march hare

[athenastudying-deactivated20220]

Brakenbury: “In God’s name, what are you, and how came you hither?” 

First executioner: “I would speak with Clarence, and I came hither on my legs.”

[inkblue-computerhead]

academia things that genuinely make me happy

large textbooks filled with extra papers which hold the answers to the problems you thought were too brilliant to be thrown away, or the simple short summary of a part you were struggling to understand before

having your textbook absolutely ruined by highlighters and sticky notes all over it, those little tips and ideas you picked up from the lesson. anyone who opens that book immediately knows that you’ve studied the crap out of it and know the concept by heart. “this is the most annotated book i’ve ever seen” is literally the highest form of compliment for me.

solving math or chemistry problems to a soundtrack album or ambient sounds, extra points if it’s in afternoon lol

when you’re so focused and keen on getting to the final answer that your hand physically can’t keep up with your eagerness so you end up with the most incoherent solution. but you’ve finally got the answer right!

being self-taught in a subject or a few chapters of the textbook, and still smashing the quizzes and the exams

coming up with a new solution to the problem, or seeing the problem from a new perspective, and finally being able to solve it because of just that.

confidently walking out of the exam room. 0 doubt in your mind that you crushed it!

actually feeling how you’ve grown academically, and how much more knowledgeable you are compared to the beginning of the semester

casually and confidently having conversations with a professor about your studies, exchanging ideas and discussing the existing theories, methods, on-going research and all

all of this is everything i want in life- god 

[thetalentedmripley]

in spanish we don’t say “i love you”, we say “me esta persiguiendo walt whitman” and i think that’s beautiful <3 

[andersonandperry]

I don’t understand Spanish but I understood this

[introvert-unicorn-deactivated20]

Some idioms and phrases you should know about part I :

Salt of the earth: a very good or worthy person.

Gut-wrenching: making you feel very upset or worried.

Make a spectacle of yourself: to do something that makes you look stupid and attracts people's attention.

Pass muster: be accepted as adequate or satisfactory.

Putty in someone's hands: easily influenced by someone else, excessively willing to do what someone else wishes.

Look before you leap: carefully consider the possible consequences before taking action.

Set the wheels in motion : to do something that will cause a series of actions to start.

Off the books: without being included on official records.

A long Haul: something that takes a lot of time and energy.

An end in itself: a goal that is pursued in it's own right to the exclusion of others.

Night owl: a person who prefers to be awake late at night.

Kick the Bucket: to die.

Alter Ego: a person's secondary or alternative personality immediately or extremely quickly; at once.

Freak of Nature: something or someone that is unusual, rare, or abnormal in some way / To avoid attracting attention to yourself.

[studyamor]

For anyone in need of a planner/bujo for 2021, I took the time to do one for anyone who wants it, and even when I know it’s not perfect, I did my best and I really hope someone finds it useful. You can find Spanish and English versions, along with colored versions of each one here: x. Happy 2021!

[highlyspecificsigns]

the signs as favorite words of authors

Source: Ben Blatt, Nabokov’s Favorite Word is Mauve:

Blatt looked for the specific words that authors use much more frequently than the rate at which those words generally occur in the rest of written English (i.e., compared to a huge sample of literary works — some 385 million words in total — written in English between 1810 and 2009, assembled by linguists at Brigham Young University).

His criteria: A favorite word -

Must occur in at least half of the author’s books

Must be used at a rate of at least once per 100,000 words

Must not be so obscure that it’s used less than once per million in the BYU sample of written English

Is not a proper noun

ARIES: Dan Brown: grail, masonic, pyramid TAURUS: Jane Austen: civility, fancying, imprudence GEMINI: Vladimir Nabokov: mauve, banal, pun  CANCER: Virginia Woolf: flushing, blotting, mantelpiece LEO: Ian Fleming: lavatory, trouser, spangled VIRGO: Edith Wharton: nearness, daresay, compunction LIBRA: Agatha Christie: inquest, alibi, frightful SCORPIO: John Cheever: infirmary, venereal, erotic SAGITTARIUS: Mark Twain: hearted, shucks, satan CAPRICORN: Ernest Hemingway: concierge, astern, cognac AQUARIUS: J.K. Rowling: wand, wizard, potion PISCES: Truman Capote: clutter, zoo, geranium

[geographunk]

