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so hi..

stdygal here. it’s been a while. over a year actually. when i was still active on this blog i really thought i would be in med school by now. i did get my 500 points and i was happy. it seemed fair for all the work i put in, but if you know the grades you need for medicine, you know that 500 is way less than enough. UCD was my dream college and i thought science would be a good second option and i had gotten my place in the university of aberdeen aswell for neuroscience and psychology but my mum couldn’t afford to send me abroad.

in addition to that during secondary school the people around me made me feel as though psychology wasn’t a “hard science” (not true) and i ended up not applying for any other psychology courses. in the end i missed out on science in UCD by 10 points. it was because i made a complete mess of my college applications (the CAO list) and ended up with my 7th choice out of 10 -- pharmaceutical chemistry in maynooth university. with how good my results were, i couldn’t say i wasn't disappointed that i didn't end up doing a course i was interested in and i didn't go to the university i liked the best.

i was hesitant starting college, i felt as though on some level i had failed. on top of that i was starting college with a very negative circle of people, who were catty and childish. i did end up loving college life and i began to love maynooth university; it’s new so it’s not prestigious or snobby, but the lecturers and the facilities are amazing.

but still there was a cloud looming over my head-- what kind of career would i pursue with this degree that i’m not even particularly interested in? even though i got good grades i wan’t passionate or motivated. i began to be increasingly anxious, and after a good few months, maybe around after the winter exams, i became depressed and my anxiety reared it’s ugly head. i wasn’t happy and the people i was with didn’t make me happy. the things that i did didn’t make me happy.

this summer has been a long long process of healing. of purging negativity in the form of people and things. the world comes from within yourself, so the way i see it, you have you have to work on yourself, on the inside before you can see the world around you change. i’ve always been interested in psychology, always played with the idea of studying it but i had this ridiculous idea that if i was smart enough to do something more prestigious (or prestigious sounding..) then i should. medicine is not for me, i’ve never wanted to be a doctor, i’ve always wanted to impress my mum and to make her happy. and yes, she would be happy if i was in med school but she’s elated that i got into the course i wanted.

i’m starting the psychology through science course in maynooth university this year and i’m so excited, no trepidation,no unease, and i want to come back on here and be active again, to make videos too maybe?!!

i don’t feel ashamed or embarrassed, i haven’t failed in any way, in fact i think i’ve really grown as a person and i’m grateful for this year and for the experiences i’ve had.

so hi, i guess? i’ve missed you guys!

#studybr #college applications

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Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you’re 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written; or you didn’t go swimming in warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It’s going to break your heart. Don’t let this happen.

Anne Lamott (via jerfreyy)

selenocysteine

Tips to learn a new language

The 75 most common words make up 40% of occurrences The 200 most common words make up 50% of occurrences The 524 most common words make up 60% of occurrences The 1257 most common words make up 70% of occurrences The 2925 most common words make up 80% of occurrences The 7444 most common words make up 90% of occurrences The 13374 most common words make up 95% of occurrences The 25508 most common words make up 99% of occurrences

(Sources: 5 Steps to Speak a New Language by Hung Quang Pham)

This article has an excellent summary on how to rapidly learn a new language within 90 days.

We can begin with studying the first 600 words. Of course chucking is an effective way to memorize words readily. Here’s a list to translate into the language you desire to learn that I grabbed from here! :)

EXPRESSIONS OF POLITENESS (about 50 expressions)

‘Yes’ and ‘no’: yes, no, absolutely, no way, exactly.

Question words: when? where? how? how much? how many? why? what? who? which? whose?

Apologizing: excuse me, sorry to interrupt, well now, I’m afraid so, I’m afraid not.

Meeting and parting: good morning, good afternoon, good evening, hello, goodbye, cheers, see you later, pleased to meet you, nice to have met.

Interjections: please, thank you, don’t mention it, sorry, it’ll be done, I agree, congratulations, thank heavens, nonsense.

NOUNS (about 120 words)

Time: morning, afternoon, evening, night; Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; spring, summer, autumn, winter; time, occasion, minute, half-hour, hour, day, week, month, year.

People: family, relative, mother, father, son, daughter, sister, brother, husband, wife; colleague, friend, boyfriend, girlfriend; people, person, human being, man, woman, lady, gentleman, boy, girl, child.

Objects: address, bag, book, car, clothes, key, letter (=to post), light (=lamp), money, name, newspaper, pen, pencil, picture, suitcase, thing, ticket.

Places: place, world, country, town, street, road, school, shop, house, apartment, room, ground; Britain, name of the foreign country, British town-names, foreign town-names.

