I'm currently going through my archive and I just realized how I've never actually did an intro post? (Maybe I did but I can't see it so it doesn't exist anymore <3)
Anyways, hello! I'm Sunny, a college student from the ph! Quick facts:
I was born in 2001
I'm a Libra sun and my MBTI is INFP/INTP
I'm into various interests (films, reading, K-pop, recently fs and whatever my mind decides interesting)
I'm a heavy procrastinator ._.
I've been in the studyblr community since 2017 but I didn't really post a lot of stuff because I felt like it was "too productive" for me. I kept on seeing posts with pretty journals, tons of pens, aesthetic desk set-ups, and I kept telling myself that I should be at that level as well. If I don't have nice pens, nice desk set-ups, and nice journals then I'm not a studyblr.
These past years in the pandemic literally shattered who I am as a student, and I just felt so lost. I've been in a tough place and I really cannot care less about my academics. I flunked a lot of classes, argued a lot with my mom, and was just all around negative towards my studies. I'm not proud of it, but I know that I did what I could've.
I'm trying to be better now, though! Hence, why I'm here! I realized that I don't really have to be a certain 'way' to use a studyblr. I should be fine-tuning this platform for me, use it as what I need it and not the other way around. Sure, studyblrs can become an inspiration, but I now know that I don't have to be the same as them.
I'm still trying to rebuild myself as a student, hopefully this time with a stronger foundation! Please, feel free to hit me up! :D I'd love to have friends who can motivate me and I can motivate as well T__T I'm also in studytwt!
study/blrs that I've followed through out the years:
emmastudies / tbhstudying / noodledesk / eintsein / studynostalgic and many more!!
Japanese photographer Chino Otsuka’s took old photos from her childhood and put pictures of her present self in them, creating lovely double self-portraits.
at some point you have to realize that you actually have to read to understand the nuance of anything. we as a society are obsessed with summarization, likely as a result of the speed demanded by capital. from headlines to social media (twitter being especially egregious with the character limit), people take in fragments of knowledge and run with them, twisting their meaning into a kaleidoscope that dilutes the message into nothing. yes, brevity is good, but sometimes the message, even when communicated with utmost brevity, requires a 300 page book. sorry.
this post is apparently going around terf circles now so i feel like i should let y'all know that you are agreeing with a transsexual lesbian who fucks nasty. get the fuck off my post and also your "feminism" is anything but.
january is one of those months where you experience every feeling on the human spectrum and you just have to go about your day like that isn't happening
hindi ko alam kung ako lang, pero palaging humihirap yung buhay-akademiko ko kapag wala ako sa mainit na yakap ng campus. tuwing umuuwi ako kapag weekend, o di kaya kapag naka-bakasyon, palaging akong nalulugmok sa ilalim ng kumot ng madilim kong kwarto. siguro dahil bumabawi pa rin ako sa dalawang taong pandemic pero dalawang taon na yung nagdaan pero litong-lito pa rin ako sa estado ng pag-aaral ko.
tanda ko 'tong kuha na ito, sembreak at wala gaanong tao sa campus. tanghaling tapat pero nakuha ko pang tumambay sa fpark at tumanaw ng mga high school students na nagpapractice. ako, maraming tambak na gawaing naiwan sa apartment. maraming backlogs, maraming hinahabol na INC. hindi ko alam kung bakit mas malungkot pa ko na hindi ko nakikita yung Carillon tower ngayon kesa don sa hindi ko nahabol na INC at gulo-gulo kong academic records. sana nasa elbi ako ngayon, sayang malilim pa naman.
how. how does one organize their life when you’re like. the only one in charge of it.
I’m not even being dramatic I think the biggest hurdle I’m facing post-grad right now is like. being COMPLETELY in charge of how I schedule my days and how I do work and I’m a PUSHOVER and also have no idea how to do this by myself because I was already terrible at it in college. I bought a planner and wall calendar today in some desperate plea with myself to give myself more structure throughout the day.
Other neurodivergent people (especially neurodivergent artists) like…. How… How do you do this? Does anyone have any tips or resources? This is absolutely killing me.
IDK who needs to hear this but if there’s something in your life that makes you feel better, but you never stick to it,
it’s still actually perfectly fine to do it
and you shouldn’t stop yourself from starting just because it won’t be a permanent change.
Like if starting a new daily planner gives you an amazing afternoon of planning and four days where you feel in charge of your life,
why not do it?
It doesn’t matter that it won’t be a permanent change - 4 good days is still worth it.
If you ever catch yourself thinking, “I wish I could pray/stretch/prep/plan/do the thing, but I always get started on that and it never lasts more than a couple of days,”
what this really means is, “hey, I can feel better for a couple of days.”
if this post is making you think of things in your own life that you wish you could stick to because of how good they make you feel,
just be aware:
you’re not thinking of a list of ways you’ve failed to commit
you’re thinking of a list of things that make you happy, and you should give yourself permission to start doing them as often as you want to
Privacy Possum is an anti-tracking extension that not only blocks commercial trackers, it also fucks with them by generating nonsense data.
