flourishing

BA in philosophy, spanish/ elementary ed student/ elementary school teacher

[medriea]

About Me

Hi! I am a 23 year old teacher who recently graduated University with a bachelor in Philosophy and Spanish Literature, and I minored in Linguistics.

With this account I post what I am studying daily to hold myself accountable, something I’ve been terrible with doing in recent years. I will mostly post my studies from my evening classes after teaching, and a 2 week class I will be taking later this summer.

Feel free to reach out if you ever want to chat <3

Madeline

[blubalum]

[cooolpix4u]

[lacaffeina]

1806'26: coffee's good. and my sleep schedule is so messed up and i'm trying to convince myself that you can change and do better despite your past mistakes.

[ghostingpen]

physically go to your local library at least once. seriously.

look around. find a random book with a cover that catches your attention. read the description. read the first page. if you like the sounds of it, borrow it and take it home to read. borrow a handful of books even.

if a book loses your interest, drop it. if a book grips onto you, ride that wave.

i've struggled to read recreationally for years despite having read so much as a kid. a lot of us are frozen by the seemingly infinite choices. even when we buy books to take home, we don't read them because which book is worth reading first? we don't have to decide, we have it right here in our bookshelves, we have an eternity of never deciding.

in this past month, i have read five books, most of them i've never heard of when i spotted their cover at the library. most of them, i've ended up loving. the due date of library books maintains the ability to read a book so i can return them to the library and leave the library with more books. an even better incentive than borrowing ebooks, because i actually have to leave the house and not be a hermit.

so if you used to enjoy reading but struggle with it now, ignore the book recs you hear. go to the library, come across a book that piques your interest, and read one page after another until you either lose interest or finish the book.

then it's onto the next one.

[ariaiscursed]

- mentioned in passing

[erbiumspectrum]

17 June 2026 ☀️

One last final left and oh my god I hate computational chemistry so much 😭 No offence to anyone but this stuff is just so mind numbingly boring I can barely focus on studying it. Experimental chemistry ftw ❤️‍🩹

I'm seeing my thesis supervisor tomorrow with the final version of my poster, and then I'm most likely going to have it printed! It makes me kind of nervous to think about it bc what if it looks good on my laptop screen but not irl 😅 I mean, we're talking A0 here, that thing will be the size of a blanket lol every imperfection will show!

[waitingforsummeragain]

Day 34/43 of productivity!

Productivity tasks:

- 5:30h studying

- went on a walk

[allsadnshit]

Almond cinnamon banana pancakes

[folklorespring]

I love when people post photo dumps and just random mundane things and their pets and sunsets and their meals and spotify links !! I'm the target audience for your blurry vertical pictures of your morning cup of coffee

[academic-vampire]

𝔬𝔫𝔢 𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔭 𝔞𝔥𝔢𝔞𝔡

[galina]

Week off: slow-roasting tomatoes for confit on toast, a pot of green tea, long walks in the forest, sauna, drawing and sketching, a small glass of vodka with my mam the day after I tattooed her ankle, film night, new socks, haircut, dentist, dear friend's birthday dinner scream-laughing, deptford flower market, pharmacy, falling asleep on the sofa reading a book

[galina]

Week off: slow-roasting tomatoes for confit on toast, a pot of green tea, long walks in the forest, sauna, drawing and sketching, a small glass of vodka with my mam the day after I tattooed her ankle, film night, new socks, haircut, dentist, dear friend's birthday dinner scream-laughing, deptford flower market, pharmacy, falling asleep on the sofa reading a book

[allsadnshit]

Zen in my dojo

[isolawildest]

feeling like an academic victim at this point of the semester :’))

[gogumagirl]

[shadow-yato]

Man