Top 50 Books

50 🦅Gary Jennings - Raptor

49 💀J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows

48 🗝Dan Brown - The Lost Symbol

47 ⚱Hesiod - Theogony

46 👼Danielle Trussoni - Angelology

45 🧙‍♂J.R.R. Tolkien - The Fellowship of the Ring

44 ⭐Lois Lowry - Number the Stars

43 🦁C.S. Lewis - The Magician’s Nephew

42 🌹Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince

41 🧔Gore Vidal - Julian

40 🧝‍♂J.R.R. Tolkien - The Unfinished Tales

39 🐅Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book

38 ✡Joseph Heller - God Knows

37 🐺J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban

36 💣Dan Brown - Inferno

35 🐸Natalie Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting

34 🐉J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit

33 ✉Mario Vargas Llosa - El héroe discreto

32 🐓Gabriel García Márquez - El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

31 🏛Robert Harris - Conspirata

30 🖼Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code

29 🎐Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner

28 🧒John Boyne - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

27 👰Jane Austen - Pride & Prejudice

26 🤴J.R.R. Tolkien - The Return of the King

25 🏆J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire

24 🦉Friedrich Nietzsche - The Antichrist

23 🧛‍♂Elizabeth Kostova - The Historian

22 ⛪Dan Brown - Angels & Demons

21 🧟‍♂Justin Cronin - The Passage

20 👑George R.R. Martin - A Game of Thrones

19 💉Lois Lowry - The Giver

18 ☠Octavio Paz - El laberinto de la soledad

17 🐜Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis

16 🚘F. John Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

15 🍑André Aciman - Call Me by Your Name

14 🔫Albert Camus - The Outsider

13 🍎John Milton - Paradise Lost

12 ⚔Lew Wallace - Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

11 🐵Valmiki - Ramayana

10 🐷William Golding - Lord of the Flies

9 👮🏻‍♂️Gabriel García Márquez - Cien años de soledad

8 ⚗Patrick Süskind - The Perfume

7 🐦Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

6 🧢J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye

5 👁George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four

4 👿Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy

3 🐍Gary Jennings - Aztec

2 📚Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose

1 💎J.R.R. Tolkien - The Silmarillion

[sappylittlebitch]

how to feel academic on online school

I know it’s hard enough to feel like a dark academic at public school, and online classes have made it even more difficult so:

splash your face with cold water to draw back the curtain of exhaustion

change into a sweater before class starts

make coffee/tea when you wake up and drink it at your desk as you look over your agenda for the day

write poetry (or shitposts) in the margin of your notes

keep a google doc open for when inspiration strikes during your next zoom (or to write down funny experiences you can look back on)

have music playing in your bedroom

when bored: plan a heist on the page behind your notes

write reminders on your hands in black ink and be frustrated when they smudge and you forget what you were reminding yourself of

take a walk during your break; read, admire the flowers, hum to yourself

keep flowers on your desk and watch them wilt over the course of the weeks

also have a plant you can nurture and talk to

if you have a clock or watch, watch the seconds tick by during periods of reflection

coffee runs, even if it’s only to your kitchen

make a moodboard of your favorite quotes/aesthetics/pictures/art on the wall near your workspace to look at as you yearn for the good times

lighting: make it fit your mood. candles, fairy lights, natural light from your window, whatever makes you feel your best aesthetic self

it’s really hard to stay motivated, so try to remember your end goals and to convince yourself you’re interested in the topics at hand (even if you hate it) because that usually makes you put in more effort

pretend you’re the main character in a da film

[pompadourpink]

Hi mum! Im so anxious because of online lessons, our school has a rule that the camera should be open all the time and that makes me really anxious, how can i overcome that 😭i dont even understand the lesson because of stress

Hello bb,

The real question is what are you afraid of? It’s just a camera, you are not going to be recorded, you are not going to pick your nose, you are not getting pranked by classmates and teachers. Those people have all seen your face before. Why is it different now? What do you think is going to happen?

Now, two things:

If you’re insecure because you don’t like your face, work on your set up. Make sure you’ll get enough light, that the angle will not make you look like a thumb (feel free to put books under your monitor if so), wear something cute, smile. I.e. work on increasing your confidence.

If someone does decide to act like a waste of oxygen, you don’t have to engage. You are making yourself sick over people you don’t like, don’t care about, and will, when you eventually leave the school, never see again. They’re nothing to you. So why do they get to dictate your mood for an entire school year? 