Abstract: accident, beginning, change, color, damage, fun, half, help, joke, journey, language, English, name of the foreign language, letter (of alphabet), life, love, mistake, news, page, pain, part, question, reason, sort, surprise, way (=method), weather, work.

Other: hand, foot, head, eye, mouth, voice; the left, the right; the top, the bottom, the side; air, water, sun, bread, food, paper, noise.

PREPOSITIONS (about 40 words)

General: of, to, at, for, from, in, on.

Logical: about, according-to, except, like, against, with, without, by, despite, instead of.

Space: into, out of, outside, towards, away from, behind, in front of, beside, next to, between, above, on top of, below, under, underneath, near to, a long way from, through.

Time: after, ago, before, during, since, until.

DETERMINERS (about 80 words)

Articles and numbers: a, the; nos. 0–20; nos. 30–100; nos. 200–1000; last, next, 1st–12th.

Demonstrative: this, that.

Possessive: my, your, his, her, its, our, their.

Quantifiers: all, some, no, any, many, much, more, less, a few, several, whole, a little, a lot of.

Comparators: both, neither, each, every, other, another, same, different, such.

ADJECTIVES (about 80 words)

Color: black, blue, green, red, white, yellow.

Evaluative: bad, good, terrible; important, urgent, necessary; possible, impossible; right, wrong, true.

General: big, little, small, heavy; high, low; hot, cold, warm; easy, difficult; cheap, expensive; clean, dirty; beautiful, funny (=comical), funny (=odd), usual, common (=shared), nice, pretty, wonderful; boring, interesting, dangerous, safe; short, tall, long; new, old; calm, clear, dry; fast, slow; finished, free, full, light (=not dark), open, quiet, ready, strong.

Personal: afraid, alone, angry, certain, cheerful, dead, famous, glad, happy, ill, kind, married, pleased, sorry, stupid, surprised, tired, well, worried, young.

VERBS (about 100 words)

arrive, ask, be, be able to, become, begin, believe, borrow, bring, buy, can, change, check, collect, come, continue, cry, do, drop, eat, fall, feel, find, finish, forget, give, going to, have, have to, hear, help, hold, hope, hurt (oneself), hurt (someone else), keep, know, laugh, learn, leave, lend, let (=allow), lie down, like, listen, live (=be alive), live (=reside), look (at), look for, lose, love, make, may (=permission), may (=possibility), mean, meet, must, need, obtain, open, ought to, pay, play, put, read, remember, say, see, sell, send, should, show, shut, sing, sleep, speak, stand, stay, stop, suggest, take, talk, teach, think, travel, try, understand, use, used to, wait for, walk, want, watch, will, work (=operate), work (=toil), worry, would, write.

PRONOUNS (about 40 words)

Personal: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, one; myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.

Possessive: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.

Demonstrative: this, that.

Universal: everyone, everybody, everything, each, both, all, one, another.

Indefinite: someone, somebody, something, some, a few, a little, more, less; anyone, anybody, anything, any, either, much, many.

Negative: no-one, nobody, nothing, none, neither.

ADVERBS (about 60 words)

Place: here, there, above, over, below, in front, behind, nearby, a long way away, inside, outside, to the right, to the left, somewhere, anywhere, everywhere, nowhere, home, upstairs, downstairs.

Time: now, soon, immediately, quickly, finally, again, once, for a long time, today, generally, sometimes, always, often, before, after, early, late, never, not yet, still, already, then (=at that time), then (=next), yesterday, tomorrow, tonight.

Quantifiers: a little, about (=approximately), almost, at least, completely, very, enough, exactly, just, not, too much, more, less.

Manner: also, especially, gradually, of course, only, otherwise, perhaps, probably, quite, so, then (=therefore), too (=also), unfortunately, very much, well.

CONJUNCTIONS (about 30 words)

Coordinating: and, but, or; as, than, like.

Time & Place: when, while, before, after, since (=time), until; where.

Manner & Logic: how, why, because, since (=because), although, if; what, who, whom, whose, which, that.

#languages #russian

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19 . 06 . 2016 // some binder details {math, physics, biology and chemistry}

#motivation

liefly

me: *can’t handle the stress and demands of school* also me: *can’t function properly without the structure school gives my life*

ichstehaufdemschlauch

#winter anxiety vs. summer depression

#me af

taliabobalia

who you are in high school is not who you will be in college and who you are in college is not who you will be when you are 30.

when you accept that you are malleable and ever-changing, you will be less resistant to new ways of thinking and being and you will grow into the beautiful person you are meant to become.

resist the urge to remain stagnant. there are always things to learn about the world and yourself. let yourself learn them.

