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❝Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive - it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it?❞ ─ A.S. 18 year old Canadian studying science. I like Les Misérables and the colour yellow. Feel free to message me and say hey! x

I like to romanticise my time on this blog because grade 12 went well for me, and it’s been 2 years now since I was consistent on this blog, which means I’m prone to romanticising it because I don’t remember it well. But I’m struggling with school right now, and I’m thinking about how I wish I could be back in high school when it was easy again and I’d figured it out, but the honest truth was that I fought extremely hard to do well in high school. The problem is that in uni I’m having to deal with other things as well like feeding myself and living away from my support system. But I shouldn’t romanticise my high school time, because I worked incredibly hard then, and I can find that inner strength in me once again.

Dealing with Failure

Today has been a day full of highs and lows. I had two midterms today and although one went quite well, the other went quite poorly. I was not expecting physics to go well and chemistry to go badly, but that is what happened and... I spent a lot of my evening moping, to be honest.

But at least failure means I can work harder next time and study harder and figure out what’s wrong with my study methods and improve.

The reason why I studied so hard for physics is because I have a trauma/history of doing poorly in physics - which is great, but that means I underestimated chemistry. I’ve developed a trauma in chemistry heheh

OK. The scary part about university is how much your grades matter on like, one test, because what if you’re feeling off that day? ... But regardless, that is how the system works, and I am just going to WIN it. I am going to study SO had for my chemistry final and KILL it. I WILL.

Life is all about highs and lows, ebbs and flows. Today’s physics midterm went well - that has nothing to do with how I’m going to do in the future midterm. If I want to do well in school, I have to put in work consistently and STOP underestimating subjects. That was my mistake.

As for how to step away from numbers... I’ll talk about that when I figure it out :(

You are not a failure because you did something poorly. Everyone fails. What matters is what you do after it - which is LEARN from your mistakes, PICK yourself back up, and IMPROVE. You’re a superstar. We can do this. <3 <3 <3

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Anonymous asked:

Yeah I feel the same about numbers not defining you and I’m in such low right now it’s insane.. I can’t find motivation and it shows

:( Hang in there my friend. I wish I could offer more words of comfort but I am moping myself. I'm optimistic this mood will pass but it's hard right now to handle.

so desperately trying to remember that numbers don't define me but it's so hard to

Anonymous asked:

ARE YOU TAKING PHYSICS IF SO WHICH KIND?? Hs physics college physixs ap C? Thank you! :)

University physics! But it’s an introductory class for those who haven’t taken physics before (although I have......... I did take high school physics haha).

Tuesday, October 17th 2017

Feeling riled up about school right now, and getting that burning feeling of being determined to show everyone wrong. So this studyblr is making a comeback. I have a physics midterm to study for, and I WILL ace it.

#1999coffees #studyblr #studyspo #studyvation #cutestudystuff #academla #heysareena #university #first year university

i’m so screwed hahaha

set your own standards

a reminder that you shouldn’t compare yourself with others when it comes to grades, only with yourself. the goal is for you to be better than you were yesterday, not to beat the grades than your friends get.

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Organic Chemistry...

Okay so I have an organic chemistry test tomorrow and I’m freaking out a little bit because I feel so unprepared. I 100% know it’s my fault because I was concentrating on studying for my math mock all last week so I let myself slide on the chemistry studying but now I’m a little bit screwed.

However, I still have a solid about 12 hours of studying I can still do!!! It’s about half past eleven right now and I know most of my reactions. I just have to focus on really memorising all my reactions + the mechanisms, as well as learning how to draw the diagrams with the curly arrows and understanding stereoisomerism more. I can do this.

(I’m announcing this so that I can shame myself into doing it haha)

It’s about 10 o’clock now so I’m like pretty much done studying. I’ve reached that point where you just feel like you know everything even though you don’t (well, there are definitely spots I’m a little patchy on) but I’m just kind of like eh on the test I can fake my way through it. Which is not entirely true. I’m going to do a little more revision and then shower and sleep :)

THANK YOU for all being so so so kind <3 I had my test today and it went fine! I’m anticipating at least a 6, a 7 if I’m lucky. I’m feeling pretty happy about it and proud of myself, especially considering I learned this entire unit, considered by most the hardest of the year, in one weekend haha. It was bad planning on my part, but I did have a math mock last Thursday and I absolutely needed to get a 7 strong on that.

I also got my in-class comparative essay back that I wrote about a month ago haha. And I am pleasantly surprised! I managed a weak 7 which I am sooo happy about. I have gotten motivation to do well in English by the fact that my teacher told me she “pegged me as a solid 5 student at the beginning of the year” which kind of seems like an unnecessary thing to say? So I’m determined to prove her wrong haha. She wrote “Oh - I love this ending! A very interesting paper to read.” and I was very happy.

Things are going good, y’all. I have a small mountain of things to do before March Break next next week, but it’s okay. I can do this. I am a star.

I’m so impressed with myself about orgo. Like I really set aside the time to study this weekend and did not play. I woke up early to study and didn’t do other things and really just focused. I’m not very good at self-control but I did it. I’m so happy y’all.

