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@bookwormpolyglot
Good morning, loves. I hope today is kind to you. Remember that you are loved. You are not alone. You matter. You are you and that is enough. Don’t let anyone convince you otherwise. You deserve the absolute world, there is a bright future on the horizon. Just hang in there. You’ve got this. Everything will be okay. Take care of yourselves and I wish you all the best xxx
Hello, everyone! I'm a long-time lurker in the studyblr community, so I finally decided to join myself.
About me:
My name's Nina.
I'm 19 years old.
I'm from Serbia.
I'm a freshman at the Linguistics college, studying German and Spanish.
Why did I start this blog:
Last school year I really struggled with my mental health, and I think a creative outlet like a blog will help me manage it.
I want to be a part of this amazing community!
What you can find here:
I'll try to post original content in terms of how my studies are going.
I'll try to post study tips, tricks and mental health advice from professionals and experience.
Maybe you'll find a book review once in a while.
My interests:
Learning languages.
Reading.
Exercise.
Studyyblrs which inspired me:
@study-harder@eintsein@myhoneststudyblr@mymessystudyblr@lovelybluepanda@problematicprocrastinator@hard-coreprocrastinator@sayitaliano@sayitalianohome@selfhelpforstudents
It's probably worth mentioning that @selfhelpforstudents and I are working on a project centred around managing your mental health while studying. Stay tuned.
it takes years to develop your craft. do not romanticize the idea of an ‘overnight success’. be a student. grow organically. get really good. hate your work. start over. find new ways to express the same ideas. the student becomes the master. your time will come.
the worst vocabulary to learn in a language is numbers, this is an objective fact
Do you have any regrets?
Absolutely! Thanks for the ask
Don’t tell your daughter that when a boy is mean or rude to her it’s because he has a crush on her. Don’t teach her that abuse is a sign of love.
My mom always taught me yell or fight back. Boys would be mean and I would yell back. I would get my ass pinched and I would smack them as hard as I could.
Who alway got in trouble? Me.
They would call my mother and she always came in and lectures my teachers and threatened to sue for making her miss work and treating me poorly.
She always taught my brothers to respect women. The only fights my brothers ever got in was defending women from someone else.
The school tried to call my father once instead of my mother on us. He came in in his full preacher outfit (being a preacher and all) and gave them an entire sermon on what would Jesus day of he was called in. They decided dealing with my mom was better.
I think my favorite story of this is when some kid snapped my bra and I turned around, didn’t even think about it, and punched that little motherfucker right in the nose.
So naturally, I end up in the principal’s office, refusing to apologize.
“He shouldn’t have put his hands on me and I wouldn’t have hit him!” That’s the only thing I was saying.
These people had the unfortunate luck of catching my dad at home, instead of my mom. So he comes fucking sauntering in there, like he’s Clint fucking Eastwood in some western movie and looks at me.
“Melissa, did you punch him?”
“Yes.” I said.
“Why?”
“Because he snapped my bra strap.”
And he turns his squinty eyed glare to the principal and says, “You’re telling me my daughter is in trouble because that squirrely looking kid put his hands on her and she chose to defend herself? That’s what you are saying to me.”
“Well, sir-” The man kind of stuttered because my dad is kind of intimidating in the quiet sort of way that kind of whispers in the back of your mind that this person could be dangerous. “Melissa did make it physical.”
“No. That kid put his hands on my daughter. Are you saying my daughter cannot defend herself when some boy decides to put hands on her? Is that what you are teaching my girl?”
I didn’t get suspended that day.
*slow clap for excellent parenting*
This is the parent I want to be omg
I went to a nun school.
The nuns there were like, so rad.
It was a party organized for the end of the school year, and I was helping in the kitchen to prepare stuff with a nun and a bunch of little girls. There was one of the girls’ little brother who was there.
There was a little girl who was carrying a bowl of tomato sauce and was going outside, but the boy was just in front of her and he slammed the door in her face. She dropped the bowl on the floor and got all messy.
So what happened?
