Going To Be Posting My Tips On Poetry Annotation Soon After My Poetry Oral Exam Tomorrow, Thanks For

tag yourself: social medias

twitter - 99% stan twitter vocab, always shouting random things, likes drama just for the hell of it, is somehow always fighting someone???, holds grudges, sometimes has soft and wholesome moments, records everything

tumblr - pretty chill, can do a little bit of everything, organized, seems innocent but probably has the dirtiest mind out there, supportive!!, artistically talented like damn, reads (and sometimes writes) fan fic

instagram - naturally gifted at makeup like james charles who????, aesthetic phone case and laptop, has kinda messy yet organized notes, is always out of the house, spends lots of time with friends, has the best fashion sense out there

facebook - an oldie but a goodie, always complaining of achy joints and back pain, tries to spice up their life, values friends and family, in a lot of different friend groups, will send memes at 1am, lowkey a conspiracy theorist

snapchat - has short bursts of energy throughout the day, accidentally ghosts people because they’re not the best at texting, likes to record everything too, really organized and color codes everything, has hella friends

vsco - super aesthetic photographer, absolutely loves nature and wants to live in it, will do anything for a good photo, their insta bio probably says “why capture the moment when you can live in it”, either way they’re really artsy

reddit - definitely believes in aliens and that robots will take over the world, asks questions that lead to existential crises, gives the best advice ever, can be a wholesome bean, very spontaneous

what’s app - loves to talk, public speaking is their forte, probably the most extroverted person out there, will also send memes at 2am, loves learning new languages and could probably speak more than one, uses emojis when texting

The Bastei Bridge in Saxon Switzerland National Park, Germany

Actually, it doesn’t have anything to do with Switzerland, its located in Saxony, but the name comes from the local perception (Saxony’s “Switzerland”).

Photo: SteFou!, via visitheworld

Germany

one of the most important things ive learned from upper level biology education so far is that dna isnt the god-like all-powerful beacon of similarity between all living beings on the face of the earth as high school science textbooks will lead u to believe but actually is, in fact, the molecular equivalent of a smoldering dumpster fire that’s in a constant state of chaos and cellular scandal like some highlights: 

-the parts of dna that just casually detach on a physical level from the main strand, do some sick skateboard tricks in the cytoplasm, and land somewhere else with 43552342 copies

-the parts that would do A Thing if they wern’t physically spooled up so tightly that the Make Thing Happen machinery couldnt get to them

-the dna thats in ur mitochondria bc the mitochondria used to be a bacteria that our bigger, buffer cellular ancestors just vored in the primordial ooze 

-the dna that’s in chloroplasts in plants for the same reason

-rna….bitches be crazy like what is she gonna do next?? o she gonna act like a protein now and do shit?? im on the edge of my seat 

-sometimes u just gotta make more chromosomes man like sometimes u just be hanging out and u gotta make ur genome 64 sizes larger and then change ur mind only 100,000 years later and delete half of it and thats just how it is on this bitch of an earth

-random shit from like 5 BCE is just casually left over everywhere like no susan i told u to leave that gene alone we might need it to fight dinosaurs again u just never know!!!!!

dna is earth’s biggest and brightest train wreck and honestly i wouldnt trust a dna molecule to water my plants let alone run my body but here we fucking are 

27.08.2019 | enjoying the last august days ☼

I feel like the section of Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy where he warns about melancholy from ‘overmuch study’ is the 17th c equivalent of that post that’s like “why are we here? just to suffer? everyday I get emails”

nikkiinwanderland

Ms. Codex 1262 - [Literary miscellany]

This manuscript is a collection of Latin poetry and prose, consisting of mostly classical sources, but it also features some medieval works. It contains some marginal and interlinear notes and corrections in various near-contemporary hands, and some short marginal poems in red in a different hand, along with some commentary arranged in geometric patterns in the margins.

It was written in Italy, around 1471 CE.

Click here for additional information, or here for the facsimile.

How to Handle Having TOO MUCH To Do

So let’s say you’re in the same boat I am (this is a running theme, have you noticed?) and you’ve just got, like, SO MUCH STUFF that HAS to get done YESTERDAY or you will DIE (or fail/get fired/mope). Everything needs to be done yesterday, you’re sick, and for whatever reason you are focusing on the least important stuff first. What to do!

Take a deep breath, because this is a boot camp in prioritization.

Make a 3 by 4 grid. Make it pretty big. The line above your top row goes like this: Due YESTERDAY - due TOMORROW - due LATER. Along the side, write: Takes 5 min - Takes 30 min - Takes hours - Takes DAYS.

Divide ALL your tasks into one of these squares, based on how much work you still have to do. A thank you note for a present you received two weeks ago? That takes 5 minutes and was due YESTERDAY. Put it in that square. A five page paper that’s due tomorrow? That takes an hour/hours, place it appropriately. Tomorrow’s speech you just need to rehearse? Half an hour, due TOMORROW. Do the same for ALL of your tasks

Your priority goes like this:

5 minutes due YESTERDAY

5 minutes due TOMORROW

Half-hour due YESTERDAY

Half-hour due TOMORROW

Hours due YESTERDAY

Hours due TOMORROW

5 minutes due LATER

Half-hour due LATER

Hours due LATER

DAYS due YESTERDAY

DAYS due TOMORROW

DAYS due LATER

At this point you just go down the list in each section. If something feels especially urgent, for whatever reason - a certain professor is hounding you, you’re especially worried about that speech, whatever - you can bump that up to the top of the entire list. However, going through the list like this is what I find most efficient.

Some people do like to save the 5 minute tasks for kind of a break between longer-running tasks. If that’s what you want to try, go for it! You’re the one studying here.

So that’s how to prioritize. Now, how to actually do shit? That’s where the 20/10 method comes in. It’s simple: do stuff like a stuff-doing FIEND for 20 minutes, then take a ten minute break and do whatever you want. Repeat ad infinitum. It’s how I’ve gotten through my to do list, concussed and everything.

You’ve got this. Get a drink and start - we can do our stuff together!

24.8.2019

~top tip~

paper-sized whiteboards (yes like the ones we used to use in school) are l i f e s a v e r s for chemistry / organic chem reaction mechanisms, and for practicing drawing molecules!!

ft. Bakelit Herstellung aus Formaldehyd & Phenol