‘eat The Frog' Method

16/08/20

a cute lil plant themed weekly spread for my first full week back at school!

summer studying challenge: summer days or nights?

i’d have to say inbetween- i love dawn and dusk during summer because they’re so drawn out and beautiful.

late(ish) night biology revision

[ one hundred days of productivity — 5/100 ]

tue 20 august

finishing up some chemistry notes this afternoon, then onto english essay research. this years gonna be a toughie, i can already tell.

hope your studies go well and have a great day! x

thank you !! :) x

17th April ~ 12:15

English essay planning & finishing off holiday homework this morning. I’ve started doing that thing where you plan each day on post-its? We’ll see how it goes. Also I’m running low on post-its.

academia things that genuinely make me happy

large textbooks filled with extra papers which hold the answers to the problems you thought were too brilliant to be thrown away, or the simple short summary of a part you were struggling to understand before

having your textbook absolutely ruined by highlighters and sticky notes all over it, those little tips and ideas you picked up from the lesson. anyone who opens that book immediately knows that you’ve studied the crap out of it and know the concept by heart. “this is the most annotated book i’ve ever seen” is literally the highest form of compliment for me.

solving math or chemistry problems to a soundtrack album or ambient sounds, extra points if it’s in afternoon lol

when you’re so focused and keen on getting to the final answer that your hand physically can’t keep up with your eagerness so you end up with the most incoherent solution. but you’ve finally got the answer right!

being self-taught in a subject or a few chapters of the textbook, and still smashing the quizzes and the exams

coming up with a new solution to the problem, or seeing the problem from a new perspective, and finally being able to solve it because of just that.

confidently walking out of the exam room. 0 doubt in your mind that you crushed it!

actually feeling how you’ve grown academically, and how much more knowledgeable you are compared to the beginning of the semester

casually and confidently having conversations with a professor about your studies, exchanging ideas and discussing the existing theories, methods, on-going research and all

all of this is everything i want in life- god 

17 people, 17 questions :)

1. nickname: soren lorenson

2. zodiac sign: taurus

3. height : 5’5”

4. hogwarts house: ravenclaw

5. last thing i googled: “steve aurora borealis”

6. song stuck in my head: flowers, from hadestown

7. no. of followers: 455

8. amount of sleep: it’s summer so ~10-11 hours a night

9. lucky number: 8

10. dream job: research astrophysicist

11. wearing: navy tshirt, black leggings and a black fleece

12. favourite song: currently catherine the great by jon caryl

13. favourite instrument: i play violin but i’d have to say my fav is bassoon/french horn

14. aesthetic: i simply cannot pin that down to one answer

15. favourite authors: terry pratchett, casey mcquiston, madeline miller

16. favourite animal house: owls

17. random fact: i love colouring in and am currently colouring a gbbo book!

tagging: @chazza-studies-alevels @stellar-kinematics @aztrolab @physics-studies @starrystvdy @studyaurore @peachblossomstudy @ficklefocus @shootingshadowss if you fancy :)

20.05.20

advanced higher chemistry is putting my artistic abilities to the test.

Rating LHC detector logos & names

CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has 4 crossing-point detectors: ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb. This is a totally accurate 100% true absolutely not biased summary of how well they rank in name and logo

ALICE: A Large Ion Collider Experiment

Name: 5/5 (we love a woman in STEM, plus it's a fairly easy and informative acronym)

Logo: 3/5 (simple, cool colours but does look slightly evil, and the fact the lines aren't the same length upsets me)

TOTAL: 8/10

ATLAS: A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS

Name: 3/5 (loving the mythology name, very cool. However, a point has to be deducted from having two letters in the acorynm from 'Apparatus', especially as one is from the end of the word. Another point is deducted from using an acronym in your acronym)

Logo: 5/5 (perfect, and apparently it's also modelled on an actual physicist from the experiment)

TOTAL: 8/10

CMS: Compact Muon Solenoid

Name: 1/5 (it's so boring! You get 1 point for being informative)

Logo: 1/5 (it looks like a child designed it. Where's the pizzazz? I know those are meant to be muon tracks but they really do look like tentacles)

TOTAL: 2/10

LHCb: LHC-beauty

Name: 2/5 (Yes okay it's not really any better than CMS', but the fact it has LHC in the name makes it feel very Important™. The beauty is from the fact its doing bottom quark physics, and bottom quarks are also called beauty quarks and I just think that's neat)

Logo: 2/5 (A Basic Bitch of a logo, though it gets 1 redemption point for the red line suggesting CP violation, which is physicsy and cool)

TOTAL: 4/10