#study thoughts

[justluckyvicky]

battling demons again.. yes, it’s procrastination and instant gratification again :) wish me luck

[stembies]

i wish i could study on my own terms.

[deepestsharkshark]

Today, I have learned about Reactive Arthritis and the fact u can get temporary arthritis from an std basically

....use protection pls! Also wtf, are there people walking around with chronic inflammations because of shit like this with no idea just because they are genetically predisposed to suffering or something

[lamija-v]

Every time I see someone mention Jassa, I think of Jaffa cakes. No particular reason

[study-sleep-tea-repeat]

It is absolutely wild to me that I will be graduating this December.

I have put so many years, so much time, so much energy into school and then all of a sudden it will stop. No more classes, no more homework, just life and work and hobbies. I am definitely a lifelong learner, but I know I'll miss the structure that school has provided for me all these years. I will make the most of this last month in school, and make the most of my time afterward as well. I will never stop learning and growing, but how I do that is going to look different. Here's to moving forward in life.

[blvksesame]

120322; real talk- this week was not great for my study but it was AMAZING for me socially, being able to touch base with so many friends and have good experiences so even though I'm a bit behind in content, I'm going to take it as a win! Something that personally helps me with the study-life balance is not being too concerned about being perfectly on top of my studies, being patient and confident in my ability to catch up when I am in the right mindset to apply myself and focus (ig: @blvksesame)

[decaffedmoon]

[10 days of productivity] 24.1.2021

i've been trying to figure out this assignment for 2 days now. btw yes i am about to double post. oh and i havent printed pictures for my bujo spreads which i need to do!

listening to 47:48 - childish gambino

[cooliocoulson]

Hi, you know what keeps me up at night? This thing I learned about in Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy last year. I'm not even a marine biology bitch but every month or so I think about it and can't stop. Now just a reminder that I'm no expert, this is purely based on what I learned in class and then obsessively on my own.

Okay so during the Devonian period, there was this fish. Not even a fish. Like, a monster fish.

It's called the Dunkleosteus, and this shit terrifies me for a specific reason.

So it's significant in vert anatomy because it was one of the first bony headed fishes, like it had its own head shield that functioned as self sharpening teeth--was a placoderm, literally an "armored fish." You can find the skull on google, it's pretty cool. It was over 30 feet long and weighed over 3 tons and was the APEX predator at the time. Like it was the top of the top. It's kinda skull-mostly teeth could exert 8,000 square pounds of force (sharks were basically fish to this thing.) It's claimed to be the first vertebrate that could shatter its prey before ingesting it, and its jaws could open in 1/50th of a second, which pretty much creates a vacuum drawing prey right in.

And I'm sure you're like, okay cool rant Anna, so what?

But here's the real thing that terrifies me--it just went extinct out of NOWHERE. How on earth does an apex predator that has literally every evolutionary advantage going for it just disappear?

There are two leading theories--1.) Dunkleboi was a species that showed cannibalistic tendencies, so there's that ig. 2.) dropping oxygen levels in the ocean at that time may not have allowed something so large to survive.

However, my big thing, and maybe it's because I'm a paranoid bitch, is that its sudden disappearance only points to the fact that there was probably something way bigger and scarier at the bottom of the ocean that we haven't discovered.

I can't wait until we can explore the bottom of the ocean more because it's so cool yet also terrifying.

Anywho, that's all from me folks. I just think about the Dunkleosteus a lot.