9/3/24 || Saturday
The first weeks of the summer semester.
I have been reading, taking walks, enjoying the beginning of spring and wearing my science socks to the lab.
I’m also working on my bachelors thesis and mentally preparing for graduating. I still can’t believe it went by so fast.
📖: The power of the dog
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How to Study History & Why I Love It
How to Study History (my way):
First, understand the cold facts - such as dates and context - what’s going on and why?
Imagine history as a roadmap you are creating in your mind as you study events and movements.
Try to imagine historical events as a drama. That way it’s easier to digest as a subject
Understanding context and why is the foundation of writing an argument, creating a comparison, seeing what changed and what didn’t, and allowing you to connect and feel history more deeply.
Truly be invested in how historical events have helped shape the world and the innovations around us.
Why I Love History as a Subject:
History allowed me to become more eloquent in speech and writing by allowing me to take rigorous humanities based classes.
If the teacher is interesting, it becomes a great class discussion with emphasis and thought-provoking ideas and arguments.
It has helped me see both the beauty of the human mind and the horrors of humanity.
It gives me hope that though change is slow (and sometimes unlikely), a better world and future is possible if we work together.
It has given me confidence as a student to achieve great things while thinking of each and every consequence an action may have.
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Romanticizing exam season (STEM edition)
Heavy textbooks, messy doodles on tables as you start overthinking your life again, discarded empty ink bottles, colored pens, messy markings on loose sheets, anatomy sketches, ink smudges on your hands, on your clothes, nervous pacing around your room as you try to memorize every part of the human body, physics formulae scribbled in walls, tables in a frenzy, dramatic scribbles of poetic epiphanies as you get lost in daydreams, dirty tea cups, bed half covered with books, making reading lists trying to romanticize what you will do after exams are over, dreams of a white coat, a perpetual haunting in your eyes, a longing for your dreams, permanent dark circles and hunched back, the blessing and curse of an academic hell
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Dark academia Ravenclaw
-dark blue nails, few of them looking like a night sky, full of stars
-wearing mostly black, brown and dark blue(but burgundy, beige and bottle green don’t hurt either)
-in summer or at home wearing t-shirts with constellations, quotes from books or with your favourite paintings
-having, and using often, stamp with Ravenclaw crest
-listening to Ravenclaw classical playlist (that do include Harry Potter soundtrack, because even if the films are shit, soundtrack is magical)
-playing chess with your dad, constantly trying to improve yourself
-having favourite study method that is probably blurting or Feynman technique
-loving to stargaze
-if you have an ipad or any other tablet that you take notes on - taking them in brown and blue
-writing with fountain pen that you got from family member
-studying anything you want, not listening to the ones who says that dark academia is only about literature (shortly - stem dark academia!!!)
-always having a book with you, constantly reading (anything - fanfiction also count), eventually daydreaming about the book/fanfiction you are writing
-studying smart not hard and getting the best grades
-being known by your teachers because of your passion for studying and being a perfect student
-knowing that if you want to study efficiently you have to sleep during night so every evening you are going to bed, even if you love sitting at night - it’s for greater good
-loving when it’s cloudy - especially when it rains or there is a thunderstorm
-learning 3+ languages at the same time
-hating using slang - it hurts both your ears and throat
-always dressed either as hogwart student - with a blue(perfectly ravenclaw) tie, white collar shirt and a black sweater on that or the most elegant person in the whole building (you can never be overdressed)
-drinking either the enormous amount of tea - from your favourite vintage cups - or coffee - from your favourite mug(but it’s never a normal one - normal ones are for boring people)
-if you have and can afford - playing Hogwarts Legacy of course
-always smarter than the rest of your friends, dreaming about having a group of dark academic friend with who you could study together
-if you like stem - wearing stem jewellery for example with chemistry compounds
-books everywhere
-having hundreds unread books but you don’t have time to read because you prioritize studying - always
-your friends and family constantly reminding you about taking breaks, but “you do not have time for breaks, you need to study“
-planning how you want to decorate your room so it will look like ravenclaw common room in dark academia aesthetic
-doing some sport because you know it’s important for your health
-eating healthy too, because you know it’s important
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