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As if squid werenāt beautiful enough already, LOOK AT THESE FOSSILS.

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This is a chart that my chem teacherĀ gave to everyone after our first exam.Ā
This is a really good step by step guide!
Wish for a clear head? This octopus has one! The unusual looking yet beautiful octopus with a see-through head was captured on film in the waters of Anilo, the Philippines. Itās believed that the octopus is in larval stage, during which the animal usually appears in transparent. (source)
[ AUG 6 ā18 ] WHATāS ON MY BAGĀ
Hey guys, so Iāve been receiving a ton of requests to show my photo-editing process. Itās a little hard to generalize what I do since every photo or photoset undergoes a different process depending on what vibe Iām going for. Despite that, I do have a basic editing style - if you will - that goes something like this.
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Hope this helps :)

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8.2.18 || late, as per usualĀ ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
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Doing well is much easier said than done. The best tip I have is to just do the work. Itās going to suck, but thereās no secret other than doing the work. Though, there are ways to make doing the work easier!
I. Time Management
Have a planner to gain a general idea of your week.
Schedule your time for studying but also schedule time for breaks.
Every morning I check what needs to be done for the day.
I treat college as a 9-5 job with a lunch break. This may not work for everyone, but this thinking allows me to be done by 5, and I usually finish everything for the day by that time.
Take a break after you finish an assignment. Allow yourself to feel proud for finishing and give yourself a reward.
Break up projects into smaller parts, this is incredibly important. Itās easier to do an outline, then a few paragraphs rather than doing an entire essay at once.
Itās not time well used if you donāt focus on the task at hand. If youāre having trouble, get rid of distractions using apps that limit phone/internet usage.
Donāt waste time on techniques that donāt work for you. I donāt rewrite notes, it doesnāt help me study. Instead I do extra textbook problems or I watch a video on the topic.Ā
Sometimes itās hard to motivate yourself to do the work, to study. Then just do a single problem, a single page or paragraph. Usually starting is the hardest part.
II. Studying & Learning
Be present during class by asking questions and answering problems.
Use phone-locking apps like Forest if you need to to stay focused on the class.
Skim lecture notes ahead of time. You donāt need to take notes on them, the professor will tell you whatās important.
Itās ok if your notes arenāt pretty as long as theyāre functional.
Practice problems until you canāt get them wrong.
Try to teach the material to someone else. This will show holes in your understanding. Pretend to teach if you donāt have a friend in the same class.
If you need, study in the library. Honestly, studying at my desk in my dorm has worked just fine for me though.
Do the homework, thereās no way around it. This is probably the biggest tip here. Do the work.
Actually do the homework, donāt just copy answers. Understand the answers. You canāt copy on a test.
Speaking of tests, do as many practice tests as you can find. Once the real test comes around, you wonāt be as nervous and it should feel familiar.
Nice pens and notebooks arenāt required. However, spend a dollar and get a pen that writes well enough that youāre not wasting time during class getting it to work. (Iāve been through this)
Do the extra credit. Thereās no reason not to, and your grade will thank you.
Go to tutoring, not everyone knows everything. You might even make a new friend since most tutors at my school are also students!
Realistically, you donāt need to do every reading assignment as long as you know what your professor tests on. If you donāt have the time, its fine to only skim the assignment.
Make study groups. If you donāt have a friend in the class, itās as easy as asking āwant to work on the homework together?ā In my experience, most people are happy to work with you.
Go to your professors office hours if you need help. Your professors are a valuable resource.
Ask your friends for feedback, I do this all the time.
III. Treat Yourself
Sleep and eat well. Coffee is not a breakfast.
Please, donāt force yourself to cram a subject overnight. This is where time management comes into play.
An over-stressed student is a bad student, but a little bit of stress is healthy.
Find what motivates you. Personally, I wish to become a researcher so I work hard towards that goal to get into a good grad. school.
You donāt have to join a club. Iām not in one, and my social life is just fine since I spend time playing games with friends at night.
But join a club if you want, even for a single day. You might meet some friends.
Really do whatever you want with regards to your social life. Do whatās comfortable for you.
If you need it, colleges have a therapist that you can make an appointment with.
