#astudyb

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My first infographic, focused on my highlighting system, which I’ve learned makes some turn their head in “What is that, what are you doing” so I thought I’d share in case it could help someone else! I’m not at all sure I was able to properly explain how it works (mostly because it came very naturally to me), but in case you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask me!

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10.29.2017 ((7/100)) Days of Productivity

One week! I feel so proud of myself, and I can already hear my grandma’s voice “You want a prize for doing your job?” Thank you grandma, for your neverding support.

Anyway! Today I got most of my writing done for the current chapter which will be concluded tomorrow, worked on a few more translations, busied myself with housechores since I couldn’t go grocery shopping because of the insistent wind (bad for my asthma, we don’t go out when it’s windy), and yes, you’re seeing it right there in the picture, I found an app on my iPad that let me highlight on PDFs! Hilariously, after a couple of tries with apps that wouldn’t just start, I ended up finding out that the PDF reader I had already been using for years also did highlighting and notes. Typical me. Still proud of myself.

I also posted the infographic I had mentioned about my highlighting system, and you can find it HERE if you still haven’t checked it out!

Featuring the portion of the table that is constantly overwhelmed with books and stuff to be done, @emmastudies’ October background calendar (I’m just realising that there are just 2 days before the end of the month and I need to get/make myself a November one), and a cup of tea about to be done.

P.S. In another ‘typical me’ moment, I’m thinking about changing theme because the one I currently have is still not completely convincing me. Any suggestions on good theme creators?

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10.30.2017 ((8/100)) Days of Productivity

Late on schedule because my internet decided to go on a short vacation, but I managed, in the end. Today was either lazier than usual, or I’m starting to gain speed and therefore I find myself with more time. It’s possibly none of the two, but the fact that I didn’t have to save the house from itself today, so I had more time to concentrate on studying. Right on time I finised taking notes on this chapter and tomorrow I’ll start the next one! Only 6 chapters to the end of this 900 pages monster. Incredible. Featuring the spread of the last 4 days of the week that has just ended (and my Hannibal sticker from the Radiance fananthology <3). I’m trying (big word here, trying) to get my hand used to drawing again. I love using a pen for this because it takes away my obsession with doing everything right, so I can simply follow the lines and see where they take me, with some healthy dose of improvisation when stuff irremediably doesn’t go as planned. I’ll keep you posted on my struggles. Have a nice beginning of the week, everyone!

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10.27.2017 ((5/100)) Days of Productivity

Slightly late on schedule, things were done and chapters were summarized and apartment was cleaned and hair was cut, and exhaustion was had. It’s a good exhaustion though, the kind that I can’t complain about because it was needed and well deserved after jumping left and right all day.

I finally managed to finish the chapter on sex and the brain, I can’t wait to read the next one tomorrow! I wanted to go to the library today to take some photos there, but allergy has been killing me since I started cleaning around, and I thought filling the silence of the libraries with my sneezes wasn’t the best idea. Good job, Etra.

I’m also planning on moving psychiatry lessons on my iPad since they’re on PDF, so I can read a bit when I go to bed. It’s a slightly old model (iPad 2 - make it actually ancient), does anyone know some cool apps I can use to highlight and write notes on the lessons?

P.S. Featuring half a week spread of my journal, with some obnoxious stickers which I love very very much (they’re so bright in colors they look photoshopped, I’m amazed lol), and the last notes on the today’s chapter.

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10.31.2017 ((9/100)) Days of Productivity

First of all: happy Halloween to everyone!!! I don’t know if it’s clear enough by now, but I constantly update at 1 or 2am of the day after, so I find myself wishing you a good 31st when here it’s already November. Oh well, one reason more to show off @emmastudies’ new wallpaper <3 thank you so much for doing them, I love mine, I keep staring at it instead of working.

Big day with relatively little study done, as I cleaned the entire house and it might be already clear from the picture but the table is now against the wall, so laptop and screen switched places. I still have to get used to it, but at least I don’t have the big windows blinding me the entire time. It’s a step forward. Today’s chapter of neuroscience was all about sleep and brain rhythms, and I mean, nothing better to remind myself of my awful sleeping habits. Also featuring the new doodle covering this week’s spread. I don’t dislike the idea of finding something to draw that covers both pages every time, but I also was having fun with my gel pen. Mh, this is hard. Still, I’m incredibly happy I’ve been doodling again, it’s like reconnecting to a part of myself I was regretfully leaving behind.

But now it’s time to go to bed and read the next lesson of psychiatry. I hope everyone has fun, and I’ll see you tomorrow with the start of @getshitdonetbh‘s november challenge! (shoutout to @justjasminestudying for organizing a challenge as well, I’m not sure I’ll be able to follow both, but y’all should check them out and fill this november with awesomeness <3)

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11.01.2017 ((10/100)) Days of Productivity

Tfw you have already talked about your day in the novemberstudychallenge post and now you don’t know what to say. Anyway. The sky was so beautiful when the moon started to rise tonight! Had to take a pic. Other photo taken together with the one in the studychallenge post, although this one shows that I was working my way through the second psychiatry lesson revolving around schizophrenia.

Psychobiology is incredibly interesting, and studying it together with neurology is making me understand better how drugs and their side-effects work. I used to be one of those that believed the system was faulty or half-assed because you couldn’t solve 1 issue without causing yourself other 4 or 5, but I totally get now that I was being ignorant. The more I learn about neurobiology, the more I understand what a labyrinth it is, and how difficult it is to target one single function of a certain X, without affecting all the other ones.

If it will give me nothing else, this session of study started this late summer will make me more understanding and consequently less anxious about drugs’ side effects (and for someone like me who has to take a lot, this is so important).

But enough serious talk, time to hit amazon and vent my shopping urge by filling my wishlist with things I’ll never buy. Wish you all a good night <3

P.S. For some reason @emmastudies‘ background has a warm cream color on my main screen (the bigger one), and a white one on the second. What sorcery is this.

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10.25.2017 ((3/100)) Days of Productivity

Today was incredibly busy, and had me spend most of my day outside the house. Paradoxically, I felt like I hadn’t fulfilled the productivity challenge because I hadn’t spent enough time studying, but then I mentally recalled the day and lost the argument against myself: I did a lot (including driving 230 km/142 miles), even if the majority of it wasn’t studying. So I’m ending the evening with a well deserved (but even more so needed) hot tea and a few pages of neuroscience, in a sad attempt at compensating what I couldn’t do today. In the picture also my new and thus still empty journal (at this point whenever I see something made with recycled paper I have an unstoppable urge to buy it) with a misaligned weekly spread that I hope is giving you all nightmares. It has a reason for me, and I’m planning on making a post about it in the near future. Also starring in the picture my copy of the hannigram fan anthology Radiance, which was an incredible thing to come home to.

Tomorrow another big day, and moral of the story is: be kind to yourself, but also be fair. When you don’t meet your standards and think you’re not doing or being enough, try to look at it from an unbiased point of view, and try to give yourself some credit.

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Day 3/100 days of productivity

Went to school early and I wasn’t feeling very social with the only other person present so I finished revising. (PS: Let’s pretend I can draw kay? 😅)

Featuring my fave book (next to Harry Potter of course) 🍃