it's been a long two weeks
i'm going to bed
This week's goal: eat
Friday, September 30, 2016
Friday, September 23, 2016
:)
I've been having a tough week. My friend Eli sent me a stuffed animal otter in the mail, with an encouraging message attached.
It's exactly what I needed.
This week's goal: be nice to everyone else
It's exactly what I needed.
This week's goal: be nice to everyone else
Friday, September 16, 2016
there is a war
between logic and emotion
and we're all waiting
to see
who will win
This week's goal: be nice to yourself.
and we're all waiting
to see
who will win
This week's goal: be nice to yourself.
Sunday, September 11, 2016
Scraps
Well, it's week 4 of the semester, which means I've finally started opening my textbooks.
I have a lot of used and rented textbooks, and I think my favorite thing (besides them being significantly cheaper than buying new textbooks) is finding scraps from the lives of previous people who used the book.
I just leafed through one of my textbooks for quantum mechanics and I found a black plastic...thing (I don't know a more sophisticated word for it since I don't know what it is), a note-card that says "Bis until 10" with a box around the number ten, and the torn front page of a Notebook PC Quick Start Guide.
Admittedly, these are not very exciting items, but there's a sort of cryptic nature to them; I think that's what makes them fascinating. These scraps, little thoughtless pieces from daily life that somehow got stuck in the textbook while being mixed up in a backpack, or maybe used as a place-marker for something important: I have no idea what role these scraps played in someone's life, or why they ended up in the textbook.
And I don't know why, but I just really like that.
I have a lot of used and rented textbooks, and I think my favorite thing (besides them being significantly cheaper than buying new textbooks) is finding scraps from the lives of previous people who used the book.
I just leafed through one of my textbooks for quantum mechanics and I found a black plastic...thing (I don't know a more sophisticated word for it since I don't know what it is), a note-card that says "Bis until 10" with a box around the number ten, and the torn front page of a Notebook PC Quick Start Guide.
Admittedly, these are not very exciting items, but there's a sort of cryptic nature to them; I think that's what makes them fascinating. These scraps, little thoughtless pieces from daily life that somehow got stuck in the textbook while being mixed up in a backpack, or maybe used as a place-marker for something important: I have no idea what role these scraps played in someone's life, or why they ended up in the textbook.
And I don't know why, but I just really like that.
Friday, September 9, 2016
Friday, September 2, 2016
Up and up
Sorry I kind of died last week.
First week of classes would have been a bit more enjoyable if I hadn't been stressed about the GRE and on top of that (of course), getting sick.
But the GRE is over. It went well enough, so I guess I'm just super relieved to be done and ready to move on to the next step. Which is just as daunting and intimidating. But. One step at a time.
Anyway, I'm in love with all my psych professors. They're all so funny and great and smart and I just absolutely love my classes. This semester is going to be a little tough, but luckily most of my classes overlap a lot in material, so it's kind of nice to be able to study for 4 exams at once.
Anyway, I'm going to take this weekend to catch up and recover. I was mildly prepared for the second week of classes being a lot of catch up work, but of course being prepared doesn't necessarily make things easy (just marginally easier than they would have been).
So for now I feel good. Like...not good. I feel okay. But in a good way.
Whatever.
This week's goal: CATCH UP! And no skipping classes dummy.
First week of classes would have been a bit more enjoyable if I hadn't been stressed about the GRE and on top of that (of course), getting sick.
But the GRE is over. It went well enough, so I guess I'm just super relieved to be done and ready to move on to the next step. Which is just as daunting and intimidating. But. One step at a time.
Anyway, I'm in love with all my psych professors. They're all so funny and great and smart and I just absolutely love my classes. This semester is going to be a little tough, but luckily most of my classes overlap a lot in material, so it's kind of nice to be able to study for 4 exams at once.
Anyway, I'm going to take this weekend to catch up and recover. I was mildly prepared for the second week of classes being a lot of catch up work, but of course being prepared doesn't necessarily make things easy (just marginally easier than they would have been).
So for now I feel good. Like...not good. I feel okay. But in a good way.
Whatever.
This week's goal: CATCH UP! And no skipping classes dummy.
Friday, August 19, 2016
BLAH
I keep whining about how I'm stressed that I only had one semester of being a Psychology student before I had to start really preparing for Grad school.
I mean can you blame me? I switched my major one week into the semester. I was taking basic psychology courses but nothing that really represented my interests and weren't very challenging. And now, by the end of this upcoming semester I will need to have taken the GRE (which is in a week by the way), figure out for sure what I want to study for 6 freaking years beyond my undergraduate degree, decide regionally where I want to go, apply to schools (which requires references which I haven't really been able to accumulate over the course of a single semester taking general psychology courses with 200 students in them), and I now I have to take a year of biology (mind you I only have one year left, so I'm trying to get into a Neurobiology course which is full and I don't have the prerequisite for)...and then what? Sit back and cross my fingers that in all of that process I haven't made a huge mistake or misjudged my interests?
Yeah it's stressful.
But look, okay. It's stressful for everyone. And there are challenges with every next step in life, whatever that may be for anyone at any given time.
I guess I just have to think... would I really be all that much better off if I had more time to think and prepare? Would I even use that time?
Knowing me, probably not.
So shut up, Kira. It's going to be fine. One step at a time, right? So step 1: the GRE. That's in a week. Take a deep breath and focus. For right now, the only thing in your horizon is that exam.
This week's goal: GRE Prep (like the dickens!)
I mean can you blame me? I switched my major one week into the semester. I was taking basic psychology courses but nothing that really represented my interests and weren't very challenging. And now, by the end of this upcoming semester I will need to have taken the GRE (which is in a week by the way), figure out for sure what I want to study for 6 freaking years beyond my undergraduate degree, decide regionally where I want to go, apply to schools (which requires references which I haven't really been able to accumulate over the course of a single semester taking general psychology courses with 200 students in them), and I now I have to take a year of biology (mind you I only have one year left, so I'm trying to get into a Neurobiology course which is full and I don't have the prerequisite for)...and then what? Sit back and cross my fingers that in all of that process I haven't made a huge mistake or misjudged my interests?
Yeah it's stressful.
But look, okay. It's stressful for everyone. And there are challenges with every next step in life, whatever that may be for anyone at any given time.
I guess I just have to think... would I really be all that much better off if I had more time to think and prepare? Would I even use that time?
Knowing me, probably not.
So shut up, Kira. It's going to be fine. One step at a time, right? So step 1: the GRE. That's in a week. Take a deep breath and focus. For right now, the only thing in your horizon is that exam.
This week's goal: GRE Prep (like the dickens!)
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