Feel free to put a sticky note on those kids’ faces if that helps. Think of your priorities: imagine how mad future you probably is that you’re neglecting your education because people are seeing you on a screen. Ultimately, we all grow to stop caring about trivial things, and this is one of them - you can’t let other people run your life, especially because there’s always going to be that type of someone around, at school, at work, at the gym, etc. But they only get the importance they’re craving (because they’re miserable) if you give it to them. The earlier you learn to filter them out, the better off you’ll be.

Love,

Mum

[piratewithvigor]

How many of these movies have you seen that people said “you haven’t seen [blank] yet??” to me about

[georgiansuggestion]

Dear Editor- I must admit you are not the first person I've asked this of, but I will ask anyways. I am currently a teenager, trying to figure out what I want to do in the future and who I am as a person. Do you have any advice? Thank you so much, an anxious youth

Gentle Reader--

I congratulate you First on your Methods in seeking Answers to your Momentous Question; There is Nothing Better in Pursuit of One’s Philosophies and Way of Living than a Diversity of Opinion, Especially for the Young. Where Many may be Satisfied with the Ways and Mores of their Forebears, and Others Still the First Dissenting Thought they arrive at, it is my Firm Belief that a True Understanding of One’s Character and Opinions comes of Thorough Inquiry on the Subject. I arrived at this  Conclusion Later than I ought, and it pleases me to share it with Another who might have Good Use of it Sooner.

The Burden of Youth is Also its Greatest Promise. A Future Yet to be Explored, Monumental in its Unknowns. One Rarely knows at Seventeen Just who one shall be at Twenty, let Alone Thirty, Fifty, or Eighty. (Indeed, there are More than you may expect who Equally do not know who they shall become at Any Point in their Lives.) For Some this Freedom is Enticing, for Others Paralysing, yet Both must embrace it to Some Degree, Whether they do So Early or Late. Considering this, the Advice I have for you Perhaps is Obvious, and More Likely of Little Use. It is Simply that one Very Seldom decides who they are, and Rarer Still for those who make Such Proclamations to maintain them. As Uncertainty is the Condition of the World, there is No Shame in being Uncertain Yourself, but: Such Uncertainty must be Accompanied by a Willingness to venture, Even in the Smallest Degree, Toward New Pursuits, Ideas, and Aims. Only by learning of the World can you know what you love Best in it.

Yours &tc., The Editor

[din0butch]

“i don’t like writing about my day, but i want to keep a journal”:

quotes and copywork. when reading, if you find something you enjoy, just copy it into the notebook. you can copy a whole chapter if you wish, highlighting what caught your attention the most.

definitions. look up on a dictionary and copy it. you could write your own dictionary as well, making up definitions for words.

lists. a classic, write movies to watch, books to read, the playlist of the month or just the groceries you have to buy.

maps. when going somewhere, you could draw the route you took or just a map of the place itself. just look up the place on google maps and copy it. you can draw a little map of all the places you have lived or the schools you have attended as well.

photos

take “notes” as you watch movies / documentaries. write down phrases that caught your attention or doodle.

illustrations and clippings. if you see an image or piece of art that you liked, put it in your journal. if it’s from a book or from a magazine I would recommend scanning it, tho’. it will serve as a record of what kind of art you enjoy through the years.

newspaper clippings from the day.

tickets and pamphlets. from movies, museums, transportation.

postcards

records. you could record for a month what the temperature was when you woke up and when you went to sleep. if you do that for a year, it gives you a better notion of the passing of seasons. you could record rainfall and other seasonal changes as well. you could choose something (an animal, a plant, an item or object) and write down every time you see it.

rubbings of leaves, coins, landmarks.

count. there’s a scene in the movie Coraline (2009) where Coraline’s dad tells her to go count the windows. you could do the same type of counting game if you are bored and write down.

mindmaps/sketchnotes + timelines of books, movies, music albums.

collages

pressed leafs and flowers

your collections. if you collect anything you could write down an inventory or maybe try to draw the items.

recipes. write down recipes and give it a score every time you try it. you could do the same for drinks you try out.

stickers

comic strips. you can find a bunch of it online, glue your favorites in your notebook.

[sherrylipgloss]

austen couples + romance tropes

[funnytwittertweets]

[redistribution0fmatter]

Poets have their desks and pockets filled with poems, artists with sketches, and mine are filled with equations, calculus and books.

After all, we, scientists and you, romantics, aren't so different.