Study For The Sake Of Your Dreams

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Being abused at home, bullied at school and lost in the world, the library and all the books I could escape to the most amazing worlds, kept me alive!

I would walk to the library, and spend all day, from 10 am to 9 pm reading there!! I got special awards for how many books I read, I wrote little blurbs on why i loved the books (probably why I love to BETA and do ARCs) 

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE Just hit the green arrows and the reblog!!!

As a 50 year old woman, the library offers me so much. Digital art pads to borrow, 3D printing, book clubs that are face to face (yeah, the introvert likes face to face because a moderator will stomp on anyone getting snarky)

New books in LARGE PRINT! I’m visually challenged and as much as I love my kindle, The feel of a real book in my hands will always be a beloved feeling!

warming your hands on a mug of coffee, tea, or hot chocolate

settling in to study under a pile of blankets

short days, waking for your first class while it’s still dark

your favorite sweater, worn and wearing thin 

walking from one class to the next, face shielded from the wind by a hand-knitted scarf

writing even as your fingers grow stiff with cold

a glow of warm, flickering candlelight

getting distracted by snow falling just outside your window

working diligently, pushing through to the end of the semester

deep, calming breaths before a big test that turn to fog in the frigid air

a glimpse of the sun, low on the horizon

long novels piled on your bedside table

DONT

“Uhhh so… I guess in that situation you could…. uh I don’t know, sorry”

DO

“I am not sure about the answer to that and I don’t want to guess. After we are done here I’ll email you with the answer to that”

DONT

“I’m sorry to bother you, I am new and I do not know how to do this, sorry to ask”

DO

“I want to make sure I do this correctly, could you walk me through it one more time?”

DONT

“Sure I’ll do that now! Even tho I have 15 other things people asked of me!”

DO

“I can do that. I am working on two other projects right now, X and Y, what should I prioritize? I will also check in with A and B to adjust timeline for those projects if necessary.”

DONT

“I can’t do it, too many projects already.”

DO

“I can do it, but that timeline will not work for me. I can do it by Friday instead, does that work? If not, I think it would be best to tap someone else in for this.”

DONT

“This is boring why do you only give me the same 2 tasks”

DO

“I’m interested in budgeting but haven’t done much work on it, so if you come across a project on that I’d love to jump in. I’ve only touched on marketing so far. ”

DONT

“I need a day off because my dog is sick and my aunt is in town and I need to see the doctor”

DO

There’s no timetable that we all must follow.

It’s made up.

7 billion people can’t do everything in the same order.

What’s early? What’s late? Compared to who?