford University

magdalen college in december. take me back to oxford ⭐️

i love that moment of absolute acceptance and tranquility that washes over you exactly 1 minute and 35 seconds before an exam begins. when you look at the notes you’ve been trying to absorb and realize that at this point you’re either ready or you’re not and you put them away and all the anxiety and doubt you had up until this moment just floats off you like steam from a hot summer sidewalk after a storm.

i think this exact situation is where actors who have to die on-screen draw their inspiration. that look in their eyes when they realize their wound doesn’t hurt anymore, and they look at their friend, their face awash with acceptance and near-relief, and the light leaves their eyes,

they learned that in a stats class.

Do you see eyes as well? 👀😂

So many people commented on my instagram post that they felt like my tea were watching them 😂

I’m busy working this summer, what are you up to?

every semester, without fail, there’s some freshman who’s like “oh I never check my email lol” and i get worried for them, bc they’re going to miss some important email about a pop quiz or a test, or something and then fail. so if you’re a freshman reading this, CHECK YOUR EMAIL im not joking, professors will send you stuff via email that they’ll never mention in class. I’m in my email every hour on the hour before and after class. check that shit. put that app on ur phone, turn on notifs, go in and refresh every hour, check your spam, check your email

this has been a message from your concerned dad. check ur email, do well in school, i love you

one.

Everything is temporary.

the main piece of advice i have for students is this: learn how to fail and persevere. it is a skill that will help you in life far more than perfect grades. think of failure impersonally. when you fail, you have just eliminated one method that doesn’t work for you, so you need to try a different method in the future. figure out which factors contributed to the undesirable result, and change them. (teachers, advisors, and academic counselors can help you with this if you aren’t sure where to start). i know from personal experience that fear of failure is often a self-fulfilling prophecy, because it leads to self-sabotage. if you can learn not to think of it as an inherent personal flaw, but rather as a strategy that didn’t work for you and can be changed, you will be well-equipped to face the inevitable failures and rejections that are part of life.

09.06.18 15/22 exams down, 7 to go.