Coffee, Rocks and Books

anneorion

Bitches love to be like "science sucks where are the eldritch horrors where is the knowledge thats maddening to know" that's thermodynamics motherfucker. The first two world experts in thermodynamics (Ludwig Boltzmann and Paul Ehrenfest) both killed themselves because they had to do fucking thermodynamics

Oh you want to use abstract methodology poorly-understood by most to study something so alien to human existence it cannot be intuitively understood, then in doing so uncover a terrible truth that implies the unavoidable doom of all humanity? Nice going dingdong you just found out about entropy

“Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.”

States of Matter (1975) by David L. Goodstein

To anyone taking thermodynamics/stat mech I will always recommend Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics by Frederick Reif. The first is edition is from the 60s but it still really holds up and tries to explain things intuitively. I used it to study for quals and it was really nice to see topics explained in a clear way without needing to necessarily read the whole book.

Hurlingham Books l possibly the oldest independent bookshop in South West London

i love thermodynamics because its like no…. my toaster waffle did not get cold… it simply tried to warm this big cold world all by its little self… her heat was given… and she asked for NOTHING in return … ;_;

Put all of your photos in vivid warm and take a photo of every sunset and every cappuccino and borrow a book of poetry from the library and read only the ones you understand and download a meditation app and say “stop I want to take a photo of you” and have a nap after work and look for shapes in the clouds and go get a blizzard when you’re craving a blizzard and run as many km as you can on Saturday and tell everyone about that piece of history you just learned about and make a sandwich and eat it at the beach and light the fancy incense and go swimming in the waterfall even though you’re scared of the fish and wear the damn bikini and notice this moment right now and stop thinking you’re old when you’re in your 20s.

You have to SEEK joy you know

early morning study

serendipity used books aka my happy place

the only way out is through the only way out is through the only way out is through the only way out is through the only way out is through the only way out is through the only way out is through the only way

the sun literally sets and casts a golden hue over everything every single day and we fucked it all up and invented paying rent

and i don't necessarily believe any of this i'm just saying words recreationally

the last sentence of my thesis

The more I hang out with people with advanced degrees (MAs and PhDs) the more I realize people are always dumb fucks no matter how smart.

Extra study doesn't make you 'smart'. You just know a lot in one thing.

I often describe myself as a "clinical dumbass" and I'm probably 80% done with this doctorate

my husband works with multiple PhDs who are, uh, "not very smart"

August 11, 2023 - Friday ✧ Productively Challenged 11/50

Jumuah Mubarak! A lovely day today lol I woke up from a whole realistic movie plot dream in which I (the hero) dislocated my shoulder at the end but when I woke up it turns out I just slept on my shoulder wrong lol I was very grateful to wake up with an intact shoulder let me tell u that haha - also if you're in the city and like growing plants, please consider growing spinach- it's so rewarding.

✔️picked 2 gourds + a whole basket of spinach fruit from garden ✔️made a schedule for myself to follow ✔️read surah kahf ✔️translating ✔️prayed most my prayers early 🥺

Blue Lake | 2023

08.08.23

i've had this post in my drafts since june lol anyways heres a photo of me probably struggling to grasp onto tudors content