༻`` 04 Jan 24 — Thursday
100 days of productivity 4/100
I'm up to date on my chem notes and I finished my math notes too 📝! I picked up my productivity again after a low by taking a hot shower and listening to Fabrizio Paterlini 🎶 Afterwards I focused on getting my mood back up and made up my 2024 vision board!! These will now be my goals for the year ^^
i hope you meet people with intentions as pure as your own and i hope you travel to all the places you’re curious about and i hope the restaurants you go to have your favorite drink and i hope you always have good dreams when you sleep and i hope the life you live is a fulfilling one
Life is not mean, it's not evil. It has different faces, just like everyone else.
The day you embrace it, the day you go a little kinder on its uglier sides, it will embrace you with all its warmth.
Life will turn gentle on you one day. It will start putting balm on the scars it dealt on you one day. It will cradle you one day.
Any book recs similar to All The Bright Places or The Perks Of Being A Wallflower or Holding Up The Universe or Dead Poets Society or We Were Liars or Us Three? Vibe or story-wise.
I'm looking particularly for ya/fiction books with a focus on self-improvement, a coming-of-age, finding yourself or finding joy.
I really really love those sort of books, and I read a few more than I listed. I'm just really in the mood for that sort of thing; a melancholy light academia/spring 'it gets better' sort of thing 🙃
“nobody is making you do this” i am driven by unnatural forces you will never even begin to comprehend
“I don’t know what my goals are, no. Thanks for asking.”
Go on to google. Search up regina phalange and click on the guitar.
Its awesome......
I love my job, but reblogging employment jelly for someone else I love.
Hi chemistry people
Lab + cold = :(
Stay tuned for some more Totally Real formulas
14 November 2024
Nuclear chem labs are usually really boring - to be safe, these samples can't be wildly radioactive, so measurements take ages - but this one was fun. Lab partner and I put a big piece of granite under the probe and the radiometer started clicking like crazy! We actually had to readjust the measuring range, it was so fun to see. Granite can be naturally radioactive! Then we measured spent nuclear fuel and the radiometer went almost dead silent (save for the background radiation of course) which was also cool. Spent fuel indeed!
btw everything is an aesthetic if you make it one and that's the secret to romantisizing your life. you know those posts that describe an aesthetic in details? notice that those details are absolutely mundane. throw a bunch of details from your daily life together, call it an aesthetic and you got it. just try right now and see how easy it is
Summer Berry Mix 🍓🫐 ♡⊹˚₊
Here's your sign to ask for help more often.
I just needed a criteria sheet for how to grade presentations that I will see tomorrow. and I was like: I could create one myself OR I could shoot my colleague a message and ask for hers. Not 5 minutes later she sent me the document (and other useful documents as well). I think a lot of people - and teachers especially (ironically?) don't ask for each others' materials or help and really - we could use the time for other things. So yeah: ask for things! People are glad to give it to you!
14 November 2024 (Thrusday,11:33)
20/100 days of Productivity
Today, I was able to complete all my goals. I read When Marnie Was There , I am on Chapter 7, did an evening meditation, and studied for 1 hour and 15 minutes. I also went for a 15-minute walk, drank around 9 glasses of water, attended Jeffrey Eisen session (which I’ll share more about tomorrow), and did some journaling by asking myself reflective questions.
Now, i will brush my teeth, read a bit, and stay away from my phone and sleep by 12.
Good night <3
stopping my hiatus for a minute to post this.
- you deserve love, good health, and happiness. you deserve them even if you’ve been denied them.
- don’t let life’s cruelty make you cruel too.
- be kind to yourself. you’re trying your best. be kind to others. they’re probably trying their best too.
- you’ll get through whatever this is, and the new stuff that comes after will be so exciting.
Sometimes I am thinking oh I wish I was more productive, had my life more in order like those people on YouTube who make productivity videos.
Then I realise I am actually doing a PhD in chemistry in order to be here I needed to be productive, I AM productive!
No front against YouTubers, I mean I watch them a lot and many have good advice but sometimes I am wondering if someone is a full time YouTuber making productivity content, and this content is making people like me, who actually have been productive for the last 21 years (that’s how long I have been in education/academia), if it is a correct portrayal of what productivity looks like.
As much as I wish my day would look like theirs, no one is vlogging the 14 h lab day doing repetitive experiments because it’s not aesthetically pleasing and doing what I do I can’t expect my days to look like theirs!
So I'm taking this class called molecular driving forces and it's something like stat mech for chemistry and it blows my mind like every week. Today the professor asked us why heat flows from warm objects to cold objects and everyone was like entropy! Temperature! Equilibrium! and he was like yeah yeah but what's it really about when you get to the bottom of it? And the answer was statistics - because the number of states in which these two bodies are in a thermal equilibrium is much (like, much) greater than the number of states in which they aren't, and so thermal equilibrium is the most probable outcome. And the thing that decks me every time is that it's always statistics, it's all statistics.
So anyway, every week I'm like WHOA THIS IS WHY I CHOSE A SCIENCE DEGREE and if you're also a science student (or used to be one) please reblog and add your moments of awe at the beautiful complexity of our universe pretty please!! I want to read your stories! Science appreciation chain!!
This may sound corny but-
Whenever I go out and look around, I always find something new that makes me wonder. From animals, to plants and fungi, even deeper then with protists, archaea and bacteria. But even then, how about the very soil we walk upon? How about the winds or the flow of water? I could spend whole nights looking at flames dancing until they dwindle and I should really, really go to bed.
There's no day in which I haven't found something like that, even when I stay at home or when I'm sad there's always a tiny something I want to know more about.
In particular, when I'm feeling down I might find myself wondering about the biological processes that I call "feeling down", just to find myself staring at the sky and wondering why being sad is called "feeling blue" when all I can muster when I look up, and then beyond, can hardly be described, with all the enthusiasm I feel in those moments, as simply "Sublime".
It's just very hard to point out specific moments, but hopefully that explains it well enough.
