Strive for progress, not perfection.

zana. xviii. infj. ravenclaw.

[studyquill]

let us NOT start a political fight in the comments, but i just wanted to remind you all to VOTE! if you are of age (which i will be for the 2020 US election) please be sure to participate in local and national elections. make your voice heard! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ posted on Instagram - https://ift.tt/2xxHbyI

[anoukostudies]

03.06.19 - monday

during exams i used to get really stressed out about not having enough time to study between, so i designed myself a lil study planner that maps out my week

it has a section for events, a checklist, and a time tracker so i can tell myself to stop freaking out :) if anyone wants the pdf, lemme know!

[otter-books]

“I’ll be in the book section”

— Me as I wander off in a store (via foreverbookish)

[angelswithdreams]

i honestly believe human beings are not meant to live like this. we are meant to live in loving communities and be around nature every day and grow our own food and create art and not work day and night until we die. this longing for another life is not human nature, it’s a symptom of modern society.

[jonphaedrus]

notre dame is burning.

this is ok.

it has happened before. it will happen again. it has been lost before. it will be lost again. and again. and again. and again. art and architecture are transient, and temporary, and 850 years may seem like a lot to the individual, who will live maybe 100 if they are very lucky and very healthy, but even the pyramids at saqqara have only existed for about 6000 years and that’s still not all that much, if you consider the grand scheme of things.

yes, this is terrible. as someone who is deeply religious and literally a professional historian with a focus on art and architecture, this is terrible. im mourning. im gutted. im horrified and upset and miserable. but.

it’s not over.

victor hugo wrote hunchback because notre dame du paris was in the process of collapsing and falling apart, and revitalized the entire world’s focus and love for this church, and that was not even 200 years ago. it led to it being renovated.

the roof has fallen in. the scars of fires are on its buttresses. the rose window has fallen out. the beams and piers have collapsed. the spire has toppled. the stones have suffered, and will suffer again, but it is not gone.

renovation work is essential. sometimes things collapse and burn and break and have to come back. it’s not a terrorist attack, it’s renovation, an accident, but we have so much evidence, history, carefully documented everything on one of the most studied places in the world.

it’s not the end.

[johannesviii]

Hey so, French person here. And also an ex History student. I’m here to say: Please listen to o.p. above.

Obviously everyone is shocked but here’s a few important key facts:

The roof is completely gone. Part of it dated back from the 13th century but the rest was from the 19th. The stone arch roof under the top roof is fine.

One of the three main stained glass rose windows has fallen out. Most of the other stained glass windows are okay.

The spire has fallen down and that’s the saddest part. BUT! It was in the process of being restored and the 16 statues that were there were removed just four days ago! So they’re fine.

The main structure is still here and nothing has “burned down” unlike what some people have been saying.

The “treasure” (sacred objects) is safe.

Notre Dame is still there. It’s just damaged. Almost nothing was lost today, and nobody was wounded either. It’s scary, but it’s gonna be okay.

[thestudyingmegan]

Looking forward to the new semester 💜💜

[problematicprocrastinator]

26/2/19

Seeing as it took me nearly a month to finish reading Wuthering Heights, I didn’t expect to finish reading Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in two days. Yes, it was shorter but I still thought it would take me a while. But what can I say? I loved it. I couldn’t put the book down and I’m very excited to now read Through The Looking-Glass 💕

🎶 Blood and Bones - Kodaline

[studylustre]

things that spark joy for me: seoul, pretty floating lanterns (via a light festival in my uni city), tea and my journal ✨ // ig: studylustre

[kristina100000]

nothing in this world slaps more than sleeping

[therobotreads-deactivated202205]

Ravenclaw 💙

Got my wax seal supplies yesterday and started to practice on multiple stationery items :D Quite fun but sometimes slightly dangerous(?) LOL.

The word “Ravenclaw” is now written on a blackboard above my desk (pictured). Did a little painting on watercolour paper. :)

*Click on the images for better photo quality

IG: therobotstudies

[thexfiles]

i’m mentally ill too but fucking listen to me here. you need to take responsibility for your actions regardless of whether or not they’re a product of your mental illness. you don’t get to manipulate, gaslight, take advantage of, or straight up abuse people because you’re mentally ill! you don’t! what the fuck! why are some of you still thinking it’s okay to say things like “manipulation is okay because i have _____ and need attention from my significant other” oh my god. Don’t fucking do that

[fall-out-book-nerd]

The stress of wanting to finish a book to find out what happens but also never wanting it to end because you love it

[quilavastudy]

I get really confused when americans, when talking about universal health care are like ‘yeh but it’s not free sweaty :) :) you have to pay it through taxes :) so gotcha!!’

and I’m like ….???? That’s the whole point??? Everyone pays their fair share so that no one has to be turned away because they don’t have insurance??? And no one has to set up a Fundraiser page just so that they DONT DIE???? So people don’t put off going to the doctor because they’re scared of going bankrupt?? Because healthcare is a RIGHT and should be free at the point of access?!?

