I write what you may feel

Sah, 19, Med student a lil lost. Naps are a blessing and a curse.

[desultory-suggestions]

Hello, lovelies! I’ve gotten a couple of asks about studying so I decided to condense them into one post for you guys! I’m trying to hit a bunch of different topics so if you need an even more specific post you can send an ask! Without any further ado, have some tips! My studyblr is @spacey-scholar​

Prep

First, you always need a good base for your day! Especially if you’re studying a lot.

Make a good full breakfast! Ex. Eggs and Toast, Smoothie and fruit, Pancakes and a cup of juice. 

How’s your hygiene? Do you need to shower, brush your teeth, wash your face, condition your hair? Do it! You’ll be distracted if you feel messy!

Get dressed like it’s a normal day. Staying in PJ’s is okay! But being ready for the day seriously helps focus!

Likewise, your space should be clean. A clean space is a clean mind! Remove dishes, trash, scrap paper, and extra items. Wide down your desk, organize your pens and books. Your space should feel like your space!

Now make a list of what you need to get done! What needs to be done Now, what needs to be done Soon, and what needs to be done Later? 

Order your list how you want your day to go, and don’t put super-tough subjects back to back, or subjects that are similar exercises i.e. reading thirty pages of two different books back to back is no fun.

The Studying

It’s important to buckle down with No Distractions! If you find yourself distracted put your phone away! If you need your phone, put it on Do Not Disturb until you’re done. I also do this at night for better sleep. 

Pick the best technique for you, Pomodoro, reward-based, group studying, etc.

Play music but only if it will not distract you! If you sing along or daydream it’s the wrong music! Classical, Lo-fi, and White noise are all good! My Spotify Here has some good ones.

Use a nice journal (I don’t mean expensive!) and pens/pencils you enjoy using. I like to have a specific journal and color dedicated to each subject. 

Take notes on recorded lectures and classes, if you’re doing online classes right now try to screen record or record the audio! That way if you space out you can play it later and take notes, and you can absorb the lesson better instead of being distracted.

Don’t worry about your notes, stationary, pictures, being beautiful and your grades being perfect. Life doesn’t always look the way it does on Instagram. And the people who spend hours trying to get a good photo of their coffee are not studying! 

Use flashcards! Quizlet is good if you need premade ones! If you can save up and buy them, Barrons AP Flash Cards are the best in my opinion. Very clean, not too long, very durable, and cover all subjects.

Feeling Distracted 

If you catch yourself drifting off and getting into your head, get up and take a quick walk, stretch, or energizer. 

It’s okay if this happens, don’t guilt yourself! practice affirmation. The best and smartest still get distracted. 

If you are drifting, why? Are you hungry? Tired? Thirsty? Bored? Get a snack and some water, take a break and rest, find a way to make your studying more enjoyable. 

Remember that Motivation and Discipline are different things. Sometimes we just won’t be motivated, we won’t want to do it and it will be rather frustrating. But the cure to this is not shaming its discipline. Remind yourself “This may be hard, and I may not want to do this, but I want to reach my goals and If this is what It takes I will make it happen. 

Always do just one more page of you’re tired. One at a time and oh you did it! Maybe just one more? One more? Eh, one more just to finish the train of thought, Oh just- I’m done? Nice!

If you really can’t focus just move on and come back to this subject, you can always ask for help.

Supplementary Things

There are so many apps you can use to study, for free! My favorites are Tide, Quizlet, Focus Keeper, Forest, Flora, Egenda, SpanishDict, Photomath, and Kahn Academy. 

You can also join a study group! You may know one, but if you don’t, there are a lot of online ones! I’m in a study Discord and have been for a while! it helps a lot and motivates me to finish my work!

You can make a studyblr, but don’t do it just for the aesthetics! It’s about studying, and sometimes that gets messy! Sometimes we fail a test, we spill our tea on our notes, we cry because we don’t understand the formula. That’s the part you don’t see!

Having cute stationery can really help, as well as nice organizers and decorations for your space! I don’t have much money so I get a lot of stuff on Amazon or FB Marketplace.

Health

Remember that no matter what you are good enough. It’s okay if you fail, it’s okay if you struggle.

It’s also okay if your path doesn’t go the way you expected! Maybe you go to a different school than expected! Or choose a trade instead! Maybe you take a gap year! Maybe your passion changes! Maybe it changes six times!

Your health is always more important than your school. If you are in pain, mentally or physically, if you are anxious, exhausted, burnt out, talk to your teachers about it! You matter more than a grade.

Your best is good enough! And your best doesn’t look the same as someone else’s best! Don’t compare!

Now go get out there and study!

[adventure-of-nemi]

Just finished reading this fantastic book!

