Chemi-denti-orthodontist

Student going to OSU for chemistry to go to school for dentistry to go to school to be an orthodontist

[studentlifeproblems]

[kaustickatalyst]

its true, im so sick of chemistry. I just want to fix teeth is all

[kaustickatalyst]

So I very rarely post or get on here at all but I wanted a place to rant into the void. In earlier years in my college experience I would get so overwhelmed with school that I put my mental health really low on the totem pole. In doing that I also put basically all of my hobbies to rest because “how can I justify spending time doing something I enjoy when I really need to be studying X, Y, and Z. This was particularly unhealthy because in order to get to my dental school goal, I had the choice of majoring in biology or chemistry. Neither of which am I particularly interested in but was a bit better at chemistry so I decided to go with that. So no hobbies because I needed to study and no joy in what I was studying basically meant I was miserable, stressed, and had no escape from that feeling for around 2 years. 

Then I met my boyfriend who has countless hobbies, even when I did things for fun I never had this many fun things. He is in law school and still has about a billion hobbies to occupy him and slowly he helped me find little things that make me happy and got me to start taking time to be happy. Two of these things being watching shows together and playing through the borderlands games because they were his favorite and I had not heard of them until we got a PS4. So borderlands 3 comes out and we spend a decent time playing one weekend where I have an exam Monday and also have to go home an hour away. So we are sitting in his house and excitedly talking about the new game with his brother and his wife because they all played these games together growing up and his mother who is sitting by looks at me and says “Well I don’t think you are spending enough time studying if you know enough to talk about all of this with them” and honestly its been a week and I’m still irked enough that I logged on and wrote it all out. 

[endymionstudies]

reblog this if you’re a university level studyblr

most of the ones i follow are high school level and i need more people my own age/education level!

[kaustickatalyst]

When you realize the lectures for your individual lab class has quizzes.. My hand writing may be atrocious but the stickers I made for my laptop are pretty.

[weststudies-deactivated20210622]

10.06.18 Love Island is back on tonight which can mean only one thing: I’m sacrificing my biology gcse to see how the villa handles our resident 6’5 snake and how twitter handles Eyal’s cock up :) (I’m getting a 3 lmao)

[digoxin-purpurea]

apply for jobs you’re not qualified for! audit upper-level classes! get drunk with your TAs! see that poster advertising that lecture series? go there take notes and ask questions! thank the presenter for talking about this topic you love! if the class is full before you register, email the professor and ask if they can squeeze you in! RAISE YOUR HAND! tell the disability accomodation office to do their goddamn job! ask for help! file complaints! go to class in your pajamas and destroy the reading! you got this! you KNOW you got this! be arrogant enough to learn EVERYTHING! take your meds! punch a velociraptor in the dick! fear is useless and temporary! glory is forever! shed your skin and erupt angel wings! help out! spread your sun!

i had a really good morning! you deserve a really good morning! kill anyone who says you don’t and build a throne from their bones!

[sirjefetheboss-deactivated20210]

Oddly inspiring

[messy-medical-student]

If it is not motivating you, nothing is.

[jungleuniversity]

[studyingandsailing]

New lab sessions: new lab report

We do love a good line of best fit though.

[cheruib]

breaking news: ur actually gonna make it through and everything will turn out just fine

[mytearsrricochet]

this morning NASA abandoned their mars rover Opportunity (aka Oppy) because it (she) got hit by a storm on Mars and it knocked her camera and wheels out and her last words to the team were “my battery is low and it is getting cold”. I know she’s a machine but I’m devastated. Oppy is the one who discovered water on Mars. RIP oppy ily space baby

[mevsthhighway]

they didn’t abandon her!! they tried eight months to reach her!!!! as their last farewell to her yesterday they played her “I’ll be seeing you” by Billie Holiday:

“I’ll find you in the morning sun

And when the night is new

I’ll be looking at the moon

But I’ll be seeing you”

They love her so much and they tried so hard!!!

[stickmanbrandon]

Oh man, It doesn’t end there.

This isn’t the first song NASA sent Opportunity. They had a playlist:

https://www.space.com/41434-mars-rover-opportunity-wakeup-music-playlist.html?fbclid=IwAR3uL6q4tOmLQTIEhiwYegGc99nv4N01HQKItpCLQiQYIptBOevNN6uIyT8

It’s on Spotify, it’s called “Opportunity, wake up!“

This is what’s great about NASA and it’s what’s great about people. These are world-class engineers. When they sent a rover to another planet they could have easily looked at it as just another scientific tool. But people don’t do that. We can and will get emotionally attached to the most inanimate of objects. We can and will anthropomorphize anything. And frankly Opportunity’s camera mast looks like a little face with eyes and everything, so why not?

