2 Languages in 3 Years

the study sideblog of jasmineandgorse

[wrathofthegiraffe]

Tbh, if I were immortal, rather than learn more things, I’d probably just increase my procrastination levels.

Someone: oh you’re learning Spanish?

Me: yeah, I’m nowhere near conversational though. I just know a few basic words…

Someone: oh, when did you start taking classes?

Me: 1846

[huariqueje]

Cherry blossoms in the moonlight at Castle Matsuyama - Hasui Kawase,1953

Japanese, 1883-1957   

[twerkingkittxns-deactivated2019]

This is the “holy shit” Mary Berry face. It only appears once in every 1,382,000 Mary Berry faces. Reblog for good luck.

[studyorcrytrying]

2016年　8月14日　6/100日で日本語の勉強する

Doing some more studying tonight! I’ve been neglecting reading and writing for the past few days, so I decided to re-write and read this article for the day. Good news: I only didn’t understand 16 words! I was able to read most of the article aside from these words though :)

Also posted on my instagram

[studyhoneybee]

me: *displays affection by giving you links to posts i think are relevant to your interests*

[katleyh]

San Diego Comic-Con Schedule!

I won’t be tabling at the con but I’ll be signing at the Boom! Booth #2229 with other Lumberjanes folks all 4 days!

Thursday: 1:00 - 1:50

Friday: 1:00 - 1:50

Saturday: 2:00 - 2:50

Sunday: 12:00 - 12:50

I’ll also be on the panel, Camping Out with Lumberjanes, on Sunday from 10:00 - 11:00am, Room 25ABC.

Come out and see me :)

Here’s my twitter for any changes @kaymlay

[studyhoneybee]

Hey, any followers going to SDCC, stop by and see Kat and the lumberjanes peeps. They're p great.

[studyhoneybee]

Studying, working, listening to Beyonce play Croke Park because I am 1 street away. Honestly I feel like she'd be proud of me

[procrastinaiting]

My weekly spread, WIP

[studiesbeforebuddies]

7.4.16 // visited Muji in NYC today…. I can die happy now tnx

[studyhoneybee]

Had a pre-birthday Ikea trip today and got my study space all set up. I'm so happy with this set up and very excited to get back to work!

[boygirlz]

why I'm actually a bee:

🐝likes honey 🐝fuzzy legs 🐝bumps into things 🐝flowers!! 🐝bright colors! 🐝wants to help 🐝tries my best everyday

[kat2903]

The Best Air-Purifying Houseplants According To NASA

Reuploading this since it tured out Tumblr doesn’t like long pictures.

[vronsk-aya]

The only way to start speaking a language is to start speaking it badly

[madamebadger]

A story that may have relevance for others, or then again, maybe not:

When I was in college, about ten or so years ago, I was a history major. I wanted to learn to dance, so I joined a swing dance club on campus. To my surprise, this club had about twice as many men as women (in high school, the last time I’d tried dancing, the ratio had gone the other way–lots of girls, and boys only that you could drag by their ears).

But apparently, there had been some kind of word spread specifically to the STEM guys that dance was a way that they could meet girls.

So anyway. I joined the swing dance club, and met a few guys. And at one point, when socializing with the guys outside of dance class, one of them asked me what my research was on. (I had already established that I was an honors history student doing a thesis, just as he had established that he was an honors… I’m not sure if he was CS or Math, but it was one of those.)

So I gave him the thumbnail sketch of my research. Now, to be clear, an honors senior thesis, while nothing like what a graduate student would do, was still fairly in-depth. I had to translate primary sources from the original late-Classical Latin. (My professor said, basically, that while there were plenty of translations of my source material, that I’d only be able to comfortably trust them if I had at least made a stab at a translation of my own. And he was right.) And there was so much secondary material, often contradictory, that I had been carefully sorting through.

But I was able to sift it into a three-sentence summary of my senior thesis work, you know, as one does.

So I gave him that summary, and then asked–since he was also an undergraduate senior doing an honors thesis–what his research was on.

“Oh,” he said, “you wouldn’t understand it.”

Reader, I went home in a frothing rage. Because I had thought we were playing one game–a game of ‘let’s talk about what we’re passionate about!’– and he had been playing another game, which was, one-upsmanship. I had done my best to give a basically understandable brief of my research–and he had used that against me. As if my research, my painstaking translation, my digging through archives and ILLs of esoteric works, my reading of ten thousand articles in Speculum (yes, the pre-eminent medievalist journal in North America is called Speculum, I’m sorry, it’s hilarious/sad but also true), and then my effort to sum it up for him, was nothing. Because his research into some kind of algorithm or other was just too complex for my tiny brain to conceive of. Because I just couldn’t possibly understand his work.

