26.8.16

“it’s alright, i’m here”

January 9 2018: 2/100 My mom surprised me with a note and a gift card when I got home because I got straight A’s last semester. I’ve always been unable to really focus on school because of my dysphoria and anxiety and this year my mental health had improved so much since I started transitioning :) Although I’m proud of my achievement, remember that your grades don’t define your intelligence or work ethic. Strive to do your best and always take care of yourself ❤❤❤

Good luck to all my lgbtq+ students going into finals!!! You’re gonna do GREAT!

Reblog if your blog is safe for trans followers.

09/17/15 // Mind mapping for an overwhelming genetics section. Sorry I haven’t been super active — I’m having kind of a rough week, personally and academically. Much love. ❤️

My winter study session essentials: lots of blankets, hot chocolate, and a cozy sweater (or an oversized bathrobe) ☺️

winter season series part 1/part 9

→ here are all of the notes resources i was able to compile over the course of about a week; there’s loads of links here but don’t feel overwhelmed! there are many different methods, tips, and even resources for different subjects.

METHODS & TIPS

organic chemistry notes

a quick tip for writers out there, who use Microsoft Word

how i rewrite my notes

masterpost of everything

note-taking tips

the complete study guide for every type of learner

how to study

how to study psychology

how to take effective notes

symbols & abbreviations for note taking

how to efficiently take notes

notes, studying, and self-study resources

how to make mindmaps!!

taking lecture notes

studying biology

how to use cornell note-taking method on onenote - a tutorial on how to take class notes

cornell note-taking method

how to illustrate your notes

how to maintain good notes

taking notes as a science student

decorative underlines for notes

studyquill’s summerstudy tag w/ lots of notes!!!

types in the classroom

masterpost: studying methods

physics resources and link, including notes!!!

tips you never knew you needed

study advice masterpost, including notes tips

+ i have a post coming soon in this series that deals with how i take my notes using my own modified cornell method so keep an eye out for that!

PRINTABLES

note-taking printables

organic chemistry printable

vocabulary list + others

formula list + others

definitions, formulas, etc.

SOME OF MY FAV NOTES POSTS FOR INSP

notes from a presentation

digital notes!!

more notes!!!

apush notes

notes over the abdomen

notes throughout of mice and men

the psychology of music

handwritten physics notes from grade 11

astrophysics

earth & the universe

more astrophysics!!!

uk and british politics

+ you can check out my /tagged/ref page for more of my fave posts :)

+ you can also check out my /tagged/notes page for more notes!!!

as always, hope you found this helpful and if you have any ideas/requests, please don’t hesitate to message/dm me!

Going for GOLD

On Jan. 25, we’re going for GOLD!

We’re launching an instrument called Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, GOLD for short. It’s a new mission that will study a complicated — and not yet fully understood — region of near-Earth space, called the ionosphere.

Space is not completely empty: It’s teeming with fast-moving energized particles and electric and magnetic fields that guide their motion. At the boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and space, these particles and fields — the ionosphere — co-exist with the upper reaches of the neutral atmosphere.

That makes this a complicated place. Big events in the lower atmosphere, like hurricanes or tsunamis, can create waves that travel all the way up to that interface to space, changing the wind patterns and causing disruptions.

It’s also affected by space weather. The Sun is a dynamic star, and it releases spurts of energized particles and blasts of solar material carrying electric and magnetic fields that travel out through the solar system. Depending on their direction, these bursts have the potential to disrupt space near Earth.

This combination of factors makes it hard to predict changes in the ionosphere — and that can have a big impact. Communications signals, like radio waves and signals that make our GPS systems work, travel through this region, and sudden changes can distort them or even cut them off completely.

Low-Earth orbiting satellites — including the International Space Station — also fly through the ionosphere, so understanding how it fluctuates is important for protecting these satellites and astronauts.  

GOLD is a spectrograph, an instrument that breaks light down into its component wavelengths, measuring their intensities. Breaking light up like this helps scientists see the behavior of individual chemical elements — for instance, separating the amount of oxygen versus nitrogen. GOLD sees in far ultraviolet light, a type of light that’s invisible to our eyes.

GOLD is a hosted payload. The instrument is hitching a ride aboard SES-14, a commercial communications satellite built by Airbus for SES Government Solutions, which owns and operates the satellite.

Also launching this year is the Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, which will also study the ionosphere and neutral upper atmosphere. But while GOLD will fly in geostationary orbit some 22,000 miles above the Western Hemisphere, ICON will fly just 350 miles above Earth, able to gather close up images of this region.

Together, these missions give us an unprecedented look at the ionosphere and upper atmosphere, helping us understand the very nature of how our planet interacts with space.

To learn more about this region of space and the GOLD mission, visit: nasa.gov/gold.

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com.  

january 08, 2018 - 4/100 days of productivity: back to school!

Some digital notes I’ve been eager to upload but never really got myself into doing so. Now I’m focusing on making the notes as illustrated as possible and on the same day as the lecture! definitely a new challenge.

currently listening to: “fire and fury (audiobook)” -michael wolff

IG lulus.studies Some basic nervous system notes with a small diagram of the brain! It was super windy on campus today but nice and warm, it reminded me a lot of southern CA with the Santa Ana winds in the springtime. #studyspo