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Starting to Study again

So far, so good. Using pops of color for keywords is both aesthetic and helpful, which is why I ended up buying these new pens yesterday and I swear I covered double the content.

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I don’t like that my parents’ worth as parents is defined by my college degree. I know that at a one-on-one scale we all know rationally that it doesn’t matter if I have an Ivy League degree or not, but it’s undeniably something that has been brought up. Undeniably something that my parents have felt. It’s lonely to make my worth my grades, even if I do miss studying and enjoy setting up my study sessions.

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@academia-lucifer

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I've got a lot of feelings and none of the words.

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Cloudy Sakura Day

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Kaçıp gitsem diyorum bazen. hislerimden içimden düşlerimden. susup gitsem diyorum bazen. şu kalabalık zihnimden..

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I recognize this particular commentator doesn't care for my response – after all they seem to think nuclear war will "do a thing to stop global warming" – but for those that might:

Fossil fuels are a finite resource, we cannot make more once we've consumed it. One way or another, we will one day not have gas, oil or coal. Fury Road is squarely fiction, not sci-fi or speculative fiction. As such, we look to increase our renewable energy source technology. Solar, wind, tidal and more are in use, development and improvement.

For example, from opaque solar panels we are seeing experiments with transparent solar panels. The entire country of Greece ran on only renewable energy for five hours, something unimaginable 20, 10 or even 5 years before. Geothermal heating is gradually being introduced to more parts of the Netherlands such as greenhouse with government support.

You see, when I use flowery language, it isn't from my imagination that I find the inspiration, it is from the brilliant minds that work for a better future. I recommend the documentary, 2040, if you'd like to see some more technology and social structures that as they're implemented can set us on a path towards a healthier planet.

Also, I'd love to talk more about the nuances of common terms we hear often, like global warming, climate change, climate crisis, etc. if people want to understand that too :)

A little bit of dreaming...

One day, there will be no more fossil fuels. We do not have a say in this. They simply will be gone, consumed, transformed from potential energy into kinetic and off to the next thing they will be.

Instead, we will be sunflowers, traveling with the light.

Instead, we will be sailboats, traveling with the wind.

Instead, we will be Hephaestus' hearth, warmed by the molten rock below.

One day soon we will live an alternative energy reality and it is up to us to prepare.

#solarpunk #environmentalism #solar #solar energy #renewable energy #tide energy #tidal energy #fossil fuels #geology #geothermal #Greece #Netherlands #the Netherlands #MIT #Transparent solar panels #solar panels #wind energy #wind turbines #climate change #climate crisis #global warming #2040 #documentary #2040 documentary #geothermal energy #tides #waves #restorative practices #green energy #sustainability

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Gen Z vs Millennial: What am I?

Growing up, I always thought I was a Millennial. I was the youngest of the Millennials, living on the cusp, expecting to grow up and catch up. With the title Millennial, I was associated with my older counterparts in the generation and as a result, when I spoke, older adults always listened and commented on how impressively eloquent I was for someone so young. I looked young but I spoke about college and early career moves and the economic crisis, mimicking all the media about Millennials, my older friends' and schoolmates' conversations. I was part of that.

Then the pandemic hit, and Gen Z roared to life. My friends and I teased and joked about the divide of children born into a world where the internet was a given, where a phone was a right and no longer a privilege to earn when you were old enough to drive and your parents wanted to make sure you were safe. I thought how silly, I still used a rotary phone when I lived with my grandma, I watched Saturday cartoons on a TV large enough to fit an humane aquarium.

My sister, eight years younger, she had an iPad when she was 3, that's widely different to me. I am not Gen Z.

Then the pandemic slowed, lockdowns were lifted and I returned to my academic pursuits in person. I was older than most of my classmates but not by much, but that chasm felt large. They joked about the gaming set ups they had built in their last years of high school during lockdown, they talked about the early 2000s as some aesthetic time long ago instead of the years where they got their periods or opened FaceBook accounts. I think back to how many dresses with butterfly embroidery I wore over bootleg jeans. They want to bring that back?

But I liked my classmates, they were smart, driven, educated with the internet to see a bigger world. Only a few years apart and yet living in a larger world. What I didn't like was the professors. Before the pandemic, professors spoke to me like I was an adult, which I was. They expected me to act like the three research projects I'd done before university had qualified me to speak as a real researcher, not some assistant to the real researcher. They expected me to rise up and grow. After lockdown lifted, they talked to me like I was a child whose high school education was halted by the pandemic, a child whose development was stunted and I was still 15 inside. I was no longer a Millennial. I became a member of Gen Z.