Now, the important note here is that the person I went home to was my senior year roommate. She was a graduate student–normally undergrads and graduate students couldn’t be roommates, but we’d been friends for years, and the tenured faculty-in-residence used his powers for good and permitted us to be roommates that year. Anyway. My senior year roommate was basically… in retrospect I think possibly an avatar of Athena. She was six feet tall, blonde, attractive in a muscular athletic way, a rock climber and racquetball player, sweet but sharp, extremely socially awkward, exceptionally kind even when it cost her to be kind, and an incredibly brilliant computer science major who spent most of her time working on extremely complicated mathematical algorithms. (Yes, I was a little in love with her, why do you ask? But she was as straight as a length of rope, and is now happily married, and so am I, so it worked out.)

(Still, yes, she is my mental image of Athena, to this day.)

Anyway, I came home in a frothing rage to my roommate, the Athena avatar. And I said, “He made me feel like such an idiot, that I could sum up my research to him but his research was just too smart for stupid little me.”

And she shut her book, and smiled at me, with her dark eyes and her high cheekbones and her bright hair, and said, “If he can’t explain his research to you, then he’s not nearly as smart as he thinks he is.”

Now I hesitated, because I’d be in college long enough to have sort of bought into the ridiculous idea that if you couldn’t dazzle them with your brilliance, you should baffle them with your bullshit. But she said, “Look, I’ve been doing work on computer science algorithms that have significantly complicated mathematical underpinnings. What do I do?”

And I said, “Genetic algorithms–that is, self-optimizing algorithms–for prioritization, specifically for scheduling.”

“Right,” she said. “You couldn’t code them because you’re not a computer scientist or a mathematician. But you can understand what I do. If someone can’t explain it like that, it isn’t a problem with you as a person. It’s a problem with them. They either don’t understand it as well as they think they do–or they want to make you feel inferior. And neither is a positive thing.”

So. There.

If you are looking into something and have a question, and someone treats you like an idiot for not understanding right away… here is what I have to say: maybe it isn’t you who is the idiot.

[coffeeforcollege]

ATTN: ALL COLLEGE STUDENTS EVERYWHERE PLS READ

[aspiringdoctors-blog]

HEED ATHENA AVATAR’S WORDS BBCAKES EVERYWHERE.

[reynardreblogs]

As an academic working in academia: this this this. Never buy into the elitist bullcrap of ‘oh, you wouldn’t understand.’ And never perpetuate that crap yourself, either out of pretension or even simple laziness. If you can’t explain it to a ten-year-old, go back and hit the books again cause you’re not there yet.

[studyhoneybee]

Starting my summer reading

[studywithmariana]

I’ve started a bullet journal! Here’s a sneak peek 📕 Also if you want to learn about my top studying tips, click here

[67study]

Hey! My idea for this post was basically a general masterpost that’s going to cover a lot of different topics related to studying/studyblrs.

This is my first masterpost, so if it’s a little confusing, sorry! I wanted to put more in, but then it was like crazy long already? 

Studying

studying tips (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

study tips masterpost

101 study tips

study methods

seven day study plan

five day study plan

basics of efficient studying

pomodoro method

study space guide

things NOT to do when studying

how to make a study schedule

13 study methods to try

how to study for math (when you hate math)

how to make study guides

voice recording

how to study like a straight a student

how to review in less time

study methods for each learning type (visual, auditory, kinesthetic)

a complete guide to studying (well)

Apps/Websites

blocking apps and extensions

apps for a better life

apps for language learners

best apps for students

CrashCourse (Youtube)

Duolingo

free online academic courses masterpost

productivity resource list

internet resources for your education

useful programs

calming websites

another masterpost of apps

web apps

note-taking apps and websites

tools for referencing

apps to help you survive school

helpful websites

Notes

effective reading and note-taking

visual note-taking

fundamentals of visual note-taking

how to take lecture notes

note-taking methods

note-taking tips

guide to aesthetically pleasing notes

note-taking system (theorganisedstudent)

note-taking system (emmastudies)

cornell note-taking system

note-taking masterpost

cause and effect diagrams

how to take notes from a textbook

useful symbols and abbreviations

how to mind map

guide to pretty notes

note-taking masterpost (i know, another one)

color-coding notes 101

Printables

theorganisedstudent

thearialligraphyproject

note-taking printables

passion planner

exam study pack

planner of a successful senior-year undergraduate

five useful printables

College (and beyond)

scholarships

scholarships 101

cliches to avoid for essays

save money on textbooks (plus other random stuffs)

where to save up to $1600.00 in college supplies

idk what to do with my life

a sister’s guide on how to college

becoming an adult cheat sheet

free textbooks

alternatives to overpriced textbooks

openstax: free college textbooks

more college textbook pdfs

things i wish someone had told me when i was entering university

tips for living alone

adulting life hacks

10 angry college tips for incoming freshmen

tips for college freshmen

how to write emails to your professors

college tips and resources masterpost

Whew! It’s done. I might come back and update this occasionally, or maybe do a part two for the stuff I didn’t put in here. But wow… If only I spent this much time on my actual work?

I hope that was at least a little bit useful for you! If you have any suggestions, comments, questions, please feel free to send me an ask. 

Have a good day!!