Words & Music

Note taking and reed making - Liz - 20 college junior USA music production major / music minor

[melaninboy]

HIGH SCHOOLERS ‼️‼️ COMMUNITY COLLEGE IS OKAY!!

Please don’t ever let anyone shame you for attending.

[darcylindbergh]

the thing about everything is that it all gets easier with practice, so be careful what you practice 

[crimefighterphd]

Quick reminder, especially for you younger undergrads: Discipline is a skill, not a character trait. And just like any skill, it can be practiced and improved upon incrementally. Try not to get discouraged if you have a day, or multiple days, where you are less disciplined than you would like or need to be. Don’t quit. Don’t spend the next week binging Netflix because you think it’s a hopeless endeavour. Just get up the next day and try again. Each day you try is more practice, and each day you practice, you’ll get a little bit better, and that continual improvement will pay dividends in the long run.

Keep at it.

[biculturalist-deactivated201612]

I admire disciplined people so much. I admire people who can do what they need to do with a focused mind and unwavering commitment, not letting themselves get distracted and refusing to make excuses for themselves. I admire the kind of people whose eyes are on the prize, even if it’s far away, and who are determined, diligent and adaptive. I look up to the kind of people who refuse to succumb to any obstacle or challenge and transcend above the millions of things that stood against them and their goals. I admire those kind of people so much and I aspire to be like that so much more.

[terpsikeraunos]

the main piece of advice i have for students is this: learn how to fail and persevere. it is a skill that will help you in life far more than perfect grades. think of failure impersonally. when you fail, you have just eliminated one method that doesn’t work for you, so you need to try a different method in the future. figure out which factors contributed to the undesirable result, and change them. (teachers, advisors, and academic counselors can help you with this if you aren’t sure where to start). i know from personal experience that fear of failure is often a self-fulfilling prophecy, because it leads to self-sabotage. if you can learn not to think of it as an inherent personal flaw, but rather as a strategy that didn’t work for you and can be changed, you will be well-equipped to face the inevitable failures and rejections that are part of life.

[sparkstudy]

27/100 days of productivity

some recent machines notes! we’re learning about induction motors right now and it’s a lot of math, ahh

[loamandthistle-deactivated20210]

I spent all of my Sunday researching for my paper on Plato’s The Republic and Democracy. I had at first wanted to write about Cyberpunk being the anti-citizen in Plato’s The Republic and modernizing everything from the Allegory of the Cave to the Ring of Gyges but it’s an awesome topic that will require way more than my four page requirement so I’m going to try and write it up this summer. I’m determined to take a short summer break and this would be an awesome way of putting it to use. Anyway, today I’ve gotta write my paper so wish me luck! 

[thesnadger]

Since once in a blue moon I actually discover a decent rule for adulting, and since I know I have followers a few years younger than me who are just entering the workforce, I want to tell you about a very important phrase. 

“I won’t be available.”

Imagine you’re at work and your boss asks you to come in on Saturday. Saturday is usually your day off–coming in Saturdays is not an obligation to keep your job. Maybe you were going to watch a movie with a friend, or maybe you were just going to lie in bed and eat ice cream for eight hours, but either way you really, really don’t want to give up your day off.

If you consider yourself a millennial you’ve probably been raised to believe you need to justify not being constantly at work. And if you’re a gen-Z kid you’re likely getting the same toxic messages that we did. So in a situation like that, you might be inclined to do one of three things:

Tell your boss you’d rather not give up your day off. Cave when they pressure you to come in anyway, since you’re not doing anything important.

Tell your boss you’d rather not give up your day off. Over-apologize and worry that you looked bad/unprofessional.

Lie and say you’ve got a doctor’s appointment or some other activity that feels like an adequate justification for not working.

The fact is, it doesn’t matter to your boss whether you’re having open heart surgery or watching anime in your underwear on Saturday. The only thing that affects them is the fact that you won’t be at work. So telling them why you won’t be at work only gives them reason to try and pressure you to come in anyway.

If you say “I won’t be available,” giving no further information, you’d be surprised how often that’s enough. Be polite and sympathetic in your tone, maybe even say “sorry, but I won’t be available.” But don’t make an excuse. If your boss is a professional individual, they’ll accept that as a ‘no’ and try to find someone else. 

But bosses aren’t always professional. Sometimes they’re whiny little tyrants. So, what if they pressure you further? The answer is–politely and sympathetically give them no further information.

“Are you sure you’re not available?” “Sorry, but yes.”

“Why won’t you be available?” “I have a prior commitment.” (Which you do, even if it’s only to yourself.)

“What’s your prior commitment?” “Sorry, but that’s kind of personal.”

“Can you reschedule it?” “I’m afraid not. Maybe someone else can come in?”

If you don’t give them anything to work with, they can’t pressure you into going beyond your obligations as an employee. And when they realize that, they’ll also realize they have to find someone else to come in and move on.

[sorryihavemarchingband]

me @ myself: bish you need to practice

[fightostudy]

I love the feeling of trying something really hard.

Ashima Shiraishi, one of the world’s best climbers since age 11 (via fightostudy)

[izy-studies-music]

15/2/18: 46/100 days of productivity

A flatlay from today’s violin practice 🎻🎶

[depressionresource]

If you struggle with anxiety, overwhelm, or just plain feeling like a failure, I have a mantra for you that’s been really helping me out lately:

Just show up.

