retto 🦦

She/Her. 20s. MSc student. Struggling/aspiring chemist who wants a way to relax 🙂‍↕️. Journaling/Studying/Lifestyle + A Little Fandom 🩷💜🖤💙🩵

[cloudy-caspirations]

Tuesday • April 21, 2026

Disappeared for a month because it took a little longer to get back in the groove of routine after spring break than I expected… my bad.

Posting this on a break from studying for my signals exam tomorrow, so I shouldn’t yap too much. Expect another cram post later this week because I have an exam for control systems on Friday. I hope I get the results from last month’s exam before then :P

Timelapse is from last night’s signals study marathon that was filmed on the world’s blurriest most overexposed webcam. Please ignore the messy desk, my junk journal has been neglected since the start of the semester. I should get back to work now…

[autistobrat]

this too shall pass but the fuck was that for

[charl0ttan]

[erbiumspectrum]

23 April 2026 🌥️

Opalescent silica again! It looks beautiful and probably means the particles are really small - which is exactly what we wanted - but the downside is it's really hard to centrifuge. We'll see if we manage to get a proper sample out of it

[thewhimsicalarchives]

It’s not hard, it’s not that you’re dumb, you just haven’t learned it yet.

[awkwardlyeverafter]

2026

[lou-who-ville]

[fangorn-forest]

not enough secret gardens and hidden passageways and bookshelves that open to a mysterious library these days. get working on that girls.

[paperjoshi]

on it boss

[paperjoshi]

trapped in the catacombs boss

[deanwinchesterapologist]

just found out you can do more than one thing each day. i was just doing the one

[denmark-street]

[irishironclad]

3rd person is the most common perspective style…

[ach-sss-no]

I want to trap the can't-read-3rd-person poster in the same room as one of those people who hates 1st person so much they want to wipe it from the universe (usually through not being widely read and only encountering 1st person ever in a particularly annoying type of YA fiction). then we'd see who wins, and if they manage to overcome their differences and fall in love. i think i could make a whole anime out of that

[misplacedlizard]

The encounter between them should be narrated in second-person. To annoy both of them.

[estel-and-agape]

You think that’s a wonderful idea.

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

Yeah okay, I'll reblog that!

[mortimermcmirestinks]

you mean yeah okay you'll reblog that

[thesecrethistori-an]

✨Monday✨ reset this week after a much-needed Easter break

Tulips are dying but they still look pretty 🌷

I need this week to be fruitful –lots of archival work and academic writing ahead

[torstherapy]

[tinsnip]

Per @spoonstrek

[howsoonitwasover]

25.03.26. spring phd diaries: baking, reading, writing, & lots of coffee

[the---hermit]

09|04|2026

I spent a lot of time out today. I started feeling guilty this morning because I was not working on my thesis but it was worth it. Tomorrow I plan on rereading all the notes I have written on primary sources, and then I will email the professor. Today I focused a lot of my time on getting work done for my English tutoring sidequest, and now I am all good until next week. I'll be finishing the day by dogsitting the creature. We already spent some time in the garden, so I guess that now she'll be sleepy, which only means one thing: cuddles!

April days of productivity - day 9

Morning reading

Morning walk

Organized my next steps for thesis work

Wrote down a timeline of the primary sources I have read so far for my thesis

Prepared materials for my tutoring side quests

Wrote down some simple notes for the girl I am tutoring (I basically wrote down 5 pages of notes with basic rules mainly for verbs since she is struggling to tell them apart. And so many examples. I did write everything by hand, color coded everything. And yes I am indeed an overachiever)

[journalretto]

4/23/2026

Don't have many pics of today, just my Forest stats :) I'm getting quite stressed with everything I have to do, but there's unfortunately no way to get to the other side without going through it. I just need to do the best I can.

On the bright side: I submitted my thesis! It's nowhere near perfect, but it's done, and I still have chances for revision.

My roomie and I are going to sleep early and wake up early tomorrow; I have a presentation that I need to show off for the next day, and I'm way too burnt out from the work sprints I've been doing the past few days. Getting headaches every day... if that isn't a sign to take a step back, I don't know what is.

It is what it is! Just need to do my best!

[ceruleanheaven]

how to become good at everything no practice no effort no motivation no passion no talent fast free

[guerrillatech]

[hekatontarch]

[queertail]

The site is '12ft Ladder' found here:

12ft – Hop any paywall

Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder.

[sola-whumping]

Reblogging this on ALL my blogs because holy shit is it useful

[journalretto]

Knowledge should be free!