The 2010’s have gone by, and I have been blogging (more or less regularly) throughout the entire time. In the same space of time, I’ve lived out my twenties. Ten years is a staggering amount of time, yet it has flown by faster than pigs with wings. I’ve grown and…
Tag: Student life
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On leaving university
The Earth has completed another orbit around the Sun, and apparently I managed to survive this one as well. As per usual, the close of the year found me at a place I could scarecely have imagined at its beginning. The most profound characteristic of 2018 was that I finally…
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Summer solstice musings
I passed. Not away, but the dissertation. I have a Master’s degree. I’m not a student any longer. How do I feel about it? I don’t know. Triumph? Relief? Joy? Calm? I guess those are the kinds of things I ought to be feeling. But I don’t know. I have…
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Quoth the tired astronomer
Imagine looking up into the sky at night, toward the stars that faintly glow, to curse your human mind for being slow and yet unable to cease asking why. Those distant lights insist on passing by, around the Earth and through your mind they go, suggesting that there is so…
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These cursed ambitions
Sometimes I wonder what contentment tastes like. I used to yearn for so many things. Trivial and grandiose. Achievable and impossible. Now I mostly yearn for the pressure to be taken off. Perhaps it is a pressure I’ve enthusiastically submitted myself to in becoming a student, but even so it…
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Progress
My desktop is nowhere near as messy as my mind is. Apparently it’s been four years since I took a course in statistics. A lot of neglect and a mental breakdown since then means there’s not much left of the knowledge in me, nevertheless I’m trying to use it for…
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Look! A galaxy!
Those are stars. Red giants, specifically. In a dwarf spheroidal galaxy called Leo II. I know that the diagram doesn’t make much sense to most people, unless they happen to be astronomers versed in photometry, but trust me. I’m so happy I’m just about dancing around like an idiot. Because…
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Writings and self-beratings
Sigh. I’m in a particularly angsty period at the moment, triggered by all sorts of stuff that really shouldn’t bother me. It makes me useless and unproductive, and the neglecting of chores builds stress which induces further incapacity to get a hold of myself and do something meaningful with my…
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Bittersweet endings
University is out for the semester. Courses are over and done, whether I passed my finals or not. Results won’t be brilliant, but hopefully good enough. I gave up the high-grade-chasing game a long time ago, since I really quite enjoy having spare time. There are so overwhelmingly many fun…
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All-nighter euphoria
So. True. BOOM. Project report finished. Well, sorta, at least. Still got some details to fix probably, but that is a problem for tomorrow. The equivalent of a bachelor’s project. Ten weeks’ worth of work. I’m about as happy about my accomplishments in this one as with my actual bachelor’s…