#summer study

𓍢ִ໋☕️✧˚ ༘ ⋆ August 16, 2024 𓍢ִ໋☕️✧˚ ༘ ⋆

I did a bit of reading today. I am rereading braiding sweetgrass and annotating the book this time through. I haven't really done much today as I was helping my parents build a shed. I hope to get some more studying done as well as setting up this blog more.

What I did today:

I re- read a few chapters and started annotating this book.

I practiced some Finnish Vocab

Day 3 of preparing for my Master’s degree!

☼ cold showers are the best to steam off the hotness and refresh your mind during long hours of study

☼ a cool environment to feel better. Try to build the cooler environment possible to study into, I don't have air conditioning at home so I just put a little fan on my desk and I always have a cup of iced water/drink with me

☼ study time is important. Try to study early in the morning as it is the quieter and cooler moment of the day, you will not feel as much fatigue because of the heat and there will not be kids screaming while they play football under your window

☼ don't lock urself in, it will only make it worse and it will cause a burn out. It's summer and you deserve to enjoy yourself and to go out even if you have to study, it's all about balance

☼ the hottest hours of the day are a gift. Since it's too hot to go outside anyway you can either:

-use them to take a good nap if you like to use night hours to study

-use them to study since you would be not going out anyway

building a good schedule based on your preferences will allow you to study, have fun and stay well rested.

✿Remember we're all in this together queen✿ please don't get lost in an endless tiktok/instagram scroll that will make you think you're the only one sweating her soul out at home trying to study for an exam while everybody else is tanning in Hawaii lol. Reality is pretty different from social media, we're all struggling for one reason or another, and there are a lot of other students sweating at home exactly like you. Keep your focus on your life, your goals and on being the best version of yourself that you can be at your own pace <3

Salut a tous!

Today I managed my time better and I did plenty.

First I went on Busuu to do the French for Travelling course to warm up since it's A1 to A2 but that course turned out to be almost completely behind a pay wall.

I still learnt some things that I didn't really pay attention to beforehand, like directions and to reinforce that I wrote some of that vocabulary on my notebook and watched French for Beginners: Asking & Giving Directions by Easy French on YouTube.

During the evening I did some workbook activities. I used Alter Ego Plus 2 for A2-B1 and since these were the first activities they were about relationships and descriptive nouns which is what I last did at school.

Thursday, August 15, 2024

Went up to my village for the weekend and monday and spent most of the weekdays recovering and adjusting to the city again. It's so easy to forget that most of your relatives and people who claim to love you are really fucking bigoted and homophobic and racist and alllll sort of terrible things and if they knew what my beliefs were and who i am they'd absolutely hate me for it. No matter how much love they give this cardboard cutout version of me it will always be a phantom of the real feeling.

Remember all that work i put into those macroeconomics and accounting finals? Yeah, failed them. For the second time. It is probably fucking me up in a major way but right now im completely numb to it.

Really finishing up that astrology course that I'm making. Last shoot will be on monday and that's when I'll send over the slides.

🪐 finished research on the aspects

🪐 finished the slides on the aspects

🪐 wrote FIVE commercials for the course

🪐 finished writing the intro and the goodbye

🪐 wrote everything that i need to memorize out on the paper

The big thing that i need to do tomorrow is the example chart section. I need to find birth charts of famous people that I'll use to demonstrate the chart reading process. I have noooo idea where the fuck i can find them but the plan is to find at 12 examples that are each focused on one of the twelve houses.

After that i need to make slides all pretty and presentable. That's gonna happen on sunday. I'm also gonna get my eyebrows done on saturday.

(btw im writing this on friday instead of thursday cuz i was exhausted yesterday)

I love you sweet summer child.