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30 August 2023

Yesterday's pictures. Had a long day in school full of activities, food and the lovely company of my friends. <3

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9 November 2022

Cramming session, hope information stays inside my brain and not diffuse back into the surrounding again

[himmelstudies]

28 August 2023

Today is dedicated to my final year project. I had a meeting in morning with my research group and it was pretty interesting. This FYP made me live in the lab whenever I am not in class. Pretty happy to be in the lab again! ❤️

[himmelstudies]

15 August 2023

I'm back. Today marks the first day of my last academic year as an undergraduate student. I had a 3 hour long lecture in the morning which didn't really end well. I have been sick for the past 1 week and don't do well in cold spots as it aggravates my cough. So the 3 hour lecture felt more like torture to me. But hey, warm water helps a lot and it made me feel better.

I had my first lab session for my final year project today as well. It was really fun. I am looking forward to tomorrow as I have yet another lab session to check on my cell cultures. Hoping that the cells grow well!

[himmelstudies]

5 October 2023

Coffee and study session in the library ☕️

[himmelstudies]

Hi! I'm also learning German and I just wanted to ask you - how do you stay motivated to study it? :) It's sometimes so hard to stay focused with all of their grammar and vocabulary. Plus, there are very little TV shows or series that seem interesting enough to watch for language practice. So, do you have any tips?🤗

Hi! Glad to find someone learning german too! 💙❤️ I understand that feeling of not having motivation to study it, I also had that phase when I just couldn't get myself to study the module. I just find stuff that I am interested in or make some small goals to work towards.

For instance, I found a science paper in german when I was doing my internship and made it a goal to be able to understand about 50% of the sentences in this specific paper. As I am also aiming to further study in germany, I also had a small goal to at least get a level A2 certification by the end of my unversity journey. I try to put small goals to work towards along the way, that are relevant and of interest to me to keep me motivated so to speak!

Not only that, I got hooked onto listening to german nursery rhymes, music or podcasts! I have some of those that I regularly listen to linked here. (I absolutely love backe backe kuchen hahaha) However, I am still finding other ways to keep myself interested in the language and am also slowly learning how else I can better learn this language. I am not too sure if this is useful for you but having a goal, even a small one, would do well in motivating you to study a bit more on it.

[himmelstudies]

Photo dump of late August early September

Been busy lately with lab experiments and project work. But things will be fine after the first term ends. Just got to last another 3 weeks. 🙂🥲🙃

My research work has been going fine so far! Although it seems like I am allocating more tjme to it that I should as I still have 5 other modules to worry about. Well, it is time to juggle between it all! :)

Hoping things go well for everyone here! 💙❤️

[himmelstudies]

16 August 2023 & 17 August 2023

I had sushi yesterday with my partner and got my favourite mentaiko sauce on the cooked items. 🍙 (My stomach cannot handle raw food sadly so no sashimi :c) Afterwhich, I went to listen to a research seminar and attended my lab session to check on my cells. There are growing pretty well I would say! 😄

My supervisor was really nice and has taught me a lot on how to handle the cells properly. I had to write up a manual for all the stuff he taught me for record purposes as well. But I do find it rather necessary as we are mainly conversing in our mother tongue, which I don't normally use when I am talking to anyone in the lab. So I am pretty glad there was this system in place to ensure I am understanding the information correctly! I didn't really do much after my lab ended when I got home as I am extremely exhausted and was supposed to have an early morning the next day but...

I slept past my alarm. By an hour. I had to rush to wash up and do my hair in 30 minutes without eating any food, except lozenges for my throat/cough. I managed to make it to my lecture hall kinda in time... I was late by 5 minutes but the professor was still doing the course introduction. So thank goodness for that. 🫣 Honestly glad to not be missing this class as I loved this module to bits. Second image was taken in my lecture hall. Since I was late, I felt bad to sit at the back, so I sat near the front of the professor. 🫥

After my lecture, I met with my partner again for lunch and headed to my school area for a short session to write up my lab manual and some key observations for my project so future me won't be dumb enough to do the steps incorrectly and risk re-culturing all the cells again. I will be heading to the lab again tomorrow after my lectures to do more lab training. 🦠 I am honestly kinda surprised that mammalian cells are quite easy to work with. (for now. This is my current impression. I feel like I might take these words back some time in future.) Hoping for tomorrow's session to be smoothsailing! ❤️💙

P.S. my old laptop died so I got a new laptop! Praying it will survive long! My old laptop lasted me 5 years before it died of multi-organ failure (AKA wifi card died, USB port all failed, keyboard malfunctioning, hinge for screen wobbly, trackpad having issues registering, audio port failure, and more... yep, I call it multi-organ failure 🥲)