I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.

𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲, 26 𝐝𝐞𝐜• here goes the last spread of 2020, this was my first time making year-end one I have seen a lot of people do 'favs and a memories and what worked for them and what not' kind of spreads but I wanted to close this journal with something which feels more mine :) hope everyone is having a lovely weekend✨

Caffeine: Tea on a daily basis, coffee when I need to get productive/as a ritual.

Textbook: Yes. Multiple times. There was a time when I hardly ever got more than 2 hours of sleep every night. It made me realise the importance of sleep and I rarely do it now.

Mentor: English teacher during high school. Learned to write from him. He was an absolute blessing.

Planner: Almost one year ago, January 2020

Calligraphy: I have very specific pens for different purposes. I try to keep a bullet journal in which I mostly use black pen. For my notes, it's mostly blue.

Lunch: I don't snack as I study. It's very distracting.

Study groups: No :(

Motivation: For someone who loves learning, I never really liked anything in particular. Was and an quite bad at studying actually. But my favourite subjects might have been English and math.

Results: It's been too long since I did course work to know this but maybe contract law.

Notebook: I like handwritten notes but I prefer types notes because it's so much easier to edit and format as I like.

december 1st, 2020

first semester of junior year is almost coming to an end! just have finals left. speaking of finals, to spark motivation for finals and the spring semester when it starts, i have made a discord! the minimum age is 15 to join, and there are many channels for academics as well as other topics. one channel i am especially excited about is the accountability channel. the idea is you can message your to do list at the beginning of the day and edit your message throughout the day to check things off. we can encourage and motivate each other to complete our tasks! there are is also a positivity channel i am very excited about, as it is very much needed for these trying times.

if you would like to join the server the link is https://discord.gg/6uKSgN9cBY and if the link does not work feel free to message me!

- economics (macro and/or micro) 

- world religion and/or world civilization (not just things like celebrations and traditions but really, a good portion of it should focus on religious history and philosophy to help understand how humans relate to religions. also, a good portion of it should be spent on indigenous religions, not just on the big five)

- philosophy (western AND eastern)