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Do you ever feel like it was way easier to find friends, when you were younger? I don’t know what happened, but somehow between the age of 13 and now, I lost most of my social skills. I get really bad anxiety when talking to strangers and now I only have one friend at Uni and she’s skipping classes pretty often so I don’t know if she’ll pass the exams. All of my close friends live far away, I’m scared of being lonely.

Well, at least I have the neighborhood cats, that’s step one of my 15-year-plan to become a crazy cat lad 🩵🤍

Obsessed with this song lately

Madly in love with my newest IKEA purchase and the neighbor‘s cat Timmy (even though he constantly tries to break into our apartment -a criminal, but a cute one)

Also I’m already 🌼stressed🌼 about my exams

if academia ever makes you feel like you're not good or smart enough . . . it's not you, it's academia.

-Ali Hazelwood

#Whatwouldmariedo, if she had to take a math test on Wednesday about a, b and c, but in her math lecture they’ve only ever talked about subject a and b and will certainly not cover subject c before next week, so she is not sure, how to solve problems involving subject c

Current mood:

✨ staring at my mechanics assignment humming Adam Lambert’s „Whataya want from me“ ✨

Please send help 🙃

It has come to my attention that drinking an average of five coffees a day is not considered normal/healthy. I also am starting to think that my permanent headaches may be caused by caffeine withdrawals when I don’t meet my coffee average.

I did a quick doodle during my math class, look at this cute little dragon 💕

Anyways, I‘m skipping my physics lecture today in order to get some other things done before going to work. So not ✨academia✨of me

Absolutely no studying today.

Sometimes one just needs to take a break and visit places they’ve been at a thousand times before. It’s a special kind of comfort.

Went to a beautiful café in my hometown today with one of my best friends 💕 I also decided to start playing the piano more frequently again and bought the Bridgerton Song book, since I prefer modern piano covers

Train rides and physics 🌻

It‘s kind of hard to romanticize studying during a long train ride, when the train conductor thinks you’re in the middle of a heat wave and leaves the AC running. ✨Only my tablet’s overworked lithium battery keeps me from slowly freezing to death. ✨

Hello there, I think it’s time to introduce myself ✨

My name is Sophie (actually my second name, but I prefer this one over my first name) and I am 22 years old. I‘m currently doing my bachelor’s degree in Medical Engineering and work part time at a small café

•I‘m very much in love with the neighborhood’s stray cats and currently trying to befriend them (aka bribing them with salmon snacks.)

•I also like swimming, reading cliché romance novels, crocheting and art.

•I‘d describe myself as a quite sensitive and creative person, but I also love the structure and logic behind science, that’s why I chose this field of study.

If you have any book recommendations, questions, anecdotes you think I would enjoy, feel free to send me a message 🦆 I would love to make some new friends on this site

Also I do have an Instagram Account with the same username, but I feel like tumblr is a bit less overstimulating, that’s why I like using this app

My plan to digitalize my notes on my iPad didn't happen today, since the Apple Pencil I bought on eBay is not working at all. Like -this thing is clinically dead. Also I had to move to the living room, since my boyfriend typing on his keyboard is currently the most annoying sound in the world to me. Needless to say, I didn't start my study session in a good mood.

But: I did what any sane person would do and made myself a macchiato and a bowl filled with sweets.

It's a beautiful day outside and I already feel a bit better, now that I've actually started.

nevermind i resolved it

I SWEAR IT WAS WORKING FIVE SECONDS AGO AAA

in my academic weapon era ✍️

physics feels so inaccessible.

like what do you mean the only information on this topic is a power point presentation from ten years ago with only half of the information on it?

or you tell me there's three ways to download the software i need for the calculations, but only one of the ways actually works and you don't even tell me how to do it!!!

never mind the sheer amount of prerequisites. i never struggled with math too much, but i also never took the opportunity to skip a level in math. when i was starting out, you can't do anything without trig. so then i went and learned trig on my own, but then i needed matrices. so i went and i learned matrices and vectors on my own, but now i need calculus. and holy shit is there a lot of stuff within calculus.

half the important papers are hidden behind paywalls and the diagrams are so confusing they take me forever to figure out. maybe i'm just inexperienced, but isn't the whole point of diagrams for the information to be more accessible?????

i might be wrong since i'm young and inexperienced, but it seems as if there's this tone of exclusivity in physics. why is it so hard to find mentors, and when i do, they have such trouble believing in me? i might be young, but i can still understand and help with something. why would you ignore all my emails and just tell me to take the easy way out? i'm in it for the long run.

