Everything’s Fine! Don’t Worry About It!

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sometimes my eyes struggle to focus.

me after reading fiction for 5 days straight because i was sad™ and couldnt bear to study:

i think im going to start another study challange again, but dont know what. Need to look through tumblr a while.

Burnout is honestly such a mild word for what people use it to mean. I'm not experiencing "burnout", which sounds so casual and routine that some face masks and a little rest is going to fix it.

My body and mind and even nervous system are stretched to the point that it's going to take a lot more than just a "break" or a few self care tips to recover, and even then, my recovery is just so that I can reenter the spaces that contributed to me being this way in the first place. I'm a little bit more than just burnt out by this.

Workplaces and educational institutions aggressively overwork us, expose us to all kinds of discrimination, which they overlook and gaslight us out of acknowledging, and then constantly ask us to ignore our mental, emotional, and physical needs so that we don't inconvenience them.

We're not burnt out. We're borderline traumatized. Burnout is always talked about like something transient and mild that a little rest and relaxation will fix.

But we're exhausted. We need deep rest and healing. We need new systems. We need new ways of being. The language around burnout just seems like a way of upholding these current violent systems and downplaying their impacts.

anyone have a cap of hawkeye eating a sandwich or know an episode where he does. I'm trying to make a post

me posting non rw content jumpscare

hi nitw angus

here are my favourite poems to do with writing that are priceless and feel as informative as a guidebook on poetry writing:

to a young poet by mahmoud darwish (most favourite!)

how to be a poet by wendell berry (favourite!)

the real prayers are not the words but the attention that comes first by mary oliver

poem written in a copy of beowulf by jorge luis borges

the wolf’s eyelash by c.p. estes

digging by seamus heaney

?poetry by pablo neruda

ars poetica by archibald macleish

my heart by frank o’hara

notes on the art of poetry by dylan thomas

the joy of writing by wislawa szymborska

how to eat a poem by eve merriam

basho on haiku: 17 statements

how to write a poem in a time of war by joy harjo

discontinuous poems by fernando pessoa

you can feel free to add on more poems about poems to this if you know any good ones!

One thing that helped me in life is like realizing that everybody else gets away with being ugly. Everybody else gets away with confronting people. Everybody else gets away with accidentally bothering people. Don’t worry about anything ever lol

you have to stay kind. you have to find a way somehow

28 more days of the semester (4/15/2025)

Took a quiz in immunology (didn't study too hard and it kicked my ass tbh)

Took my chemistry lab final (where they said it was going to be just the quiz questions... it wasn't + probably failed it 😔👍)

Got notif about my REU!! Meeting sometime next week + getting things set up for it :)

Hey kid you want a job?

Great get online and go to a job board. Indeed, Linkedin whatever. Now you're gonna search for a role that's in your city, fits your qualifications, and doesn't seem like a bad time.

See that easy apply button? Don't hit it they just throw those in the trash. Now you're gonna want to go to the company's website and check their careers page.

Oh? That job doesn't exist anymore. Cool go back to the job board and find another one.

Great you found another job, you're on the company's career page and the job exists!! So you're going to need to make an account on the career page website. They're using Workday, the same site as the last job you applied for? Who cares? You need to make another account for THIS job's workday page.

Now you're going to upload your resume. That'll autopopulate about 15 boxes with everything on your resume, except formatted wrong and with tons of errors. So just go through and painstakingly check the dates on all of that and rewrite everything you already laid out in an aesthetically pleasing format on your resume.

Ok time for the cover letter, explain why this specific job and company are deeply important to you. You love their mission statement and wouldn't even laugh if their ceo was gunned down in the street. You'll really want to reiterate the things you just spent the last 20 minutes filling out on the resume section

(Remember to include language from the job description, people who work in HR are lower than dogs and they need patterns or they get confused.) Write about a page, but hey don't sound too desperate or robotic this is where they judge your character!

Maybe add your portfolio site at the end here, who knows if that helps no one has ever clicked mine haha.

Anywayyy time to hit apply! Congrats! You'll see that confirmation email come in and you should be getting the rejection letter in about 2 weeks. Unfortunately your resume didn't have the right buzzwords and the AI auto rejected you :(

Time to start again and try not to kill yourself!