Intelligence is a conscious effort.

Lio | she/her | 21 | Working on expanding my academic capabilities to eventually pursue higher education, but I also like to learn and better myself as a hobby. I'm interested in literature, art, ancient history, and language learning, and the posts I make here will probably reflect that. Enjoy your stay!

[tkkatherineblog]

IG @fionazanetti

[ancientsstudies]

Bartholomeus van der Helst.

Sir William Beechey.

Peter Paul Rubens.

François Boucher.

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, Roland Barthes

[etherealacademia]

i need a new bookcase, i’m running out of space to store my books

[ancientsstudies]

Antwerp Central.

[soracities]

Hand details (comparatives) Henry Cabot Lodge, John Singer Sargent | Zwei Hände Mit Stock, Wilhelm Leibl

[academia-dryad]

“The forget-me-not” (1886) - Gabriel Schachinger

[inkblue-computerhead]

academia things that genuinely make me happy

large textbooks filled with extra papers which hold the answers to the problems you thought were too brilliant to be thrown away, or the simple short summary of a part you were struggling to understand before

having your textbook absolutely ruined by highlighters and sticky notes all over it, those little tips and ideas you picked up from the lesson. anyone who opens that book immediately knows that you’ve studied the crap out of it and know the concept by heart. “this is the most annotated book i’ve ever seen” is literally the highest form of compliment for me.

solving math or chemistry problems to a soundtrack album or ambient sounds, extra points if it’s in afternoon lol

when you’re so focused and keen on getting to the final answer that your hand physically can’t keep up with your eagerness so you end up with the most incoherent solution. but you’ve finally got the answer right!

being self-taught in a subject or a few chapters of the textbook, and still smashing the quizzes and the exams

coming up with a new solution to the problem, or seeing the problem from a new perspective, and finally being able to solve it because of just that.

confidently walking out of the exam room. 0 doubt in your mind that you crushed it!

actually feeling how you’ve grown academically, and how much more knowledgeable you are compared to the beginning of the semester

casually and confidently having conversations with a professor about your studies, exchanging ideas and discussing the existing theories, methods, on-going research and all

all of this is everything i want in life- god 

[academia-dryad]

“La veuve” - Alfred Stevens

[thatsbelievable]

[requiem-on-water]

Whitby Abbey, North Yorkshire, England by Ian Richardson

[artist-pissarro]

Bathing Goose Maidens, Camille Pissarro

[theladyintweed]

Kedleston Hall

Photo by me 

[before-life]

The Winged Victory of Samothrace, c. 220-190 BC, Parian marble, Louvre, Paris (photo by Lauren)

[muresetivoire]

When Jane Austen said, "And sometimes I keep my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in," I felt that

[plullaby]

[weltenwellen]

Mary Oliver, from “From the Book of Time”, Devotions