My College Sent Out A Document Of Advice For Graduate Freshers From The Oxford University Counselling

day 8/10 back to school challenge

Create a color coding system for your classes Try to match it with your supplies to stay organized!

Well, this is the colour coding plan that I have for my current units, largely based off of the colours of the folders I’m using. It’s the first time I’ve tried different colour codes for different units so it’s probably only a matter of time before I mess up and wind up getting them in the wrong order but it’s worth a go. Particle Physics doesn’t start until week 7 so I haven’t included it here as I’ll decide on that closer to the time.

Biophysics

Yellow folder

Orange titles

Yellow highlighter

Solid State Physics

Dark red folder

Red titles

Orange subtitles

Quantum Physics

Green folder

Green titles

Light green subtitles

Every Photo From NASA’s Apollo Missions Are Now on Flickr

The Project Apollo Archive uploaded more than 8,400 high-resolution images the astronauts took during NASA’s Apollo Missions of the 1960s and 70s. The collection includes every photo shot with the Hasselblad cameras on the lunar surface, from Earth and lunar orbit, as well as during the journey between the two. All the photos are unprocessed versions of the original scans.

orange rabbit sleeping in a boat requested by William on patreon [Caption: Soon, I’m going to do amazing things, but right now, I need to rest and that’s ok.”]

it’s okay to breakdown sometimes 

im very grateful for the lessons in photography i was taught in stop motion class because just now they made it possible to photograph the stars with my phone in spite of the camera usually not detecting the light of stars because theyre so dim,,,, enjoy these shiny motherfuckers

the weather is great but I spent the whole day inside studying for tomorrow’s propulsion exam (ok I went out to get a coffee once because you just gotta treat yourself sometimes)

How to Overcome Procrastination

1. Be honest with yourself and admit that you’re putting off stuff that really needs to be done.

2. Try to figure out why you’re procrastinating. Is it because you don’t like it, it creates anxiety, you don’t understand it, it feels overwhelming, you’re disorganised?

3. Decide to break the habit of procrastination by deliberately rewarding yourself for doing something you’d rather not do.

4. Make a pact with a friend where you deliberately and regularly encourage each other, and hold each other accountable.

5. Sit down and think, in detail, about all the likely consequences of not doing what needs to be done. Be brutally honest, and try and picture what you’re life is going to look like 6 months, a year and five years from now ( if you continue to procrastinate).

6. Decide to break large tasks down into smaller, more achievable tasks, and then tackle these smaller tasks one at a time.

7. Recognise your progress, and affirm and praise yourself for making these changes – and doing things differently, even though it’s hard.

Nearly done for today - very productive day! 🤗

The next few days I need to revise object orientated programming. One of the other of my 4 exams in 2 weeks.

I still plan to work through one of the past years math exams per day - I have a pretty good grasp on all the concepts in this course - just practice, practice, practice now.

Facebook / Twitter / Ko-fi / Buy the book [Drawing of a trophy with “#1 cat” written on it next to a caption that says “I got you this trophy because you’re great and you’re doing great. Please ignore the fact that it says “#1 cat” on it unless you are also the #1 cat. If you are, congrats! Go #1 cat!”]

2018 June 16

Dusty With a Chance of Dust Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS, Curiosity Mars Rover

Explanation: It’s storm season on Mars. Dusty with a chance of dust is the weather report for Gale crater as a recent planet-scale dust storm rages. On June 10 looking toward the east-northeast crater rim, the Curiosity rover’s Mastcam captured this image of its local conditions so far. Meanwhile over 2,000 kilometers away, the Opportunity rover ceased science operations as the storm grew thicker at its location on the west rim of Endeavour crater, and has stopped communicating, waiting out the storm for now. Curiosity is powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator, but the smaller Opportunity rover uses solar panels to charge its batteries. For Opportunity, the increasingly severe lack of sunlight has caused its batteries to run low.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180616.html