Really interesting and has provided a lot of inspiration ☺️

I would definitely recommend a read of your interest in neuroscience/neurology/neuropsychiatry 🧠

[manaphy]

wow I didn’t know fuckin chocolate eggs were gendered

[hobopoppins]

OKAY LET ME TELL YOU A STORY ABOUT THE FUCKING PINK EGGS.

I work at a concession stand in an ice rink. We sell a bunch of chocolate bars and snacks and shit including Kinder Surprise eggs.

So one day this woman comes up to the counter with her two little kids, a girl who’s probably about 6 or 7 and a little boy, maybe 3 or 4. The mom asks what they want, the little girl points at the Kinder eggs and says “One of those!”. I asked if she wanted the white or the pink egg. She said pink. The little boy pointed to the Kinder eggs and says “One of those!”. I asked if he wanted the white or the pink egg. He said pink. HOLY SHIT IT WAS LIKE I OPENED THE GATES OF HELL. The mom absolutely FLIPPED and was like “YOU ARE NOT GETTING THE PINK EGG IT’S ONLY FOR GIRLS. YOU CAN GET THE WHITE ONE OR NOTHING AT ALL”. The little boy looked at his mom and said “But I want the same as ______ (whatever the sister’s name was)”. The mom completely ignored him and turned to me and gave me a death glare. “He can have the white egg.”

I had to give a little boy a white egg when he wanted the pink so that he could be the same as his big sister and he started crying. The mom just reiterated that the pink egg was for girls and told him that boys don’t cry.

And this is why we shouldn’t gender fucking chocolate eggs.

[jen-kollic]

This is actually a relatively new thing, originally Kinder Eggs were all white like the ones on the left. I don’t know at what point they decided to make ‘girl’s’ Kinder Eggs, but I do not like it.

[its-jolls]

Holy shit do not even get me started on how moms constantly police their sons’ masculinity. I’ve seen mothers do it WAY more often than fathers.

I used to work at a bakery that specialized in creating custom cakes. We had this feature where we could print out any image off the computer and put it on a cake (with rice paper). One day this lady comes in and asks for an image we had of the baby Sesame Street characters. They’re all together with cake and confetti, and she asks, “Oh, well since it’s a boy, can you please change all of the little pink confettis into blue confetti? I mean, he’s a boy, you know.”

Confetti.

The fucking confetti.

It barely covered 5% of the image.

Another instance was when a lady asked me for an image of four superheroes to put on her son’s cake because her son was turning four. She admitted to not knowing any superheroes, so I offered the most obvious choice—The Fantastic Four. I pulled up a picture of them and she goes, “Oh no no, we can’t have that. Let’s do another one.” Confused, I pulled up a Justice League one with Batman, Superman, The Flash, and Wonder Woman. Again, she said no. I asked her if she needed anything specific (she didn’t know superheroes, why was she so picky?), and she just said, “Oh, it’s just that he’s a boy, you know? We can’t have a girl superhero on his cake.”

I nearly lost my shit. I did temporarily lose my customer service face and ask why, women have been superheroes all the time, Wonder Woman is iconic, etc etc and she was like, “It’s just that my son has been playing with Barbie dolls lately and I really don’t want him to end up… well, you know.”

This shit has got to stop. When you teach boys that certain things are only for girls, you’re limiting them and you’re teaching them that girls or “girly things” are bad. If you want gender equality as an adult, you better make DAMN sure that you’re teaching the same thing to your kids.

[jen-kollic]

So this woman did not want her son to turn out ‘you know’ and her plan for that was to get him a cake with spandex-clad manly men AND ONLY MEN on it? I don’t think she thought that one through too well…

[aphony-cree]

in sociology class we were talking about gender being assigned to objects and one of the male students started saying how forward thinking he is because he buys his daughter sports equipment and “boy toys”. I asked if he’d do the same if he had a son and he said “Of course I’d buy my son sports equipment”. I clarified “No, would you buy him dolls and other toys that are thought of as being for girls”. He turned around and didn’t answer.

Parents will pat themselves on the back for letting their little girls play baseball but a little boy with a Barbie is still considered an affront to society

[onlyoneovaryohgress]

Fuck everything.

[thoughts-of-an-x-factor]

My father was one of these parents (along with several other harmful issues!), and even though I know, for an absolute fact, that his world views and ways are entirely wrong, this shit he tried to ingrain into me still effects me to this day. Parents, don’t ruin your fucking kids by treating them like this.

[indomie-fried-noodle]

[pyronautphea]

1. These aren’t pictures from Venice, the pictures are taken in Burano. The canals there are always clean and filled with fish and swans.