[peccatopotpourri]

“So no one has to be turned away” she says hahaha go to a universal health care country and get a necessary operation in less than a few years and come back and talk shit.

Look at the cure rates compared to mortality rates in universal health care countries and compare them to ours, then talk shit.

Tear your ACL in a universal health care country and see what the people say if you should go to their hospitals or go to an American hospital, then talk shit.

[fluffmugger]

2010. I’d been feeling a bit ill. Work was going nuts, so I figured it was stress.  Pretty good call considering a week later work fired their entire IT department (of which I was part).    

But then I got sicker.  And it turned out I had cancer.

Burkitt’s lymphoma, stage 4a. It had spread into my brain and spinal column. 90% cure rate, but I needed nine months of chemo - and not the outpatient chemo, nope, talking multiple week stays per round of the magrath protocol.  Drugs were about 10k an IV bag.  I was unemployed.  And there were complications.

Thankfully I live in a country with universal healthcare.   And it didn’t cost me a goddamn cent to save my life.  I’m now officially past the five year mark to move me from “remission” to “Cured”.

I’ve lived in a universal healthcare country my entire life. And I’ve seen the US system in action.  Your system is fucked. Straight up fucked. You’ve got fucking Dickensian shit going on there, people dying on streets from preventable causes or ending up broke for breaking a hip.   Your health insurance companies have you by the balls and people like you are begging them to squeeze harder.  What the actual fuck is wrong with you? 

“But but but TAXESSSSSSSSS”

yeah no shit. That story above? Happened when I was 32.  I’d spent 14 years of my life paying those fucking taxes that funded the system that saved my life.    And guess what?   Now I’m cured, I’m…Back..at work..And have been for several years…earning waaaay more money and paying back into the system. This shit doesn’t exist in a vacuum, dickhead.  You’re not feeding some imaginary pack of leeches, you’re paying forward on your own damned healthcare so you don’t have to argue with an insurance company while trying to heal. 

[yyyyddmmsupremacy-deactivated20]

i also don’t get why americans can’t wrap their heads around the fact that universal healthcare is actually cheaper

like yeah your taxes might go up (hell, take a chunk out of the military budget, they might not even change) but you won’t have to pay ridiculous health insurance premiums. it’s a net saving, dumbasses. 

[casanova-lives]

Also I care about people that aren’t me

[birdsnestbegone]

Also I care about people that aren’t me

[concernedhobbit]

It’s not just cheaper in the sense that paying taxes is cheaper than paying a big insurance premium. It’s literally cheaper, from the base cost.

In Canada the government pays for healthcare and has enough bargaining power to keep prices reasonable. If the hospital tries to charge $500 for a bag of saline the government can just be like “lol no that’s ridiculous.”.

In America you get $500 saline on your bill and as an individual consumer with no real power you can’t say “lol no that’s ridiculous”.

[beholdingslut]

do you ever get overwhelmed by the amount of history in the world that you don’t know

[soft-peach-studies-deactivated2]

2/100 (19.6.18)

I didn’t get as far into War Storm as I originally hoped but I still continued on! It’s a 600+ novel anyways, I’ve got this.

I decided to journal again, hopefully this eases my anxieities lately.

As for stuyding, I mainly focused on the Respiroatory System. I need to lock down on a whole lot of subjects today to catch up since an unexpected trip this week has popped up. Wish me luck?

[the-notegarden]

“Fear is your enemy and also your best friend."🍃

[take-up-and-read]

11.05.2017 // Ethics Final Paper (30 pages) ✔️Biology Final Exam ✔️ Thomas Aquinas Final Paper (55 pages) ✔️Only have one final paper left (due next week), and I’ve finished the draft (abt. 75-80 pages) so all I have to do it corrections. Worked on my fellowship applications today and had a good meeting with my fellowships advisor! I actually had time to update my journals and notes! Maybe I’ll take a little break today and reward myself for being almost done 😊