Friends I got my organic test back!!! I was a little sad at first because I got a 96, which is still a very good mark, but it is a 6 so that was upsetting... but then we took up the test and I was confused because some of the things I got right she marked wrong, so when I told her about it, she agreed with me and she added on 3 marks, which brought me to a 98!!!

I’m like so happy about this y’all. :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

My French writing assignment is on Hamilton because that’s how extra I am about this musical HAHA

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1999coffees reblogged

Organic Chemistry...

Okay so I have an organic chemistry test tomorrow and I’m freaking out a little bit because I feel so unprepared. I 100% know it’s my fault because I was concentrating on studying for my math mock all last week so I let myself slide on the chemistry studying but now I’m a little bit screwed.

However, I still have a solid about 12 hours of studying I can still do!!! It’s about half past eleven right now and I know most of my reactions. I just have to focus on really memorising all my reactions + the mechanisms, as well as learning how to draw the diagrams with the curly arrows and understanding stereoisomerism more. I can do this.

(I’m announcing this so that I can shame myself into doing it haha)

It’s about 10 o’clock now so I’m like pretty much done studying. I’ve reached that point where you just feel like you know everything even though you don’t (well, there are definitely spots I’m a little patchy on) but I’m just kind of like eh on the test I can fake my way through it. Which is not entirely true. I’m going to do a little more revision and then shower and sleep :)

THANK YOU for all being so so so kind <3 I had my test today and it went fine! I’m anticipating at least a 6, a 7 if I’m lucky. I’m feeling pretty happy about it and proud of myself, especially considering I learned this entire unit, considered by most the hardest of the year, in one weekend haha. It was bad planning on my part, but I did have a math mock last Thursday and I absolutely needed to get a 7 strong on that.

I also got my in-class comparative essay back that I wrote about a month ago haha. And I am pleasantly surprised! I managed a weak 7 which I am sooo happy about. I have gotten motivation to do well in English by the fact that my teacher told me she “pegged me as a solid 5 student at the beginning of the year” which kind of seems like an unnecessary thing to say? So I’m determined to prove her wrong haha. She wrote “Oh - I love this ending! A very interesting paper to read.” and I was very happy.

Things are going good, y’all. I have a small mountain of things to do before March Break next next week, but it’s okay. I can do this. I am a star.

I’m so impressed with myself about orgo. Like I really set aside the time to study this weekend and did not play. I woke up early to study and didn’t do other things and really just focused. I’m not very good at self-control but I did it. I’m so happy y’all.

#1999coffees.txt

1999coffees reblogged

Organic Chemistry...

Okay so I have an organic chemistry test tomorrow and I’m freaking out a little bit because I feel so unprepared. I 100% know it’s my fault because I was concentrating on studying for my math mock all last week so I let myself slide on the chemistry studying but now I’m a little bit screwed.

However, I still have a solid about 12 hours of studying I can still do!!! It’s about half past eleven right now and I know most of my reactions. I just have to focus on really memorising all my reactions + the mechanisms, as well as learning how to draw the diagrams with the curly arrows and understanding stereoisomerism more. I can do this.

(I’m announcing this so that I can shame myself into doing it haha)

It’s about 10 o’clock now so I’m like pretty much done studying. I’ve reached that point where you just feel like you know everything even though you don’t (well, there are definitely spots I’m a little patchy on) but I’m just kind of like eh on the test I can fake my way through it. Which is not entirely true. I’m going to do a little more revision and then shower and sleep :)

#1999coffees.txt

joyfuljasmin-study-blog asked:

Good luck on your test love!! Even just taking the test is an accomplishment to me :)

aw you’re such a sweet person thank you

I was talking to my friend the other day and he’s a year older so he’s in uni now but I was talking about orgo and how I didn’t understand it and he goes “yeah orgo was the time of year when I started fully committing to not paying attention in class like before that you know I kinda paid attention but that was the time when I started fully committing and then before the test I was like oh that was a poor choice" lol

meghastudies-deactivated2017041 asked:

Organic Chemistry is tough but so are YOU!!!!!! I know you can do it. Good luck to you tonight and extra luck for tomorrow!!!! Let me know how it goes!!!🐣😊

WHAT A KIND MESSAGE. Yes organic chemistry is tough but it is honestly so interesting just so much to memorise... thank you so much for this

Anonymous asked:

Good luck on your test! You can do it 😼

Thank you so so so much for this lovely message

Organic Chemistry...

Okay so I have an organic chemistry test tomorrow and I’m freaking out a little bit because I feel so unprepared. I 100% know it’s my fault because I was concentrating on studying for my math mock all last week so I let myself slide on the chemistry studying but now I’m a little bit screwed.

However, I still have a solid about 12 hours of studying I can still do!!! It’s about half past eleven right now and I know most of my reactions. I just have to focus on really memorising all my reactions + the mechanisms, as well as learning how to draw the diagrams with the curly arrows and understanding stereoisomerism more. I can do this.

(I’m announcing this so that I can shame myself into doing it haha)

#1999coffees.txt

Anonymous asked:

Hi! Did u take the act or sat?

Hi sorry but I never wrote either of them!

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