How stupid, I thought, these students are neither children nor stunted, in fact they're leaps and bounds more developed than I was at their age.

But here is the heart of the argument. I think I became stupider. I had been studying at the university level for years at this point but because of how the professors had begun speaking to me, I became dull. They spoke to me like I was a child and in turn I struggled to speak like an adult. I hadn't gone home during the pandemic, I hadn't lived with my parents, so I hadn't been talked to like a child in a long time. It made me realize, I was a Millennial because growing up people treated me like one. I was given all the expectations in a conversation that I would respond as one. And now that I was being spoken to like a member of Gen Z, like a child who had no "real world" experience, I was stunting.

Professors, as well as other adults, must realize that the more you treat someone as a child, the more a child they will remain. Provide us, any of us, Millennials or Gen Z, with responsibility and we will rise up to the occasion. I would argue we have, and continue to do so.

But I won't start calling myself a member of Gen Z. I spent too many years being a Millennial to step back, and I don't care what anyone says. Talk to me as you wish, I am an adult and a very tired one at that.

#Millennial #Gen Z #Generation Z #Zoomers #academia #dark academia #college #university #pandemic #lockdown #studying #academics #academic experience #school #high school #speech #article #mypost #generational difference #generational gap #generation Y

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I'd love to have more fantasy stories based on or inspired by the near east. That's it, that's my post.

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I was reading this Healthline article, Is Rose Water a Natural Toner?, and at the bottom they had their sources which is great but what I found even more impressive was that they ALSO included an overview of their writing, editing and review process? One, I love the transparency, but two, I love that all who were involved get credit for their part. I want this on every article now, v happy.

#Healthline #makeup #rosewater #reviewing process #editing #credit where credit is due #transparency #skincare #health #healthy skin #honesty #toner #rose water toner #mypost

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Core Core Beauty Standards

I'm tired of everything I choose to do being criticised. I'm never enough for them then they wonder why I am a ball of stress.

I drink and don't drive and stay up until 4am once a fortnight dancing in a club with friends and cook simple foods cause I'm not into cooking and like my hair long and fringe short and want to fall in love and hold hands and watch movies in cinemas but I don't like movies at home and love catching up with my friends like I'm a reporter getting every detail out of a celebrity in a tell-all special interview and fuck I love being young so why does everyone tell me I need to have babies and stop loving my pets so much and learn how to cook overly complicated recipes no one really likes anyway and start dressing with an emphasis on my body but not be slutty but also cut my hair shorter because it's intimidating men but not too short because that will also intimidate men and I try too hard if I have dating apps and not hard enough if I don't and...

What more do you want from me? I don't care anymore. I am the person who has to live myself, so what you say doesn't get priority anymore.

#family #beauty #beauty standards #feminism #facebook #messenger #texting #mypost #friends #girl friendships #growing up #being young #my twenties #twenties #early twenties #mid twenties #freedom #core core #corecore #core core feminism #core core women #women's standards #womenempowerment #beauty standards for women

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"On I ride. Nice day for a hanging, as folks say." - Barry Sebastian

Recently finished Days Without End and i did not expect it to be such a tender read given the setting. very, very much recommend

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Positivity, Stoicism, and why you can do better without them.

I hate positivity, always have, and now that people are more widely addressing toxic positivity, I think it's fair to say, more people understand why I hated positivity growing up. It can be dangerous to prioritise being positive even in moments when being low is important.

There was a book I read as a child, something about a fairy godsister. In it, there is a girl who lost her mother and she started to have nightmares. Her father created a dream catcher to prevent her from experiencing the nightmares, but as a result, she couldn't move on because she wasn't grieving her mother's death. The story ended with the removal of the dream catcher and letting her grieve in the form of nightmares, which allowed her to then have the most beautiful dream left for her from her mother. She could not experience joy and love without grieving loss.

I once read somewhere, grief is just love with no place to go.

Do not let your positivity steal your love or suppress your love. Let yourself grieve, and let happiness come back to you when you are ready. Let yourself experience fully, respect your emotions, ask for help when you need it. Stoicism is not for these moments.

In fact, stoicism is never truly necessary at all. Do what is right for you, that is all that is necessary.

#positivity #toxic positivity #stoics #stoicism #toxicity #greif #grieving #love #love with nowhere to go #emotions #coping #corecore #fairy godsister #reach out #ask for help #recover #loss

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Natalie Díaz, from “American Arithmetic”, Postcolonial Love Poem (2020)