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a struggling student | mechEng | 18 | she/her

[dolcechild]

exam anxiety so awful i have reverted back to roots (1hr in the night garden soundtrack on repeat)

[dolcechild]

should've probably started going to the gp once my anxiety started to make me go delirious

[dolcechild]

just looked up my crush' family and oh my god it's actually the you (me, the chud) vs competitive dancer sister, multiple business owning dad, assertive industrious mother i stand no chance he is also a catch and a half like what on earth

[dolcechild]

i'm sorry tp but you don't ominously ask me what my availability is for may/june without explaining why

[dolcechild]

if i ain't got me i know fool's paradise by isaac dunbar got me

[dolcechild]

forgetting that for a crush to actually turn tangible it's a series of interactions and lingering for eachother and not just one big moment of actuation

[dolcechild]

very quickly you realise formula student is just a bunch of excel files and one licence revocation away from an actual breakdown

[goldengirlschildhood]

i can not and i mean i can not stress this enough… make a bibliography as you do your research. i mean, make a fully formed, correctly cited bibliography as you work. just do it. i know i know you’re being lazy or you hate making citations or you’ll just get to it later or you don’t want to get distracted etc etc etc

whatever your reasons just make the fuckin bibliography

and while im at it… put the footnotes in properly as you are writing. just… do it. for future you. please. for your sanity. do it.

[studywithprincess]

A great resource to help you compile your bibliography is mybib.com. It formats your bibliography for you and you can choose your referencing style too! It can also help you find references that would otherwise take you ages to find. (It’s also free)

[licencetokrill]

ZOTERO ZOTERO ZOTERO

[mindfulstudyquest]

gentle reminder you can rise up from everything. you can recreate yourself. nothing is permanent. you are not stuck. you have choices. you can think new thoughts. you can learn something new. you can create new habits. all that matters is that you decide today and never look back.

[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

[dolcechild]

blergh craving anything from greek turkey meatballs to the nastiest pickled onion ring crisps i've ever tasted like i could eat a table but it's 11pm and i defo need to sleep not eat tonight

[dolcechild]

has anyone else's pinterest stopped letting them sideswipe to scroll posts or am i insane i hate this sm i've been looking for a way to submit feedback bc of how awful it is

[curiositysavesthecat]

AO3 readers, when you read a good fic from an author whose (other) works you have NEVER read before, do you tend to check out the author's AO3 account in order to read more of their works?

Yes, I tend to read their other works even if it's about fandom I'm not in

Yes, but I'll only read their other works if it's within the same fandom I'm in

No, I don't check out the author's AO3 account / I usually just move on

I don't read anything on AO3 / poll does not apply to me

Voting ended onJun 19, 2025

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[starjasmines]

im honestly so tired of failing and people telling me aw you tried your best. i DID NOT. i failed badly because i did NOT try my best. my best is so good you people could not even imagine.

[dolcechild]

something hilarious about clicking into a fic, looking at who wrote it and having a cathartic "I KNOW YOUU" before checking their fics and you know em from one random ass fic you read three months ago

bonus points for completely DIFFERENT fandoms i'm talking starwars to f1rpf or like lotr to jjk because i've seen some crazy linkages before

[dolcechild]

when ao3 goes down and you have two exams within the next week then yeah maybe it is a sign from the gods

[dolcechild]

where's that post about needing to be a bit unhealthy to become healthy dattebayo because discovering i am 90% more likely to retain info if i rewrite my notes as if it's a character in a fanfic working through it is changing my life