i went to the local library to pick up some books today :) i'm literally so dumb because i was in the wrong row for the nonfiction section (looking for spacefarers) and i did not even stop to question why all the books around me were on the culinary arts.

i heard the master of djinn is a really good book and would be good for people that liked arcane. IF I MAKE IT THROUGH THE BOOK, maybe i'll write a review. hopefully i can because it looks really interesting...

i have a lot of random stuff to do these next two days since i wasn't productive for the first three days of break :(

study for computer science midterm

calculus unit 4 problem sets

magnetostatics FRQ

read literature for research project

update astrophysics notes

work on cosmology simulation

f=ma exam…. either i cooked or completely flunked lol

AAAAAAHHHH I HAVE A MATH TEST TMRW

Normally, I’m not so stressed, but I missed class this week (I was skipping shame on me 😭) and I have no clue what’s going on… Me and the math teacher are besties because he’s the coach of the golf team, so I’m scared of disappointing him with my bad test scores.

I also had a long lab in chem this week. It’s really sad because we got bad results even though we ran our trial for over and hour lol. I think it’s my lab partner’s fault because he keeps on putting his crusty fingers all over the cuvettes which is messing up the spectrophotometer. Hopefully he actually writes his part so it’s not another repeat of last year.

- Practice midterms for matrices

- Grade practice midterms

- Write lab report

- Debug binary system simulation

- Work on astro research paper

- Work on program applications

- Finish new deal research

- Finish college assessment

- Email people back 😬

Don’t ask me why we have a midterm in January… I have no clue.

chemistry has been kicking my butt lately. so i’m staying after school to study. yay 😀

on the bright side, i somehow managed to secure more than 100% in my comp sci class with a huge fail rate… not really going to question it in case it was a mistake tho. take the wins when they arise

target haul!! i went to go grab two notebooks (one for physics and one for math) i normally just use one for the entire year, but this time i’ve already run out of pages in one semester 😳

my computer science teacher says f the trees (his words not mine) and that you should use the paper to do your work and not try to compress it super small. a little extreme, but the point is, don’t be shy to take up space with your notes.

i went for a walk later this evening to decompress and it was so pretty— prepare for more sky pics because i will be going outside more often after today.

- final review physics 2

- ap frq practice

i failed one of the frqs which was pretty disappointing. focusing on the positive, i now know what i need to practice before my final tomorrow!

I wanted to lock in before the new year, so I finally got through the final part of my circuits lecture!!! I think this one was the longest yet (it took me like the whole day).

I did stop for a walk outside though (that’s the picture I took on the left) so that helped me clear my mind a little bit. Definitely a goal of mine will be to focus more when it’s time to work and then relax guilt free in order to prevent days like this.

Overall, I’m not disappointed since it’s difficult material. I really like the problem solving aspect of it since it’s like working a puzzle— especially the multi-loop ones.

today is a study day (fortunately or regrettably depending on your perspective). this problem set is really cool and i actually like learning about circuits, which i didn’t expect.

- circuits problem set (88 mins)

- circuits quiz (39 mins)

- advanced circuits lecture

i’m REALLY behind in my course and i need to catch up by the time school starts again so i probably have another 4 hrs of work minimum. it’s finally feeling like crunch time lol

i made this post a while ago and omg its even worse than i thought. i'm working on some electrostatics problem sets rn. how are you going to have v for velocity, V for electric potential, V for the volts unit, V for volume, U for potential energy, u for energy density, v (or i guess nu) for neutrinos, v for frequency???? they all look the same...

don't even get me started on k

why are there so many variables in physics? it’s like reading a whole new language and i’m dying here 😭

i actually got out of bed and did some work 😳 total 90 mins so far. next on my to-do list is emails and suddenly i want to crawl back into the darkness

i have too much to do but not enough time 🥲

early morning study session! i’ve been at it for two hours and i’ve only gotten through 7 physics problems but that’s the fun part 😁

pretty sure i got one wrong bc one of my solutions is 1.3 x 10^65 hydrogen atoms….

actually studying in the library for once 😊 and yes, i did spend five minutes drawing those gorgeous field lines instead of being productive

pretty colors~

i LOVE doing titration labs. i used methyl orange since my lab station was in charge of finding the first equivalence point of a diprotic acid. it was kind of hard to tell if the acid was red, orange, or yellow at times though... but the data is good!

studying from home tip— move your desk next to a window so that you don’t get depressed while you study ❤️