I used to skip class because the whole thing was so overwhelming: I had to get dressed in something clean even though I never had the energy to do laundry, walk to school, sit in class for up to three hours, plus pay attention, take notes, and participate in discussion. In reality, I was being a perfectionist, and life would have been a lot easier for me if I had Just Shown Up. By staying home because of my depression and anxiety, I wasn’t giving myself the chance to do any of that. I was such a perfectionist that being a “bad” or average student was unthinkable, so I stopped being a student at all.

If you’re having trouble getting something done, Just Show Up. You don’t have to be employee of the month. You don’t have to be valedictorian. Just Show Up.

[cleromancy]

ime it also helps to be like “you dont have to stay the whole time, you just have to go” bc most of the time once youre there it’s fine. a lot of things are like that, like… you dont have to finish the dishes, just start them. a lot of the time once you start a task it’s easier to finish than to stop, especially if you can trick yourself like “after five more minutes if i still feel bad i’ll go home” or “after washing two more dishes i can stop for today”

even if you don’t finish the task, you started it, and by completing part of it you lessened your future workload and ALSO taught your brain that things may not be as daunting as they seem

[robotplant]

This is wisdom! Peace!

[athenadark]

you know what years of therapy taught me - Redefine success

so what if no one else gets how the things you define as successes are victories because you have to

so you got to work - success

you used public transport - success

you went to the supermarket instead of ordering online and didn’t just buy things you dind’t want because you got scared - MASSIVE success

Redefine success, your body moved the goal posts, there is no shame in acknwoledging that

[fierceawakening]

This may not help other people the way it helps me, so take it or leave it as needed, but: A lot of the time, Big Epic Awesome Things are built up out of little tiny just showing up, too.

[bethelighttoyourowndarkness]

4/100 days of productivity

Currently reviewing for a quiz in Water Supply and Irrigation Engineering later, 7:00pm-8:00pm. And my friends is doing the same thing for our quizzes in other subjects on monday. So therefore I will declare this day productive.

Fact about us: -My friends is from FEU Manila and PLM. -I’m the only girl in our group.

[howtomusicmajor]

Music School Gothic

There is never enough funding. I don’t care if you attend Julliard or your local community college. Your program will not have enough funding. The funding will be going to building a new Alumni Center. The new Alumni Center will be very nice, in order to convince the Alumni to donate money to pay for the new Alumni Center. No one has ever actually seen an Alumni. Sometimes people leave, and are said to have become one - you don’t think you’d like that.

At least six classrooms will still have chalkboards and desks from the local middle school, because they felt bad.

There are always too many classes. You’ll talk to a friend in another department. They have four classes and fifteen credits. “It’s so much work!” they’ll cry. You won’t understand. That’s not enough credits to graduate on time - full-time class loads for your department have at least 18 credits, and 9 classes. In fact, you’re in class right now. How did you find someone from another department? Does your school even offer other majors? You can’t remember.

There is never enough time. You’re late for something. Your online class had two papers due last Sunday, that you wrote during your 8 am. By the end of your 8 am, you had missed a third deadline and you’re rushing to a rehearsal. You have two classes that are literally at the same time. The professors told you to make it work. You haven’t met either yet, in the third week of semester. Or the eighth? Somehow, in nine classes, you have 70 hours of homework.

Your roommate doesn’t realize that they have a roommate. Do you even have a room? There’s a bed that you sleep on sometimes, but with the hours you spend there, you may not be its only inhabitant. You mostly sleep in practice rooms.

You’re late for something.

[flutejesus]

I’m not even a music major yet and this is painfully relatable

[studyandstorms-deactivated20250]

The Study Buddies Project

The Basics:

How does it work? 

You simply fill out this form, I get the information and pair you with a studyblr I thin you’d get along with based on what you’ve told me. Then, you get a message from me letting you know who your buddy is. 

Why?

Sometimes it’s hard to talk to people. This way, not only is your buddy expecting you but you also know they want to talk to you and become friends. I hope to build lasting relationships where fellow studyblrs can help, advise, support and encourage each other.

How are buddies assigned? What if I don’t get along with my buddy?

I look at hobbies, interests, likes and dislikes, field of study and age as well as the “What You Want” section and find compatible matches. If you guys don’t click though, you can always apply again to get a new buddy. 

Is this only for studyblrs?

No, this is aimed at studyblrs but even if you’re not one you can apply. Please note that there is an option for studyblrs to choose to only be paired with studyblrs. This is because I know some study blogs only follow other studyblogs, etc.

Sounds good! how do I join?

Easy! Just reblog this post and complete the form here and I’ll contact you once the pairing has been done.

*PLEASE NOTE: The pairing process will begin on Monday the 19th of February and will be ongoing from then on

[spanishskulduggery]

To be fluent or proficient in a language, you must conquer the ego that tells you that you can or should know everything there is to know about any language in zero time with zero effort.

But the most freeing thing about learning a language is understanding that all your mistakes and things that you don’t know all at once are incredibly natural, expected, and in no way make you an idiot or a failure.

[flute-and-sometimes-piccolo]

I love etudes