Fun fact, as you’re seeing this post, I’m actually on a train home for the holidays. I’ve taken all my photos before I left for home so none of the posts will look different but watch my story for some of the stuff I get up to over the holidays. Please expect delicious food :D

✍ Archer & Olive Bullet Journal, Uniball Signo RT1 UMN-155, Pentel Fude Touch Brush Sign Pen, Zebra Mildliners

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[november 14, 2022]

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30.11.2022 || Day 3/70

Studying on the floor feels so good mostly because I can surround myself with different books. Things I did today

Will do some reading comprehension and more maths in the evening

here i present to u my neurobiology notes of which i am, frankly, very proud.

my studygram - where I post my journal and snippets of my hapless life as a student 

Researching, writing, also procrastinating.

this week i set up some shelves behind my desk and added some postcards of some of my favorite paintings.. im so happy! but,, i spend all my free time gazing at the renoir instead of doing work....

ive trying to consciously make studying enjoyable, but also rigorous and productive lately. started by downloading forest and tidying up my desk (a very good mix of art and law obvs). today is day one. hope everyone is staying safe.

[11/23/22]

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celebrating my brother's bday today!! last week was very normal i feel kinda detached from reality,,, maybe it's the cold hm. hopefully this thanksgiving break i can rest and recharge a bit more with family <33

currently listening to:

JULY 12 / 22

stickers will always encourage me to be productive 🧃🏃‍♂️

some travels and some journaling

31/50 days of productivity | 19.07.2022

Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

07|04|2022

I've been studying for this philosophy of science class for months, and I cannot stand it anymore. Today I again reviewd my notes, struggling like never before becuase I just cannot focus. It's a nightmare. Tomorrow I plan on approaching things with a different method, and hopefully that will help. Other than this I didn't get much done, I read first thing in the morning, listened to an audiobook, and later I'll do my duolingo practice. I really can't wait for this exam to be over, but in the meantime I could really use some focus to review stuff cause there's a lot.