2. These pictures (unknowingly) transport ecofascist ideas. They transport the ecofascist idea that the Corona virus did the earth a pleasure, which paves the way for genocide and eugenics. It’s racist and ethnonationalistic. It’s social Darwinism. The people who are killed by natural disasters and pandemics (which “clean the nature”) are mostly poor, disabled, Black and Indigenous People of Color, non-westerners, and other marginalized people (aka not the people who caused them). The people who exploit(ed) humans and nature are still profiting. They buy their bunker, they are able to buy food when others can’t, they get tested, they are able to work remotely and get paid, and able to do social distancing/quarantine. They still get to profit off of it (now buying cheap stocks in the crisis which will get pricier once the pandemic is over). They own hospital chains, supermarkets and online shops, which now make lots of money but still pay their now-so-existential staff badly, give them zero-hour-contracts, lay them off and/or ignore safety measures. It’s capitalism which enables the exploitation which leads to natural disasters and pandemic crisis.

3. People should have clean water and air whether or not there is a pandemic.

Literature on ecofascism:

- https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2019/mar/20/eco-fascism-is-undergoing-a-revival-in-the-fetid-culture-of-the-extreme-right

-https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/30/eco-fascists-and-the-ugly-fight-for-our-way-of-life-as-the-environment-disintegrates

- https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2018/09/eco-fascism-ideology-marrying-environmentalism-and-white-supremacy

- https://theintercept.com/2019/08/05/el-paso-shooting-eco-fascism-migration/

[rainb0w-ph0enix]

I believe in sensitive and kind men. I believe in the mystical men who believe in themselves. I believe in men who seek temperance and peace inside them. I believe in men poets, dreamers, magicians, writers, alchemists, artists, teachers, and angels. I believe in men who like to dance and sing and make life a celebration. I believe in men who embrace their wounded inner child, listen to him and embrace him true. I believe in men who want to heal and help others to heal. I believe in men who refuse to be slaves to their own wound and that despite the pain, they clean it and heal it patiently, with love and courage. I believe in men who come from the stars and remember the power of their wings, the power of their hands and the power of their heart. I believe in men who know of intuition and use it as their compass. I believe in men who share freedom because they are free and do not know another way to live. I believe in the men protective of women’s energy, who know how to read the look of their beloved and who do not intend to change it, simply accompany it wisely on their flight. I believe in full men who don’t need anything from outside because they already know that everything has it inside. I believe in men who make fire when they are cold, that take refuge in water when they are thirsty. I believe in men with truthful eyes they see themselves and that’s why they love and respect every creature exists on earth. I believe in men, perfectly imperfect, because it is in that imperfection is where they also find their beauty. I believe in sensitive men who know how to receive and give love in balance, who listen and who also speak, those who live and let them live. I believe in men who live sexuality as sacred, because they know that it is a wonderful gift. I believe in men with clear feelings, which are accessible. I believe in men who walk barefoot and speak to the plants. I believe in the tender and wild men at the same time. I believe in the sacred male and in all the divinity they have stood. Poem by Rishima 🌹 for: - Sacred Masculine art by IG user @hvitravn

[moonrisemagick]

Past Life Spread

I’m baaaaack! This time with a spread inspired by my irl friend @wingedscribe​ who was asking about my past life reading process. I figured I’d share my spread with you all as well! The positions will be named after Jungian archetypes because, you know, we’re doing soul searching and Jung is famous for that, and also because I’m Like That. Without further ado, let’s get into it! 

1. The Syzygy: This archetype represents the non-gendered combination of the anima and the animus, both of which are meant to represent the hidden, unconscious “true self”. This position is therefore about who your past self was at their core! What kind of person were you? What were your personality traits and values? What parts of you were generated by “nature”?

2. The Parent: This archetype is meant to be a combination of the “mother” and “father” archetypes, which have to do with discipline and nurturing respectively. This position represents the environment in which your past self was raised. What was the political climate like? Where in the world were you? Which parts of you were generated by “nurture”?

3. The Child: This archetype is self explanatory, and represents your inner innocence and youth. True to form, this position represents what your past self’s early years were like. What kind of a childhood did they have? What sorts of things helped build up their personality? What is leading up to the main conflict in their lives?

4+5. The Shadow: This archetype represents the darker aspects of one’s personality (the other side of one’s coin, so to speak). These darker aspects can range from negative personality traits to traumas you carry with you. For this reason, these two crossed cards represent the main conflict of this past life. What forces were working for and against you? What were you fighting for?

6. The Hero: This archetype represents the overcoming of obstacles in the effort to achieve a goal. Think of the twelve labors of Hercules. This position represents the resolution of the main conflict. How did things shake out? What was the climax of your narrative? How did the remaining years of your life play out as a result?

