Desk Aesthetic - Blog Posts

How everything feels lately:

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Not art but ...(⁠◕⁠ᴗ⁠◕⁠✿⁠)

...my safe place 🤍🩷💜

(I just love sitting here daily, making my smol inktober drawings)

⋆𐙚₊˚⊹♡ life update:

semester 03 edition — midterms and repeat papers are stressing me out

⋆𐙚₊˚⊹♡ pics from a (long) while ago !

these are left in my drafts for a long time now,, time to free them!

⋆𐙚₊˚⊹♡ friday, 2nd august '24

i'm finally studying for my semester two finals oml i could never catch a break from chemistry </3

also hbd mark (re: king) ! just keep being yourself and i am sooooo seated for whatever you have next 🫶 pls catch a break soon 😭

⋆𐙚₊˚⊹♡ tuesday, 12th march '24

work done, w=fd

me, n=othing done

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⋆𐙚₊˚⊹♡ monday, 11th march '24

monday blues is real, therefore i am a victim.

ramadan kareem to my fellow muslims !! may all our prayers be answered (and free palestine!)

forcing myself out of a slump :(

⋆𐙚₊˚⊹♡ tuesday, 27th february '24

i started limits intro 👺👺👺 (finally) , birthday slump was reaaaaaaal </3 also i played around with the iso on "pro" mode and got these beautiful pics omg (this was alr coloured with filters, and i'm not gonna shut up till i upload these pics everywhere 😁)

just me and my pink calculator... again..

for tomorrow's chemistry paper 🫠🖐️

Starting uni again + honorable mention, my support animals

Remember what life is all about

I was so concerned with my final year of college, finals, entry exams, that it felt like i was going through life head bowed, just walking on autopilot and staring only at the ground

I need to remember to enjoy life more often

The exams will be there, the time will pass anyway

So i choose to spend my free time remembering that there's life outside of university and the oh-so-important future

Smell the flowers, sit in the sun, go for a walk in the rain, watch children play, dance in your room, feed some ducks or squirrels (do some research about what is ok to feed them beforehand though)

Remember what life is really about

Taking breaks is also being productive

Studying constantly only leads to burnout. Go take a walk. Feed some ducks. Admire a pretty building. Try to cook something new.

You might feel guilty at first, but nothing in excess is ever good, not even studying.

Dont forget to live life

You are smarter than you feel and you know more than you think.

Always while studying or right before an exam i feel like i don't know anything, my thoughts are all jumbled and I can't find a straight answer for a question i ask myself for funsies.

That's ok.

I've come to know that, despite feeling like i don't know anything, i hold all the necessary information. When it counts, when you have a specific problem right in front of you, you will know the answer.

You sometimes just have to trust yourself.

All work and no fun makes for a very cranky law student

Take a break

Go play cards, smell some flowers, read tarot, do a funny sketch of an animal, learn origami, dance for no reason, draw a mustache on yourself

Don't let life pass you by

Little things can make a big difference

For me it's about color schemes

I generally enjoy studying but oh boy do i love doing it when i can annotate a book with a pretty color scheme.

Makes me want to look for deeper meaning into the text, to draw diagrams and make small summaries.

Today's goal is finding small reasons for happiness in everything and anything

Just because you have to study to achieve your dreams doesn't mean it can't be enjoyable

College has been a whole process for me. I did not know how to study, i did not know how to put effort into the right things, and most importantly, i did not know how to accept that my actions (or lack of) were the problem.

It took me years, but I've learned to accept that it's ok for me to need to study to be good when it comes to a subject, that college is a place for learning, not for being instantly good at something.

And now i can finally say that, without the subconscious frustration, i truly do enjoy learning new things, studying new subjects, and studying for the sake of knowing more, not just to pass exams.

It takes work, but it's all worth it.

Studying isn't about grades, it's about falling in love with a subject.

I've officially started my last year of college and have never felt more excited. These years have been a process of learning to love learning new things, but i think I've finally started fully appreciating the opportunity to study subjects that not only interest me, but will also help me in my life and career post-university.

I'm grateful to have professors that are passionate about the courses they teach, I'm grateful for the friends that are just as dedicated to learning as I am, with whom I can always discuss interesting details and debatable theories.

It's a new year and I'm grateful to become a new me.

We're all just humans

And to be human means to make mistakes.

And that's perfectly ok.

Learning to embrace making mistakes means learning to love yourself a little bit more (and at the end of the day, that's what really matters)

2/6 exams to go

Less than one week until the first exam.

I've reached the point where i can't wait for the day of the exam to have an excuse to get out of the house and dress up in something other than comfy house clothes.

Wish me luck!

6.11.2022

Trying to get back in the studying mood is the hardest part of studying.

There's still time left until my midterms, but I don't want to cram a lot right before the exams, so I'm trying to get back on track. Productivity level is remarkably low.

Any advice on getting motivated to study?