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11.1.22 | 9/100 Days of Productivity

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

ate breakfast now I am making notes for my psych of learning class :)

i’ve started taking x-rays on actual patients now !! it’s very exciting, but since i’m still a little slow:’•)

2:11am, 12.31.21

and here we are at last, at the end of a beautiful, chaotic, spiraling year. there are so many things that happened this year in my life. getting closer with friends, spending every weekend with them, starting high school. learning how to be okay with fluctuating grades and judgy girls, how to learn about religion and maths in the same fashion. starting single and ending with a boyfriend, knowing what it’s like to be refreshed mentally and spiritually. i hope to further my wellness in the coming year, whether it be through self care, studying, writing, and others. in any case, here are some goals/ideas i’ve written for myself.

○ finish at least three piano pieces of which i am proud

○ read a substantial amount of books of varying genres, including those that will widen my viewpoint

○ work out at least twice a week in whichever way i choose. this can be running, playing tennis, guided workout, etc.

○ meditate and repeat a skin care routine at the end of every day

○ keep consistent grades between 93 and 100, through studying and reviewing with teachers if need be

○ do one self indulgent thing a day. this is anything that makes me content with the world and with myself.

Free Student Planner Printables

Here is a selection of 7 printables to use and (hopefully) improve your student life! These are seven different designs to pick from, in seven different colours: blank, blue, green, purple, pink, peach and grey! 

You can download them for free at the links below:

Folder including all 7 options + how to use guide

All other free printables (calendars, study, etc)

Note: Only the first page will show up on the thumbnails, the files contain all 9 pages (Monday & Sunday in the one file) - scroll down to see the rest.

I hope you enjoy using these printables! If you upload a photo featuring it, I’d love to see. Please tag me on Tumblr with #emmastudies or on Instagram with @emmastudiess. You can see other people using my printables by visiting the #esprintables tag on my blog! Please remember, these printables are for personal use only and should not be redistributed as your own.

Whilst these printables are free of charge, it would be amazing of you to check out my Ko-fi account! :-)

Alternatively, I run an Etsy shop dedicated to student printables, planners and digital items! You can use ‘student10′ to get 10% off any purchase :-)

❄️ winter studying challenge ; day 6

do you get a break from school/work/uni during winter?

yes! i get two weeks off around christmas and i’m really looking forward to it.

12.17.21

Aaaaa another typhoon going through the philippines, thankfully I live somewhere far from where the typhoon is mainly rushing through, though the typhoon did send some heavy rain and strong winds a bit.

(previous editions) bold = favourite

class & race

why africa urgently needs its own genetic library

first nations kids make up about 20% of missing children, but get a fraction of the media coverage (australia)

why isn’t british ‘sleaze’ called what it really is?

a Black tiktoker was accused of appropriating a japanese character. then she was banned (intersectionality)

gender & sexuality

why japan can’t bring itself to ban sexual depictions of children in manga

the problem with emily ratajkowski’s my body

malaysian transgender woman nur sajat: ‘I had to run away’

tiktok has an incel problem

politics & covid

singapore’s tech-utopia dream is turning into a surveillance state nightmare

pakistan’s biometric id scheme is stripping citizenship from thousands of people

a tale of two pandemics: the true cost of covid in the global south

how the right’s radical thinktanks reshaped the conservative party (uk)

drug use isn’t a moral issue. why do police still treat it as one? (australia)

the secretive prisons that keep migrants out of europe

western marxism loves purity and martyrdom, but not real revolution (recommended by @studying-with-k)

cop26: the climate crisis

the global south does not need debt. we need climate justice

pacific delegates condemn ‘monumental failure’ that leaves islands in peril

‘the crisis of gambia’s sinking city

china and india aren’t the climate villains of cop26

history, culture, & media

‘squid game’ highlights plight of south korean workers sacrificed for nation’s economic gain (history)

why there are so many black-and-white movies in 2021

Monday 4th October 2021

Day 4

Reading paper in market design right now just makes me realise how doomed my attempt to make it my dissertation was. I had no knowledge of discrete maths and optimisation. Now I’ve touched a bit of both thanks to the less demanding schedule. The paradox, huh.

enjoying every bit of this rare sunshine coming through my window