Mirasol

A little bit stressed out, a little nervous, but autumn is finally here, and it's hard to stay in a bad mood with candles and books in the evening. I had a decent writing session and made a lot of new Anki cards, but the day itself wasn't the easiest - still, I'm proud of the progress I make every day.

09.08.2025 — 안녕하세요. Today my new workbook came in the mail, but the textbook won’t come for another week or two. It’s my first 세종 한국어 book, and I picked it a bit randomly, just as something to work through in my free time. I have also since registered and paid for a college-associated Korean class online, but it ironically has a different textbook. The class is set to start October 10th (I think), but it isn’t confirmed until a week before, once they can guarantee enough students, so we’ll see if that works out. Until then, self practicing is the plan.

> Finished my day with 30 minutes of stretching

Late night inner ear anatomy studying

📸: As the days get warmer, the ladybugs are back in my garden and my body is craving cold slices of fresh watermelon! I'm looking forward to spring 🍉🐞

⏱︎ 91 days till semester one finals

all the time i've spent in coffeeshops over break has paid off, at least – i've finally finished drafting my grad school statement of purpose. it's still a long road, but just having any piece of it done is a relief.

Chocolate cookies for comfort. Fuji Kaze for company.

today i'm writing notes for my critical thinking class and reviewing notes for art class. tiring start to the week as it was very busy at work today; gonna make peppermint tea tonight before i go to sleep :')

> Did a special hair care at night

all photos are mine !

And to keep me company… my kitty Lucy 🐾 and my study planner keeping me on track 💡

my fellowship work started on the 1st of september, honestly i think my prof wouldn't care if i waited a couple more weeks, but i didn't want to ask to have more time off before i even started lol so i started yesterday, and it was so nice!! everyone in the lab was so friendly, i ended up playing purple place with some of the guys lol, and we even had dinner together about the work itself, im pretty excited. Im only starting now to work on unreal engine, since it doesn't run properly on my computer, but im easily getting the hang of it, and doing some fun game tutorials to practice, so things are looking good :))

Recovering from the seminar paper stress by working in the park (not actually poisoning any pigeons i promise). The meeting with my postdoc was postponed which is why I still don‘t have any urgent jobs, so I can just work on writing abstracts in peace. Currently summarizing a text about Carolingian reception of the Maccabee books and reading The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem, which is really good so far. Might have to relocate if the sun keeps frying me in this spot.

i was supposed to complete a coding practice test, but got distracted by the project.

🧬 finally got everything situated for my animal facility training

I never thought I could get to this point, understanding almost everything of this system. When I first started studying I felt helpless and really ignorant, but finally I'm starting to connect the dots 🥹💕