ataraxia

25 May 2026 ☀️

01-15.05.2026

[ 13th may, 2026 • day 9/80 ]

two days in a rowwwww who’s thissssss

-> calc3 worksheet 2 (exercises: 8c-d, 9a-b, 10)

-> therapy (total: 1h00)

🎧 Cold World, by Of Mice & Men

📓 Still Life, by Sarah Winman

18.05.2026

• I finally finished packing up all my stuff. I tried to drop off one of my packages at the automated station and I think I did it wrong. I may have to call DHL again🫩.

• My flatmate is catsitting!!!!

• I didn’t do anything school work and I went for class unprepared. I didn’t know anything about the exercises we were meant to look at and I felt so bad :((. Have to work on that. Especially cause Biosignals keeps escalating and I’m falling behind.

• In the vain of not doing anything, my group members wrote the lab report without me and I felt bad, again, so I was like if they don’t want me to put my name and sign, that’ll be fair. BUT. This other dude that didn’t do anything either took the names and signatures from the first week’s report, slapped it onto this one and submitted it💀. I’ll just have to make up for it this week. AND I WILL.

• Also worked on another report, they’re never ending, and @a-fox-studies and @nyxscave SAVED my life. I have to get a bunch of specific data points from this massive graph and they helped me plot an interactive one with python.

• I realized my Audiology presentation is on the day the Biosignals professor is taking the class. He’s on the more intense side so I’m a bit worried now. He allegedly is very nice with grades but he always asks one hsjdiehidd question. I just have to prepare on time and it’ll be fine but ughhhh. The Audiology professor is so nice. Maybe I’ll ask if u can do it on a day he’s teaching lmao.

• Binged Off Campus for my troubles.

🌳: 1hr 9mins

Late April, calm before the storm

Another day, another fun annotating session! 📝🎐

When I really want to understand a paper, I try to “dumb-down” EVERYTHING (!!!) I can, no matter how hard or easy it seemed on the first read.

Also, I organize paragraphs in my own way so that when I come back later, I can quickly scan my bullet points and use them to navigate the paper 🫟💭

the end of an era

On May 23 I finished my undergraduate degree, somehow managing to double major in History and French with minors in Linguistics and International Relations. I’m so glad I got to go to the college I chose (and particularly grateful for scholarships!), because I got to meet and live with some very lovely people. The college I went to gave me access to the best academic experiences of my life: a summer internship working for my prof on an archaeological site in Türkiye & a 6 month semester in Paris, France.

I had plenty of hard times— I can’t say that I am a good student, but college has made me confident to say that I can be a good scholar. In September, I will be starting a masters program in Iron Age Archaeology, which I am genuinely thrilled about (and I hardly ever use that word). I expect that next year will be even harder academically than anything I’ve done so far, but I’m so excited to try.