Valentine's is for the beekeepers, actually

Asra || 21 || they/them || Honours student

[metamorphesque]

— Franz Kafka, from a letter to Milena (June 11, 1920)

[gideonnavsenormousbiceps]

Julius Caesar watching people make jokes about him being brutally assassinated every March:

[angelofdumpsterfires]

it’s almost that time of the year :)

[visit-ba-sing-se]

Ceasar be like “i cannot believe my friends in the senat would stab me” my brother in Mars you were actively abolishing their republic

[macrolit]

[macrolit]

The Awakening, Kate Chopin (b. 8 February 1850)

[howdoyoulanguage]

Verb stem + やすい / Verb stem + にくい

verb stem + やすい：easy to do~ 

verb stem + にくい：hard/difficult to do~

change を to は or が

とうふははしで食べにくいです。 Tofu is hard* to eat with chopsticks. このシャツはとても着やすいです。 This shirt is very easy to wear. あの大学はあまり入りやすくないです。 That college is not that easy to get into. これは話しにくい問題です。 This is a hard problem to talk about. 先生の発音はとても聞きやすいです。 The teacher’s pronunciation is easy to understand.

* : the original English sentence said “easy” but that is incorrect. Thank you to @beepbeepsan for catching that!

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Free online short stories for Spanish reading practice. Have fun improving your Spanish with these graded stories for beginner to advanced!

[soulmvtes]

january is one of those months where you experience every feeling on the human spectrum and you just have to go about your day like that isn't happening

[nanalineni]

Even if scihub is blocked by your internet provider they have a telegram bot that gives you the articles provided you give them a doi or issn

[nanalineni]

Works pretty well, scihub is blocked in France if you don't have access to the academic internet provider, but this bot isn't

[nanalineni]

Also unpaywall is an addon for all the classic explorers that gives you freely legally accessible PDFs when they seem like behind a paywall

[nanalineni]

And finally, more and more researchers are publishing their preprints for free on web archives, the most well known here being Hal and ArXiv

[hamletthedane]

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

[magic-dustt]

Hello friends, I have an amazing drama recommendation for you!

Koisenu Futari (2022) is a Japanese drama centered around two aromantic asexual characters going through life. Only 2 episodes are out rn but they covered so many great topics and issues aroace people deal with (I cried like 50 times while watching them).

As most of you know, a-spec representation in media is almost non-existent and there are very few aroace characters in movies/tv-shows.

I'm asexual (and probably aromantic or demiromantic, I'm not sure yet), and for me, it was really hard to find that out. Why? Because no one is talking about it.

First time I heard the term asexual was when I read Alice Oseman's Loveless and Radio Silence. I didn't know such term existed, I didn't know some people felt the same as I do.

I thought I was weird or broken or whatever because most of the characters you see in tv shows and movies (or people irl) have met their soulmates or are in love with someone or want to have sex with someone.

Everyone talked about sexual attraction and I didn't understand what they meant. I thought that if you think someone looks pretty to you, you are sexually attracted to them. But that's not it and no one explains that to you.

This is why I loved this drama so much. In just 2 episodes they covered topics such as feeling broken, googling stuff like "I can't fall in love, what is wrong with me?", being happy when you discover the terms asexual and aromantic, and meeting another a-spec people. Also the pressure society and family put upon you (When will you find someone, when will you marry, how many kids are you going to have, you are useless if you don't have all of these), even though you don't want that.

It made me so happy to watch this and I honestly can't wait to see what they'll do in the next episodes.

If you are on the ace spectrum or are questioning, this is the perfect drama for you! I hope a lot of people will discover this post and drama and enjoy watching it.

[darkacademiavibes]

Borrow books, share pdfs, email ebooks. Understand that academia is expensive. Make it more accessible, help someone gain knowledge. Dismantle the disparity with second-hand books and hand-me-downs. Share. Share. Share.

