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if you're reading this, it's a sign that everything is going to be alright.
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This is the purest, most beautiful thing I have ever seen in the entire world. What a wonderful experience wow honestly what a privilege to be graced with this sweet perfect thing at 4:14 in the morning
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This is still so beautiful to me…I’m in tears again
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Okay, but as a former hamster parent, I want to tell you why this video clip is so adorable and sweet to me. He’s actually eating. Taking bites, chewing and swallowing. Hamsters only do that when they feel safe and comfortable and protected. Most of the time if they encounter food outside of their nest, they will just quickly shove it into their cheek pouches to eat later. But he’s so chill and so comfy that he’s just eating right there out in the open.
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i decided to create a challenge about books for december (or whenever you want to do it, really)!
📚Why and how?
- Sometimes i spend more time deciding what book to read than actually reading, so i wanted to make my book research easier. How? you might ask… Well, if people take part in this challenge, we only need to check the tag for book recommendations.
Smart, I know - I’ll be starting on the 1st December 2020, but you can start whenever you want to!
- There’s a 31-prompt list right after this introduction, the point of this challenge is naming a book that fits each day’s prompt
- Some prompts are questions, some others are more abstract (ideas, concepts…)
- You can name more than one book, that’s up to you
- There’s no need to follow the order of the prompts, maybe you want to do this while reading your books and you can find the prompt to fit the book!!
- If you decide to join, use the tag #name the book challenge so we can easily find your posts!
📚Really important!!
- Please, reblog this post so more people can join us! And feel free to let me know if you’ll participate so i can follow you
- Keep in mind that you can take your time, don’t rush yourself, post as much or as little as you can/want
- There is nothing specific you have to tell us about the book, you can just tell us the title and the author, or tell us as much as you want (keep it spoiler free tho)
- There’s no such thing as “wrong answer” to any of the prompts
📚Prompts
1. What’s the first book you remember reading (that you actually enjoyed)?
2. What’s the last book you’ve read?
3. Technology
4. Who’s your favorite author? Name a book!
5. Time machine
6. Aesthetic
7. Do you have to read books for class? Name a book you’ve read for any of your classes! If not, name a book you would recommend if you were a teacher
8. Theater
9. Travel
10. Saga
11. Adventures
12. Have you cried while reading a book? Name the book!
13. Is there a book you’ve only read because of its cover/title?
14. Poetry
15. Broken
16. What’s the book that made you think the most?
17. Trilogy
18. Golden age
19. Novel
20. Do you bookmark pages with important content or quotes? Name the book with the most markers you have
21. Group of friends
22. Far away from home
23. Where are you from? Name a book written by an author from your country!
24. Seasonal
25. What’s the book you didn’t think you’d enjoy, but you read it and fell in love with it?
26. Strong main character
27. Fantasy
28. Do you have any book signed by the author? Name the book! If you don’t, name a book you would like the author to sign it
29. Foreign language
30. Tell me a book that didn’t fit in any of the prompts but you still want to recommend
31. New beginnings
If you have any questions you can always message me or send me an ask!
Gradventures 14.11.2020
Yesterday everything went wrong, and I am not superstitious but it was definitely a comfort when I found out it was Friday 13th. Let me make a list
- I found out external hard disks I have been giving my students to work with on video coding may not work on macs
- I found out external hard disks may not run videos on other computers either
- A student cancelled her appointment to pick up a hard disk last minute (arranging physical meetings at the office is a pain in the a right now). Then I tried to accidentally schedule her for a wrong day
- Two students couldn't make it to an already postponed training
- I found out that last week I miscalculated interrater reliability and it's actually my paper
- My paper that I've been pouring my soul into was rejected
A lot of these things involve the same group of 8 students, and I'm afraid they must think I am a mess at this point, but I sincerely hope that's just because I feel like a mess. Also, is it import if students think me chaotic?
What makes it worse is that I've been struggling with self-esteem around video coding since starting the journey in March (first time doing qualitative research), and having to teach/lead it now is scary. Also, the videos themselves have been an issue, because a group of students have cut, organised, and named them wrong so it took us a month to fix the mess.
In the grand scheme of things these things don't matter, and I know that, but like John Green said: we don't live in the grand scheme of things. We live in the here and now, and here and now they suck.
I have lost a bit of motivation for my work and am dreading having to go back on Monday and open my mailbox and just face everything. I will challenge myself to write down on each workday
- 1 thing that made me happy,
- 1 thing that I am proud of, and
- 1 thing I'm looking forward to/excited about
I hope this will remind me of why I like doing what I do (whelp, it's an intense 5 year project that does not pay that well so I surely must love it). I printed a bunch of papers on co-rumination and the contagion of depression and anxiety that I am excited to read.
