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Can’t sleep again. Been tired for the whole day yesterday (since it’s past 12am now.. it’s actually 3plus am).

Didn’t feel my best and channelled my emotions into doodling.. resulting in this.

At least I had some notes done so..not entirely a bad thing, I suppose. Haha.

Happy Star Wars Day (and belated to those on earlier time zones) everyone! :)

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kayceesdesk

10.1.17

Last week’s bujo spread! ( + everything yellow that i could possibly throw into the picture lol)

fall vibes for this photoset!! i’m so ready to wear big fluffy sweaters :’) !!! (although cali weather is apparently set on making sure i don’t get my wishes ripp)

i really like this spread! i (obviously) did not keep up with my habit tracker whoOps. maybe i should add a category to the tracker for keeping up with the tracker…?? HAHA anyway. 

i didn’t get to make a spread for this past week, so i just used my planner (which is entirely unrelated to the pictures but) which is why the dates aren’t recent in the pictures. 

the highlight of the week: had my first golf match!! my opponents were so nice, it was like we weren’t even competing! it was as if we were just playing golf as friends???? i’m so so grateful ; v;

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My desk set up! Two days until my exam, that’s why I haven’t posted as much as usual. Thanks for all the iPad questions in my inbox, I promise to answer them soon! ☺️💕

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To all my freshman babies who are panicking right now about how much your college textbooks cost: Yeah, you’re right, that’s some highway robbery. No, you don’t have to lie down and take it. You have options. Follow my advice and fly on your own debt free wings.

1. Forgoe the bookstore entirely. Sometimes you can get a good deal on something, usually a rental, but it’s usually going to be considerably more expensive to go through official channels. Outsmart them, babies.

2. Does your syllabus call for edition eight? Get edition seven. Old editions are considered worthless in the buyback trades, so they sell for dirt cheap, no matter how new they are. It’s a gamble, sure; there might be something in edition eight you desperately need, but that never happened to me. However, I’ve only ever pulled this stunt for literature/mass comm/religious studies books, so I don’t know it would work in the sciences.

3. Thriftbooks.com, especially for nonfiction and fiction. Books are usually four or five dollars unless they’re really new, and shipping is 99 cents unless you buy over 10$ in books, in which case shipping is free. 

4. Bigwords.com. It will scan every textbook seller on the internet for the lowest price available, and will do the same to find the highest price when you try to sell your books back at the end of term. Timesaver, lifesaver.

5. In all probability, your library offers a service called interlibrary loan which is included in your tuition. This means if your library doesn’t carry a book you can order it for free from any library nationwide in your library’s network and it will be shipped to you in a number of days. Ask a librarian to show you how to search for materials at your library as well as though interlibrary loan; you’ll need to master this skill soon anyway.  If you get lucky you can just have your required reading shipped to you a week before you need to start reading, then renew vigorously until you no longer need to item. I’m saving over 100$ on a History of Islam class this way.

You professors might side-eye you for bringing an old edition or a library copy, but you just smile right back honey, because you can pay your rent and go clubbing this month. You came here to win. So go forth and slay.

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band-god

full offense but the arts are just as important as stem and anyone who disagrees can meet me in the pit

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xwingace

I agree 1000%.

BUT! I also think that, exactly because they are equally important, people should endeavour to have some knowledge of both.

None of this ‘I can’t do science, I’m an English major’ or ‘Music? I do Physics’ crap.

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ariodante

Totally agree. None of that “artists hate STEM” or vice versa nonsense.

Especially considering how much STEM and the arts go together. If you only do one and shun the other you are MISSING OUT, man. You’ll never get to see how beautifully everything fits together

I actually know more than one musician physics major. They are elevated to a higher state of being when it comes to an understanding of sound mechanics.

Schools not only need to emphasize both STEM and the arts equally, they also need to stop advertising them as separate, mutually exclusive things and forcing people to take sides on a dichotomy that doesn’t even exist

stem! and! the! arts! are! not! mutually! exclusive!!!!!

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studysum

I recently went to a Google Resume Workshop that was primarily aimed towards software engineering students, but I think a lot of these tips could be useful for any resume! I decided I’d make this little post to share some of what I learned and hopefully help some of you get that job you’ve been wanting!

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  • Full name at the top, generally bolded or slightly larger
  • Beneath your name you want to put all of your contact info
  • Address
  • Phone Number
  • Email Address
  • LinkedIn link
  • Github link
  • Any other relevant link or contact info
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uhnmotivated

[ 24/06/17 - 15/100 ] Got up at 7 today to study for two hours before taking a short nap and starting my day. I think it was pretty productive, so I might try go do that more often in future. I’m currently revising econs, and I’m aiming to finish up around 11. I’ve just been sleeping really late lately and I can really feel it taking a toll on me, so I’m trying to revert back to my old sleeping schedule, where I go to bed pretty early.

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