selenophhile

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15/4/25

I feel so guilty for not actually sticking to this. I didn't have not one productive study day but I'll try to resume the challenge from today.

Today's plan:

Biology ch2 - atleast 2 topics

Chemistry ch1- atleast 3

Physics ch1 - atleast 4

Maths - determinants ( first 2 exercises)

I'll come back the end of the day, hopefully by then I've covered atleast 3/4 tasks :)

7 Reasons you might be procrastinating and how to solve them:

Here's the link to the video

👏 SAY 👏 IT 👏 LOUDER 👏

24/3/25 and 25/3/25

I'm actually proud of myself- these past two days I've been fairly productive. I started priming a day prior and its been really effective so far! The info stuck and i found myself able to answer most of the questions the teachers asked during classes

I haven't been insanely productive but to me it's really smth considering the fact that I would go days (and sometimes weeks) without studying back in 11th grade. Hoping this continues :))

Introduction post

Welcome to my studyblog!

About me:

She/her

12th grade student (math + science)

17 years old

Reason for blog:

So senior year finally started and I'm already anxious. Last year didn't go really well and I'm gonna make sure that doesn't repeat this year. I have this habit of constantly falling into the same self-sabotaging cycle of procrastination, and I hope this blog will help me combat it. I will try to document my student life, and hopefully build a strict routine.

Goals:

Build self-discipline

Incorporate studying into my daily life and making it a habit

Scoring a good percentage overall

Make it into STEM

Winter is here, so it's time to light candles and study in bed and complain about the weather. I'm trying my best to learn all the things I have doubts about, but it's a long list.

quit brainrot. unfollow trolls. read essays. go down rabbit holes. have a calendar. maintain a todo list. read old books. watch old movies. turn on dnd. walk with intent. eat without youtube. chew more. train without music. plan for 15 mins. execute. organise your desk. take something seriously. read ancient scripts. act fast. find bread. eat clean. journal. save a life. learn to code. read poetry. create art. stay composed. refine your speech. optimise for efficiency. act sincere. help people. be kind. stop doing things that waste your time. follow your intuition. craft reputation. learn persuasion. systemise your day (or don't). write. write. write. write more. iterate violently. leave your phone at home. walk to the grocery store. talk to strangers. feed the dogs. visit bookstores. look for 1800s novels. experience art. then love. sit with a monk and offer them lunch. don't talk shit about people. embody virtue. sit alone. do something with your life. what do you want to create? turn off your mind. play. play a sport. combat sports. notice fonts in trees. fall in love. notice patterns on a table. visualise it. talk to people with respect. don't hate. be loving. be real. become yourself. cherrypick your qualities. discard the useless. rejections aren't permanent. invite what aligns. accept what does not. read great people. be different. choose different. do great work. let it consume you. lose your mind. value your time. experience life.

the funniest part of the secret history is that even though it's a satirical commentary about the effects of elitism and pomposity of certain academia, the fandom is full of people WANTING to be those pretentious Greek students. tartt i think your writing had the opposite of the intended effects ....

girls be like “i know a place” and then take you here

light academia this dark academia that; there is one real academia and it’s made of rubber dusts, papercuts on fingers, oily hair that hasn’t been washed in a week, big yawns, used up highlighters, dark eyebags, missed deadlines and piled up books

small talk enjoyers when the weather is in any way notable:

I miss this.

literally one of the best feelings in the world is like. when you are keeping up with your studies enough to where you're still able to do your hobbies. and you're romanticizing your schoolwork. and you feel all academic. and your hobbies feel even more special because they're like a reward after completing your schoolwork

I think about the Beast Below episode an ungodly amount because it just shows how kind the Doctor is. I know there are other episodes that also show this but Beast Below has my heart.

The fact that the Doctor knew exactly what was going on because a child was crying, then going through everything to see why this was happening. Then the heartbreaking discovery of the star whale. How the star whale came from the stars to help the children- because it was so old and so kind just like the doctor

I know this is like base level stuff but god- such a good episode

got inspired by @homosexual-having-tea​ ‘s post about the memes people would make while trying to rescue Watney in the Martian and whipped these up in about five minutes. bon appetite or whatever

If the oxygenator breaks down, I’ll suffocate. If the water reclaimer breaks down, I’ll die of thirst. If the hab breaches, I’ll just kind of implode. If none of those things happen, I’ll eventually run out of food and starve to death. So, yeah. I’m fucked. - The Martian, dir. Ridley Scott

Love the contrast between the Americans’ “Apollo” and the Soviets’ “Sputnik.” You got the Americans naming their rocket after a Greek god trying to communicate the grandness and importance of this rocket. And you got the Soviets naming their rocket “fellow traveler.” Like a friend you go on an  adventure with together. This rocket is our little friend lol 

✦ @booksociety​’s To the Stars event: The Martian by Andy Weir LOG ENTRY: SOL 475 I’m in trouble. I watched two Phobos transits yesterday and sighted Deneb last night. I worked out my location as accurately as I could, and it wasn’t what I wanted to see. As far as I can tell, I hit Marth Crater dead-on. Craaaaap. I can go north or south. One of them will probably be better than the other, because it’ll be a shorter path around the crater. I figured I should put at least a little effort into figuring out which direction was best, so I took a little walk this morning. It was over a kilometer to the peak of the rim. That’s the sort of walk people do on Earth without thinking twice, but in an EVA suit it’s an ordeal. I can’t wait till I have grandchildren.

Comfort character 🫶🫶

🧑‍🔬 Sheldon Cooper moodboard 🧑‍🔬

my nichest little take on twilight is what the fuck was esme doing all day. like imagine being literally immortal and centuries old and the author who created you was so encrusted in gender roles that you’re forced to be a housewife for eternity

Just walk in the misty morning of a forest.

9.18.24 | I finally finished the giant case study I’ve been staring at for days. I had a lot of fun in microbio today, ft. my microscopic children :,)

studying genetics 🧬🌱 🫧🍃🧪🥼🔬

having a deep interest in evolution - what did the creatures of the past look like?

the bright glare of a microscope, focused on a sample of chromosomes

building and learning from hundreds of incredibly intelligent physicists, chemists, and biologists before you

discoveries at incredible speeds, uniting researchers worldwide

thousands of duplications, forming a brand new organism from two cells

the dozens of pathways turning and turning to keep you healthy

studying everything from disease to heredity to synthetic biology

the small but firm bonds interlinking each nucleic acid, impermanent but ceaselessly passed on from generation to generation

𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔩𝔦𝔣𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔴𝔢𝔢𝔱 𝔞𝔠𝔞𝔡𝔢𝔪𝔦𝔠

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Eratosthenes was an ancient Greek mathematician who calculated the Earth's circumference over 2,000 years ago. On the summer solstice, he measured the angle of a shadow in Alexandria, where it was about 7 degrees, while no shadow was cast in Syene. By determining the distance between the two cities and using basic geometry, he estimated the Earth's circumference to be around 40,000 kilometers, which is remarkably close to the modern measurement of 40,030 kilometers.

And it has Carl Sagan in it. The video doesn’t just demonstrate a science fact, but how critical thinking works, asking why and how, then design a way to test if something is true,