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Official day 1 of my ✨ Road to Thesis ✨

I love coming home for the weekend when I get the chance, my mom has a giant plant jungle in the house which really helps with the study aesthetics and I get to hang out with the fam (especially the cat).

It’s a great opportunity to slow down a bit and reset too. I need finish my introduction draft as soon as possible because I have a ton of new data to analyse and I hate seeing that work pile up.

Today I took the chance to steal my mom’s desk for the evening and I’m determined to finish my topic on why Drosophila is a good animal model in biomedicine. I love those bugs but it’s some of the most boring writing I’ve done recently.

I realized a lot of my lack of motivation reflects on me distracting myself with my phone everytime I get the chance, so I’m setting a counscious goal to spend less time on it and I’m starting on not going on it before bed and when I wake up.

Compiled my notes into study guides and uploaded them into PDFs as promised! Here they are:

The Science of Anatomy and Physiology

Atoms, Ions, and Molecules

Energy, Chemical Reactions, and Cellular Respiration

The Cell

Tissue Organization

 Images of Tissue Slides (Histology for Lab Practicals)

Endocrine System

Blood

Cardiovascular System: Heart

Blood Vessels

Immune System

Lymphatic System

Respiratory System

Urinary System

Regulating Bodily Fluids

Digestive System

Regulation of Nutrient Blood Levels

Reproductive System

Lab; Lab

Happy studying!

Late night at the confocal microscope, aesthetics ✨ Trying to get some final brain pictures to increase the N in some experiments. It has been so booked that this was the only time I could get this week.

Last week felt like a failure, life has been messier than ever and I’ve been struggling to concentrate and get any writing done. This weekend I got a glimpse of productivity and I’m starting to see some progress in my dissertation, maybe even almost finishing the first draft of the introduction (fingers crossed I can send it to my supervisor soon).

Road to Thesis ✨ Panic Mode

Hey everyone I’m back and sharing with you a couple photos from my not as aesthetic set up here in Lisbon.

I’m freaking out a bit (a lot) because I have to submit the first version of my MSc Thesis by the end of the month and I still have so much writing to do and experiments to finish. So, I decided to try and do a little 30 days of productivity challenge to keep me accountable and not leave everyting to the last minute.

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