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march 25, 2019.

Featuring the journal that I haven’t used in so long because I felt obligated to make each entry fancy and perfect all the time and I wasn’t gonna roll with that; I love all of the entries here though with my entire heart!

🎧: lemon boy - cavetown

About My Journey

So I am an undergraduate student in the United States. I won’t say my university for safety reasons as I go to a small public university. So I didn’t end up going to a “prestigious” university like my lifelong dream had been, and some days it bothers me, and other days it doesn’t. No matter what happened, the universe had a reason behind it. I am a double major in political science and Spanish with a minor in biology. I am in the final week of my second year at college.

My aspirations are to attend graduate school for a dual masters in environmental sustainability and public policy. From then on I want to pursue my Ph.D. and work in research and in politics. Ideally, I would work in a university or government agency doing research and working on policies until running for election. Starting off as mayor in my hometown and moving my way to a member of Congress representing my state. I’ve also considered in getting a Juris Doctor rather than my Ph.D., but that’s so far down the road I am not going to stress myself about it now. I want to do academia, research, and politics. A lifetime can have so many things.

I am a Resident Assistant, the current Vice President of Administration for our Honor Corps (the Honors Program social branch), and President-elect of Honor Corps, and will next year be the Vice President of Communication for our chapter of Alpha Phi Omega, the national co-ed service fraternity. Additionally, I am a member of our chapter of the American Association of University Women and a participant and site leader in our Alternative Breaks program (called Break Aways in some colleges). I’ve been on two Alternative Breaks trips so far and will be leading an environmentally-focused one in December.

To help satisfy credits for my Spanish major, I will be spending 9 weeks this summer studying in Cusco, Peru. There I will take 9 credits. When I return in the fall, I will be a part of one of our programs of distinctions based on academic merit and leadership development. Only ten students from the university are selected each year and that is considered a class, sort of. It’s a seminar, but you get credits. A part of that program is a trip to China at the end of the next school year.

This seemed long, but I wanted to document the things I will be doing next year to show my journey I am working through. My focuses are to learn how to focus, develop better study habits, learn the material deeply, develop more problem-solving skills, and become stronger. Stronger in every way possible: academics, intelligence, leadership skills, service, and physical health. I draw a lot of inspiration from Marvel’s superheroes, as so many others do. I always admired Tony Stark’s ability to create and solve any problem, the knowledge and intelligence of Bruce Banner, the badassery and cunning skills of Natasha Romanoff, the kindness but ruthlessness of Steve Rogers, and I just fucking love Thor Odinson.

I’m excited for whoever the hell may or may not read this to get to know me and how shitty I am at everything yet highly functioning somehow. It is currently 5 AM and I should be waking up but I am just now going to bed, at least supposed to be asleep. I probably won’t sleep.

#lini #lini needs to study #studyblr #journey #college #university

shymagnolia

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

shymagnolia

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

progressingprocrastinator

Hope I can get into the university I want

getting back into the game!

I have been meaning to log my journey somewhere but I always am hesitant to use a form of media online for my own independence reasons, however, I think typing into the universe what I want will be good for me. I wish to start logging in every week on the week and what it included. Now as my bio states, it’s a messy studyblr. My brain is crazy and focus is hard for me. I am a chaotic mess, disorganized, but functioning. I think that a lot of us relate to that. As uni students, it’s hard to feel like you have it all together all the time. So here we go.

#studyblur #lini needs to study #lini #lini studies #linistudies #academic #academia #school #university #college #undergrad

studyingbrains

What are your top 5 study tips?

Helloo!

These answers are slightly obscure (but they’re good!):

Have a bedside table and a lamp (with dimming settings). There’s casual ways to keep studying. This is one of them.

I get in bed about 30/40minutes before I want to sleep. I put my phone on silent (and it’s out of reach). Then I sit up in bed and read (the dim lamp helps me doze off and I can just reach over and turn it off when I’m done, instead of getting out of bed).

The bedside table gives me easy access to my current reads!

Buy a clipboard: print off the journal articles you need to read for tomorrow’s lecture and sit up in bed annotating them. Then turn the lamp off and sleep.

Keep your favourite snacks with you when studying:

To stop me from getting up and wondering around (aka scavenging for food) I keep treats near my desk (I like apples, sweets and water).

Make lists: not a list for the week, or the day but for the specific study session. Write down what you want to achieve in the next 2/3hours and do it!

Use sticky tabs in your books:

But always write on sticky tabs! Don’t just stick them in, always scribble something. Why did you put it there? You will forget if you don’t write it down.

I hope these are helpful.