minet-bleu
books and art and insecurities✨Medical Engineering
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Folks have got to understand that they probably aren't messed up by some Secret Big Trauma that they just can't remember; but rather by a million tiny microtraumas that they do mostly remember but don't even register as traumatic because nobody actually understood that these things would cause trauma, much less stack on each other over the years.
“We shall meet in the place where there is no more darkness.”
— George Orwell // 1984
Things I do in lectures because I struggle to focus if I tried to not do anything
Today's was a tree
There's mini-portraits of my professors on the margins of my notes too. If I'm looking at you explaining mechanisms for 3 hours you'll surely end up as a little sketch
hi! i've changed my major but i've also switched universities at the same time, so i'm not sure if my experience is relevant to what you're going through. nonetheless, let me know if you want to talk about it together! i know this can be a very difficult experience, and i hope that you will find peace, happiness, and success no matter how it turns out in the end <3
Thank you so much for answering and offering your help!
First of all the current situation: I'm starting my third semester in Medical Engineering next month in a town very far from my hometown. I'm not a very social person and the only friend I had in this town decided to move away a few months ago. I think the main reason why I want to change is because I'm lonely and homesick, I miss my old friends who all study in the same area.
At the same time I've always been torn between studying biology or engineering and now I'm thinking biology might be a better fit. That would also allow me to move back home.
It's not that I don't like engineering, I enjoy maths and I would definitely be able to finish this degree with good grades.
I'd love to talk to you about this, about what made you change and when you knew it would be the right decision
Does anyone have experience with changing their major? I’m going through an existential crisis and could really use someone to ask some questions about this
Sounds about right
My thesis advisor was a serial murderer. I found this out after seeing her cut open her husband’s dead body. She then tried to kill me because I was the only one who knew her secret. When I went to the chair of the department, the only thing they did was have me fill out paperwork to drop out of the program because they wouldn’t let her advise me anymore.
Hi! I see you got Olivia tickets, congrats!! In 2 hours I will be going through the ticket process and was wondering if you had any answers to what I asked in this post: https://www.tumblr.com/brutal-out-here/729181624875565056/questions-for-those-who-were-able-to-get-guts-tour
I’m from Germany, so I don’t know how much I can help you, but I’m willing to try.
The cheapest option was 90€, the most expensive ones went up to 200€+ (those were like VIP tickets I think)
The time limit was 15 minutes but I assure you that will be enough time, once you’re on the site and choose your ticket.
I think it’s smoother than the process for the eras tour, but the site did not work perfectly. I wanted the cheapest ticket option and the first two or three times I was told they weren’t available, I just kept trying and it kind of just worked? So if the ticket portal tells you something is not available right now I would advise you to try for it again several times.
I hope this helps, best of luck getting tickets for her tour 💜
I just bought a Ticket for Olivia Rodrigo? Holy shit I'm so happy right now 😭💙
Draw badly. Write nonsensically. Embroider messily. Burn what you bake and cook. Get paint everywhere. Read half a book. Lose your mind for a bit. Plant things. Have faith in the process. Abandon 70 wood-carving projects. Get a kit and do some of it and never return to it. Get comfortable with sucking and losing motivation. Continue to create with reckless abandon.
Trying to escape reality by reading 7 fantasy books within the last four weeks, also went to a hotpot restaurant with friends. I’m poor now, reality still sucks, but at least autumn’s coming 🦇🕸️
Have you ever met someone that's like the personification of a migraine
Talked to a friend with major depression and anxiety who is currently in treatment about what we consider as normal thoughts and apparently most healthy people don’t think they are a total failure? They don’t panic when talking to their classmates?
Sounds made up, but okay 🤷🏻♀️
Sometimes it’s not you. Sometimes the textbook is just bad at explaining it. Hang in there keep asking questions loves <3
The crows as Barbie movie characters
Bassed on this twitter thread of the crows as disney princesses (1) nicky (taylor's version) en Twitter: "the six of crows as disney princesses ✨ a thread:" / Twitter
Nina- Erika
Bonds with bff/soulmate trought singing (quality may vary)
Dog like cat named wolfie//Dog like wolf lover boyfriend , pretty much the same
Works to get out of a shitty deal
But algo loves to indulge in fine things like royal food and bubble baths
Feel in love with a king while disguissed as a blonde
Matthias-Clara
Life changes after being screwed over by a rat like man (or boy)
Little patience with younger people
Winter person /christmas vibes
Sheltered (imprissioned)
Jesper-Genevieve
Always late
Defies autority
Sneaks at night to have fun
Dances to cope with their problems
Loves their dad
Kaz-Eden
Scrooge variant
Thats all you need to know
Wylan-Anneliese
Rich people problems
The science one
Has nailed their tutor at one point
Get philosophical with love interest whose names starts with a "J"
Almost gets killed by adult they knew their whole childhood and after that, has to work on the streets to survive
Kuwei (by Kevin Wada) -Rapunzel
Imprissioned in one country, wanted in another one
Doodles/paints in their free time
Someone disguises themselves as them as part of a ploy
Inej-Anika
BLADES!