The nun went outside, took the boy by the arm, and gave him an epic speech going around the lines of: “Would you treat the Virgin Mary like that, young man?” “Nnnnno…” “Then treat every girl like she’s the Virgin Mary.” Not only the boy had to apologize to the little girl, but he also had to clean up and he was put on kitchen duty for the rest of the day.
Then another day, in catechism class (I was a in a girls’ school, mind you), the nun was there telling us: “If a guy touches you in a way you don’t like, punch him in the face. It’s not a sin against charity. On the contrary, you’re being charitable by showing him he’s sinning by impurity and you’ll save him from going to hell.”
So I was at my desk during class looking like this:
Reblogging for awesome dads and kickass nuns.
“you’re being charitable by showing him he’s sinning by impurity and you’ll save him from going to hell.”
What a mood.
Jesus said if guys hands were causing them sin-problems, they should cut them off. Face-punching seems like a good pre-amputation steps, to prevent it getting that far.
my mom did many really really good parenting things that i didn’t realize were unusual until i became an adult and heard about other people’s less positive experiences
i will pass on to Current Youths ™ a perspective she gave me back when i was maybe…. 12
which was hugely impactful for my mental health
while most of my friends had parents who treated college as a default & anything other than that as a failure, this was what my mom told me
broken down to Bullet Point Principles
college might not be the path you want to take
there are other ways to study the topics that interest you
if you go to college, make sure you’re going either for the love of learning or with a clear end goal (a degree, certification, breadth of knowledge, etc) in mind
you might end up wanting to go to a trade school to do something with your hands
you might not want any post-high-school education at all
your career won’t define you and neither will your career opportunities
you can stay true to yourself even if you aren’t a high-powered career woman clawing your way up the ranks
in fact you’ll PROBABLY feel better doing menial mindless jobs & focusing your life around your spare time creative pursuits
[kitkat note about this one: absolutely true for me, may not be true for you]
you don’t have to find a dream job
you don’t have to have a detailed life plan
you don’t have to follow the expected path or do what people tell you to just because they think you’d be good at it
you don’t have to change the world
you don’t have to make your passions your career
i ended up dropping out of high school for a large number of different reasons. but pearl clutching is unnecessary, this ^^ life outlook was not one of them. i’d have dropped out whether or not she told me this
having all of this in mind meant that i knew my life WASN’T OVER after i dropped out. so i failed at traditional education. so i wasn’t gonna meet the potential everyone said i had. so i wasn’t gonna go to college. so i was gonna disappoint some people. so my life was gonna be harder.
so what? i still had everything else
i am so so SO grateful to my mom for this. it was such a healthy outlook on school and future expectations & it gave me total freedom to do and be who i want to be. & that is why i’m sharing it. because when you’re in high school, EVERYTHING is ABOUT high school. failures in high school feel like the end of the world
they’re not. i promise. don’t trick yourself into thinking they are
It gets a little bit easier once you realize you can accomplish things at your own pace and that’s okay
here’s to everyone hitting a low point after doing really well. you’re amazing and so strong and your hard work is not erased. you will find happiness again
do u ever feel like ur pulling an academic icarus flying too close to your deadlines on wings of deeply flawed time management
when i was a child, i could not comprehend in my little child brain that people who were not from my country had thoughts on another language other then the one i spoke, i couldn't comprehend how there were many languages in the world and they weren't just translations of my native language and when i think about it i just realize damn, is that how americans feel all the time? that must suck so bad :/
Reblog this if you are a langblr learning German!
its kinda scary how your whole life depends on how well you do as a teenager
oh my god No it doesn’t don’t put this kind of pressure on people?? you can absolutely fuck up in your teen years and continue on to a good life just fine. you can drop out of school, get a GED, still go to college and finish your degree as late as you want. i know people in my school who still haven’t graduated and they’re 26. some older. you can always transfer someplace else, always build yourself up from the ground. after a certain amount of college credits, a lot of schools really don’t care about your high school GED or your SAT scores anymore. if you fuck up in your teenage years you are not a failure!! you can ALWAYS re-invent yourself, always start over. there is always a second chance.
Reblogging this for my followers freaking out over art school/college. I dropped out of high school and never thought I’d get into college as easily as I did. You will be fine!
