Academia - Blog Posts
"What of art?" she asked.
"It is a malady."
"Love?"
"An illusion."
"Religion?"
"The fashionable substitute for belief."
"You are a sceptic."
"Never! Scepticism is the beginning of faith."
"What are you?"
"To define is to limit."
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are all noble pursuits, and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
— Dead Poets Society
Does anyone have experience with changing their major? I’m going through an existential crisis and could really use someone to ask some questions about this
Trying to escape reality by reading 7 fantasy books within the last four weeks, also went to a hotpot restaurant with friends. I’m poor now, reality still sucks, but at least autumn’s coming 🦇🕸️
Talked to a friend with major depression and anxiety who is currently in treatment about what we consider as normal thoughts and apparently most healthy people don’t think they are a total failure? They don’t panic when talking to their classmates?
Sounds made up, but okay 🤷🏻♀️
Is it alarming, that for three years straight my most played song on Spotify has been "Reasons not to die" by Ryn Weaver? Should I be worried about my music taste? How on earth can I still listen to this song? Why do I never get sick of it?
I just impulsively bought about 2kg of wool for 70€ because the idea of a "Lover" inspired cardigan popped up in my head.
What the fuck is wrong with me.
Anyways, I'll keep you posted on how it turns out
The longer I look at the illustration my materials science professor put in his PowerPoint, the more convinced I am, that he secretly hates students and is actively trying to sabotage us
Or he has grown fond of us over the last year and he just wants to see our faces again next semester
Enjoying the days before exam season starts
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.
Today’s soundtrack ✨
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
Rainy Day impressions
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.
The result (feat. my Pinterest as a widget)
What I used customizing my iPad
My Personal Power-Walk Playlist:
Carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man
"I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have."
Stephen Chbosky, The perks of being a wallflower
It took me f*cking two full years, but I finally managed to finish my first diary ✨