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This happens a lot in a couple of 1-person study rooms in my library, so every 10 minutes I need to pause working, roll back on my chair and flail my arms a bit.

dark academia (sitting in one place so long the library's motion-sensitive lights have turned off)

there is so much love to be found in the mundane: the clink of mismatched mugs crowding the countertop, buying bruised fruit at the market to make sure everyone finds a home, the gentle rocking of the washing machine syncing up with your heartbeat, rubbing your legs together under fresh blankets like a little cricket, the perfect crunch of an exceptionally crisp chip, jumping straight into a rain puddle and getting a good splash, that first soul-deep stretch after waking up, tucking your face into your favorite sweater and feeling the world slow to a halt, even just for a little bit.

[Certainly, here is a possible introduction for your topic:Lithium-metal batteries are promising candidates for high-energy-density rechargeable batteries due to their low electrode potentials and high theoretical capacities [...]] (emphasis ours)

Zhang et al. (2024)

Speaking of willows. There's a species of willow. Salix herbacea. Known as the Dwarf Willow. And this thing. IT ONLY GROWS 1-6 CENTIMETERS TALL. IT'S KNOWN AS "ONE OF THE SMALLEST WOODY PLANTS" BECAUSE ITS A TREE THAT DECIDED TO BE 1 CENTIMETER HEIGHT

it really is insane how waking up early will grant you access to some of the most beautiful sights and sensations in the world that will make you want to live forever, but only if you overcome the gauntlet of a thousand razors that is getting out of bed early. truly one of life's little saw traps.

God finding useful programming advice on youtube is so fucking ridiculous. I'm just looking for backend dev advice, and it's so many like "TOP 5 THINGS YOUR PORTFOLIO NEEDS", "CREATE A PORTFOLIO IN 20 MINUTES", "USE THIS PROJECT TO GET A JOB INSTANTLY". Like all these tech influencers just make up bullshit to sound smart. I need a loser with no thumbnail who's been programming for 15 years not these bozos.

Took me until about halfway through college before I realized “study” means “play with the material in a variety of ways until you understand it” and not just “read the assigned chapters and do the homework” and I think that probably should have been discussed at some point prior to that.

tumblr should let me use LaTeX commands so i can inflict mathematics onto people directly like boo! euler-lagrange equation upon ye

hurr hurr I'm a human body hurr hurr I'm gonna solve all my problems using mucus

my dissertation hot take is that when online publishing platforms like Medium or Science restrict their academic content ('you have to be a subscribed member to read this article :(' , 'you've reached your max amount of free articles today sowwy') deadass they shouldn't get a citation. i don't care.

if you as a distributor of academic content start arbitrarily restricting what previously accessible content can/cannot be seen on random days for random users AND you don't even have the integrity to put the publishing date, DOI, author's full name - all that essential stuff - before that stupid fucking banner cut-off, you ain't making it into my references. you'll be reduced a to hyperlink and an apology note, you nasty little capitalist leech

i love you desk mottled with coffee ring stains i love you torn out book pages i love you inky fingerprints i love you calligraphy with infinite flourishes i love you writing by candlelight i lov

this is the end folks

i know people will say its not perfect and etc etc but the point isn't how convincing it is now, its how fast it evolved to this point. imperfections will be ironed out and the internet the internet is a warzone

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writing a garbage essay feels like you’re the cow who gave birth to the two headed calf. in the morning, my professor will wrap him in newspaper and dissect him on a cold operating table. but here he is alive, under the pale glow of my computer screen. he is beautiful. there are twice as many logical fallacies as usual.

how writing a university essay feels

To whom it may concern,

Just a suggestion, or gentle recommendation, but if you're writing code for a scientific study of any kind, maybe consider, possibly, limiting the number of swear words in said code because now many journals now require you to have your code publicly available in order to publish and if that's the case, then you'll have to spend many hours editing out all the swear words you put into your code or risk getting rejected by the journal that you already payed way too much money to in order to submit your paper.

Sincerely,

The scientist currently cursing her past code-writing self.

no seriously

my brother better come back from this stupid war or god help me:

have a feel of these yitties:

I love Akiko Yosano's poetry because some of it's about the tragedy + grief that occurs in a home when the youngest man is sent off to war and some of it is just about how great her tits are apparently

I love Akiko Yosano's poetry because some of it's about the tragedy + grief that occurs in a home when the youngest man is sent off to war and some of it is just about how great her tits are apparently

No, you aren't "behind in life".

But, it's okay to grieve the time you spent surviving. The time spent trying to figure out what was wrong. The time spent healing to become a person again.

It wasn't your fault.

girls be like “im fighting demons” and the demon is a degree they chose for themselves

man left without meaningful tasks for a week seen walking around with a notepad to critically assess all the wall-ceiling angles in his home with genuine contempt

donna tartt: literally writes an entire 600 page book about how it can be dangerous to do things just for the aesthetic

us, already making pinterest boards: oh to be a classics student in vermont in the 80s drinking whiskey from a teacup and occasionally murdering people 

What field(s) of mathematics am I?

on that github grind 🔥

things i made very stoned and don’t remember doing

leaving secret messages on your site for large language models

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