The argonaut octopus, of the family Argonautidae, belongs to a group of pale pink-spotted octopuses. Unlike the heroes that sailed the Argo in the Greek myth, these octopuses are known for traversing the open ocean by way of a delicate, curved, creamy white vesselāan external casing, often referred to as a āshell,ā that gave them their common nickname, the āpaper nautilus.āĀ
These creatures baffled naturalists and philosophers for two millennia, even fooling Aristotle, who believed that they used their large pair of webbed dorsal arms as āa sailā to catch the briny breeze and floated across the oceanās surface like paper boats. These myths carried weight for centuries, even among naturalists in the 19th century.
It wasnāt until the early 1830s when self-taught French naturalist, Jeanne Villepreux-Power began researching the Argonauta argo, or the greater argonaut, that we learned the true origins of their āshells.ā Along the way, Villepreux-Power tried new methods for studying sea creatures that gave insights not just into the paper nautilus, but also helped us to better understand other creatures of the sea today. Meet theĀ āmother of aquaria.ā
Sometimes people think that I study as hard as I do because Iām being forced to. Theyāre wrong.
I study because I have to succeed. I study because I have a goal and I will not rest until it has been achieved. I study because thereās so much to learn.
The only person forcing me to work hard is myself.
so uhhhhhh i know this is a plant blog but realtalk lads im a little freaked out by that wild ass new organ discovered in our bodies according to a paper published literally yesterday am i right my lads, my bois, lmao hhaha
(as of 3/28/2018, paper was published in the reputable international research journalĀ āNatureā on 3/27/2018, publication here, study was started in 2013) ok so like uhhh this is my rough translation of the paper they published using my current level of biological knowledge, if anyone else has a more in depth understanding with human anatomy things and would like to add on with anything i might have missed feel free to add but this is my takeaway:Ā
-scientists were looking at some stuff in the inside of a bile duct they were studying in a live patient (this will be important later) using a laser that lets them see the cells in real time. they injected some stuff into the duct and saw the spaces inbetween the cells fill up with fluid in strange, tube-like structures that didnāt correspond with what they expected to be there, so they sectioned and froze them to study them closer; they realized that upon closer inspection, the fluid-filled places were VERY small collagen tubes forming a complex matrix of bundles surrounded by a weird cell covering that seemed to connect them to one another. they called this the Interstitium.Ā
-they sectioned some more places where squeezy things might happen, like the inner linings of the bladder, lungs, lymph nodes, and the soft tissue enclosing our muscles, filled them with the same indicator, and hyper froze them like they did to the first sample and found the same weird matrix of fluid-filled tubing:
they concluded from what they found from this that:Ā
1. our previous thought of the space inbetween the cells in these parts of the body, which we thought were just kinda like, there or whatever doing nothing (a series of spaces that were already called the Interstitium that were largely ignored), are actually full of complex tubing running through a ton of very important parts of your body
2. when the structures theyāre chilling around (like your bladder and bowel) contract, the fluid moves around all weird
3. the reason this wasnāt discovered before is because when the tubes are squished too hard- like when scientists are cutting into them- they have a tendency to collapse really easily, especially when being treated with chemicals for microscope use, giving the impression of the kind of tissues that weāve traditionally seen in specimens and thought of being in these sensitive areas (closely compact and dense cell mats). it turns out that in living people, these tubes run between the cells carrying fluid; the scientists were able to see this initially in live patients using the above mentioned laser technology, and then took live biopsies by quickly freezing the cells in place before removal to prevent their collapse.
4. yes, these can move cancer cells around, which is HUGE seeing as they seem to enclose a LOT of important and delicate muscles in our bodies in one giant, complex system. when they looked at it in cancer patients, the tumors they found seemed to kind of beā¦.leakingā¦.into themā¦..because the tumors were putting pressure on the fluid tubesā¦.which easily collapseā¦..and move things that fall into the fluid aroundā¦.
5. the scientists also explored things like hernias and colon damage in relation to these, but unfortunately this is where my translation powers run out as non-plant-related terminology starts being used lmao im so sorry im like this
tl;dr: the membranes that surround some really important parts of squishy things like our stomach, bowels, colon, lungs, muscles, etc are full of very delicate and complex tubing that runs in a weirdly complex system to other important squishy things throughout our bodies and looks like a weird organ that we didnāt know was there before (or like, we knew about it, we just didnāt know it was soā¦connected and uhā¦organy). also it seems to have an impact on the spread of cancer throughout these regions
hereās the paper again if you want to have a read and see pics of the tubing itself and draw more in depth conclusions from it lmaoĀ
Graduate of Biomedical Science here; this paper is pretty much understandable to me.