So they started calling it her.

They nicknamed her Oppy.

They told her to take a selfie not long ago.

After 15 years of Oppy flipping the double bird to her original 90 day life expectancy, when a planet-spanning dust storm finally knocked her out and she stopped responding to the engineer’s wake-up messages, they started playing music for her.

And after 8 months and almost 1000 unanswered wake-up messages, when it was finally clear that Oppy was never going to wake up, the last thing these world-class NASA engineers did for their little rover on another planet

Was play her a love song

[kaustickatalyst]

The shitty thing about breezing through school when you were younger is when it actually gets difficult and you start doing poorly your first instinct is to punish yourself and feel terrible but when you do well it's not an accomplishment. So when you are struggling it is entirely negative with seemingly no reward or payoff and you are literally never happy because you still aren't doing as well as you used to.

[teacupstudies]

Please reblog if you‘re an active studyblr!

Looking for more blogs to follow 💕

[studytipsforall]

Work hard.

Cry harder.

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[cesario-studies]

What I learned from my first semester of my MA

There will be people who skip classes, don’t be one of them. It’s tempting to stay at home or go to the pictures with friends but trust me, it’s not going to be worth it when you’ve got a deadline approaching fast

But do skip class if/when you need to. Nobody can go at 100% all of the time and if you’re not well or need a mental health day or anything like that then feel free to take the time.

Do so much prep work that your workload decreases. I don’t mean you need to be studying every minute of every day but get a grip on what you’re going to be studying early on, know your timetables and rough syllabus. If you find anything interesting then you can look it up early on and be ready for class when it comes about. 

Make playlists for everything. If music keeps you motivated like me then making playlists is a great thing. I have a playlist for traveling (short distance), traveling (long distance), shower, studying (multiple for this depending on my mood), relaxing and one for when I’m going to sleep. Each of these saves so much time since I just say to google “Play X playlist on Spotify” and boom - music.

It can be hard to take breaks sometimes, but you do need them at times. When I’m so close to finishing my essay I will continue to write, forgetting to eat, have a break to grab water and everything else like that. But, after this semester I’ve re-learned the art of setting alarms and reminders.

Try different apps and see what works for you. I started out with Nvivoo which is great for quote-gathering for me and keeping all of that organised, but Google Docs and OneNote work much better for taking notes for me. Writing essays I’m doing using apps like Notion and my to-do app is now AnyDo, swapping over from Habitica and Plan.

Make a start on hard/ large assignments as soon as you get them. For me this meant I had all of my essays planned early on in the semester, and just had to spend some time later researching and writing but none of that took too much time. I could do a little bit each day with little stress because I knew it was planned and I knew my next assignment was too.

Take advantage of office hours. I met with lecturers early in the semester to go over some things from my course that I wanted clarification on (writing about things with a particular critical focus is always fun) and knowing I could go to them took off so much stress.

You can get by without buying the textbooks. I only bought books this semester that I knew I would read and re-read and want to keep. Other books that I didn’t particularly enjoy I would just borrow from the library first and then decide after that.  Saying that, I did end up with many books on folk songs because I enjoyed every one of them. 

If you’ve got classes on an evening like me, make use of the day. If you’ve got classes on the morning, make use of the afternoon. I spend a lot of time each day studying, writing, reading or doing other things like that before I go to class. But, I also do creative things like sew and embroider. I’m a big fan of puzzle games and use them to relax too so I make the most of each day. I don’t just sit back with Netflix from 9-4 then go to class and do the same thing the next day.

If you don’t want to study or write try doing whatever it is for five minutes, then ten, then twenty. I know I can wake up some days and want to just binge Netflix (catching up on IASIP and rewatching Gilmore Girls takes up a lot of time) so on those days I load them up in the background and sit down to do five minutes of work on my essay. By the time I look up an episode is finished and the next one is half way through playing.

I don’t know about you but my BuJo is god. I spend so much time planning and keeping track of everything in there that is life-changing for me. I relied on it through my undergrad but never to this extent. I organise my Wordpress blog posts in it, what I’m reading and reviewing for class, hobbies, 

[vanessastudiess]

[1/100 days of productivity] | January 23, 2019

New semester means new 100 days challenge…lets hope I actually stick with this one…this semester has been busy but good so far. First organic exam is next Wednesday, so you know what that means! 

[riffatmatinpoetry]

“I’m not where I want to be but I’m willing to do the work needed to get better.”

— Affirmation of the day.