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[ashs-nerd-den]

Habitica

An ADHD saviour

You gain points for finishing tasks and building habits.

You can get eggs and potions to hatch pets and earn food to grow your pets.

DOPAMINE!!!

You can enter challenges to get gems to join special challenges

You can join parties to work together on quests and have group accountability

You can log achievements and convince yourself to do the things you need to do (this is also great for spoonies, without it I would just never get out of bed with exhaustion)

[septemberstudies]

10/7/25 - It’s 80 in October but I will be cozy even if I have to force it. A new candle (which will be a lovely jewelry dish once it’s burned through), Focus Friend, some critter sketches from a few weeks ago that I want to work on a bit more, and my neuroscience notes (ignore my mediocre handwriting) are keeping me company as I hunker down in the AC. I’m pushing my way through grad school applications and my IRB proposal for my thesis research, and prepping for both my neuro midterm and my retake of the GRE. Focus Friend has actually been helping me a lot, even though I haven’t really clicked with other similar apps (like Flora) before — I think the room decorations are just really vibing with me lol. I’m getting over a pretty rough flare (thank you high temperatures), but I think I’m through the worst of it and am starting to feel productive again!

🎧 Behind the Bastards: How The FBI Botched the 2001 Anthrax Scare

📖 Howl’s Moving Castle by Dianna Wynne Jones (I needed a cozy easy read lol, next on my list are The Long Walk by Stephen King and The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante)

[ohthehumanities]

25 August 2023

📚 Currently reading: What Doesn’t Kill Us Makes Us: Who We Become After Tragedy and Trauma by Mike Mariani

🎵 Currently listening: Belle and Sebastian, "When We Were Very Young"

I just found out that my family is going to the beach next weekend for my birthday. I'm so excited to go! There are a lot of fun things to do down at the beach where we stay. There's a library very close to the beach house where we're staying; I want to see if I can sign up for a card.

To-Do

Duolingo: Spanish -> Unit 230 -> Part 4

Duolingo: Hebrew -> Unit 7 -> Part 6

Physical therapy

Finish June planner layout

Read chapter 5 of What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us

[estudierprouvaire]

september 4, 2021 // 7:59 pm

day 21/25 of productivity

i spent this morning going to the local farmers market and the pagan market nearby, then spent a few hours at my fave cafe and then my apartment setting up my notion! im not sure what i think of it so far but it seems like i will end up liking it 🥰 i found a really good symptom tracker template and i hope i will be able to stick with it because oh boy do i need to get better at tracking my symptoms

the afternoon was helping a friend move and then a dishwasher shift at work. definitely still exhausted but i have some days off at least physically for celebrating the high holidays which i think will help. im also resolving some emotional shit tomorrow, and combined with the physical rest and the spiritual cleansing, i think this is going to be a really good new year 🍎🍯

{image description: three photos. the first is of a pastry case with bagels, croissants, scones, etc. the second is of a garden with a small wooden sign with a handwritten note reading "edible wild straw berries help yourself!" the third is of an almond croissant with an iced chai latte and a laptop.}

[skylar--studies]

Day 11/100 of productivity · 9/11/21

I took most of today to rest, my body insisted upon it. I am in an acute flare-up of my chronic illnesses, and I tried to do some errands earlier and it resulted in a lot of pain and suffering. I did get a homework assignment and lab report finished, but after that I decided it was just time to rest, so I can go into tomorrow and next week feeling better.

[tealeaves-and-booksleeves]

| 21.01.2020 | the first day of my last semester of undergrad uni has come and gone. it doesn’t feel all that different, but with two individual instructions and my senior writing project underway, getting all my professors to finalize meeting times and sorting the last bit of my graduate application was more than enough stress for the day. getting to campus in the early hours of the day is always a beautiful thing. |

[poptartstudies]

I Need Your Help Making a Decision

I'm trying to decide if I should take math for machine learning & artificial intelligence (5 credit hours*) (referring to as 2215 here out). 

I was looking at that syllabus against the calc syllabi and there isn't much overlap in the curricula, and that kind of math would theoretically help me out with my future goals (computational astrophysics being a coding heavy field).

However, I don't know if it would be too much to take? 

I'll be taking calculus 1 and chemistry 1, both 5 credit hours*. I've taken some of calc and some of chem. I had to drop calc because I was unmedicated and chem because COVID hit. So, I'll—theoretically—have a little bit of an advantage when the semester starts. 

I really miss being a busy, productive student. This semester I had to drop down to just one 3 CH class, Python coding, because I’ve been unmedicated (due to insurance reasons). But next semester I’ll be back on a regular medicine regimen, so I don’t anticipate too many problems. I did struggle a little in chem when I originally took it (more with lab than lecture, ya girl is not good with her hands like that), but my brother’s long-time girlfriend is a science teacher and I can reach out to her for help. I’m also not afraid to reach out to teachers and student services for help. 

However, all of my classes are online. Calculus doesn’t have any virtual lectures that I’d have to attend, but chem (and chem lab) does and 2215 would.

I’m also currently at a community college to save up some money before transferring to Ohio State (which is not a cheap school). And if I’m going to take classes outside of my degree program (which is currently liberal sciences, and will then be physics after next semester, and then astrophysics when I transfer, because no one has a computational astrophysics program) then I’d rather do it while it’s cheap. I dunno, but I’m thinking 2215 would also look good on applications?

So, yeah, if anyone has any advice?

*For non-US, 12 total credit hours is the minimum to be considered a full-time student, 6 credit hours is the minimum for part-time.

**Note: I have reached out to friends, my mother, and my boyfriend, and I’m waiting on a response from the teacher who teaches the class.

[panicked--studyblr]

Welp, I made it through Fall semester 2020. My grades sucked (and definitely shouldn’t have passed one class but teacher pitied me) but I DID IT. Between my physical health, mental health, work, school, COVID, and everything else that happened this semester, I am absolutely floored that I made it through okay. This means that if everything goes smoothly in the spring, I will be graduating next semester and I’ll finally be able to hold that stupid expensive piece of paper in my hand!!! I made this blog as a means to cope with academic bullshit I ran into and most all of it I was complaining, but I am truly proud of myself for pulling this off. Hopefully there will be more positive posts from me to come!