College

Taking Notes That Future Me Would Appreciate

As the next academic year is approaching and as I’m starting to prepare for the exam I postponed, I’m noticing that the kind of notes I made for literature readings last semester aren’t actually that useful by themselves. I like taking notes by hand because limiting myself to what my hand can write with one tool makes for less thinking about how the note looks, something I’m invariably prone to obsessing over when I dread the work.

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A Little Life Update From Me

I’ve been meaning to write a post for my blog for a few weeks now, but it seems like the more time passed, the less I was willing to actually write anything. It doesn’t help that my blog experienced an existential crisis where I didn’t know what I was going to do with it. I felt like an oversharer at times and the sort of series I had going on were not exciting anymore, feeling more like chores than fun.

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The Social Sciences Had a Very... Questionable Past

I’m always so thrown off anew at the lengths misogynists are ready to go to further prove to themselves that their misogyny is rooted in reason – however twisted – and thus justified. I was attending a lecture about science theory and history and this is one of those lectures with the most flabbergasting revelations about science.1 In today’s lecture I learned that when putting together a female skeleton, they would pick and choose parts of a woman they would find appealing which means small head (less intelligence), long neck (a beauty standard), and wide pelvis (increased fertility).

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A Late Course Correction Is Still One

I’m officially parting ways with economics. I’ve been studying towards a bachelor’s degree in economics and social sciences (the official name) since September of last year and I’m done. I don’t want this. To people around me, this most likely doesn’t come as a surprise as I’ve been dissatisfied with taking courses, studying the materials, and listening to lectures for months. I’ve been feeling nothing but dread, but I kept telling myself that it would get better.

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There is nothing like the feeling you have after an exam you’d been dreading for months finally being over. And there is also nothing like the feeling of knowing you failed so badly, it’s funny, tragic and disheartening at the same time. I only got 25% lmao. College tingz, I guess. I’ve never been exposed to an exam this hard in my entire life. It was Maths, by the way.

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