#yesss

soeule

05/01/16 ||| day 11/100 of productivity

i studied but i did not…

#motivation

What did you get in your hpat??

haha ok that’s pretty much straight to the point. i got 156 which is 60th %ile. i wanted a little bit higher but it’s still a pretty okay result. i need 560+ points for medicine so idk if that’s gonna happen, if i get within 30 points of it i definitely will consider resitting the hpat but honestly i’ve never really depended on getting medicine, although it would be great i know i can get into research by other ways. so yeah, 156. meh.

#ask

gaystudies

Resources for learning Russian!??

you’ve come to the right place!!

russian learning masterpost

russian alphabet resources

russian media masterpost

let me know if you need anything else!!

#russian #im emassing resources #is that how you spell that #idk man #probs should work on english b4 learning anymore languages

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Lots of people like to practise listening to French by immersing themselves into French culture. Of course this is not an extensive list but here are all of the methods that I love using to practise listening to French:

MUSIC

STROMAE: Papaoutai // Tous les mêmes // Formidable // Alors on danse

INDILA: Dernière Danse // Tourner dans le vide // Love Story

CŒUR DE PIRATE: Adieu // Place de la République

ZAZ: Je veux // On ira

EDITH PIAF: La vie en rose // Mon Legionnaire // Non, je ne regrette rien

EUROVISION ENTRIES SUNG IN FRENCH: Allez Olla Olé - L’enfer et moi - Moustache - N’oubliez pas - J’ai Cherché - Loin d’Ici

AUDIOBOOKS (available on Youtube!)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: harry potter à l’école des sorciers The Little Prince: le petit prince Les Misérable: les misérables

PODCASTS

To be honest, podcasts aren’t something I listen to a lot, but one that I found insanely helpful was the News in Slow French catalogue!

FRENCH YOUTUBE

Again, I don’t really watch French Youtubers but I have watched videos by these three vloggers and enjoyed them: Norman // Cyprien // Jérôme

Or if you’re looking for a fantastic channel about being ‘une vraie française’ then you have to check out the Comme une française channel!

#french #fab

pycckuu

Russian Masterpost for Listening, Speaking, Reading, & Writing

hey y’all I’ve put together a masterpost for those of us experiencing the joy that is studying the Russian language (lol) which focuses on your 4 main foreign language food groups: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Enjoyyy

Listening

Vlogs/YouTubers/Podcasts/Radio

Russian Language Youtubers Masterpost by @wonderful-language-sounds

Russian Media Materpost by @gaystudies

Russian Radio Stations: (1)(2)(3)(4)

NCLRC’s Russian Webcasts - A survey of authentic Russian news delivered twice monthly in simplified standard Russian. Accompanied by scripts, vocabulary support, and post-listening activities.

Очень по-русски - Russian language podcasts with transcripts for intermediate and advanced learners. Covers slang, idioms and common expressions.

Tumblr user @ruspeach uploads short Russian posts with vocabulary and links to audio. They also have a website.

Lessons/Lectures/Literature

Internet Urok - Like a Russian version of KhanAcademy, with both video and written lessons on a variety of subjects.

Alphabetical List of Russian Poetry - Some with audio.

Films

Russian Films Masterpost by @imlearningrussian

Russian Films Masterpost by @wonderful-language-sounds

Russian Movies Masterpost by @languages4life

Russian Titles of Tarantino Movies by @properrussian

Russian Media Materpost by @gaystudies

Mosfilm - Russian film youtube channel

Soyuzmultfilm - Russian cartoon youtube channel

Tumblr user @chaliapin is into Soviet-era films/tv so you could always message him for recommendations ;)

Music

Russian Pop Music by @study-but-first-tea

Russian Rock Music by @study-but-first-tea

Russian Rap Music by @study-but-first-tea

Russian Hip Hop Music by @study-but-first-tea

Russian Indie by @learn-russian-language

Russian Band Recommendations by @uminoko

Russian Music Suggestions by @russiangrammar

Russian Music Masterpost by @thy-lexicon

Russian Media Materpost by @gaystudies

ELLO - Russian music youtube channel.

Radiooooo - Stream music from any country/decade.

Tumblr user @chaliapin is also into Soviet-era music so you could always message him for recommendations ;)

Speaking

Tips on Pronunciation by @pycckuu

Russian Oral Practice by @wonderful-language-sounds

Russian Articulation Post by @learn-russian-language

Typical Russian Pronunciation Mistakes

Phonetics Course - A phonetics teaching tool for Russian pronunciation.

Forvo - Database of audio recordings of native speakers pronouncing words.

HelloTalk - App where you can practice speaking and writing skills with native speakers.

Russian Gram - A stress marking tool for Russian.

Reading

Tips to Read & Listen in Russian by @wonderful-language-sounds

Children’s Short Stories (with audio) by @properrussian

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