much ado about learning

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[muchadoaboutlearning]

Updated Introduction

hey there welcome to my studyblr! can't believe i started this blog during covid to get through my undergrad but i just graduated college and a lot has changed and that's why an updated introduction

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i am eni

i completed my ba in literature and arts (joint major) with a history minor from india in summer 2024 and wrote my undergrad thesis on goncharov phenomenon and tumblr fandom culture

i will start grad school in fall 2024 to pursue ma cultural studies in europe

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academic interests: fan culture, meme studies, digital cultures, new media, ecoanxiety, cultural memory and heritage, decolonialism, queer media studies, early modern south asian history

non academic interests: reading, writing poetry, watching movies and media, visual art (both traditional and digital), cooking, shitposting on tumblr, recently picked up crocheting as well

[cyberneurotism]

The WorkBoy, a cancelled add-on for the Game Boy, 1992

[commasama]

Collections of tools to use for linguistic data analysis

Because people keep making and sharing misleading/invalid/unreliable “data analysis” posts about fanfic and related fan-studies topics and then get fussy when people point out the issues with their methods.

You don’t need to be a professional computer scientist, linguist, data analyst, etc. If you’re sharing data, you should do the best you can to make sure you’re as methodologically correct as you possibly can be, and with the internet at your fingertips that is now easier than ever.

Links below the cut so this post doesn’t get annoyingly long to scroll past.

Tools for Corpus Linguistics

corpus-analysis.com

About: “A hopefully comprehensive list of currently 286 tools used in corpus compilation and analysis.”

Natural Language Toolkit

nltk.org

About: “NLTK is a leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data. It provides easy-to-use interfaces to over 50 corpora and lexical resources such as WordNet, along with a suite of text processing libraries for classification, tokenization, stemming, tagging, parsing, and semantic reasoning, wrappers for industrial-strength NLP libraries, and an active discussion forum.”

Corpus Tools

linguistics.stanford.edu/resources/resources-corpora/corpus-tools

About: “Getting started with speech and language processing tools.”

AntLab (Laurence Anthony)

laurenceanthony.net

About: “Welcome to AntLab! This site showcases my various software tools, publications, and presentations.”

Linguistics Resources: Corpora

guides.lib.umich.edu/c.php?g=282869&p=1884909

About: “Electronic resources supporting teaching and research in linguistics. Included are indexes to articles in scholarly journals, online full-text sources, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other resources.”

[charitydingle]

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy 2025, dir. Michael Morris

[enigmasandepiphanies]

Have you been convinced to watch a show/movie based on the textpost memes and GIFs you encountered on Tumblr?

Yes, Textpost Memes

Yes, GIF sets

Both

No

Something else, tags

Voting ended onMay 20, 2025

This is for my ma thesis research on tumblr fan practices, mutuals signal boost

this is an example of a textpost meme btw!

[enigmasandepiphanies]

Have you been convinced to watch a show/movie based on the textpost memes and GIFs you encountered on Tumblr?

Yes, Textpost Memes

Yes, GIF sets

Both

No

Something else, tags

Voting ended onMay 20, 2025

This is for my ma thesis research on tumblr fan practices, mutuals signal boost

this is an example of a textpost meme btw!

[dogsandcatsandmiscellaneousstuff]

Apparently Tumblr is banned in India and you can't download it anymore?

[juiciee]

Bhai app store pe nai hai but website works perfectly. Wait I'll dm ki meine app kaise download kra, you need?

[parabiota]

Studyblr is so funny people will be like ‘cozy biochem vibes 🍓’ with a photo of troise phosphate isomerase beta barrel with a little pastry. Girl I am fighting for my life here.

[weltenwellen]

Ilya Kaminsky, from “Firing Squad”, Deaf Republic

[enigmasandepiphanies]

sometimes i feel like i haven't been doing nothing much this past year cause the process of an international graduate student is quite solitary and feels invisiblized because no one is constantly sharing the same experiences as you but here's a reminder to me that babygirl you're doing so much, you moved far far far from home, you're studying at a university which is considered one of the best universities in the world, you're in another continent and making a great living for yourself by living on your terms, making your own food and eating healthy, exploring places, surviving the lack of vitamin D, making friends from all across the world and nurturing the ones back home, having new genres in your breakdowns, learning a new language, you're taking care of plants along with yourself, doing an arts graduate program and applying for a science graduate program, doing research about tumblr and your fannish interests, working at a gallery and developing websites for artists (your wordpress blogger era was fated!), getting actually good grades despite balancing chores, life, work and relationships— omg you're also so in love and you have someone who is enjoying dreaming in your language. i am so proud of you and the little girl you used to be is smiling across the time knife watching you worship at the altar of her little dreams