[lantern-hill]

what i've learned from one year in uni

...as a humanities student focussing on languages and history.

do all your readings at least a week in advance. honestly a lifesaver. make a list of the readings you'll need to have done for the next week and divvy them up along the current week.

annotate your readings. either by hand, or download them, import to a pdf annotation app (or just google drive) and make comments/highlight important parts,

don't sign up for early or late classes, especially if you're a commuter. i signed up for a 9-11 AM class and a 6-8 PM class and they were both hell even if I enjoyed the material. Don't do it.

join the class group chat. if there isn't one, make one. you might not think you need it, but you do, you really do.

if you can't get yourself to do the whole reading, read the first sentence of every paragraph. listen, we've all been there when the reading is 36 pages and you're just not feeling it. most well-written academic articles start with a topic sentence that will give you a sense of the general direction of the work, so skimming the first sentence of each paragraph can actually equip you better than nothing for your discussions.

the syllabus is your bible. read it THOROUGHLY at the beginning of term and reference it CONSTANTLY.

skip lectures. NEVER skip tutorials. it's better to not skip lectures either but sometimes they're just not helpful. but ALWAYS go to tutorial.

find out your task capacity and worship it. i can't allocate myself a certain number of hours of work a day because sometimes i can work for 10 hours and sometimes i can barely focus for two. however, i can generally manage around 5 academic tasks a day. so I'll allocate myself two readings, an outline, a draft and a note-taking session and that works pretty well for me.

[cupsnpages]

What happens if you fail a class/course? Hint: you will live!

I’ve been meaning to post this for a while now and I think this is the perfect moment since I had my own time to cope with this experience.

Failing a class or course at university can be a really nightmare but it’s something that sometimes it’s out of our control. You might be dealing with health issues or family problems. You can be juggling work and school while working. Or simply you didn’t understand your professor or the course itself. 

Something that my friends told me when I failed a class during my past semester was that I shouldn’t think I’m not smart enough and that I shouldn’t feel like I failure because not passing a class it’s more normal than society wants us to believe. It happens to everyone and it could happen when we less expect it. Like it happened to me (a fourth year undergrad student. oops) so yes… at first I felt like a disappointment to my family and friends and well, to myself. But then I asked myself: What now? What am I supposed to do? And I realized that failing one course didn’t mean anything. I just have to retake the course and learn from the experience. 

 Some tips that my friends gave me: 

Ask for help: be sure to ask your professor or advisor for suggestions on how to study differently or comprehend the subject matter better. 

Tutoring: If you want to comprehend the content better, you might want to think about hiring a tutor. If there are meetings or office hours, you can also go to them.

Study groups: Studying with someone who’s going through the same can be really helpful since you can help each other. Or you could also study with someone who passed the class and ask them their study tips and strategies for the class. 

Understanding why you failed will help you succeed the next time or prevent failure altogether. Determine whether the course material is simply too difficult  Utilize resources like internet guides if you require additional assistance. Practice your time management and study techniques.

In conclusion, failing a class it’s totally normal and it doesn’t define you as a student or as a person! The world won’t end. Even if you don’t pass a course , you can still get your degree and your chances are still open. You’ve undoubtedly gained a lot of knowledge from the experience, too. You’ll gain a lesson in perseverance in addition to how to study harder and do better the next time. <3 

[plaguedbyvisions]

mandatory discussion board kinda mood

[ryohkei-deactivated20231113]

宇宙と惑星の日本語／英語　Universe and Planets in Japanese / English

太陽系 [たいようけい tai you kei] = Solar System

太陽 [たいよう tai you] = Sun

水星 [すいせい sui sei] = Mercury

金星 [きんせい kin sei] = Venus

地球 [ちきゅう chi kyuu] = Earth

火星 [かせい ka sei] = Mars

木星 [もくせい moku sei] = Jupiter

土星 [どせい do sei] = Saturn

天王星 [てんのうせい ten nou sei] = Uranus

海王星 [かいおうせい kai ou sei] = Neptune

冥王星 [めいおうせい mei ou sei] = Pluto

◎太陽系の惑星の覚え方(たいようけいの わくせいの おぼえかた) How to memorize the planets of the Solar System

水金地火木土天海冥 [すい きん ち か もく ど てん かい めい sui kin chi ka moku do ten kai mei]

これは、それぞれの惑星名の頭文字をまとめたものです。(冥王星は、2006年に惑星から外され、準惑星に分類されました。)

これは、それぞれの わくせいめいの かしらもじを まとめたものです。(めいおうせいは、にせんろくねんに わくせいから はずされ、じゅんわくせいに ぶんるい されました。)

This is the collection of the first letters of each planet’s name. (In 2006, Pluto was excluded from the planet and was classified as a dwarf planet.)