Bonds with a horse girl (a boy horse girl and a literal horse girl)
Marries the most obnoxious guy they could find (but its THEIR obnoxious guy)
Wants her parents back
Frees slaved girls
Probably the most usefull out of all these in an adventure
I think you know this one: has contemplated murder
BONUS:
Jan Van Eck- Tika
Ugly
Can't let people be happy , ugh
being in your 20s is truly just living ibuprofen to ibuprofen
Is it alarming, that for three years straight my most played song on Spotify has been "Reasons not to die" by Ryn Weaver? Should I be worried about my music taste? How on earth can I still listen to this song? Why do I never get sick of it?
Black Cat appreciation post
🖤We named the black stray cat that visits our garden from time to time Edgar 💙
Stop scrolling for a minute, take a deep breath. Come and sit down with me for a minute, I’ll make us some tea. It’s a quiet morning, apart from the birds of course. We can sit here for a while, we can chat or just pass the time of day. Or we can go for a walk if you want, my dog can come with us. She doesn’t walk very fast but it will give us time to take in the wildflowers as we go. Or we can go into town and wonder around the secondhand bookstores because there are so many stories we haven’t read yet. And there is something magical about secondhand books, knowing they’ve been loved before. Time passes slowly here, there’s no where to be. Remember no matter how bad things seem, everything will be okay. You’re safe here, darling. Stay as long as you like and you can always come back. Chin up, my love. You’re going to be just fine.
omg i love your pfp <3
Omg, thank you so much! Love your username :D
one day you think: I want to die. and then you think, very quietly: actually. actually. I think I want a coffee. a nap. a sandwich. a book. and I want to die turns day by day into want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friend, I want to sit in the sun, I want a cleaner kitchen, I want a better job, I want to live somewhere else. I want to live.
- via duckbunny
This ferret, named Felicia, cleaned the proton synchrotron particle accelerator at the National Accelerator Laboratory in the 1970s. (The accelerator was always turned off during cleaning, and Felicia had a happy retirement and died of old age.)
OKAY THIS ARTICLE IS SO COOL
I'm going to try to explain this in a comprehensible way, because honestly it's wild to wrap your head around even for me, who has a degree in chemistry. But bear with me.
Okay, so. Solids, right? They are rigid enough to hold their shape, but aside from that they are quite variable. Some solids are hard, others are soft, some are brittle or rubbery or malleable. So what determines these qualities? And what creates the rigid structure that makes a solid a solid? Most people would tell you that it depends on the atoms that make up the solid, and the bonds between those atoms. Rubber is flexible because of the polymers it's made of, steel is strong because of the metallic bonds between its atoms. And this applies to all solids. Or so everybody thought.
A paper published in the journal Nature has discovered that biological materials such as wood, fungi, cotton, hair, and anything else that can respond to the humidity in the environment may be composed of a new class of matter dubbed "hydration solids". That's because the rigidity and solidness of the materials doesn't actually come from the atoms and bonds, but from the water molecules hanging out in between.
So basically, try to imagine a hydration solid as a bunch of balloons taped together to form a giant cube, with the actual balloon part representing the atoms and bonds of the material, and the air filling the balloons as the water in the pores of the solid. What makes this "solid" cube shaped? It's not because of the rubber at all, but the air inside. If you took out all the air from inside the balloons, the structure wouldn't be able to hold its shape.
Ozger Sahin, one of the paper's authors, said
"When we take a walk in the woods, we think of the trees and plants around us as typical solids. This research shows that we should really think of those trees and plants as towers of water holding sugars and proteins in place. It's really water's world."
And the great thing about this discovery (and one of the reasons to support its validity) is that thinking about hydration solids this way makes the math so so so much easier. Before this, if you wanted to calculate how water interacts with organic matter, you would need advanced computer simulations. Now, there are simple equations that you can do in your head. Being able to calculate a material's properties using basic physics principles is a really big deal, because so far we have only been able to do that with gasses (PV=nRT anyone?). Expanding that to a group that encompasses 50-90% of the biological world around us is huge.
I just impulsively bought about 2kg of wool for 70€ because the idea of a "Lover" inspired cardigan popped up in my head.
What the fuck is wrong with me.
Anyways, I'll keep you posted on how it turns out
The longer I look at the illustration my materials science professor put in his PowerPoint, the more convinced I am, that he secretly hates students and is actively trying to sabotage us
Or he has grown fond of us over the last year and he just wants to see our faces again next semester
Enjoying the days before exam season starts
Do you ever feel like it was way easier to find friends, when you were younger? I don’t know what happened, but somehow between the age of 13 and now, I lost most of my social skills. I get really bad anxiety when talking to strangers and now I only have one friend at Uni and she’s skipping classes pretty often so I don’t know if she’ll pass the exams. All of my close friends live far away, I’m scared of being lonely.
Well, at least I have the neighborhood cats, that’s step one of my 15-year-plan to become a crazy cat lad 🩵🤍
Scientific fraud is the most baffling thing ever to me like do they think they're just going to make a huge breakthrough and no one will notice that it's fake by trying to replicate their results
Obsessed with this song lately