hey everyone! i’m a peer tutor at my university and i wanted to share some study strategies that i’ve found really helpful in my stem/content-heavy courses. please feel free to share yours with me as well!
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moodboard: intj, stem: computer science and math; color scheme: greyscaled; thank you!
computer science/math student/ intj aesthetic
You know what. I’m starting a new aesthetic, population me.
Romantic Science, AKA Dark Academia for STEM people.
Thrifting a lab coat and embroidering it with your initials and a little insignia, whose significance is known to you and your lab partner only
Watching The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game and Hidden Figures and basically every movie about historical scientists and mathematicians you can find
Decorating your desk with old slide rules and vintage lab equipment. Your prize possession is a set of vintage lenses you found at a thrift store
Wanting an articulated human skeleton far, far too much
Getting a set of (brand new, NOT thrifted, be safe ppl) beakers to drink from, and putting them directly onto your stovetop to boil water for tea or coffee, because borosilicate glass can survive anything.
Secretly relating far too much to Henry Jekyll and Victor Frankenstein, because you too want to do a gay little science experiment that challenges god.
Thunderstorms and late nights in the lab, the light of the Bunsen burner glistening off of your flasks and scribbled chalkboard equations
Papering your walls with vintage scientific diagrams; even if you know that our understanding of the world has evolved since they were made, looking back at scientific history is amazing
Writing code late at night and feeling, in some metaphysical way, as though Ada Lovelace herself is with you in spirit
Being far, FAR too obsessed with the concept of emergent ai sentience and how it has the potential to be Frankenstein irl
Looking through a telescope on clear nights, whispering the names of the constellations and stars, painting a star chart on your ceiling in a burst of creative inspiration
Collecting and mounting samples from everywhere you can think of to pore over in an antique microscope
Bringing a field journal wherever you go, learning how to draw and label botanical samples, preserving plants and flowers for study later
Dreaming of what undiscovered mysteries lie in the deepest depths of the sea, feeling the thrill of discovery whenever you learn about a new species and one day hoping to discover one yourself
Just. Romanticise STEM.
I'm still very much on break (basically just eating, sleeping, reading and swimming, it's delightful), but I want to sum up this year. It's been a fucking rollercoaster of a year and I still can't believe like half of the things that happened, both good and bad. Nevertheless, I want to focus on the positive ones to kickstart the new year in the most uplifting manner I'm able to pull off. Which is not very optimistic nor uplifting, but I can be at least not full of doom, haha.
I want to do this chronologically, just because I tend to forget the good stuff that happened more than two months ago.
Let's wrap this up!
presented at my first international conference (February)
prepped two PhD dissertation projects (April) and successfully defended them during the PhD programs interview (June)
wrote my diploma thesis while cooperating with the best mentor ever (January till June)
got accepted to two PhD programs and currently doing both of them! (June)
co-written three papers over the summer - two already published, one under a promising peer review (June-September)
defended my thesis and passed my state exams with straight As, meaning I got my master's degree! (September)
wrote a book chapter that got accepted (November)
quit the job I hated (January)
got rid off so much stuff I didn't need (mostly July, August)
read 130 books, yaaay
stopped saying yes to meetings with acquaintances just because I felt like I should see them (big one!)
found a functioning skincare routine (September)
started swimming again (and loving it) (September)
A lot of this year has been mostly about surviving, to be honest. I was battling a lot of anxiety and depression, I was extremely stressed at times and couldn't sleep. Swimming and taking proper days off helps, close friends help. I'm gonna do a post with some goals for 2022, so I won't spoil here that, haha.
It was a good year after all.
Take care!
M.
hello friends!!! i made masterposts for almost all the stem subjects now, why not physics too? here you go [especially for @k-imeme]:
studying
how to study physics
tips to solving physics problems
tips to ace your physics exam!!
physics notes
using a calculator!!!!
science glossary
topics
motion
sound + waves
work, energy + power
heat + thermo
quantum phenomena
light + radiation
electricity, magnets + circuits
electricity + magnetism
mechanics
modern physics
optics
oscillations + waves
special subjects [space is here too]
thermodynamics
fun stuff yaaas
john travoltage [i love this idk why]
10 cool science websites
links + website resources
space + the universe masterpost B-)
minutephysics
physics on khanacademy
sparknotes physics
great physics website!!
institute of physics resources
stuff you may want to know
careers in physics
why study physics?
top 10 reasons why you should take physics
my masterposts
notes, studying, and self-study resources
self-study resources
supplies
igcse resources
improving your handwriting
how to studyblr
literature masterpost
organisation
aesthetically pleasing notes
annotating
studying a foreign language
really great apps
math
college + uni
motivation
biology
space!!!!
chemistry
+ more
hope this helps you v much + if you ever need anything/want to request a masterpost just message me :]
September 1, 2020 - physics studies.
It's September already! August was a tough month for me and I'm so excited to welcome the better days ahead <33 ☁️ September, please be nice 💫
(ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧ Keep on working hard and take care of yourself friends ♡
🎶 Dynamite - BTS