Szeke Manson

°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ spring term recap °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

april – june 2025

each term that goes by i get a little bit closer to calling myself a scientist, not just a student. my courses this spring immersed me in the primary literature, and i think i'm starting to understand the types of scientific questions i want to answer someday.

spring is melding pretty seamlessly into summer this year – i'm staying on campus for ten weeks of research which i'm very excited about. hopefully, somewhere in there it will sink in that i'm about to start my senior year of college.

monday, 4th march ⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

biology is really dragging at the moment. i’m struggling sm to keep up with new content while also learning old. practised moments in maths today which was actually pretty fun 🪴

6hrs on forest study timer today! ﾟ𐦍༘⋆

sunday | march 3

finals countdown: 1 week

one minute you're learning your first reaction mechanism and the next you have a terrifying stack of flashcards to learn... i love organic chemistry but it's definitely the most memorization-heavy class i've taken in a while.

The most effective way to study for me personally, is writing everything in (full) sentences, so my notes get absurdly long. (This is all for my history exam tomorrow...)

🌱🌿🪴 - 4h 43min on Forest ♫₊˚.🎧 ▷▷ Homeboy - Xikers

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Late night study session vibes🕥📚

03–01–2024, Wednesday

my chem exam went better than expected today! tomorrow's english, i hope I'll do great 🤞🏻

2 hour lecture

1.9.24

I enjoyed looking at the snow until it lasted, by the end of the afternoon the trees where almost bare again.

05|12|2023

In the end yesterday evening I ended up finishing my study and exam session plan. I was feeling too nervous about it and so I just sat down with it after taking a small break and tried to figure things out. As last year the exam dates were organized terribly, which makes planning and scheduling things more complicated than it normally would be. I ended up decided to postpone my English lit exam to April. Mostly because of a preparation time thing. December is going to be quite busy for me study wise, and I'd like to also do some external work in my family's store because holiday season is always quite chaotic and I want to help. Researching and writing a paper plust rereading all the books and studying what was said in the lectures would be impossible while studying for other classes. Since in February I will only have one class to attend to I will be able to properly focus on my English lit work and do something I am proud of instead of rushing it now. This means that for the winter exam session I will be trying to take two exams: power practices and men theories (which one of the biggest exams in terms of material and so the grade will be very revalent) and history of the philosophy of the enlightenment (the class I am currently taking and on which I am working quite well because I am half way into the materials). I will have one exam in Jaunary and the other at the beginning of February, though I am not settled on which I will be taking first. I will take a couple of weeks to decide. In the meantime my goal is to read and annotate as much as I can the book for my power practieces class before the holidays. Wish me luck.

calm hobbit winter activities and productivity:

read first thing in the morning

started reading and annotating the book for my power practices bookand men theories class

Irish practice on duolingo

daily dose of podcasts to make my brain shut up

today's self care:

skipped class since I want to be fully back on my feet before going back to my commute routine and all

took my meds and supplements

payed attention to eat slowly and tonight I'm having soup which is going to fix everything