Do it for the feel of doing

20, Bulgaria,studyblr, writer wanna-be, academia aesthetics, languages, law, history nerd main blog: lost-in-dreams-ocean

[tennesseewillams]

being critical of academia because it’s heavily hierarchical and systemically racist, and saying that individuals within academia are in no way more qualified to discuss academic subjects than non-academics are two completely different things. sjcjdjahe i swear some people think that to get a history degree you just read like. commercial biographies and watch hamilton. idk how to tell you all this but tiktok doesn’t have a peer review process

[brightwanderer]

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

[nordic-language-love]

beginner grammar: the grammar is used in this specific way. here are some simple examples to demonstrate the point.

intermediate grammar: ehh actually the grammar's kinda complicated and it has a lot of different uses and exceptions. but there are still general rules you can follow.

advanced grammar: this language is a lawless wasteland where rules are simultaneously both arbitrary and incredibly specific and only strictly adhered to by 32% of the population anyway. but if you use them incorrectly you'll sound awkward and unnatural. good luck!

[academicssay]

[autumngracy]

Help, girl, my executives are dysfunctioning

[threeamserif]

[strawbeb]

no, i don’t have a “dream job.” i want to spend my days reading and writing and lazing in the afternoon sun. i want to bake bread and brownies and apple crumble. i want to grow my own vegetables and plant a rainbow of flowers. i want to be with nature. i want to be at peace.

[cordaterings-deactivated2021090]

when oscar wilde said "i'm tired of myself tonight, i should like to be someone else' and when sylvia plath said ''i wish i knew what to do with my life, what to do with my heart" and when rilke said "this heavy humanness" .

[studyblr]

you can do this. stop sabotaging yourself and your dreams. there will be risks, there will be stress, but go on and actually pursue what you want to do. you will not regret having tried, all things considered. self-doubt can destroy so much of your life. don’t let it, please. 

[mernoir-e]

I can’t decide whether I should study or sunbathe 🌞

[farmgf]

INSTRUCTIONS ON NOT GIVING UP

ada limón / princess mononoke (1997) / mary oliver / gang of youths / albert camus / the two towers (2002)

[astudyingdemon]

FYI : this website definitely DOES NOT have a million free TEXTBOOKS and in general books for you all to download 😌

No reason to reblog this 👀

[great-tweets]

Beware!

[rayvenreayes]

Avoid sci-hub too👀

[queeranarchism]

From Ask for PDFs from People with Institutional Access

[dowereallyneedthis]

If you want to read an academic article that's behind a paywall just email the author and ask politely if they will send you the article. Most academics will be thrilled that you want to read their work and will gladly send it to you.

[42ds]

PSA

[seashellronan]

i want to go home. i will always want to go home. even when i am at home i want to go home. but i’m not really thinking of a place, it’s more that feeling of everything finally being over, of seeing the light in the windows of your house on a cold night, of being safe, the relief of leaving a party you’re not enjoying, like when you felt sick at school and they sent you home, or when you got upset at a sleepover and they called your parents. i want my mam to come get me. i want to go home.

[seashellronan]

elizabeth wurtzel, prozac nation // lorde, ribs // maggie stiefvater, the dream thieves // billie marten, red sea blue sea

[ryebreadgf]

karen russell, st. lucy’s home for girls raised by wolves

[erlkoenige]

fictional characters can kill as many people as they want but it’s illegal for them to be annoying hope this helps

[nollectquest]

Harvested some violets before the neighbor mowed our yard, and made violet syrup for the first time.

[sarahseeandersen]

[threewornwords]

success should not come from deprivation. studyblr community, this is a reminder.

my three idols in middle school — rory gilmore, spencer hastings, and hermione granger — were all bookish, type-a, deeply intelligent young women who were brilliant students and good role models, but they taught me from a young age that success requires suffering.

i am tired of seeing students forgo food and sleep and time to themselves. i am tired of seeing students use adderall to stay awake all night and make it through exams the next day. i am tired of seeing students live off of coffee and a bite of a muffin at six am. we see these narratives on tv and they play out in the dorm room next to me.

my friend has five meetings today after a full day of classes. “thank you so much,” he says when i offer to drop off food at his dorm. “i was just planning to not eat today.”

i am tired of the narrative that isolation and deprivation are the key to a good life, that high performance in school is key to a happy future, that painful sacrifice now will pay off later.

you are more important than your grades, your notes, your burning eyes in the morning when your alarm goes off far too early. you deserve a balanced life and a life that is enriched by your studies and not damaged by them.

you deserve to go to sleep when you are tired. you deserve to eat when you are hungry. you deserve to take a break from studying.

you are the most important thing in your life. please treat yourself with care.