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the plan for today was to start the theory part of my thesis but i ended up just staring at the word document for ten minutes and then deciding that this was a problem for another day

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December 8th, 2023

Tired. Got the last pages of my dissertation back today. Quite some work ahead of me... Tired.

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December 3rd, 2023

Had a productive evening yesterday. I wish I had some uninterrupted time but I feel like I have too many tabs open at once and it takes away a good deal of my ability to focus.

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November 30, 2023

Still feeling drained and tired. At least we have snow and it's incredibly beautiful...

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Good morning from sunny Bordeaux. Writing 20 pages for my thesis today! Love you all!

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aimless walks make for great study breaks

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Fall season 🍁

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& back to my perpetual dublin autumn

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long term study tips

a lot of study tip posts that exist have a weird mix of short term and long term tips and that weirds me out, so here are some long term study tips (aka pavlov-ing yourself):

light the same scent of candle every day when you study- eventually the smell of the candle will put you in a study mood

drink the same kind of drink (I always drink green tea) and you will start to associate the process of getting the drink/the smell/the taste with studying

get into a habit of studying for a few minutes every night. Even if you are not doing much, it's something.

play the same playlist whenever you study- hearing "reflections" by Toshifumi Hinata instantly puts me into the study mood

Routines routines routines: the only reason I passed some of my classes last year was because I had routines in place for doing my work (they are falling apart this year, and I'm struggling.)

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every so often im struck by the memory of one of my college professors getting very angry with our class (art history of pompeii 250) because when she excitedly detailed the ingenious roman invention of heated floors in bathhouses via hearths in small crawlspaces, we asked who was tending the fires. she said "oh, slaves i suppose. but that isnt the point". and we said that it actually very much was the point. she had just told us that in roman society there were dozens of people, maybe hundreds, who spent every day of their enslaved lives crawling in cramped, hot, smoky tunnels to light fires to warm pools of water (which they were not allowed to swim in). how could that not be the point?

she wanted us to focus on the art, on the innovation of heated plumbing, on the tiles and decorations of the bathhouses, and all we wanted to do was learn more about the people under the floors. and she didn't know anything more about that. in fact, she said she thought we were focusing too much on superfluous details.

it feels almost hokey to put too fine a point on the idea im getting at here but i will anyway: There are a lot of people who are still under the floors. all these beautiful, convenient, brilliant innovations of modern society (think fast fashion, chatgpt, uber, doordash) are still powered by people working in inhumane, untenable conditions.

the people who run these systems want you to focus on the good - who doesnt love warm water? - but if anything is going to improve or change in our lifetimes, you need to examine these things with an attentive, critical, and empathetic eye. and for fucks sake stop ordering from amazon

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rainy days on campus 🍃

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current journal (a paperblank flexible notebook), new pencil pouch and current read: Jane Eyre☕️🫶🏻

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This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner.

— Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki

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year two of grad school 🍃

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