#zoom university

[mrystudy]

the only way to make living bearable is to romanticize it I guess

[chaotic-archaeologist]

God gives his hardest battles (being seized with the need to apply chapstick immediately after joining a zoom meeting) to his toughest warriors (me).

[bobastudy]

𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡, 𝐲𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐲.

-𝐋𝐨𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐆𝐥ü𝐜𝐤

[im-really-confused121]

I think the cutest thing in the world is when you’re on zoom and someone suddenly grins at someone off screen and a mug or plate of food appears.

It’s fucking adorable that someone bringing you a drink or food can make you so happy

[lottiestudying]

12.8.2021 // the ACT’s going into lockdown at 5pm today, so good afternoon to everyone except the guy who brought covid to Canberra

[just1blog]

09.05.2023

Endless studying.

[bunny-ology]

Grad school is making me feel very alienated, and not for whatever usual reasons…

Legit, the courses aren’t even that hard, so I hve time to do other things that I want to.

But I’m in a hybrid setting where some of us are in person, and some of us are online. I’m online.

Us students who are online are treated very differently. We’re not allowed to have our cameras on, we’re not allowed to turn on our mic unless it’s something important, the professor keeps the camera off so we’re not able to see her or the other students, we’ve complained about not being able to hear some of the students in class but they won’t do anything about it, everything we say is refuted but the in person students are always right (even when they say the same things we do). Even though in person students sometimes go online when they can’t make it in, they weren’t included in an email about “proper zoom etiquette”. When we couldn’t hear the sound to a documentary that one professor wanted the class to watch together, she literally said “oh well” before a student in class got up to fix it. She was literally going to make us watch the video with no sound. The in person students all get to go on trips together to different museums in order to see behind the scenes, paid for by the program. You know how it feels when you’re talking about something important to you and someone just says “okay” and goes to talk to someone else, or just ignores you? This is legitimately happening every day to us in class, and it’s infuriating.

It’s not like I’m online because I want to be. I’m online because I’m disabled and can’t live by myself in a state that’s 12 hours away from anyone who knows me. Hell, I can barely live alone 30 minutes away from someone who knows me. This is just another example of how I get treated less than just because I’m not able bodied. As an academic, who wants to continue being an academic, academia is so ableist and gatekeepy and bullshit.

[study-sleep-tea-repeat]

My Notion Setup For Spring 2021!

Today

To start off, we have my today page, which is essentially my home base on Notion. This is where I have my routines as drop-down toggles links to my class pages and goals, and I also have a linked database where I plan out when I’ll do all my tasks. If I click on the list it takes me to the page with all of my planned out to-do’s, but when I’m on my Today page it only shows me the tasks that I’ve set for that particular day so I know exactly what I need to get done. It sounds slightly complicated but once it’s set up it’s such a breeze to use and I don’t know what I’d do without it tbh! I’ve been using this linked database system for about 6 months or so and it’s a total lifesaver, if y’all want a tutorial or a template or something on it just let me know!

Academic Hub

Next up is my Academic Hub, where I keep all my school information and links. Within this, I have pages for each of my classes which I’ll talk about next, as well as other linked pages that help keep me organized. I also love having a quote at the top of my “hub” pages that are relevant to the page since they keep me motivated and inspired. I also have another linked database where I keep a calendar of all my due dates for the quarter. I’m on spring break right now so I don’t have any dates or notes entered in yet for the quarter, but I will soon!

Class Pages

For each class that I’m in, I make a page that can be the home for all things related to the course. I keep the information about when the class meets, the Zoom ID and the link to the class page on Canvas all handy at the top (plus the link to the syllabus if it’s online rather than a pdf). Then I have a list where I keep all my class notes, though I don’t have any in there just yet. I also have another linked database beneath that, which links to the due dates calendar, this one only showing the due dates for the particular class that the page is about (for example, this one would only show due dates for my English class)

Study Hall

And the last page that I’ll be sharing today is my study hall page, which is basically a checklist that I go through to help get myself into a focused mindset. I don’t do all of these every single time I want to work, but it’s handy if I’m having a hard time getting started on schoolwork. I also have a page linked with a list of study break ideas, and I like to pick one out to do once I’m done with my study session since that helps to motivate me. I also embedded two study playlists from Spotify to the page, so I can easily just click on them and get some good instrumental music to study to without having to search around for them.