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my trick for getting through grad school is learning to navigate the quadrants with all their nuances

21.07.2024 - Reading log

I'm currently trying to summon back my old book mouse* spirit and start reading again.

I have already started a few weeks ago with an old favourite (from my childhood) to get used to read a bit every day again, but then I realized I was late with the school homework schedule so I have to overlap different readings, which I don't like much but I know I can do it 🐭

(the 🐀 is for currently reading, the others are to read)

🌼 school:

🐀 ~ 🇮🇹 ~ Italo Calvino Racconta L'Orlando Furioso

🇬🇧 ~ And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

💐 my choice:

🐀 ~ 🇮🇹 ~ Fairy Oak 1 - Il Segreto delle Gemelle di Elisabetta Gnone

🇮🇹 ~ Il Ritratto di Dorian Gray di Oscar Wilde

🇮🇹 ~ Cime Tempestose di Emily Brontë

* in Italy we say book mouse 🐭 and I think it's much cuter than worm, I'd like to be a mouse living in an old library(no offence to book worms 🪱 tho)

Random writing tips that my history professor just told during class that are actually helpful

Download all your sources or print them so you can turn off your wifi

Give your phone to someone

Just. WRITE. Writing is analysing, you’ll get more ideas as you write. It doesn’t need to be perfect, for now you can just blurt out words and ideas randomly. You can fix it later.

Create a skeleton/structure before writing.

Stop before you get exhausted. It’s best to stop writing when you still have some energy and inspiration left, this will also motivate you to get started again next time.

Make a to do list

Work in bite sizes. Even if it’s not much, as long as you put some ideas on paper or do some editing.

Simple language =/= boring language, simple language = clear language.

Own your words. If they are not your words, state this clearly in the text, not just in the footnotes.

STOP BEFORE YOU GET EXHAUSTED. Listing it again because it’s easily one of the best tips a teacher has ever given me.

romanticizing 101 : picking flowers in a flower field

"It took me TWO years to finish this sketch book!" Well that's cuz you're not fuckin sketching. Those are fully painted pieces dawg that's a renderedbook. I've gone through four sketchbooks in my off time this year alone I just draw stupid faces and shit for fun. pussy up like the rest of us and start drawing stick figures with guns

One day, I'll have kids, and my kids are going to want to go on the internet. And this is what I'll tell them:

The internet is like Fairyland. It is a wondrous place, a place of many marvels and many opportunities.

It is also a dangerous place, with strange rules that often seem arbitrary — to navigate it, you have to learn its fairy-logic, and learn to speak its language.

It is a place of tests and trials — the folk can be cruel, pointlessly so, just because it amuses them. It's often not personal, even if it seems like it is. The worst are the Trolls, but they will lose power if you don't engage with them.

It is a place of illusion and lies. Everyone wears a mask, and not all the masked people are actually people. Don't believe everything you see or hear, for illusions are everywhere.

Time moves differently there. Entire days can go by, seemingly in an instant.

Do not accept anything you're offered, and be very careful to whom you tell your True Name.

If you’ve ever been curious about running away to Florence to study painting with ancient techniques, I made a video about it! 🎨📚

"Studying is not a trend. It's a lifestyle. A lifestyle is not an amount. It's practice. So what are you waiting for? Take action. "

-thelostfilesofstudents

"The day was beautiful, warm and clear. It was the end of August."

– Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov