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I’m afraid of living a stagnant life. I want to do more, I want to see more, I want to be more. I want to constantly grow and better myself in who I am, in my friendships in my relationships, in my career, in every single aspect of my life. I never want to settle for anything or anyone, even the person I am.
Everyone in the physics department was so fucking pumped one of our profs won the Nobel Prize that all the faculty started literally partying at 10 AM in one of the empty labs on the second floor, and my astrophys prof showed up to our 4 PM lecture late and slightly tipsy and he kept misspelling “star” I fucking love physics.
@howdidigethereagain Ye, Dr. Donna Strickland!!!! She’s the first woman to win the prize for physics in 55 years, and the third woman to win ever. She is also, objectively, the most terrifying prof I’ve ever had. I now get to say that a Nobel Laureate once gave me a 20 on a midterm. She won for her work in developing chirped pulse amplification for high intensity lasers, which basically means she and her colleagues found a way of increasing the peak intensity that a laser can reach without destroying the material of the laser (that’s what happens if you just take a laser, crank it up past max and break the knob off; the laser is just too intense and it’ll break everything). It’s a little hard to explain because I kinda always sucked with laser photonics but just know she’s an actual badass and there’s a reason we call her the Laser Queen.
But no one was expecting her to win, since all her work was done in like the 80s (there’s actually a huge backlog of people who should win the Nobel Prize, it’s a whole thing) so we were all like “holy??? shit???” and the department just put up really shitty printed out “posters” everywhere that the secretary clearly just made this morning on her computer (you’re doing great Linda) and someone opened up the lab for a party. TAs were dipping out of supervising labs to go. Someone got a giant champagne bottle balloon. I almost got cornered by a news reporter on my way to class. It’s been so great.
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I wanna give a s/o to all the students out there where everything was working against them to do well in school but they persevered anyway.
The students who didn’t have parents that did well in school and so they couldn’t receive proper guidance. The students who went to shitty public schools that didn’t prepare them as well as private school kids. The students who were the first in their family to complete high school. The students who have to work to survive or afford school while studying. The students that have to support their family in addition to themselves. The students who couldn’t figure out how to study until it was too late to fix their GPA. The students who discovered their mental illnesses while in college and it tanked their success or forced them to take longer to finish.
All of you are valid. Remember that. College is hard and can make you feel that numbers always matter. But once you enter the real world, no one is keeping score. Be proud of what you achieved based on your unique conditions.
Enjoy the life you’ve given yourself because you went to college. You did it.
weird study tip:
if u don’t feel motivated, pretend ur in a movie or tv show. you know the scenes where they’re on their bed with their feet tucked up and crossed at the ankle, and they’re cracking open highlighters with their teeth and poring over a textbook with smooth rock music playing? that. bonus points for a perfect messy bun and spencer hastings outfit.
*amazing study tip
When I was 18 I took a ballet class at college and every morning our beginner adult class started just as the Ballet Majors in the studio next door took a mid-class break.
Many mornings they would gather in the doorway of my classroom and watch us struggle through our bar warmups or jumble up a new technique while they smiled and whispered to each other.
And every morning I dreaded seeing them there because I knew they were making fun of me.
I had other classes with some of them, and I was always embarrassed when ballet came up, and it always did, them being ballet majors, because I loved to talk about it but knew they’d seen me dance, and I was sure they thought I didn’t belong in the conversation.
At the end of the semester, our instructor announced that she’d like to invite the dancers from the next door studio to sit in on our final performance as an audience, and everyone in my class hesitated. We’d worked so hard, we wanted to celebrate our progress during our final without being judged. Most of us left class that day suddenly more anxious about the final than we’d ever been.
The next morning, in one of my other classes I had with the ballet majors, one of them approached me, and as if she’d been reading our minds the entire semester, she said
“Hey. I just wanted to say that I know we watch you guys dance a lot, and I wanted to make sure you know we’re never laughing at you. When we watch you guys learn the basics…..it reminds us of when we first started when we were younger. It’s like…looking at ourselves when we first fell in love with dancing. That’s why we love watching you guys.”