Youāve picked out the main stuff, but hereās some things I think is very interesting:
The discovery of these spaces dramatically expands the lymphatic system. Basically, this is how the lymph nodes are connected to the rest of the body. Before it was kinda like āyeah here are the lymph nodes, and the lymph fluid kinda goes to the somehow? idkā. But now we have a whole system. Itās like discovering the entire circulatory system when before you only had the heart to work with.
This is super important for cancers and detecting when a cancer has spread (metastasised, in the lingo). They talk about the spread of cancers into the deeper tissues (such as stomach cancers invading their submucosal tissue and skin cancers pentrating deeper into the dermis layers), but what is most important is that they detected the cancers spreading into the interstitial spaces before there was anything to detect within the lymph nodes. This is super important, as usually lymph node biopsies are done to detect if a cancer is spreading; this is before that very stage. This is literally catching cancers in the act of spreading before theyāve hit another organ this is fucking incredible.
Itās providing an explanation for oedema (or edema, for my US followers), which is the build-up of fluid in certain areas of the body (usually the lower limbs, but it can be anywhere). For so long itās been like āI guess thereās something wrong with your blood vessels??ā but like the lymphatic system, weāve now got another explanation. āAh, okay, thereās something going down in your interstitial fluid!ā A more effective diagnosis and treatment could be made, Bam! Enrich more peopleās lives.
They may play a role in how scar formation works. Some scar tissue can get a bit crazy and grow too much, meaning it needs to be cut away as it hinders movement or it just fucking painful. Perhaps the interstitial tubing/fluid plays a role in this, considering collagen is used in scar tissue, and these spaces are full of it.
Thereās clearly communication between these spaces and the digestive system, as they found tattoo pigment from the intestines in these spaces. Tattooing in the intestine is done to mark lesions for removal or observation later on, so the fact this pigment is actively moving out of the digestive system and else means it could play a role in disease we donāt know much about, like inflammatory bowel conditions.
Basically, THIS IS FUCKING HUGE AND COULD POTENTIALLY CHANGE THE GAME IN A BIG WAY.
Thank you OP for sharing this, I havenāt nerded out and been so fascinated by a study in a long time.
ALSO GOOD ON YOU NATURE FOR MAKING THE FULL ARTICLE FREE. HONOUR ON YOU AND YOUR COWS.
Right on.

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june 5, 2018.Ā the colour tangerine is such a mood for june, it looks very refreshing š
ode to a āBā student
You are worthy
You are smart
You are just as valuable of a student
You have the capacity to grow
Your worth is not encapsulated in a grade
You are allowed to love something and not be perfect at it
You have time
Take care to not compare yourself with those above and below you
Your future is not indicative of the place youāre in right now
You will end up at a college that is just right for you
YOU HAVE THE CAPACITY TO FACILTATE A WORLD OF KNOWLEDGE WITHIN YOU
Quick reminder, especially for you younger undergrads: Discipline is a skill, not a character trait. And just like any skill, it can be practiced and improved upon incrementally. Try not to get discouraged if you have a day, or multiple days, where you are less disciplined than you would like or need to be. Donāt quit. Donāt spend the next week binging Netflix because you think itās a hopeless endeavour. Just get up the next day and try again. Each day you try is more practice, and each day you practice, youāll get a little bit better, and that continual improvement will pay dividends in the long run.
Keep at it.
May 8 2018
Ok so Iām irritated because the workersā strike blasted blow horns and stuff at 6:30AM so I was awake really early it sucked sigh at least itās only 3 days
Iām honestly so hungry right now LOL I didnāt plan ahead and I havenāt been at the dorms all day so I didnāt get to get dining hall food and right now I have a bruised banana and some soymilk
Tomorrow I have class from 10am to 5pm but I think after Iāll go to westwood and buy some things for the dorm; feels kinda bad
To those that feel unmotivated about 2018ā¦
It doesnāt matter if you screwed up your new yearās resolution. It doesnāt matter if youāve made no progress. It doesnāt matter if youāre worse off now than when you started. Youāve still got over half the year. Keep going.

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[01/05/2018]
may bujo title page! this took me ages but i like the way it turned out