Forget Me Not is a cookie management tool that lets you choose whether/how sites can store cookies on your computer on a site-by-site basis.
Bypass Paywalls Clean does exactly what it says: allows you to bypass paywalls on news sites and the like.
SponsorBlock uses crowd-sourced data to block sponsored segments on YouTube videos. Now you never have to hear about NordVPN or Raycon ever again!
Breakthrough Twitter Login Wall is another “what it says on the tin” extension. It stops Twitter from trying to force you to log in, so you can browse anonymously in peace.
the only way to grow in reading is to read. the only way to grow in cooking is to cook. to grow in anyway you have to sit in it and just do it. stop all the analysis and just start.
It’s Maclura pomifera, commonly known as the osage orange or hedge apple. It is known to be native only to a small area of Texas and the edge of Oklahoma and Arkansas. Before the invention of barbed wire, it was pruned repeatedly and shaped to make dense impenetrable hedges to contain animals.
The fruits are inedible—not poison, they’re just hard and taste bad.
The wood is super-strong, burns hotter than any other wood, and is ideal for making bows!
Actually I like this idea, we should do that. Here’s my fun fact contribution; actual old English, what one could call Anglo-Saxon (as opposed to, for example, Shakespearean English, which a lot of people call old English but is actually antiquated modern English), is a Germanic language, and modern English shares a lot of roots with German because of that. It was also, at one point, written with runes.
The hagfish is a deep-sea fish speculated to be related to lamprey. It exudes a strange goo that is believed to be used to clog the gills of attackers. This goo has been found to be a very good substitute for egg whites in cooking.
Morganite, aquamarine, and emerald all belong to the beryl family. Also in the beryl family are heliodor, which is yellow; goshenite, which is clear; and red beryl, which is relatively rare and has no fun name.
Differences in the trace elements and temperatures of the growing environment determines the color and saturation of the stone. And! You can technically have a green beryl that is not an emerald—emerald is kept distinct by the inclusion of either vanadium or chromium, and iron. Green beryl only contains iron, making it a much paler and more yellow green.
Bonus fact: about 30% of the gemstones you could list off the top of your head are a quartz variant.
Did you know that the way astronomers are able to figure out the chemical components of stars is by using things called emission and absorption spectrums? This is what they look like:
The way this works is that different elements on the periodic table have different energy levels, or “shells.” That’s what those lines around the nucleus are:
When an electron gets hit with a photon, it goes into an excited state and moves up the sublevels within an energy level. Think of it like going up stairs that lead to different floors on a building! That’s what an absorption spectrum represents: it’s the photons, or essentially the light particles, that the electrons absorb.
When an electron goes down a sublevel, it releases that photon, and gives off or emits energy, which is what the emission spectrum shows. It does this at different wavelengths, and the frequencies of these wavelengths can change the color of the light. Each element has a different way of doing this, so when scientists look for the elements in stars, they look at the emission spectrum of those stars, the emission spectrum of certain elements, and see what lines up!
In the model below, you can see what that looks like in practice. By looking at at the lines on each of the elements listed below and comparing it to the observed spectrum of the star, an astronomer can pick out what elements the star has!!
I came to help with spacefodumping!!! And to add another penny to OP’s self care jar!!! ☺️
Did you know that the most wonky planet in our solar system might not be Uranus…
..But Venus?
Thaaaaat’s right!! This absolute beauty, according to certain measurements, has an axis tilt of about 177.3 degrees- she’s almost entirely upside down!! Because of this, our lovely lady actually rotates backwards as compared to the other planets!!
The definition of axal tilts has changed before, and it could definitely change again- take this with as many grains of salt as your shaker has!! ☺️ No matter what, though, she doesn’t display seasons- and we’re still exploring the possibility of life related molecules in her atmosphere!!
You’re writing with crushed insects: Dactylopius coccus, the cochineal, is the main component of carmine which is used in dyes and inks.
There’s seaweed in your ice cream: Rhodophyceae species produce carrageenan, a thickening agent used in many foods.
You’re fidding with some creature’s intestines: Stringed instruments like violins and cellos have strings made of catgut, which is based on a fiber found naturally in the intestines of sheep, goat, cattle, hogs, horses, mules, or donkeys – but thankfully not cats.
Alan Smithee (also Allen Smithee) is an official pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project. Coined in 1968 and used until it was formally discontinued in 2000, it was the sole pseudonym used by members of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) when directors, dissatisfied with the final product, proved to the satisfaction of a guild panel that they had not been able to exercise creative control over a film. The director was also required by guild rules not to discuss the circumstances leading to the movie or even to acknowledge being the project’s director.
This is Nezuko. We found her in our bushes, scared and starving. So, we brought her in, got her a vet visit. She’s been given dewormer and flea meds, and tested negative for the stuff we were worried about.
Once she’s a good weight again, we will try to integrate her with our other cats. Wish us luck.
