Blue Water Lilies, Monet, C. 1917

i stress about stress before there’s even stress to stress about

when my ecology teacher went "and, well, we're ... surviving" about how us as living things interact . yeah , yeah . we are surviving. it's not always easy but it's enough for us to get to the next day.

I wanna live in a little quaint cottage that backs up to a big old forest full of birds and deer and mystery and i want to dry my laundry outside when its sunny and tend to my garden when its foggy and sit inside by the fire and write when its rainy

good afternoon from your resident med student. had the first phase of my research competition at 10am today. pretty simple and was very general so I’m sure I (and almost everyone else who signed up) passed. currently studying mechanisms of ventilation. will be taking a quick lunch break soon.

me this semester

That reminds me of that one infuriating post that was like “if you don’t understand an academic paper, it probably means it was poorly written”…. Besties, romans, countrymen, if you don’t understand an academic paper it’s probably because it was written for a handful of experts in the very specific subfield for which it is relevant, and as someone who is almost certainly NOT one of those handful of experts it’s not in your realm of immediate comprehension. In many (most? all?) fields if you take even one step to the left of your scope of research you’re going to end up spending a lot of time catching up on context. Shockingly, this is because there’s a lot of information out there in the world, and you don’t know all of it. That doesn’t make you stupid, or the author stupid. No one has to be stupid in this scenario. This is a process called learning, just chill on it

I want more life experiences that make me fun not more crazy lol!!

drinking pear green tea, listening to some Debussy, feeling good 🍐😌

it drives me crazy how most study community users act so fucking woke, and then in the next post talk abt how they bought a fucking harry potter book like okay! so you choose to support a transphobic writer and a book series that has racism, antisemitism and anti-indigenous themes in it! so woke!

last day of the first week back at uni. as much as I love gloomy weather, it’s been reflecting on my mood a bit too much. have a lot of studying to do over the weekend + USMLE prep.