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Two friends in their 30s, one former student and one in grad school 🌸

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March, April and the small things of spring 🌸

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Coming back after a long hiatus (translated: grad school is taking a lot of time from me)

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As The Beatles once said: little darling it's been a long, cold, lonely winter

but

Here comes the sun, dudududu 🔆

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Architecture notes ⛪

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New semester just started and I'm already behind with the readings, but we'll make it! ;)

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I finally have some days off, so I spent an hour updating my travel journal, took out ALL of my stickers and realized I've created just a little bit of chaos 💀

But it's fine, I missed journaling and putting stickers on pages and writing down notes, memories, books, song lyrics ecc ☺️

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Goodbye fall and let's celebrate the 5k subscribers ;)

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Where do you download PDFs from?

Hi there! 🌸

Most of the PDFs I use come through my teachers and are normally articles or excerpts from books. They're usually from Jstor, Internet Archive, HathiTrust, SCI-HUB etc, together with other archive websites specific of the subject and free to access either privatly or through your university account.

For other types of PDFs let's say that I download them from open access websites 🏴‍☠️. I can give you a list if you dm me. ;)

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Walking surrounded by these colours almost makes me forget of the neverending pile of assignments that I have to complete 🍁

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ILY blog!!! ♥️♥️🫶🏻It’s fantastic!

Thank you so much!! 🥰🥰

I try to keep up with it and sometimes I feel like it's not enough but I'm glad it's still appreciated 💓

Have a lovely day!

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One month of grad school: done 🍓

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Studying in nature before summer goes away 🌳

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Drowning in readings assignments 📖

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First days of classes are looking good so far 📖

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I made this based on all the comments I’ve received about grad school. I hope you’ll like it and that it will be helpful for you 🌱

My English isn’t perfect, but I hope the message still comes through. ✨

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Throwback to when I was preparing one of my last exams (and my favourite one too) - history of the renaissance 📖

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congrats on grad school ! i’m almost in my last year; here’s my advice if you’re still in the market:

1. you need to sleep. sleep is sacred. sleep is what allows all learning. never let ANYONE convince you that an all-nighter is reasonable or acceptable. protect your sleep schedule at all costs.

2. decide what you want from grad school before you get there. do you want a broader network for job opportunities ? do you want time to specialize your field of knowledge ? do you want to try out lots of jobs in the academic sphere ? do you want to publish a ton? knowing what you want BEFORE you get there (or even having an idea) will make your time feel more worthwhile and will allow you to prioritize. speaking of which:

3. you (almost certainly) won’t get to everything. when you look at your to-do, it’s worth asking yourself: what will make today better? tomorrow easier? next week smoother? commit to those three actions. once those are complete, pick another three. you can also prioritize by what you came to grad school for! if teaching doesn’t matter a ton to you, don’t feel the need to spend seven hrs lesson planning. so on and so forth.

best of luck in grad school !!

This is such thoughtful advice — thank you for sharing it! 🙏 That’s something I’ve been learning too — it’s easy to get caught up in everything and feel like you need to do it all.

And yes, sleep is sacred! (Damn I love sleeping) I've made the mistake of sacrificing it before and learned the hard way that burnout doesn't help anyone.

Thanks again for putting this out there — it’s comforting to read, especially at the start of this journey. I hope it helps others that will read it 💛

Have a lovely day!