#studytubers

Does anyone know of any German studytubers / youtubers more generally that I could support? I'm looking to immerse myself in German language and I thought that this would be a good way to do that ~

Topics that I'm interested in include (but aren't limited to):

Studying / school + university life

Art

Books / literature

Vlogs (particularly more casual lifestyle vlogs!)

1. Why are all of them in STEM disciplines? There’s nothing wrong with STEM disciplines, like we need nurses and astrophysicists, but why are all these aesthetically driven people in STEM disciplines? Like, would it hurt at least one of them to be in the humanities or education? Is there a link between aesthetic students and STEM disciplines? Like they don’t have the individual creativity to create organically, but they have some instinct to be creative so they funnel it into their notes?

2. Why does everyone use the same aesthetics? You know the one: pastel mildliners, the exact brush lettering calligraphy. Or the pastel block letters with the black cursive writing in the foreground. Now, I’m not very artistic, and my handwriting can be accurately described as chickenscratch, but wouldn’t you want your work to be uniquely yours?

3. “Pretty notes.” I don’t want to learn how to take pretty notes, I want to learn how to take notes fullstop. I don’t have the energy to take regular notes that aren’t me just copying the lecturers notes in full, I don’t care to make them pretty. You watch these videos - this where the problem with me being a humanities student whilst all of them are STEM students really comes out - and it’s a tutorial on how to take the exact same ‘pretty’ physics, psychology & calculus notes, not history or literature. I’m not going to need to label out a diagram of the cerebral...thing... I need to know how to summarise the jist of a historian’s argument. Or fucking graph paper. I haven’t needed graph paper since I was in TAFE. Bush was still in office the last time I used graph paper. “Oh, get this really cute mechanical pencil because it’s great for writing equations” I don’t need to write equations, I need a mechanical pencil that isn’t going to cause a blister on my right ring finger when I spend a good chunk of a week summarising the philosophical rambles of Immanuel Fucking Kant.

Also, fuck Peter L. Berger and his theory of the ‘Sacred Canopy.’ Fucking the heretic imperative.

me: *looks at my 3rd mug of tea of the day*