It shocked me. I felt awash with relief and utterly stupid all at once.
Here I had spent an entire semester assuming the worst of people who had otherwise been nothing but nice to me in every other setting, and I had no one to blame for that but my own insecurities that I’d allowed to rule me for months.
I’d been so unfair to these girls, because I was self conscious. I was so worried about being judged that I’d judged all of them.
Here I was worried they were laughing at me, and all along they were looking at me with nothing but absolute delight, even envy for what I was getting to experience.
This encounter changed my entire attitude, permanently.
It made me realize that, yeah sometimes people are jerks for no reason, but more often than not, people really are just….Good.
Since that day, I’ve started giving everyone the benefit of the doubt until they prove me wrong, for their sake and for my own.
And I’ve learned that the world becomes a lot better and life becomes a lot easier when you accept that maybe not everyone is judging you. Maybe you’re the one who’s hardest on yourself.
Let yourself be. Let yourself exist and breathe and be happy.
The world is a much better place.
Do you have any advice for self-studying? I saw that Virilitasa answered a question about that and I was curious about what advice you'd give! Thank you :)
For those curious, @virilitasa ‘s post can be found here. She covered a lot of what I would have said and I also wrote a similar post on the specifics of “how” recently. I won’t cover those points.
Many people find self-studying difficult to stick with because they lack outside structure. So you need to create that structure yourself. Depending on how you generally get work done, you might take one or more of these general approaches:
Schedule a specific time each day to study
e.g., 6am before classes, after dinner, etc.
Break down the content into exactly how you’ll study ahead of time
e.g., read chapters X-Y, make Quizlet set, do practice problems, etc.
Create specific, small goals for yourself
e.g., finish one chapter a week, learn 5 new words a day
Set slightly random reminders on your calendar
Regular phone reminders are easy to ignore! Maybe pick 3 random days to check if you’re sticking to your plan or set a time to review each week.
Decide on an amount of time to study each day
e.g., 2 hours at any time instead of always 8am-10am
Test yourself at regular intervals
Reading and taking notes alone is NOT enough to effectively learn
See the other posts I mentioned for more specifics.
Hope that helps!
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“ Ama hep biliyormuş gibi yaptım ve hep yanlış yaptım. “
if you say number loud enough its value increases
5 = 5
5! = 120
this kills the mathematician
by Mr. Lovenstein
once you stop fantasizing about that ideal version of yourself and start working towards becoming that person by setting your alarm clock earlier and actually going to the gym and actually volunteering at places and actually eating healthier and not procrastinating and working just a little bit harder you’ll realize that it was so easy all along. becoming your ideal self will only ever exist in your mind until you make the decision to work towards becoming that person. get up!! get going!! it’s now or never!! there is no light at the end of the tunnel!! get that flashlight and pave your own path bitch bc no one else is going to do it for u!!
We are all wearing masks. That is what makes us interesting.
Neil Gaiman (via quotemadness)
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Intriguing new research suggests that a particular bacteria may have beneficial anti-inflammatory effects on the brain. Early studies in rodent models found that through injections of the bacteria the animals can be "immunized" against displaying anxious responses to stressful situations.
Science has only just started to tease out a fascinating relationship between bacteria, inflammation and mood over the last few years. Not only are some conditions, such as depression, being hypothesized to be caused by brain inflammation, but it’s possible brain inflammation could be modulated by bacteria in our microbiome. Intriguing new research from the University of Colorado Boulder suggests that one particular bacteria could have beneficial anti-inflammatory effects on the brain. Early studies in rodent models have found that through injections of the bacteria the animals can be essentially “immunized” against displaying anxious responses to stressful situations. “We found that in rodents this particular bacterium, Mycobacterium vaccae, actually shifts the environment in the brain toward an anti-inflammatory state,” says Matthew Frank, lead author of the new study.