discipline is empathy with your future self

aneta • 27 • developmental and molecular biology phd student • also an artist main: @zelkam art: @zelkams-art

[academic-vampire]

𝔠𝔬𝔣𝔣𝔢𝔢 & 𝔠𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔪

[tea-tuesday]

long weekend adventures 🫶 feat. journaling feelings, long walks in the city, bodega cats, and lovely warm bookstores

[beatrizjournal]

“As it was, what could bind, tame, or civilize for human use that wild, generous, untutored intelligence? It poured itself out, higgledy-piggledy, in torrents of rhyme and prose, poetry and philosophy which stand congealed in quartos and folios that nobody ever read.”

- Virginia Woolf, “A room of one’s own”

(next video in the works)

[academic-vampire]

𝔪𝔬𝔰𝔰𝔶 𝔤𝔯𝔢𝔢𝔫

[ohk4te]

first “large cappuccino to stay” of the year ☕️

[moltes-musings]

When I'm travelling I keep a travel diary. Since I'm in Japan for three months I got a new Midori MD notebook, so I can fit it all my adventures in one book ✨

[cabinetteofcuriosities]

Kat's little notebooks (and doodles).

[discountscholar]

really struggling to focus 🫠

[paperbaacks]

babel annotations - pt. 1

[belovedapollo]

I’ve been gifted many sticky notes and stickers and I’m trying to use them without overthinking ✍🏼

reblog is ok, don’t repost/use

[belovedapollo]

I need more notebooks, more books and more hours in the day 🖊️ reblog is ok, don’t repost/use

[loudemic]

i do like a good little note taking session in a cute café ☕️

[flowersforfrancis]

[soft-lovely]

romanticising student life

[liones-s]

one of the biggest things I can advocate for (in academia, but also just in life) is to build credibility with yourself. It’s easy to fall into the habit of thinking of yourself as someone who does things last minute or who struggles to start tasks. people will tell you that you just need to build different habits, but I know for me at least the idea of ‘habit’ is sort of abstract and dehumanizing. Credibility is more like ‘I’ve done this before, so I know I can do it, and more importantly I trust myself to do it’. you set an assignment goal for the day and you meet it, and then you feel stronger setting one the next day. You establish a relationship with yourself that’s built on confidence and trust. That in turn starts to erode the barrier of insecurity and perfectionism and makes it easier to start and finish tasks. reframing the narrative as a process of building credibility makes it easier to celebrate each step and recognize how strong your relationship with yourself can become

[detailstodiefor]

social media vs reality: my desk

[loudemic]

i do like a good little note taking session in a cute café ☕️