But for now it's weekend and the sims 4 had an update that involve both major build and gameplay improvements so im cool
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Hey Bookaholics! 🤓
I'm hosting a readathon just to encourage everyone to read diverse books! This will run for 15 days between 8th November and 22nd November 2020 in your respective timezones.
I made some prompts to make it challenging:
- Read a book by an Asian author
- Read a book with mental health rep
- Read a book by a Black author
- Read a book by a Latinx author
- Read a book with LGBTQ+ rep
- Read a book with disability rep
Bonus challenge: Read a book with less than 10k ratings on Goodreads
You can read as much or as little as you want. As long as you read a diverse book, it's great! Doubling up of challenges is allowed as well as encouraged (we all like knocking out multiple challenges with one book). You will find at least one book on your TBR shelf that can fulfill any of the above prompts. This is a nudge to pick up that book!
Use the hashtag #diversathon for all posts related to the readathon. This can be your TBR, a book review, rant, reading update, absolutely anything you want.
Reblog to spread the word!
Happy reading! ❤️
I love how easy access to academic articles is. you just:
- happen to stumble upon an interesting article on jstor via google
- turn on and log into your uni’s vpn client
- click through 5 pages on the library’s website to go to jstor through the secured university-paid access line
- find out for some reason said article isn’t included in the university-paid jstor access
- copy the article’s name in your library’s search engine
- come up with no results
- copy the author’s name into your library’s search engine
- find the article!
- click on “full text access”
- have to log in to another university online system
- find out it cancelled your search when logging in
- start the search again
- click on “full text access” again
- cry in relief when the article actually opens and is downloadable
- (optional) find out that the article wasn’t even all that helpful
A brief update on grad school life (oct 2020)
Haven't been doing great. I haven't made the progress on writing that I was hoping to, I'm presenting on a conference in three weeks but I can't start analyzing the data yet, team morale is low, tasks are piling up, and on a more personal note I have two ill family members. The effect of covid on my mood has gone from the anxiety type (omg everything is wrong with the world whats going to happen next i need to make sure i dont infect anyone) to depressive type (this is taking so long i dont remember life before and i dont know when i will feel happiness again)
I will be okay again (had a similar experience last year) but I need to keep reminding myself to take it one day at a time
On a brighter note I started playing The Witcher (the first one from 2008) and I have been having a great 8 hours so far
Gradblr 05-09.10.2020
I haven't updated in here in a week, which is a very October thing for me to do. Data collection is just around the corner and although we are better prepared for some things than last year, there is no way to prepare for research on humans in times of covid. (And yet we try! The real challenge is how to remain sane.)
I planned on doing the October community challenge by @myhoneststudyblr and I was sooo excited, but I feel like I will just stress myself out if I try to keep up.
Monday October 5th
I had a long video meeting, during half of which I just really really needed to pee. It was about data cleaning, and our data are a MESS! I'm glad we're discussing it but it's also a bit stressful because it's both time sensitive and a lot of work.
Tuesday October 6th
My only physical Thing (music class) was cancelled. Also, I had a bit of breakdown and cried for an hour because "I have to do so much and I have to do all of it on my own and perfectly and I am so dumb". The work is a lot, but I work in a lovely team who has my back. My mental health >>>> perfection. And I am not dumb. It's often hard to believe for many of us, but I'll say it again and again. I am smart. I am capable. I wouldn't be here if I wasn't capable. Do I already believe it? Nah.
Thursday October 8th
I admitted my Tuesday panic to my supervisor, but at that point I had already dealt with it pretty well by:
- Asking my coauthors to postpone our meeting so I had more time to prepare
- Postponing a task that was due Wednesday but had no urgent consequences when not met
And that was really good! I was able to work on some things for my paper and video coding as well as catch up with some practical things such as preparing for a meeting with my students and tending to emails.
Friday October 9th
I planned on working on my paper for most of the day, but wasn't able to focus for that long. I kept getting frustrated with my thoughts and once again the sound of "you're not smart enough to do this" was persistent in the back of my head. At the end of the day I am quite happy with what I accomplished though, and I feel like my to do list for the week was completed. I still have a lot waiting for me for next week, but that's a future-me problem! For now it's weekend and I am going to see my grandmother for the first time since covid... :D
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vaguely academic things to do to keep yourself entertained
- go down a wikipedia research hole by clicking the first term you don’t understand
- binge a crashcourse series end to end (personal recs: world history, history of science, big history, philosophy)
- find free books on project gutenberg
- download some western classics for free
- borrow books and audiobooks from the libby app or borrowbox
- start a commonplace book
- take a khan academy course
- browse MIT’s free online course materials
- teach yourself to code
- go on a google scholar essay dive
- try the open access button to avoid some paywalls for academic media, or install unpaywall that does a similar thing
- research the history of the place you where you live
- tempt the wrath of the duolingo owl and learn a language
- search for online streams of the local tv in your target language’s country and use as background noise for immersion points
- print and scrapbook favourite poetry and literature quotes
- improve your handwriting by doing handwriting exercises
- learn philosophy with the philosophize this! podcast. actually just check out all the educational spotify podcasts there are many good ones
- start a weekly club with friends to share new and interesting things you’ve learnt that week
- clean and reorganise your study space, physical or digital
- check out online museums
- fave educational youtube channels that I adore: vsauce, crashcourse, smarter every day, kurzgesagt, school of life, tom scott, r. c. waldun, vsauce3, primer, mark rober, veritasium, asapSCIENCE, scishow, TED-ed
hopefully you’ll find something to enjoy! happy learning x
I have officially started my final year of University! For this semester I am taking four computer science classes online.
