mind over matter

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[stulinesy-deactivated20250711]

little study session

[thecollectibles]

Girl by Xi Zhang

[academc]

tokyo day one journal entry

[daisiestudies]

some spanish notes (edit: I know I messed up some spellings - thank you all for correcting me! I was rushing and plus I can’t spell in Spanish for shit) 📝

[withlovestudio]

[gloomstudy]

september 23, 2018 - variations

transposing and reading music for instruments that i don’t know how to play is currently the bane of my existence ;; on the bright side, i’ve learned that practicing conducting in front of a mirror is very helpful! gotta make sure that i’m not awkwardly waving my arms around, ahaha.

currently listening to: “beautiful feeling” - day6

[stillstudies]

hey, you. here’s something I’ve been wanting to tell you. I hope you don’t take it lightly. create the life you’re waiting for. now.

[okcupidescapades]

i feel like the most important piece of wisdom i can impart on teenagers is that no one–no one–knows what the fuck they’re doing

my brother is 26 years old, makes $200k a year, and just bought a house with his fiance. he’s the success story you hear about but never actually meet in person, but it all happened by accident. he wanted to go to college for clarinet performance, but he got rejected from all the top schools. so he decided to major in physics instead, and then went on to get a doctorate to put off being an adult for a few more years. but then he ended up dropping out halfway through the program and accepting a job with google as a software engineer. so to reiterate: my brother majored in something he was not interested in, and then he got a job that had nothing to do with his degree. 

he isn’t successful because he had some master plan he followed, he just stumbled around blindly until something worked out. and that’s what we’re all doing–i majored in political science and now i do customer service for a company that makes industrial-sized gas detection monitors. the marketing director at my company has a degree in biology, and my mom has an MBA and works at a middle school.  no one knows what they’re doing, we’re all just trying different things until something works out.

so if you don’t have a plan, that’s fine. most of us don’t. and even those of us who do, don’t usually end up doing the thing they thought they would. it’s okay to relax and let life carry you wherever it’s gonna carry you. because even though a lot of us don’t end up doing the thing we wanted, most of us end up happy anyway.

[okcupidescapades]

I’ve been thinking about this post since I made it a few hours ago, and I realized that I literally don’t know anyone who’s doing what they thought they’d be doing at this point in their life. I know a girl that has a degree in neuroscience and works in a restaurant (and makes quite a bit more money than I do, might I add), and a guy who wanted to be a parole officer but is now a security guard. I know people who wanted to be lawyers but ended up not having the grades for law school. I have a friend who’s 24 and just finished her bachelor’s, and two friends who decided to go to grad school because the idea of joining the adult world terrified them.

When I was seventeen, I was 100% sure that I was going to get a job as a bureaucrat and save the world. When I was a 21-year-old recent college grad, I found out that it’s impossible to get a government job unless you know someone. So I gave up and found something else. I know my teenage self would be disappointed if she could see where I’m at, but you know what? I don’t care. Because teenage me was an idiot. She didn’t know anything about the world or how it worked, and she couldn’t have possibly predicted the curveballs that life would throw at her. And because I don’t know a single person who’s doing the thing they wanted to do when they were teenagers.

I know a thousand people who aren’t where they thought they’d be, and zero people who are following the path they set out for themselves. All of us are confused and all of us are scared, and it’s okay if you are too.

[aphotov]

Honestly thank u, i needed to hear this again

[galina]

My research takes me to some weird places but it’s very interesting 😌

[adelinestudiess]

So I was supposed to post this yesterday but I forgot to plan it beforehand and get it posted at the right time 😅 and also, I have actually made a couple of masterposts beforehand but they got ate up by tumblr 😒

[wwaahh]

[kalevit-deactivated20230107-dea]

Monday morning scene. ☕️ Frasier and some reading. ✌🏻️

[emmastudies]

the coffee kind of looks like a little dinosaur heheh

[paper-chase]

79/100 Days

I’ve been cooking a lot so expect more recipes 🌿🍽 ft. some pretty photos I took with my SLR

[minijournals]

a new spread !! finally. hoping for a good july filled with new feelings + experiences 💥

[daisukerichard444]

#ダイスケリチャード #illustration

[therobotreads-deactivated202205]

Taylor Swift’s “Red” plays in my head everytime I make notes with a red colour scheme 🤣

Been watching Modern Family (more of, playing the show in the background) while studying. :)

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IG: therobotstudies

[iknowthis]

19.06. working late. hot caffeinated beverages, beethoven and the thought of all that I have yet to do keep me going. this week is killing me already and i can’t wait for the semester to be over in a month tbh