#solar-citrus

[tydoesthings-blog1]

ARTIST SOLAR-CITRUS wants to battle!

[fuckstudy]

Alright here’s the deal. I’m in grade 10 and I need to get a 90 average I don’t know how to study, I’ve always just winged it and done great. But it’s starting to pile on and it’s affecting my grades. I have no motivation, but I know I want to be a doctor it’s just what I’ve always wanted to do. But I don’t know how. All of my friends get 90s and I’m here not knowing what to do. I’m afraid everyone else is moving ahead while I’m stuck. Help please

Ok so, 

You’ve hit the barrier that we all, at one point or another reach - where we need to supplement our natural talent with discipline and work. 

And that’s ok! That’s normal! This is not a crisis. This is real life! 

The best advice I can give you is to study smart. That means targeting your time/ effort to the things you are going to be examined on. This starts with looking over your course syllabus (or what topics you’ve covered in class), and becoming familiar with the structure of your exams. 

and then leaving the rest to one side. 

So what does studying smart mean?

Here’s some other resources that might help: 

Studying smart, not hard (specifically for semester finals)

Study smart - aka affordable losses

How I stay motivated  

General high school tips 

What to do after getting a shit grade 

Time Management 

If you’re feeling overwhelmed, that may also be a time management issue. Now, we’ve all got the same number of hours in a day - it’s how we choose to spend them that makes the difference. 

Some resources on time management 

This comic by @solar-citrus

Managing Time and Tasks (originally by meredithdraper, via working link @elkstudies) 

This amazing post on Time and Task Management by @pensandmachine

@theorganisedstudent FAQ

Finding your best time of the day by @eatwellstudyhard 

this list by @joolshallie

this masterpost by @study-well

On being a doctor 

It’s great that you know that you want to be a doctor. I think a good way to motivate yourself is to ask why you want to be a doctor. Not only for short-term motivation, but for long term motivation. 

This is important because the road to being a doctor (and a lot of ‘traditional’ professions) is much longer than just ‘completing high school and completing med school’. A lot of students don’t realise that it takes, in some instances, decades of hard work. 

Not to mention the financial, emotional and mental sacrifices that you will need to make. 

A good way to make an informed decision about your career choices is to ask people who are already in the field and people who are studying medicine. To that end I’d recommend: 

@studydiaryofamedstudent 

@dxmedicalstudent (FAVOURITE. seriously.) 

@verymedical 

@medicalstate (no longer active, but his posts were always a deep dive into practice, amongst other things) 

On feeling left behind

Here’s the thing.

You’re not. 

You are not falling behind. 

I understand why it feels that way. High school is a pressure cooker. For your entire academic life to date, you’ve been working in this competitive environment. Where success feels like a zero sum game. 

It’s not. 

You have your own route to success. The battles you win, the results you receive, the progress you achieve - the value of these things are not diminished just because “your friends are doing better.”

Its natural to judge your performance against everyone else. What they got for an exam, how much they wrote, what answers they got, how they solved a problem. Don’t give too much weight to what people say they’ve done. In the end you can only control your own performance.

You don’t need +90 to ‘move ahead in life’. 

Just because someone does it first, whether it be graduating high school, graduating uni, getting a job first, getting their first kiss, going on a first date - all these ‘coming of age markers’ - doesn’t mean that you won’t get to achieve them yourself. 

But if you feel like you’re falling behind, and you use that feeling to stop yourself from working, then you will be holding yourself back from success. 

So, stop focussing on the ‘race’. Instead, look to where you’re running to. And where you final destination is.  

Highly recommend reading these wise words from @niuniente. 

And if you’re feeling stuck? Reach out for help. 

All the best anon. 

[mapoptart]

Some stuff that I got from animexpo. Thank you @mizuazura for finding and getting @kyleehenke to sign the certificate of adoption. I couldn’t find the meme queen herself, but I was so happy to hear that at she thought my name was cool :3 the yoshi print from @solar-citrus is so cute and got it signed even though I was awkward and shy to ask ;;; I finally found a Luka nendoroid before we had to leave and now I can live my life as a cow

[puzzle-piece-angel]

Well, I am very nervous about posting this but I’m doing it anyways! I posted this on my twitter (It’s Puzzle_P_Angel if you’re wondering) and I could not say all the things I want to say in that one small tweet. And most likely they’ll read it here. 

So here goes nothing.

@solar-citrus @wafflesex @kyleehenke

I have looked to you guys for a very long time now. You guys are my art inspirations and I hope to meet all you guys again soon and maybe one I’ll be at artist alley not as a buyer but as a fellow tabling artist in the near future.

Thank you for reading and I hope to see everyone in the next post.

[arthur9078sartblog]

I hope you don’t mind @solar-citrus but I recently got a new drawing tablet for the 1st time (and 1st time using it), and I used these 2 sketches of yours to try and make an effort on drawing with the tablet. Hit some rough patches a few times while doing this, but I think it turned out great in the end.

I hope you like these and thanks for being one of my inspirations on making digital art, never stop being a positive influence to everyone!

[xslendernoia]

Selfies with friends!

Mercy / Emily - @puddlejmping
 Naraku - @sleep-boogeyman Colleen - @solar-citrus 
 Stein - IG: babyannfever
 Camilla - @minesweepertier

[wafflesex]

Thanks for kicking our asses Expo. Smell you next year.

[curvishsundown-art]

There’s an art meme going around on twitter, #drawthisinyourstyle, so I wanted to take a crack at it with @solar-citrus‘s prompt, ft. her OC.

First two images are mine, the last one is hers!