[muchadoaboutlearning]

here's a little update from my graduate program days

[enigmasandepiphanies]

what do you think of our in-house hellsite originated fandom textpost memes which juxtapose screencaps/stills/ gifs from people's fave media with the most hilarious tumblr posts/onion headlines/memes, i need to know this for my research (literally i am doing it on this meme practice honest answers would be appreciated)

signal boosting is also appreciated

[instantlightpeanut]

Is there an un-aesthetic version of studyblr? I don't want to look at your notes and feel inferior, or see you set up your study table in a way that suggests you never experienced a lick of stress. I want real study tips, that teach me how to study. With the ugly notes where they explain a good way to process the information and write it down that isn't just copying the whole book. I want organisation tips, and how to prepare for tests and reread materials in a way that doesn't take a week per chapter.

[forgedbybooks]

“She would go off in the morning with the punt full of books, and spend long glorious days away in the forest lying on the green springy carpet of whortleberries, reading. She would most diligently work at furnishing her empty mind. She would sternly endeavour to train it not to jump.” ― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Pastor's Wife

I didn’t have a forest nearby but this park sufficed.

[nenelonomh-deactivated20250906]

today's study: ☆ sehs past exam question annotations ☆ spanish verb conjugations for the conditional tense, revision

additionally, today my sister and i hung out after school. at school, i had five classes - in five periods. i had a successful meeting with one of my teachers organising my swapping into a different spanish class.

tomorrow i have sprint training in the afternoon. i also need to pick up birthday gifts for lana and myke. whilst i am on my way home, i will buy the gifts and pick up my on-hold library books.

image source: pinterest

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estudio de hoy: ☆ anotaciones de preguntas de exámenes anteriores de sehs ☆ conjugaciones de verbos en español para el tiempo condicional, revisión

además, hoy mi hermana y yo salimos después de la escuela. en la escuela, tuve cinco clases - en cinco períodos. tuve una reunión exitosa con uno de mis profesores organizando mi intercambio en una clase de español diferente. mañana tengo entrenamiento de sprint por la tarde. también necesito recoger regalos de cumpleaños para lana y myke. mientras estoy de camino a casa, voy a comprar los regalos y recoger mis libros de la biblioteca en espera.

fuente de la imagen: pinterest

[apolladay]

What assigned English class book did you viscerally HATE (the most)? I tried to make it general by some authors since curriculums vary.

Any Charles Dickens book

Any Shakespeare Play

Any Greek Epic

The Great Gatsby

1984

A Scarlet Letter

Lord of the Flies

Frankenstein

Other (if it's farenheit 451, I'll burn you)

I didn't viscerally hate any English class book

What assigned English class book did you viscerally HATE (the most)? I tried to make it general by some authors since curriculums vary.

Any Charles Dickens book

Any Shakespeare Play

Any Greek Epic

The Great Gatsby

1984

A Scarlet Letter

Lord of the Flies

Frankenstein

Other (if it's farenheit 451, I'll burn you)

I didn't viscerally hate any English class book

Voting ended onAug 25, 2024

[enigmasandepiphanies]

this is an appreciation post for kind people from the country i am going to study who keep reminding me what i should bring, things i should do there and comfort me about my anxieties when they literally don't have to do that? i mean you absolutely don't have to message me first about what vessels i should get, how they'll come pick me up from the airport, that i should absolutely get the museum pass cause there are too many amazing museums there, how my birthday in a foreign country will be fun and i should try the korean fried chicken place, get good boots and thermals please, i got a cute ceramic plate from a store i will show you like you don't know me emotionally well BUT YOU STILL CHOOSE TO BE KIND AND I AM OVERWHELMED WITH LOVE AND WANT TO HUG THEM, no one helps you out like international students who are more experienced and have better survival skills

[muchadoaboutlearning]

browsed through various doctoral programs which excited me and made me wanna hurl cause it's gonna be the biggest commitment if i ever end up doing and then i spiraled into thinking how twenties is the decade that's gonna change so much and i am just gonna spend it learning which sounds amazing but also absolutely scary cause i don't wanna be out of touch from reality, earn and live also which ik i can absolutely do while doing a phd but i just can't visualize it