Chronicles of Study Buddies

Mel and Nessa | UBC 2020

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<p>Hello everyone !!</p> <p>At this point of the term, work has basically pilled up. I am trying my best to keep on top of things which is why my handwriting looks extremely messy :(</p> <p>Book of the week is British Imperial - What the Empire Wasn’t by Bernard Porter. I really enjoyed this book because it discussed the British Empire under a different light,challenging our traditional narrative of the Empire. I like his equation that the Empire is the was a two headed beast as it proved that Empire was a complex entity which people tended to simplify.</p> <p>Also, feel free to recommend books to me :) I will get to them as soon as I get some free time :)

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Again so sorry for going missing. My eyes are super sore but here are some of my notes on my assigned reading. Book of the week is Benito Cereno. This book will change how you understand the past through a gripping narrative. I am not going to tell you what happened because it would alter how this book would challenge your perspective.

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Hello everyone !!

My apologies who for going radio silence on everyone :(

In short something happened and I needed to take some time off from posting. Workload this term might be an issue as I’m juggling a high load of courses and unlike Nessa I’m not extremely organised.

Today I ventured to the library for a change of scenery as I found myself losing focus when trying to study in my room. It seems that the change of scenery was very much needed :)

One thing I thought I might try here is to give a one sentence summary of my readings. I’m currently reading Silencing the Past by MichelTroulliot. I found this book to be poignant as it relates to a lot issue that we are facing today such as colonial history. How are we to study history of a marginalised individual or group if we are met with a deafening silence of the group whose narrative have been censored and lost to time?

That’s all from me !! I highly recommend that you guys read this book !!!

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Planning my objectives for this term of co-op! It was really hard to think of what I wanted out of this work term. I accepted in part for the convenience of the position, but I also think that this position is less about the specific technical or interpersonal skills I can gain and more about learning to work in an office environment, despite working there for 4 months already. Having more colleagues now, I'm interested in how team dynamics and dissemination of workload will be.

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I volunteer alongside my work, so I figured I'd make a little sign to post on my corkboard at work for when I'm out. I can't post the final product because it has work-related email, but it turned out pretty cute! (Finally got to use these stamps I bought like 3 years ago, too!)

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First week of 2018 has gone by so quickly! Let's keep the momentum! I've changed the week layout to try something new, but I'm still not happy so it'll probably change again next week. So far I like the top banner and the From Last Week box. Normally that box would create quite a bit of guilt, but this notebook is less a bullet journal and more a keep-accountable goals book, so I think it's good. Just realised I forgot to write in checkboxes for a few of my turns to post on this blog... whoops!

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First week of 2018 has gone by so quickly! Let's keep the momentum! I've changed the week layout to try something new, but I'm still not happy so it'll probably change again next week. So far I like the top banner and the From Last Week box. Normally that box would create quite a bit of guilt, but this notebook is less a bullet journal and more a keep-accountable goals book, so I think it's good. Just realised I forgot to write in checkboxes for a few of my turns to post on this blog... whoops!

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Greek Law is one of the few classes I am taking this semester. Looking forward to the lectures ahead. Also, this stupid flu has morphed into a sore throat. Why ?

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Good start to the new year with habits going strong! 💪 Part of my goals this month are to build a habit of getting up early to exercise and make my own, healthy breakfast. I should start incorporating fruits & veggies soon! I'm on co-op so not much studying here, but I'm hoping to start to work in studying over the weekends once I acclimate to working.

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No study notes for today as I have been writing an essay and there is nothing interesting about that. However, here is picture of Christmas lights ;) which I hope will suffice. Unfortunately, I'm still ill and cannot proof read after flu medication so if there are any errors ... I'm sorry :) M

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Week goals! Poster from Yuumei Art 🖤🖤

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Falling sick on the first day of a new year .... Unfortunate but the show must go on. -M

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Hi all! Here's my plan for 2018. I call my resolutions intentions but basically the plan is to have: 2018 Intentions in Trello > Quarterly Goals and Reviews in Trello and a notebook > Monthly Planner Calendar reviews of the month > Weekly goals in a notebook with weekly inputting of habit/sleep/water tracking > Daily tracking with phone apps, as well as journaling (one is shared with Mel, the other is my "Book of Learning and Thoughtfulness" which is mostly a gratitude journal, but I plan on adding accomplishments too this year) At the end of each year I also write out my accomplishments of the previous year and my intentions for the next in one notebook. I don't honestly expect to keep up with all of this, but if I can at least be consistent with the dailies and monthlies, I'll be content.

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Again sorry for the erratic posting schedule. Getting myself back into the game to school has been really difficult lately as I caught freshers flu.

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Hello guys !!!

Sorry for going MIA. As you can tell from the state of my desk, it has been a messy first week, as there were a number of stuff to get in order.

Here is what I have been getting up with. I have always been very bad at keeping track of my readings so with this system to writing stuff down I hope I can get to it. (Ps I know I’m a wee bit behind).

Anyways … I hope you have a good term this year.

M

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I don't like how the 'September' came out but eh. Candles and tea bc I can't wait for autumn this room is an absolute s a u n a.

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This is my third try posting this bc it looks cute dammit