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6-12/100 days of mild productivity

right, first of all can we please ignore my awkward claw hand - nobody told me it would be so feckin difficult to hold up a notebook with one hand. studyblr, i love you, but you have betrayed me.

okay SO sorry for doing a lil’ disappearing act on you, but i’m on a mildly productive train to academic mediocrity and i am totally cool with that. plus i’ve been walking a lot.

not gonna give you bullet points for every day of the week because they’re pretty much all the same and not massively interesting.

i’m wondering about doing a weekly post rather than daily for 100 days of mild productivity. rest assured that all my days are at least mildly productive but, because of that, i don’t generally have studyblr tier photos every day. so, in true mild fashion, a weekly post seems more realistic.

have a great (and mildly productive!!) week,

100 Days of Productivity: Day 3/100

Today was so much fun! I reorganized my study space so I could focus a little bit better and shake things up, but the highlight was when my organism biology class went to the vernal pools in the woods to collect and look at some organisms! The ones in the picture are spotted newts (which I touched even though they have irritants on them, oops!) but we also saw some wood frogs, tadpoles, and even mallard ducks. I got to put on the waders and get knee-deep in the pond, and it was so nice. I love readings and problem sets, but the hands-on experience is my favorite part of college. Now I just need to finish my tectonics readings and start studying for my animal behavior midterm! <3

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thank you, it’s been very... interesting lol. we’ve had a couple exposure scares because our housemate is essential (in food service) and her kid is in daycare, but so far everything has come back negative!

?/100 days of mild productivity

it is wednesday my dudes

and we’re going to pretend like i did not fail miserably to update you on my mildly productive antics as part of 100do(m)p for the last, what, 3 weeks?

i am very sorry.

so, going forward, i’m going to proceed with weekly updates on 100domp and we are going to ignore the last 23 days.

gonna be real with you for a sec - i’m stressed. i have 3 weeks worth of backlogged lectures that i have not even looked at. i have multiple assignments where the only thing i know is the deadline. i’m at a bit of a critical moment here, because if i don’t make it back up now i’ve kinda fucked myself for the rest of the year.

 the reason i can be more confident in saying i’ll update weekly is that i need to study - and if i study, i actually have some studyblr content. i have pretty much been doing everything other than studying, so all i have is pictures of my walks and some lab notes about thin section microscopy.

it’s week 5 in the big brother house and lily is being an idiot.

despite this, i am still actively encouraging mild productivity. i will never not do that. the whole point of being mildly productive is recognising that the small things, the enjoyable things, the day-to-day things are productive. taking care of yourself is productive. making progress is productive. the point of being mildly productive is that most of the time it’s enough. you are not breaking your streak of productive days by not doing 3 hours of studying that day or from taking a day off or by doing stuff you enjoy - those things are productive. those things are things that improve you and that’s the whole point of productivity, right?

the situation i’m in right now isn’t because i wasn’t balls to the walls studying. it isn’t because of my definitions of what is productive and what isn’t. i am going to continue to be mildly productive, i just need to be differently mildly productive and mildly productive in a few more ways - with a sprinkle of straight up spicy productivity to get through the backlog. i may have been overly selective with my mild productivity.

anyways, the usual bullet points but it’s with commas - went on a day-long field course ( ’twas wet), started lord of the flies, made a poster about pyrite for uni and ended up on an auction site for rocks and minerals and may or may not have some (very reasonably priced) minerals on the way, walked lots, nearly got trampled by horses in the woods a couple times, got said hello to by a pug, washed up, did laundry!!!!! for the first time since i moved in lol, made a hat for my pet rock, made a spreadsheet schedule, socially distanced socialised, etc.

as always - have a great day, you deserve it and stay safe x

summer studying challenge (28/07 - 30/07)

yet another picture of the colonel (and schnoz 👃 ) and another picture from uni because i’m uninspired.

28th July - How do you stay motivated to study during the summer?

um probably the same way as the rest of the year - upbeat music and crippling fear.

29th July - Have you done or are you planning to do any activities (such as work experience, summer schools or watching lectures) other than normal work during the summer?

i have never done any of these things, so i doubt this summer will be any different (unless you count the odd ted talk). i am a neet without the second e. i am net. n e t.

30th July - Beach or Swimming pool?

22/11/20 - week 1 of mild productivity(2.0)

ello ello ello,

the days of mild productivity thing is kind of hard to measure when my posts are so irregular SO we’re starting fresh with week numbers instead.

some sadistic person somewhere decided that all of my bigger deadlines for all modules be in the same week so last week consisted of multiple near allnighters and some uncharacteristic tears and a lot of anxiety about getting things done in time. i did manage to get it all done though the level of my writing, and proofreading lol, at 5am might not be where i want it to be. regardless, it’s done. don’t be like me. 

also had a practical exam that week which i ended up using my extra time for but got 87 so worth it

this week has been pretty chill. i haven’t done a great deal of uni work, because there hasn’t really been much to do. going to do some today so that i hopefully won’t end up in the same situation later in the semester where i leave too many huge assignments until the week they’re due. not a smart move.

cleaned the flat, did laundry, spoke to my mum, watched A LOT of netflix lol (for the first time since i’ve been at uni so it’s... okay??). <3 rahul kohli and his glorious moustache - if u know u know

all in all, a solid admin-type week of just maintaining my self as a human instead of as a student.

catch you folks next week.