does anyone have the post that links to those really great undergrad physics notes written iirc they are just a bunch of pdf links and he’s from oxford?cambridge??
you have to love and honor yourself. you have to know you’re worth everything, even inconvenience. you have to understand that you get to receive, have, want, and maintain everything you want. you need to know you can reject, discard and ignore anything that simply does not resonate with you. remember who you are: one of one; the only one x
???? over 15 years of school and I just now found the ultimate study hack that rly works for me (a very common one, but haven’t tried before). It’s to have my computer read the text out loud as I’m following along. It reduced the internal monologue that otherwise would still be there going on strong, even while I read. Plus forces me to stay focused, bc gotta keep up with the voice. I just sank in real focused for like a good 40mins and didn’t even realise, I thought only like max 15mins had passed.
I literally cannot overstate how important creative hobbies are when dealing with mental illness. If you can’t draw, there are coloring books. If you can’t write a novel, you can write in short journaling bursts. If you can’t sing in the shower, you can listen to music. Sometimes with mental illness it feels like we have this dark presence inside of us that is bumping around in our brain and organs, causing problems. It helps immensely to let it out.
the best way to support libraries is to use libraries. go get a card, check something out. not a big reader? they got movies. they got games. yes, like botw and fallout and let’s go eevee. they also have cds that yes, we workers know you take home and rip to your computer. we also do it.
if you have a well funded library you might even have access to maker spaces that have 3D printers. or video/audio recording equipment. libraries aren’t these tomb silent homes for books any more. they’re community spaces. they’re full of life and things.
put a middle finger up at jeffrey bezos and support your local library
did i mention we have printing services that are significantly cheaper than anywhere else? printers are evil, let us handle them for you.
Library worker here and can confirm all of these! I’m at a small-to-medium library and we offer ALL of this:
- wifi hotspots that can be checked out for weeks so you can have internet on the go or at home
- CDs, DVDs, blurays including usually multiple copies of new stuff
- A tech lab with a 3d printer, computers for graphic design and game dev focus, VR headsets, and a soundbooth for recording
- Study rooms for solo or groups
- Printers, copiers, faxes, and scanners for just about anything you need taken care of.
- Including a new printer big enough to make giant posters, maps, and business-grade ads.
- A seed library, both floral and food-related.
- A computer lab programed to erase your data and reading history so you’re never at risk while visiting sites like domestic abuse hotlines
- Laptops pre-programmed with Adobe and Office software so you don’t have to buy them
- Monthly author visits
- Ebooks including comics on tons of various platforms
- Classes for those who want to learn how to or better their computer skills
- Art you can check out to hang on your wall for as long as it’s available, including the work of local artists who get paid for their art, especially if it gets popular and we want even more of their stuff.
- Monthly papers ranging from local newspapers to multi-national magazines on just about any topic you can imagine.
- Notaries with extensive legal knowledge including renters rights, getting you in contact with immigration protection, and contacts with pro-bono lawyers.
- A connection with all the libraries in the state, so if we don’t have something, we can have it shipped to you within a matter of days.
- Books translated into multiple languages
- A donation bin for old books/DVDs/VHSes that often turn around and get sold for two or less dollars
- A food donation site for local food banks
- A “suggest a purchase” section on our site where you can support your favorite indie writers/musicians by suggesting their work if we don’t already have it
- We’re growing butterflies this year, and in prior years we hatched chickens! \o/
- An outreach program for the elderly and disabled who hand-deliver almost everything I’ve just mentioned
That’s a huge list and again I have to stress that I work at a library that’s not considered to be very large. And one of the biggest things we get rated by is not how many books we own but by how many people use all of those services I mentioned. They exist for YOU! Use them!
Free 2023 February Day, Week & Month Digital Planner
I wanted to offer a sample of one of my digital planners for the month of February! This sample includes the choice of 2 designs (alternative week and day layouts) in both Monday or Sunday starts.
This design is mainly meant for students, though only the templates lend itself to be particular student specific!
if there was a job where i got paid to do research and only research and crank out papers and not have to deal with anything else academia-related ever i’d take it in a heartbeat ngl
just lock me up in a dusty ass library with my laptop idc
well, and an antihistamine because dustmite allergies, but
on this day i am sobbing tears of “someone would pay me 80k a year to do this if i was a stem/quant scientist but i am a hum”
Um yes hello, I would also like this please?
If we’re ignoring independent researchers who have to fund themselves, then this job is a junior/associate/senior research fellow or research assistant/associate (in the UK at least).
They either are attatched to a particular university and given free reign to do what they want or they are attatched to a particular large research project that has multiple academics (ie non-students) working on it. They are for as long as the fining allows, so a research associate of a large project might only be for 12 months, whereas a post-doc/post-post-doc junior research fellowship will be 3 or 4 years long.
No one is going to get rich in the humanities but they’ll pay something. Eg the Parker Library Stipendiary Early-Career Research Fellowship at the University of Cambrige pays £24,000 plus meals and healthcare for 12 months of any study you want as long as its related to the Parker Library collection of medieval manuscripts. Or you could be paid c. £40,000 to work as a research associate with Professor Samuel Cohn at the University of Glasgow on his “Art and Inequality in the Post-Black Death Century” project. No teaching or leadership board meetings required or fighting for research funding, only pumping out research.
i know we’re all sick of self-care being a marketing tactic now, but i don’t think a lot of us have any other concept of self-care beyond what companies have tried to sell us, so i thought i’d share my favorite self-care hand out
brought to you by how mad i just got at a Target ad
