15.04.21

a late night study session 😳 ive been really good at keeping my desk clean, tidy and decluttered recently, so do not be surprised if you more and more photos of my desk :D

12.04.21

today was the day that i had my last orthodontist appointment (obviously unless i break my retainers or something)! definitely happy lol as nice as the guy was i do not want to ever have an appointment ever again ✌️also have been recently watching the storyville documentry on oj simpson, much more detailed than anything ive ever watched about him before! documentary is on bbc iplayer for anyone curious :)

11.04.21

forgot to post yesterday! but here are some old poems we annotated in english! also happy to say i will never have to do poetry or read a poem for the rest of my life 😩 i also got a cheesecake yesterday from a Japanese patisserie! forgot to take photos but it was so yummy! 😋

08.04.21

the first week of easter holiday is near its end... very daunting. i managed to wake up earlier today and actually get out of bed sooner, but after i ate my breakfast i carried on watching tv 😭 i still managed to do a lot of work today though, so i am satisfied with that. some biology notes for you ~

06.04.21

ive got a lot of work to do today! i didn't do anything yesterday because i got distracted lol but today i have to do lots of work, but im feeling ready for some productivity ;)

02.04.20

some notes on enzymes! these are actually quite old but still very useful :0 also the pink carnations as part of a bouquet my mum bought! one thing me and my mum have in common is a love of plants and i love all the plants we have around our house! nature is so beautful :'))

31.03.21

i started my easter holidays today :o we only had a half day today so we left at 12:20 and i came home and had some lunch :) also enjoy some daffodils and some old and irrelevant biology notes ;D

29.03.21

i had so many tests today 😩 a history test (was only 15 minutes long) and it was quite hard to answer 😁 but then we also had an english test and it actually went well? it was on unseen poetry, and it's the last time we're ever going to be tested on poetry because it's in english paper two and for our mocks we shall only be doing english paper 1 👊 my way through english exams is calculated, cohesive and planned waffle 😌 talking of waffle here's the milk bread I made that was okay (?) but also its the first time I've made it so give me a break 🙄

before and after :)

three months later and im back to posting again! i’ve been having health issues and especially in the past two months they have significantly deteriorated, which stopped me from posting, and I was only lucky that at that point i was doing school from home due to lockdown. i will be going on easter holiday soon (!!!) and in may, i will be having my mocks (but no actual GCSEs). so, hopefully i will be having lots of things to post! im very inconsistent with my posting, but no matter what i love the studyblr community and i love posting on here :) also wanted to say thank you for the amount of notes i’ve been getting on some of my posts! it makes me happy that people like what i post <3

🍄🥀 31.03.20 🥀🍄

guys! look at me! i posted more than once (thrice) this month! also? how cute is the new Tumblr colour palette stuff? i changed mine to canary 🌝

14.03.20

sorry for not posting in ages, ive rewlly been struggling with my motivation, but i have exams next week so need to get back on track. on the left is an old photo, something i may have posted before, but i dont remember oops. on the right is a sneak peak from my very last minutr March bujo 😳

01.25.2020 5:00 PM | Today has been one of those days where I’ve accomplished a lot, but because it was all “progress” and not a lot of completed tasks, it didn’t feel like a lot. But progress is progress!

(I forgot to actually post this yesterday whoops... better late than never)

01.22.2020 Some highlights from today–

08:00: meditated for 5 minutes on how to manage negative emotions

12:00: finished my 3 back to back classes and got lunch

13:00: found a place in the busiest study lounge ever to work on my assignments–started with a page in Spanish summarizing myself

14:00: (partially pictured) summarized the notes I took in yesterday’s Muslim Cultures lecture

16:00: read ahead into next weekend's assigned pages for the same class

12.14.2019 8:32 PM || Day 3 / 4 of Study Period

The total amount of time I’ve spent studying for my Anthro exam today... I am so tired haha. I was gonna do more after dinner, but to prevent burnout I instead took my time eating with a friend and now I’m going to read/chill/do hobbit-y things to recharge.

Dec. 6, 2019 - I feel useless and as if being productive is the last thing I can do. But I won’t let it stop me! I’ll find a way to be productive and helpful! I don't know when to give up!!!!!

12.05.19 // Finals week start next week and I am scared I tell you. My professors have huge curves thankfully, but they were not that great at teaching the material so I am praying I get through this! Also take a peek at my little study buddy!

Summer mornings~

I am one (1) week into summer break and I have already started buying books for next semester

panera study date !! 🍊

crash course in literary theory twentieth century onwards

structuralist linguistics: saussure invents linguistics to study language as structures. for him, words don’t give names to preexisting things but create concepts that determine the way we understand the world

russian formalism: thought literature was only form, no content. the idea that art existed to make the familiar seem strange. jakobson founded the moscow linguistics circle when he was 19 wyd with your life

new criticism: so cleanth brooks and robert penn warren right? they write this book called understanding poetry. this book changes the way english classes work forevaaaa. because suddenly class isn’t just about what the poem says but you can use 50 minutes to talk about how it’s said and make your own connections. birth of close reading. and the phrases “the intentional fallacy” and “the affective fallacy”

structuralism: levi-strauss takes saussure’s ideas and applies them to a bunch of myths and finds that their underlying structures are all the same. then applies it to culture as a whole and says they all operate on constructed binaries. lots of things to do with the centre.

deconstruction: derrida starts off this speech at this conference to glorify levi-strauss and then makes a career out of dragging him. the centre does not hold. there is no centre. as barthes writes, there was this guy named guy de maupassant who always ate in the restaurant on the eiffel tower because that was the only place he didn’t have to see the damn thing. basically that, but in theory.

new historicism: born out of the guilt complex of isolating the text from its author. focuses on historical context. greenblatt writes entire books about historical contexts of plays (like hamlet in purgatory). foucault is a huge influence and intertextuality (coined by julia kristeva) is a thing

marxist theory: the superstructures like culture are determined by the economic base. all the bourgeoisie and proletariat things. zizek (use the correct accent things please) and terry eagleton. my professor thinks literary critics are in a privileged position and hence feel the need to contribute to the world hence use marxist criticism to make themselves feel better and * sigh * i gotta write that on the exam

feminist theory: started all the way back with wollstonecraft and woolf. intertwined with political feminism. revisionary reading that exposes biases. judith butler!!!!!

queer theory: began as liberation movement. undo the idea that heterosexuality is the norm. identify and reclaim non heterosexual authors. michel foucault wrote a lot of things. yes, shakespeare was bi.

postcolonial studies: deals with hegemony of texts and cultural imperialism. analysis of history and culture of formerly colonised countries. expand literary canon to include colonial and postcolonial authors. achebe and rushdie all the way!

freudian psychoanalysis: IT’S NOT FUCKING REAL! everything that came out of freud’s mouth along with some carl jung stuff about collective consciousness and archetypes and whatever it was that lacan said about mirrors. maybe mention harold bloom’s anxiety of influence thing.