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!!
Studying in the park + city walk
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
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.
Spring
can't tell if howl actually reads all those pretty books lying around his house or if he keeps them strewn about for the aesthetic TM
4/26/22
My hardcover copy of ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ by Ocean Vuong arrived today . I started reading it on my kindle a month ago but its one of those books that you just have to have a physical copy of . Even though I’m on Eid break, I’ve been spending most of my days preparing for my exam that’s in 22 days . I have to remind myself that this is for my future, especially when all I want to do is rest .