My first week of online classes went well. Ironically my computer security class caused a privacy breach.
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I love downloading pdfs. it’s like ok this is mine now
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Therapists aren’t people who you “pay to pretend to care about you”, therapists are people you pay to teach you how to care for yourself
Me: I am violently depressed.
Therapist: Oh! Sounds like you need to do YOGA! That will help!
Me: *signs up for yoga*
Me: *is violently depressed in Downward Dog*
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Me: I hate myself and only see my flaws
Therapist: ok lets refocus on things you like about yourself. This week i want you to try and journal about good things you’ve for yourself and others.
Me: *does the homework* yeah but i still hate myself but feel bad cause i shouldn’t
Therapist: feeling like you shouldn’t hate yourself is a step in the right direction. Mental health is complex and isn’t something that will ~magically~ improve. We have a lot of hard work head of us but I’ll be here to help you.
TL;DR stop perpetuating the idea that therapy is unhelpful because the results are not instantaneous.
FUCKING THIS.
As a psychologist the amount of bullshit on this site, the amount of fucking dangerous bullshit on this site about how therapy is neurotypical bullshit and isn’t worth it and how exercise is pointless and good diet is pointless and that therapy homework is pointless DRIVES ME UP THE FUCKING WALL
Exercise is fucking important. good diet is fucking important therapy is fucking important. WHY???
because pills alone don’t help. they improve the hormonal imbalance (as does exercise and good diet which ALSO are a form of very real self care as your physical being is sorta connected to your mental one but go fucking figure right?), but guess what? the suicidal thoughts, the thoughts of harm, the thoughts of hating yourself, they’re still there. suicides actually increase when medicated. why? because suddenly you have the energy to fulfill thoughts of harming yourself. which is why you NEED therapy alongside pills.
it has taken you years, or decades to create your maladaptive thought processes and behaviours. that shit doesn’t disappear overnight. core beliefs don’t change overnight. these are the very fucking core of your personhood, your being and personality. THAT TAKES TIME TO CHANGE
STOP ACTING LIKE THERAPY IS SHIT IF IT DOESNT WORK IN TWO SESSIONS
^This!!!!!
boobs-and-blondes
The stigma that therapy isn’t worth it if you don’t feel better after the first couple sessions is such bullshit. It took me 8 months to tell my therapist anything personal but I kept going because I wanted to get better. I thought it was bs too when she kept telling me to think about other things and to distract myself when I have intrusive thoughts (not exact words whatsoever). Now it’s 2 and a half years later and I can successfully switch from thinking about all the ways I could kill myself to the song Slippery by Migos and immediately start laughing. You need to let it help you.
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13/Sept/2020, Sunday
I need to stop worrying and thinking about the rejection.
Rejection is Re-direction.
I don’t let myself be defeated this easily.
I need to work on my journal club for the lab. I like this paper. So I try my best to not get distracted and emotionally drained by the reviewer comments on the manuscript. Our manuscript will be published soon - I am sure. And I believe in our data. This rejection gives us the opportunity to improve the manuscript and shine even brighter.
Have a great Sunday. I believe in you. No negativity allowed for the next week!
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Out of curiosity I checked the hashtags of those beautiful souls reblogging this post (I love reading hashtags) and one of them says: #failure
I somehow started laughing. I don’t know. Like, is this really failure (to you)?. To me it is learning and getting up, working through hard times. I guess in the end this person doesn’t think I failed but this single hashtag makes me think :D. I don’t take it personally. actually, I still kind of laugh and at the same time cringe. Please take this post (I know most of you do) as sharing something very vulnerable and close to my heart and maybe some kind of inspiration. “failure” doesn’t exist. I just wanted to quickly say this. ~ good night thoughts :)
Sending you hugs. I hope you never ever give up. Work for your dreams.
Hahaha so this wasnt me but I can totally imagine myself having a tag for "inspirational failure posts", where people don't give up after things don't go according to plan :')))
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Today I apologized to the phlebotomist when they couldn’t get any blood after each draw, as I always do, and after I got home I realized that this isn’t even really about people-pleasing or anxiety, though those might be factors.