月 [つき tsuki] = Moon

新月 [しんげつ shin getsu] = new moon

半月 [はんげつ han getsu] = half moon

三日月 [みかづき mi ka zuki] = crescent

満月 [まんげつ man getsu] = full moon

星 [ほし hoshi] = star

彗星 [すいせい sui sei] = comet

惑星 [わくせい waku sei] = planet

小惑星 [しょう わくせい shou waku sei] = asteroid

準惑星 [じゅん わくせい jun waku sei] = dwarf planet

衛星 [えいせい ei sei] = natural satellite

人工衛星 [じんこう えいせい jin kou ei sei] = artificial satellite

流れ星 [ながれぼし naga re boshi] ／ 流星 [りゅうせい ryuu sei] = shooting star, meteor

北極星 [ほっきょくせい hokkyoku sei] = Pole Star

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天体 [てんたい ten tai] = astronomical object

天体観測 [てんたい かんそく ten tai kan soku] = astronomical observation

望遠鏡 [ぼうえんきょう bou en kyou] = telescope

ハッブル宇宙望遠鏡 [ハッブル うちゅう ぼうえんきょう habburu u chuu bou en kyou] = Hubble Space Telescope

天文台 [てんもんだい ten mon dai] = observatory

天文学 [てんもんがく ten mon gaku] = astronomy

天体物理学 [てんたい ぶつりがく ten tai butsu ri gaku] = 宇宙物理学 [うちゅう ぶつりがく u chuu butsu ri gaku] = astrophysics

相対性理論 [そうたいせい りろん sou tai sei ri ron] = theory of relativity

アルベルト・アインシュタイン [a ru be ru to・a i n shu ta i n] = Albert Einstein

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日食 [にっしょく nisshoku] = solar eclipse

部分日食 [ぶぶん にっしょく bu bun nisshoku] = partial eclipse

皆既日食 [かいき にっしょく kai ki nisshoku] = total eclipse

金環日食 [きんかん にっしょく kin kan nisshoku] = annular eclipse

金環皆既日食 [きんかん かいき にっしょく kin kan kai ki nisshoku] = hybrid eclipse

月食 [げっしょく gesshoku] = lunar eclipse

部分月食 [ぶぶん げっしょく bu bun gesshoku] = partial lunar eclipse

皆既月食 [かいき げっしょく kai ki gesshoku] = total lunar eclipse

銀河系 [ぎんがけい gin ga kei] = Milky Way, Galaxy

ブラックホール [bu rakku ho ー ru] = black hole

ビッグバン [biggu ban] = big bang

光年 [こうねん kou nen] = light year

自転 [じてん ji ten] = rotation

公転 [こうてん kou ten] = revolution

軌道 [きどう ki dou] = orbit

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宇宙 [うちゅう u chuu] = Universe

宇宙服 [うちゅうふく u chuu fuku] = space suits

宇宙船 [うちゅうせん u chuu sen] = spaceship

宇宙飛行士 [うちゅう ひこうし u chuu hi kou shi] = astronaut

宇宙旅行 [うちゅう りょこう u chuu ryo kou] = space travel

宇宙遊泳 [うちゅう ゆうえい u chuu yuu ei] = space walk

宇宙ステーション [うちゅうステーション u chuu su te ー sho n] = space station

宇宙人 [うちゅうじん u chuu jin] = alien from another planet

スペースシャトル [su pe ー su sha to ru] = space shuttle

アメリカ航空宇宙局 [アメリカ こうくう うちゅうきょく amerika kou kuu u chuu kyoku] ／ NASA [ナサ na sa] = NASA

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宇宙戦艦ヤマト [うちゅう せんかん ヤマト u chuu sen kan ya ma to] = Japanese science fiction anime “Space Battleship Yamato”

銀河鉄道999 [ぎんが てつどう スリーナイン gin ga tetsu dou su ri ー na i n] = Japanese manga and anime “Galaxy Express 999”

美少女戦士セーラームーン [びしょうじょ せんし セーラームーン bi shou jo sen shi se ー ra ー mu ー n] = Japanese manga “Sailor Moon”

・美少女 [びしょうじょ bi shou jo] = pretty girl

・戦士 [せんし sen shi] = soldier

宇宙兄弟 [うちゅう きょうだい u chuu kyou dai] = Japanese manga “Space Brothers”

2001年宇宙の旅 [にせん いちねん うちゅうの たび ni sen ichi nen u chuu no tabi] = science fiction movie “2001: A Space Odyssey”

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※画像(がぞう)はすべてPixabayより。

All images are from Pixabay.

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This article is an excerpt from my blog  

“漢字を書こう～Let’s write Japanese～”

https://ryohkei.com/

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this exchange will never not be funny to me