Fun story my biology professor just told us: When he was 23 he was married to his wife and worked two jobs to support them since she was in college: gas station attendant and construction worker. He worked these two jobs because that was the only work he could get since he was at the reading level of a third grader.
One night he was writing something and his wife noticed he was writing from right to left. Since she was studying occupational therapy she realized he had a learning disability and started working with him. He slowly began to learn to read, and at 26 got his GED and went to college.
His first year of college he took the lowest level math course he could take, 001. Over the years he worked on learning what he needed to, ended up graduating with a biology degree. He then went on to get his masters and PhD, graduating at the top of his class. He is now an extremely accomplished biologist and professor.
So don’t let anyone tell you that you’re future is based on your choices as a teenager.
Seriously. Do not believe this. You aren’t even stuck with your choices you make in your 20s. I didn’t start working in my current field until just after my 30th birthday. It has nothing to do with what I went to school for in my 20s. My husband has a political science degree, and he’s a sports journalist.
You are not tied to anything. Go. Be.
My day job did not exist when I was a teenager. And the idea of trying to be an author was a distant thing on my radar. I thought I was going to be an English teacher. And then I thought I was going to be a music teacher. And then I thought I was going to be a drama teacher.
Also in there: therapist, early childhood educator, then finally: web developer–because by then it was an actual thing that existed. I didn’t actually figure out what I “wanted to do when I grew up” until about eight years ago, when I was 36. I tried pursuing writing when I was 30, stopped, then started pursuing it seriously again when I was 40.
There is always time to change. And don’t let anyone tell you that high school is “the best time of your life” either, because that’s bullshit too.
Reblogging for my followers. My high school teachers didn’t know what to do with me, and I failed everything but a low photography grade. I thought university wasn’t for me, and settled for marrying a mediocre man who spent all day on Warcraft. Then I went to community college. Now I’m in uni doing a double English and philosophy degree, just back from America. I am also single.
Also important: College is not the only option. Don’t let anyone try to tell you it is. If you’re not academically inclined, the trades are an option and they are a good option– if the only thing you think you’re good at is make-up do that. There are people who can live comfortably just doing make-up. We have this idea planted in our heads as teenagers (and younger) that not fitting into an academic mould of some sort means you’re failing at life and this is bullshit. There’s no reason to feel like you’re “failing at life” because you don’t like school or were never good at it. We need skilled workers in the world, and the thing they don’t tell you is all work is skilled work. If it’s work, it takes skill. Yes, this encompasses “service” jobs, it encompasses all jobs. Please don’t think that what you do, or what you have an interest in doing is of less value than something that requires a college education. This coming from the college-educated white girl who is a seamstress because it’s what I enjoy. If college isn’t going to get you where you want to go, than you don’t need to go! It’s that simple. Take whatever path you need to get to where you are happy and comfortable and fufilled. If you’re doing what you love you are sucessful.
i didn’t graduate with my bachelor’s until i was 26 and life took a few turns along the way but now, at 37, i have a job that makes me genuinely happy. and it’s got nothing to do with how well i did in high school.
This! This make me cry… I’m 23 and I really don’t know where I’m going, so reading this kinds of storys makes me feel hope!
I love all this support and inspiring stories, but what I think op was getting at was that our teachers/parents/elders ingrain this idea in us that if we fuck up in our teens, we fuck up everything. So don’t ever let adults make you feel less for needing/spending more time to achieve your goals. You’re still amazing if you get a degree at 24 or 44 or even not at all
for everyone needing this as much as i do right now
Friends: A Summary.
*hits the bong* ya know……i used to be a smart kid . i was so f ucking smart man. i can’t even read anymore dude
2% girl 98% anxiety
set small goals for yourself! you don’t need to be fluent right away, or graduate with straight As. it’s way better to have smaller goals, like “get an A on this test” or “use memrise every day for a month” - it’s so important not to overwhelm yourself, which can harm your motivation a lot. same goes for having a (study) blog, just set yourself some small milestones, instead of having one huge aspiration that seems impossible to achieve.
