slowly but surely

Day 86 • 100 Days of Productivity

we did protists in lab this week! i also had a study group that met for 3 hours after lab so i was on campus from 10am to 3:30pm just working on biology lol. today i went to a local cat cafe and had some great tea and had so much fun with the kitties! i'm trying to finish up my work for the week but i'm tiredddd and have a few days before i need to turn it in. i really like this picture compilation today

Late night study with a cup of coffee truely a great combination!!

16.06.23 || 5/100 days of productivity

Sooo I woke up at 8:00! Yeah. Wonderful.

I didn’t feel well due to my periods. But I did get some work done.

After lunch I felt better and decided to go to a library. I did my readings for the dissertation there.

📊work for 1 hr

📚30 min of chess

📖3 hrs of reading for my dissertation

The Classics

Browse works by Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad and other famous authors here.

Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.

The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.

Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.

Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.

Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.

Classic Reader: Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.

Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.

Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.

The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.

Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.

Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.

Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.

Fiction.us: Fiction.us has a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.

Free Classic Literature: Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more.

Textbooks

If you don’t absolutely need to pay for your textbooks, save yourself a few hundred dollars by reviewing these sites.

Textbook Revolution: Find biology, business, engineering, mathematics and world history textbooks here.

Wikibooks: From cookbooks to the computing department, find instructional and educational materials here.

KnowThis Free Online Textbooks: Get directed to stats textbooks and more.

Online Medical Textbooks: Find books about plastic surgery, anatomy and more here.

Online Science and Math Textbooks: Access biochemistry, chemistry, aeronautics, medical manuals and other textbooks here.

MIT Open Courseware Supplemental Resources: Find free videos, textbooks and more on the subjects of mechanical engineering, mathematics, chemistry and more.

Flat World Knowledge: This innovative site has created an open college textbooks platform that will launch in January 2009.

Free Business Textbooks: Find free books to go along with accounting, economics and other business classes.

Light and Matter: Here you can access open source physics textbooks.

eMedicine: This project from WebMD is continuously updated and has articles and references on surgery, pediatrics and more.

안녕하세요 여러분! Hey everyone! A long time ago I made a lesson on the form -겠다, but looking back on it, it’s not a great lesson (I’ve learned a lot about Korean since I started this blog!), so I decided to remake it! Even I’m not that familiar with all of the usages that I list, so any corrections are welcome :) I hope this is helpful!

1. -겠습니다: Expressing Intention

Let’s start with how to use -겠습니다. The first nuance this could have is expressing your intention to do something. It’s usually translated as “I will” in English, but has a stronger nuance than the plain future tense form, -ㄹ/을 거예요. These sentences tend to be more formal-sounding too. I’ve also heard that aside from set expressions like the ones below, this usage is not very common. Let’s see some examples:

잘 먹겠습니다. = I will eat well. / Thank you for the food.

You’ve probably heard this expression before – it’s said right before starting a meal when the food is served. This sentence expresses your intention/will to enjoy the food.

열심히 하겠습니다. = I will work hard.

You might say this when given a new project/task to do. This expresses your strong intention to work hard at it.

2. -겠어요: Guessing; Assumption

-겠어(요) is a way to use -겠다 less formally. It can express your guess or assumption about the way something is or might be. For example:

(from Tammy Korean – I really recommend this video!) 내일 날씨가 좋겠어요. = It looks like the weather is going to be nice tomorrow.

The actual sentence that Tammy Korean features is 내일 날씨가 좋겠네요. In my opinion, ending it with -네요 sounds more natural.

Here, you’re making a guess that the weather is going to be nice tomorrow. Maybe you watched the weather forecast and saw that it’s going to be warm and sunny.

민지 씨의 고양이는 죽었어요. 너무 속상하겠어요. = Minji’s cat died. She must be so upset.

Here, you’re making an assumption about how Minji feels based on what happened.

그 수학 수업은 어렵겠네요. = That math class must be difficult.

You’re guessing that this math class is hard. Maybe your friend tells you they’re taking a calculus class, which sounds very complicated.

3. -겠다

-겠다 is similar to the above usage. I’m not sure if there’s much of a difference in nuance, but I think that -겠다 sounds even less formal/polite than -겠어요 (someone correct me if I’m wrong though!). Let’s see some examples:

맛있겠다! = It looks delicious!

This is another phrase you’ve probably heard before. It expresses your guess that the food will taste good based on the way it looks.

남자 친구가 생겼어요? 좋겠다! = You got a boyfriend? Lucky you!

좋겠다 here literally means something like “it must be nice,” or even in this particular sentence, “you must be happy.”

4. -아/어/여야 (하)겠다

In my experience, I think I’ve heard this usage the most. It combines -겠다 with -아/어/여야 하다, which means “have to” or “should.” If I were to compare this with just the plain -아/어/여야 하다, I would say it is usually used when you’re talking to yourself, as if to tell yourself you should do something. Here are some examples:

오늘밤 일찍 자야 하겠다. = I should go to bed early tonight.

Often, this form omits the 하. This can be shortened to 오늘밤 일찍 자야겠다.

숙제를 지금 해야겠다. = I should do my homework now.

You might say this to tell yourself to do your homework.

That’s about it for this lesson! I hope it’s helpful and better than my original lesson lol. As usual, if anyone has any corrections or questions about this grammar point, please let me know! See you in the next lesson! 다음에 또 봐요!

My masterlist

Join my Discord chat here to practice Korean with others!

Follow me on Instagram here for more Korean content!

Get Drops Premium using my affiliate link to expand your Korean vocab!

Check out my Hilokal to join my live Korean classes for free!

💜💜💜

Week 1 Modern Art notes!! Interesting topic but lectures r kinda confusing and long ;-;

IG:@_akadanie

080622

book cafe i visited last week 📖

studies for today!!! and a new uptade in ios 16 beta