Diary of a Future Chem Major

rhea, she/they, hs student prepping for a future in STEM

[chem-major-life]

Classes I'm taking and my ratings:

Multicultural Literature: 4/10 kind of boring, also most of the points are class discussion which I hate

German 4: 10/10 so many friends and I love German sm

Pre-Calculus: 6/10 going well! The teacher is nice and I'm not doing terrible

Intermediate Chemistry: 9/10 i am SO autistic about this and the teacher is my favorite teacher in the entire school! -1 point because I had to drop band temporarily

[queer-as-city-folk]

You have all fallen for the lies of the engineers

Engineering is actually the evil profession and architecture is the good and moral one

[queer-as-city-folk]

Engineers build military planes that destroy while architects create beauty in our world

[chem-major-life]

I'm going into chemical engineering to try and create longer lasting food to benefit those in need. am I still evil?

[chem-major-life]

100 Days of Productivity 1/100

Wow completely forgot this blog existed

Anyway I'm working on unfucking my life right now! I did a lot of organizing today and I'm trying to figure out how meal planning works

I'm doing a closing shift at work tonight 😞

wish me luck guys!

[queer-as-city-folk]

Unrelated but did you hear about a bunch of tiktok teens are joining the military because of an edit to Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand

[chem-major-life]

Didn't he die or smth?

[chem-major-life]

100 days of productivity restarts very soon! I kinda gave up last year because I had surgery and then seasonal depression and then by that point school was basically over, but I'm going to try again! I also have a job now so I'll be going 110% for the next several months lol

I think I'm going to restart on my first day of classes which is 8/23, so I'm pretty excited!

[the-real-list-of-ominous-threats]

Chemistry

[chem-major-life]

Nitrogen dioxide!!

[chem-major-life]

I've been doing nothing for work or school over winter break and it's incredible. I didn't really take a break over last summer and it's incredible to finally be not burnt out. I want to restart 100 days of productivity after the new year but I also desperately need those last few days of break. just. ugh.

[sprucebark]

buddy. pal. friend.

[chem-major-life]

@amtrak-official cameo???

[todaysbird]

as a huge lover of birds, 90% of the concern against wind turbines being used for energy is literally just pro fossil fuel propaganda. birds ARE at a risk however there is a lot of strategies even as simple as painting one of the blades that reduces a lot of accidental deaths. additionally renewable energy sources will do more in favor of the environment that would positively impact birds (and all of us). one study found over one million bird deaths from wind turbines. while that is a shockingly high number and we should work to drastically shrink it, at least 1.3 billion birds die to outdoor cats on a yearly basis. it was never about caring about birds

[wrentit]

there was a study done in 2015 that shows an even greater possible yearly divide than the 2012 one

[querulousglare]

Could've sworn that the Cats statistic was made up by Audubon Society members who want to abolish the practice of keeping cats as pets.

[todaysbird]

stop saying made up shit and use Google. That’s not a thing. Ornithologists want to stop irresponsible cat owners, not cat ownership altogether

[chem-major-life]

I had to write a paper on loss of birds for one of my classes, and the statistic about cats actually refers to feral/"outdoor" cats, not cats as a whole! Cats are just fine to have as pets as long as you're responsible about it!!

[chem-major-life]

September 25, 2023 (2/100)

Today was an in-service day (no school for students) so I used it to catch up on more homework and have a reset day!

I had so much env sci homework this weekend but half of it was painting so it's okay :)

Finally all caught up except for Chem, no idea what's going on in first period anymore :(

It's exam week in two of my classes which isn't great but I think I'll do well, we'll see

[chem-major-life]

September 24, 2023

decided that today is a great day to start 100 days of productivity! I had a bunch of homework to catch up on and I have an environmental science test to study for

I'm a bit behind in Chem atm because I had to miss class Friday. still hating env sci, but i get college credit for it so that's a bonus

today I also went to Michael's for their big sale and got a whole bunch of supplies :) I need to make more art for my internship portfolio