Studying, Books, Tea, and other little delights!

23 year old Dutchie doing Research Master degree in Literary Studies, specialising in Irish Studies! All questions are welcome!

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[95-studies]

02022019. trying to study two plays at once. the verdict: don’t try it!

[intellectys]

20.5.19 // really loving how the sun isn’t setting at 4pm anymore!

[taken from my instagram @intellectys]

[petrichor-moonlight]

first chem exam done so time to focus on english :)

[literastudy-deactivated20241017]

95/100 days of productivity — 22.05.19

Getting some reading done for my thesis today! I also did some Bible reading this morning and started refreshing my Latin. Hopefully I manage to make a decent amount of progress before the end of the summer.

[mothbiteclub]

Imagine looking this good // Instagram

[floralls]

Normandy, France by  Rick Ligthelm

[gloomstudy]

may 21, 2019 - graduation

i did it! i finally graduated from uc berkeley this past sunday!! thank you to all my family, friends, teachers, and professors for supporting me these past 4 years, and thank you to all of you guys for supporting me for the past 2 years as well! it was a tough but very rewarding experience, and i know that this is only the beginning of a long and hard journey ahead of me. i’ve learned and grown a lot, not only as a musician, but also as a person. i’m proud to be part of the department of music, class of 2019, and i’m excited to move forward to the next chapter of my life!

GO BEARS!! 💙💛🐻💛💙

studygram: gloomium

currently listening to: “turn it up” - twice

[studying-and-britain]

Congratulations! Reblogging so people can get motivated for their end goal! 

[schoolcollege]

Little study sesh at the lib📝

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[studies-n-tea]

16 /1OO days of productivity

Spent a whole week at Uni. 🌎🕓🗒️

[studying-and-britain]

Today’s desk set-up. I am in my faculty’s study room revising an essay! 

[post--grad]

hi!!!!! can u give tips on how to excel in grad school???? it’s actually my second yr alrdy in grad school but i still find myself unable to believe that i actually got into grad school + the feels of not being good enough always come into mind :(((( thank u :<

i think that “excelling” looks different for everyone! because we all want different things out of grad school, and all struggle with different parts of it. but i’ve been thinking about my own grad school experience, now that it’s winding its way to its end, so i can say that for me at least, two things have made a really big difference:

do your own work. partially i mean this: worry about your own damn self, not about what other people are doing. getting anxious over other peoples’ successes and achievements does nothing for your own. but i also, mostly, mean it like this: the first paper i ever wrote in grad school came back absolutely drenched in red ink. i don’t think i’d ever had a paper ripped apart like that, and i’d been in school for 16 years by that point. the professor’s feedback was brutal and 100% correct. convinced i was an idiot, instead of trying to forward my own argument, i read a dozen books and found ways of patchworking other–smarter–scholars’ arguments together into a whole. i saw myself as putting existing works into conversation with each other to say something new; the professor, rightly, saw it as building a neat little shield in front of myself so that i didn’t have to actually engage in that conversation. it took me another quarter to figure out how to stop doing that, and it’s something that i’ve gotten a lot better about since. trust yourself, your instincts, and your work. foreground them. you’ll be in conversation with others, yes, but your job is to say something for yourself, not act as a mouthpiece for others.

be self directed. this one is a bit more straightforward, and thanks to my deep-seated authority issues, it’s one that i was pretty good with right off the bat. don’t wait for your advisor(s) to sign off on things before you do them. obviously there are SOME things you want to wait for (feedback! help with a tricky part of an argument! etc.). and i don’t mean you shouldn’t ask for help and guidance! you should get as much as you can. but things like applying to conferences? reaching out to other scholars? signing up for a class? just do it. my philosophy for the last few years has been to keep my committee informed, but not to ask for permission for things. this means you learn to be independent, and the people you work with understand that you’re a peer, not an undergrad who still needs a permission slip signed. that’s influenced how i think about myself as a researcher–i think it’s helped me learn to follow my instincts and to be more proactive and assertive in deciding what things are important to me, and what kind of scholar i want to be.

[studying-and-britain]

Such good answers. Also: don’t compare yourself to others anyway (adding to the first point) because at grad level everyone is specialised in something else. My friend, doing the same degree, can explain a lot to me about semiotics that I have now clue about whereas she doesn’t know how to analysis a fictional work in its historical context properly at grad level. Still, we are both doing a Research degree in Literary Studies and I would say our levels of work are very similar in terms of grades etc. So just focus on your own work as post-grad says and don’t worry too much about others. 

[finnlongman]

Other reasons to get out and vote today: even if there aren’t any dogs (or goats) at your polling station, you might make a chonky friend on the way there…

[gotta-get-that-pma]

Goats? *stuffing clothes into a suitcase* Please tell me in which corner of the world there are goats at polling stations.

[finnlongman]

Dorset, apparently: https://twitter.com/ChrisBiproxy/status/1131454036803239936?s=19

and it’s MAGNIFICENT

[studying-and-britain]

So, I decided to come back for today! I am not sure whether I will stay, but just wanted to share last week’s desk set-up and my hard-work. I am still doing a Research MA, writing essays around 8000 words, being part of a Council, enjoying myself generally, while struggling with my mental health and undergoing intense treatment. 

I hope all my followers are doing well! How are you? What stage of your degree are you in now?

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[ashleymcdonald]

Going over some tetrapod notes before my biology lab tomorrow. Of course I also have a nice brew of fruit tea!