Engineer to Be

Alyssa | 29 | Biomedical Engineer Formerly engineer-to-be. Main blog: a-celestial-spark

[imanbenerrabeh]

spring signatures red nails cursive ink

[learnelle]

life recently: missing the gloomy weather, lots of scribbling in my journal, finding cats to pet

[thesecrethistori-an]

Sunday reset ✨

Incredibly stressed. Met my deadlines for scholarships but now I only have 7 days for the main assignment for this year of studies

Haven't checked my notifications in a couple weeks so if you've commented something or texted I'm not ignoring on purpose I'll be back to semi-normal in a week :)

[apolladay]

Which notorious English class short story fucked you up the most?

* I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

*The King in Yellow

* The Lottery

* The Masque of the Red Death

* The Monkey’s Paw

* The Most Dangerous Game

* The Nameless City

* The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

* There Will Come Soft Rains

*The Yellow Wallpaper

* The Veldt

* “you think those were fucked up? What about [X]!”

Which notorious English class short story fucked you up the most?

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

The King in Yellow

The Lottery

The Masque of the Red Death

The Monkey’s Paw

The Most Dangerous Game

The Nameless City

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

There Will Come Soft Rains

The Yellow Wallpaper

The Veldt

“you think those were fucked up? What about [X]!”

Voting ended onApr 30

[it-grrl]

Okay I have things I should be seeing to but I couldn't help myself. In case you, like me, have not read all of these stories and would like to be amongst the lucky 10,000 today:

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

The King in Yellow by Robert W Chambers*

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson**

The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard O'Connell

The Nameless City by HP Lovecraft

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K LeGuin

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Veldt by Ray Bradbury

Honorable Mention from the comments/reblogs:

All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury

*note: this is actually a collection of short stories and clocks in at about 72k words

**Originally published in the New Yorker in 1948; interestingly, the New Yorker still has this story archived on their website BEHIND A PAYWALL. CAN YOU IMAGINE.

[eezybree]

y'all gotta read The Scarlet Ibis

[xvarenah777]

Hobonichi Cousin Avec A5 - 2025 [Jul-Dec] Tour - Part II

[alwaysbeenjessica]

before and after ✂️ a spring collage to begin a new journal!

[thesecrethistori-an]

Study break: coffee and Chekhov's short stories 📚💛

[threeamserif]

instagram | photos are my own, reblogs fine, do not repost/reuse

[transiting]

don’t make other people’s decisions for them. apply for the job you don’t think you’ll get. let them decide if you have the skills they’re looking for. tell that person you like them even though you think they’re out of your league. let them decide if they like you. stop trying to predict and control everything. bring what you have to the table. let the rest go.

[andantegrazioso-deactivated2018]

Confidence is not ‘they will like me’, it is ‘I’ll be fine, or even better off, if they don’t’.

[alwaysbeenjessica]

finished puzzle just in time for spring 🌷

[liones-s]

one of the most boring lessons I’ve learned is that when a task feels overwhelming, you just have to start doing it. Even if you’re not sure how to do 90% of it, look for one small component that seems close and start there. Sometimes it’s reading one article on the topic, or searching one related term, or literally just googling how to do the task. Do anything other than thinking about it. The process of working on a thing inherently makes it less scary.

[verti-ge]

26.03.19. first time speaking at a symposium tomorrow (currently preparing my presentation) + confetti in the street !

[dddivination]

had a contract law exam today!📚 it went meh, but at least it's all done... that was today's setup for the pre-studying :).

next week I have a criminal law exam and a writing assignment - will keep you updated 🫂.

moon.

[a-books-allure]

22.02.26 | Feeding my Dickens Obsession 📚

Loving these Folio Society editions of some of my favorite books from my all time favorite author that my parents got me last christmas 🫶 I love illustrations in books so much and these are incredible.

[ivysmindarchives]

commonplace notebook - myth of atalanta

I think it's one of my favorite pages I ever written

[a-study-in-dante]

February 28th, 2026 | This book has officially been retitled The Most Indigestible Book I Read for My PhD.

[notetaeker]

hello dear friends | Mar 4, 2026

I haven't posted in ages but I'm starting a new teaching job tomorrow! Without taking pics for the studyblr my phone gallery has become just screenshots and that is a travesty because where is the record of whimsy? The documentation of memory? The preservation of everyday joy and struggle? Needless to say I will try to post more often now. I do have a small backlog of posts that I am determined to post soon. And no doubt will have new struggles to cry abt tmrw trustt ✊🏽 And Ramadan Mubarak to my fav tumblrinas!!! I miss doing the Ramadan posts lowkey 😭💔