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25. English lit grad student. This is my studying moodboard. I collect resources + find the inspiration to work when it's A Struggle.

[academicssay]

[aceademic]

reading is like. i’ve read 5 books in 3 days. i have not read a single sentence in months

[nemfrog]

Spring flower.  Joy of gardening. 1958. By Vita Sackville-West.

Internet Archive

[art-thropologist]

11/11/21

My ability to estimate the time a project should take me is equivalent to anyone in this family saying “I’ll be ready in 5 minutes”

[theroguefeminist]

im going to come out and say it: isolating is a self-destructive behavior. it might not be as obvious and immediately self-destructive as say, impulsive spending, drug use or risky behaviors, but it gradually decays relationships and can deepen your mental health issues. often, our impulse is to retreat from others and responsibilities for “self care” or to “work on ourselves” and obviously sometimes we need mental health breaks, but there’s a line you cross from “taking a break” to full on neglecting your relationships with others and your social needs that can be incredibly damaging to yourself and others over time

[apricitystudies]

writing essays? oh, did you mean me staring at my research for three hours trying to wrangle together an argument from several completely unconnected points?

[litcheestudies]

lots of big stuff becomes due for me by the end of this year; going to try and keep up a sort of study moodboard + log here for the next two months. let’s see how this goes!

[winter-angst]

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i love halloween

[thoodleoo]

why don’t you buy a miniature version of an ancient monument from a museum store and maybe you’ll calm down

[sadhoc]

“i’m in kind of a weird mental place right now” i say, as if there are times when i am not in a weird mental place

[essential-npc]

[chrxyw]

I bought new postcards!!

[athenastudying-deactivated20220]

"my child is fine"

your child rereads old essays they got good grades on to reassure themselves that they are capable of writing another one

[konradwerks]

I have a major sweet tooth…

[konradwerks]

+last one in the set

[doomhope]

[image description:

A set of four illustrations, each showing three pieces of a type of candy, with two of them wrapped and the third unwrapped.

Andes mints on a green background.

Square caramels on a tan background.

Strawberry candies on a pink background.

White rabbit milk candy on a blue background.

End description.]

[treacherousbeliefs]

"We are frustrated by the imposed isolation and invisibility"

[heaveninawildflower]

Birchbark envelope (19th century).

Native American (Eastern Woodlands, possibly Huron).

Birchbark, quill, and silk lining.

Image and text information courtesy MFA Boston.

[aslowyear]

The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady

by Edith Holden