#studyblr confessions

Let’s try to break the stigma that surrounds studyblr. Write at least 5 things (the more the merrier) you do that aren’t ‘studyblr’ and tag some friends to reblog and do the same 🥰

(If this has been done before I’m sorry, I was not aware!)

I’ll start:

I don’t own a desk. I bought a beautiful white one because of studyblr but sold it as I prefer to work on my couch as I feel more motivated and less confined

I never go to in person lectures and watch mine all at home to relive some of my anxiety

I’m not apart of any extracurricular clubs or activities on campus and rarely socialise with people on my classes

My hand writing is really messy and I take all my notes on my laptop

I always procrastinate assignments and studying till the week before or even later

I almost failed my first statistics report by a few marks

Even though I’m very ‘organised’ I often can spend more time organising and planning then doing my work

Honestly if a tutorial isn’t compulsory I will most likely skip it

I’ve spent a lot of time on studyblr convincing myself that it’s productive compared to doing my work

Reblog and add your own! 

my notes are messy as fuck and that is one of the reasons why you almost never see me provide you with any original posts

believe it or not but i hate stationery and it is one of the last things i want to invest my money in, the cheaper the better

i was that damn annoying kid who never studied but almost always got good grades, i just payed attention in class

i was one of the top students in physics in my high school but dropped it and i'll never forget the disappointed look on the teachers face. it will haunt me forever

i was also one of the top students in math but guess what? i fucked up my math finals and got 19/60 and i'm still disappointed in myself even though it was pretty obvious my health was deteriorating and it had an affect on my performance

i'm never satisfied with the outcome of my work.

if someone ever asks i deny that i've started working on some assignments or projects , i don't want to put pressure on others

i don't know if i'm studying the right thing. i enjoy what i'm studying but am i happy with it?

i don't live in the city where my uni is so i naturally miss on a lot fun events because i can't bother to drag my ass to them

other confessions:

i started loving myself a year ago but i've hit rock bottom again

before my diagnosis i had lost 10 kilos and now i've gained that back + 3 extra and i feel like shit

i haven't had a good nights sleep for over 2 years now and i can't remember the last time i felt well rested

i have no motivation to take care of my health, which is something a chronically ill person really should do lol

since june 2018 i've been crying more than i've cried my whole life lmao

i preach for people to take care of themselves and to be kind to themselves but i can't do the same for me

i want to move out but i'm terrified to do it

i secretly wish i would lose my period again because i want my acne to be gone. when it was gone my back and chest were clear but now it's back and my whole face is hurting <3

@athenastudying and @adelinestudiess did this and I wanted to try it to, so here we go.

• My handwriting is so impossibly bad that none of you will ever see my REAL notes, only digital ones • my handwriting is bad, I’m not a good artist and I struggle with simple tasks like cutting out a stamp, so I do everything on my computer so it won’t look like someone died while trying to take notes • I don’t have a binder. All my papers and stuff are either on my laptop, my phone or in one miserable notepad that’s literally falling apart • I do not have a desk because my desk is full with books and I’m to lazy to clean that mess up. Maybe I will someday and show you a before and after picture. It’s really bad. • If I ever study I do so in my bed. I’m almost never at the library, or… at a desk. • I either don’t study at all or go in full workaholic mode and only stop when I’m finished, so I either do nothing or work for ten hours straight without realising it. • I procrastinate all the time. Even if I only have to read like one page in a book, at the end of the day I probably did not read even a word but played three hours of goddamn starstable.  • I changed my major two times and I will finish university in my thirties, because I want to do a master and a PhD AND a physics major. • There are times when I procrastinate studying so much that there’s a point where I’m like: nah, let’s try it without studying • Due to depression I’ve not been to university for one entire term • I’ve a lot of empty notebooks that will never be filled because my handwriting is really really bad • I actually DO have a planner where i scribble important things down but nobody but me can read that stuff so… • Sometimes I fall asleep during my lectures • The only reason I’m even doing stuff is because of apps like todoist and plantnanny, without them I’d just dehydrate and die. • Sometimes I procrastinate so much that I write papers for friends, but not my own. • I’m interested in a lot of stuff and love learning but only doing one thing (like only studying politics and never being able to do math or learn about biology, history, etc.) is driving me insane

I just saw @coffeeandpies’s studyblr confessions post and I decided to do my own!

Here it goes:

Bullet journals don’t seem to work for me; I’ve tried keeping one in the past and I think they’re really cute, but I can’t seem to find a way to keep up with them; digital planner apps work waaay better! (For me.)

I’m a perfectionist and it’s a problem. It’s part of why I can’t keep a bujo; it becomes too time consuming because I want it to be “perfect”. And I get genuinely disappointed when I get any grade lower than an A. I wish I didn’t, but I do.

I don’t like how a lot of studyblrs use the same cursive in their journals. So many of them look the same, as though they were all drawn by the same person. It seems as though everyone wants to fit into an archetype for the notes instead of exploring their own lettering styles.

I don’t like how studyblr stereotypes seem to cover up what student life and life in general are really like. It’s one thing to share the good and cute things that you have and experience, but it’s another to create a dramatically skewed view of the world. Actually, I think this is the big problem with social media in general, not just the studyblr community.

This kind of goes with my previous points, but I really dislike how there is a kind of pressure to own specific stationery and bags because it’s what everyone else is using. I think a lot of people need to think about the things they own or want and consider, “Do I want/have this because I myself actually want it, or because I would look cute with it in person/on social media/etc. and probably receive compliments for it, or at the very least make someone else feel jealous.”