You know what. I’m starting a new aesthetic, population me.
Romantic Science, AKA Dark Academia for STEM people.
Thrifting a lab coat and embroidering it with your initials and a little insignia, whose significance is known to you and your lab partner only
Watching The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game and Hidden Figures and basically every movie about historical scientists and mathematicians you can find
Decorating your desk with old slide rules and vintage lab equipment. Your prize possession is a set of vintage lenses you found at a thrift store
Wanting an articulated human skeleton far, far too much
Getting a set of (brand new, NOT thrifted, be safe ppl) beakers to drink from, and putting them directly onto your stovetop to boil water for tea or coffee, because borosilicate glass can survive anything.
Secretly relating far too much to Henry Jekyll and Victor Frankenstein, because you too want to do a gay little science experiment that challenges god.
Thunderstorms and late nights in the lab, the light of the Bunsen burner glistening off of your flasks and scribbled chalkboard equations
Papering your walls with vintage scientific diagrams; even if you know that our understanding of the world has evolved since they were made, looking back at scientific history is amazing
Writing code late at night and feeling, in some metaphysical way, as though Ada Lovelace herself is with you in spirit
Being far, FAR too obsessed with the concept of emergent ai sentience and how it has the potential to be Frankenstein irl
Looking through a telescope on clear nights, whispering the names of the constellations and stars, painting a star chart on your ceiling in a burst of creative inspiration
Collecting and mounting samples from everywhere you can think of to pore over in an antique microscope
Bringing a field journal wherever you go, learning how to draw and label botanical samples, preserving plants and flowers for study later
Dreaming of what undiscovered mysteries lie in the deepest depths of the sea, feeling the thrill of discovery whenever you learn about a new species and one day hoping to discover one yourself
Just. Romanticise STEM.
When a physicist falls in love :)
Richard Feynman's love letter to his deceased wife, 1946.
“To become a human being is an art.”
— Novalis, Logological Fragments I
"I wish I knew what to do with my life, what to do with my heart...I do nothing all day, boredom settles in, I look at the sky so I get to feel even smaller than I already feel and my mind keeps poisoning itself uselessly."
-Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
there is something about coffee that makes it so soothing to the soul
when will someone make a sapphic dark academia book WHEN??
Leah Raeder, Black Iris
what r ur top books of all time
The Metamorphosis, The Castle, Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (no, it's not too long - if anything, it should've been longer)
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Samvel by Raffi
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Fish in Exile by Vi Khi Nao
Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend by Hermann Hesse
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
•omnia iam fient quae posse negabam - everything which I used to say could not happen, will happen now
•poeta nascitur, non fit - the poet is born, not made
•qui dedit benificium taceat; narrat qui accepit - let him who has done a good deed be silent; let him who has received it tell it
•saepe ne utile quidem est scire quid futurum sit - often, it is not advantageous to know what will be
•sedit qui timuit ne non succederet - he who feared he would not succeed sat still
•si vis pacem, para bellum - if you want peace, prepare for war
•struit insidias lacrimis cum feminia plorat - when a woman weeps, she is setting traps with her tears
•sub rosa - under the rose
•trahimir omnes laudis studio - we are led on by our eagerness for praise
•urbem latericium invenit, marmoream reliquit - he found the city a city of bricks; he left it a city of marble
•ut incepit fidelis sic permanet - as loyal as she began, so she remains.
“the literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself”
- Albert Camus
we had our student wellness seminar today and there was a brief session about how to be more focused and excel at studies. So I took down a few points and I hope this helps<3
Effective and consistent study helps you to show what you know and avoid excessive test stress.
Identify 1 topic per week to teach someone else. Keep sessions under 40 minutes and include a few minutes for review.
Create practice tests with true/false, fill in and multiple–choice questions covering each lecture or text chapter.
Record the date you complete each assignment and take a quiz about the concepts and problems you completed.
Test yourself by writing summaries, facts, examples or diagrams without looking at notes or text.
When studying, first take an untimed practice test provided by the instructor or in chapters of the text.
Schedule time to reread chapter introductions, summaries, vocabulary lists and illustrations prior to tests.
Separate parts of the course that require memorization of facts versus analysis of concepts or problem solving.
Limit your efforts to memorize tedious facts and formulae to 25–minute periods so that you stay alert and effective.
Use sketches and diagrams to specify the process and tasks needed to complete a long–term project.
Stop interruptions by alerting others about the times you are unavailable because you are studying.
If you can’t study in total quiet, use a form of white noise such as a fan or soft music.
Get at least 7 hours of sleep to give you the mental and physical energy needed to concentrate in lectures and when reading.
Increase your ability to focus if you are upset. Take 5 minutes to write concerns or questions. Then shift into a work mode.
Give yourself a high five after a session in which you focus and learn. Recognize and reward yourself for a job well done.
Keep your eyes closed and switch scenes. Imagine a situation in which you had an academic success. Congratulate yourself for a job well done.
Increase the amount of information you remember after studying - review information within 24 to 48 hours.
yeah that was it. i found it vaguely interesting that my school is actually caring about us but anyway here you. hope this helps and hope we both get good grades :)