It’s about the fact that I have always viewed my body as an inconvenience, a disappointment, and a burden to others.
Let me just say to my body right now: You were not made for others’ benefit. You do not owe anyone anything. You do not need to pay a price to earn the gift of living in this world just as you are. There is nothing to forgive yourself for. You do not need to apologize for when things are scary and you can’t stop them. You do not need to apologize for anything. You are not perfect, but you are not flawed. I will do better by you.
Wow this is an amazing insight, good job!! 🥰
Gradblr 28.08.2020
Today can be summarised as follows
Everything is okay, but just barely
Which is apparently my sweet spot. Just enough stress and tasks and deadlines to keep my busy and on my toes, but not yet so much that it starts to feel overwhelming. I’m afraid that it is in a way the calm before the storm, but let’s hope that my organising skills have now gotten to a point where I can Deal With It.
The thing is you can’t really plan for data collection with human subjects these days. The covid numbers were looking good a few months ago, so we received approval to continue home visits in October, but the number have been increasing fast and now we have no idea what our data collection will look like.
On another note, I am questioning my sexuality again. The fact that there are so many labels somehow makes it simultaneously much harder and much easier to define myself.
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i dont know how many people know this but today (26th September) is the European Days of Language! According to its website, these are the goals of this day:
1. Alerting the public to the importance of language learning and diversifying the range of languages learnt in order to increase plurilingualism and intercultural understanding; 2. Promoting the rich linguistic and cultural diversity of Europe, which must be preserved and fostered; 3. Encouraging lifelong language learning in and out of school, whether for study purposes, for professional needs, for purposes of mobility or for pleasure and exchanges.
As some of you may know, I study German and have a huge love of languages, and in my school we usually have some sort of celebration for the European Day of Languages, which is always great fun. Unfortunately, due to COVID, those plans have had to be cancelled, which was doubly disappointing for me because i am German Prefect in my school so i would have been organising it. So i’ve been trying to think of how i could commemorate this day.
Then i began to think of the studyblr community and all the incredible people i know on here. And i began to think - and truly realise - how many people on here are speaking in their second, third, or perhaps even fourth or fifth language. Yet, we never really appreciate that because English is just taken as a given. As a native English speaker, i find that embarrassing and saddening because that is not how it should be. It is so difficult to learn a language and the level that most studyblrs are speaking English is incredible so we should take time to recognise that and not just dismiss it as something everyone should be able to do. I learn German but i could never use it as my primary language online because i would be too scared of making mistakes and not understanding anything, so it is also incredibly brave to put yourself out there.
So i wanted to take this opportunity, on a day that is dedicated to the promotion of languages and linguistic and cultural diversity, to say thank you to some people who i am constantly amazed by.
from pat (@coffeeandpies) and ana (@sosiaalitieteet) whose memeglish is better than mine and whose notes in their own languages (thai and finnish respectively) always make me smile when i see them on my dash because they are so incredible.
to yasemin (@study-van) who not only speaks perfect english but is also fluent in french and is studying medicine in france! seeing you respond to asks in turkish or in the tags is one of my favourite things because i have no idea what it means but i always try to figure it out (i never usually get that far XD)
and sabrina (@bulletnotestudies) who introduced me to slovene - a language that i had never heard or seen before - but found gorgeous! not to mention the beautiful saying ‘every village has its own voice’ because of the many dialects!
then there’s cat (@studyambitiouss) who wants to be an english teacher and whose love of english and reading makes me appreciate my own language more
and meike (@athenastudying) who is doing an ma in english studies and reads so much that i always know that all it will take is a quick look over her instagram to find a book recommendation!
also harriet (@stu-dna) whose notes are always a particular favourite of mine because they are usually in a mixture of german and English (denglish) and i like to challenge myself to see if i can understand them!
there are so many more and i wish i could go through everyone but this post would probably go be forever! i just want everyone to know that you are incredible for being so courageous and talented!
i would love if people would share what their native language is and share a few words so we can all appreciate the beautiful diversity in the studyblr community, which is too often ignored!
Aww Sophie what a wonderful post! I didn't know this day existed but it is so great!! One of my favourite studyspo things is seeing notes in languages I don't know, or people who use multiple languages in their notes
My native language is Dutch, but I actually feel quite uncomfortable using it on here. Here are some words I'd love to share:
Vriendschap = friendship 💕
Bloem = flower 🌼
Herfst = autumn 🍂
Aantekeningen = notes 📑
Gezellig = this is one that's hard to translate, which I believe are any language most beautiful words, but it means something between cozy and fun, and you typically use it describe when you're having a good time with people ("It was very gezellig hanging with you today") or a cozy room ("Your room looks so gezellig with all the candles")