7. The Sage: This archetype is the opposite of the child, and represents the wisdom that comes with age and experience. This position represents the lesson to be learned from this life. What was the main take away here? What did you end up gaining, or losing?

8. The Self: This archetype represents the joining of conscious and unconscious into one unified being and the creation the true unfiltered self. For this reason, this position represents the connection between the past life and your current life. Why did this life resonate with you at this time? What lessons is your past self trying to impart through this reading?

Find some tips for getting the most out of this deck under the cut, and check out more of my posts here! 

Keep reading

[multidimensional-recovery-deact]

SIGNS FROM A PAST LIFE

Being drawn to a culture

Being drawn to an era 

Being drawn to a civilization 

Being drawn to a location

Easily picking up a skill 

Being drawn to people (soulmates, karmic bonds)

[sahlikeschamomile]

This is out of the blue. But I got through my first year of med school with a 70.3% !!!!!!!

I didn't think I'd make it at all, but here we are.

The year was quite a ride, with the pandemic and so many phases of destruction and growth. There were times I considered ending it all, not because it was hard, but because I couldn't even feel anything at times. Overdrive to the point of being numb and empty. But I showed up and gave whatever I could at the time.

Please never stop believing in yourself. You're capable of so much more than you can imagine.

You've got this.

🖤

[positivity-in-recovery]

[arinashitabun]

Art by Hector aka shitty watercolor

[skylowalker]

[moki-dokie]

😭😭😭😭

[drcrowdpleaser]

[snootyfoxfashion]

Cute Halloween Embroidery Art by Raccoonique

[bofransson]

NIKOLAI KONSTANTINOVICH ROERICH

1874-1947

KARELIA, EVENING SNOW

[gayturians]

[asgardian-viking]

List of People who could use this:

-Trans women (cosplayers and non-cosplayers)

- Cis Women who feel too shy to actually show off their chest but still want to pull this off

- Cis women with small chests who also want to be true the characters.

-  Pretty much any dude who wants to cosplay as a female character

- Anyone who wants to piss off Travis

[avocados26]

Reblog to piss off Travis and support trans women + male cosplayers

[catchymemes]

[littlenobodys-corner]

[adrienaline-rushed-art]

ok so people are making fun of this but adding this with other anti-global warming tactics will work

This isn’t adding ice just for the sake of denial, it’s adding to the Earth’s albedo. This in turn actually makes the Earth’s climate cooler, and then more ice will be produced naturally because of this.

It isn’t a process we need to continue forever, in fact it’s one that needs to be calculated so that we don’t do it TOO MUCH. The only worry would be cooling down too much.

So yes, this is a good idea. It simply isn’t the only thing we should do because we still have gross pollution.

[dogjpeg]

[cockslaved]

Stinky

[dogjpeg]

[morganharpernichols]

you are not weak

for needing to rest.

you are not weak

for needing time

to sort through this.

you are not a burden

for having burdens

that you are learning

to lay down.

you are not a failure

for not reaching

the heights you thought

you’d reach by now.

you are who you are:

a living, breathing human being

who has a soul

in need of Truth and Grace

to make it through

these things.

and no matter how

you were made to feel,

feeling does not

make you weak.

you are free

to learn to seek

what your soul

truly needs.

morgan harper nichols

[warpten]

“I wish I wrote the way I thought Obsessively Incessantly With maddening hunger I’d write to the point of suffocation I’d write myself into nervous breakdowns Manuscripts spiralling out like tentacles into abysmal nothing And I’d write about you a lot more than I should”

— Benedict Smith, I Wish I Wrote The Way I Thought (via s-stevens)

[studyblr]

how to learn new content and never forget it

save this for your next academic year and finals, and it’ll save your grades and time.

1. whenever you read a paragraph with new content, close the book/look away and ask yourself: “what have i just learned?” explaining the concept to yourself right away and asking follow-up questions will change the way you retain new material forever.

2. at first, it’ll be daunting, and it’ll be pretty hard to actually bring yourself to do this. trust me, it’ll be worth it - as this is scientifically proven one of the most effective study techniques.

3. to try this out, set yourself a timer for how long you estimate learning a concept might take. now take away 20% from that estimate. you won’t be able to reach this goal with basic highlighting and re-reading techniques - but with active recall, you will.

4. once you’ve understood the concept, use spaced repetition systems like anki flashcards to force yourself to retrieve this information in a set period of time. this way, your brain will always be reminded of this concept before it could possibly forget it.

5. teach it to others as much as you can. as with the old wisdom “see one, do one, teach one”, one of the only guarantees you’ve really gotten something is when you can effectively teach it.

hope these are helpful for you!!

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