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Can anyone explain paradigmatic/syntagmatic relationships in semiotics w examples bc everything my professor has put in the lecture slides about it makes no sense to me lmao

Since my first term at my new school is over and I have above the required gpa I am finally eligible for study abroad!!!

I submitted my application for the program yesterday and have already been conditionally accepted to go by my school as long as i’m accepted into the program.

and the country i applied to is….. 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁

Taiwan!

the program is in taipei specifically, and on a university campus. if accepted ill also have a chance to visit tainan and taitung.

i’d be going for about 2 months over the summer for an accelerated/intensive mandarin course. it’d be the entire intermediate level (= CHN201+202 in U.S. college credit). as far as I know I’d have class 5 days a week while there. i’m taking CHN 102 (upper elementary) in the spring here at home to prepare and spending my break reviewing stuff from 101 as well as teaching myself zhuyin/bopomofo.

if anyone has good resources for zhuyin, traditional characters, and/or taiwanese mandarin lmk!! im trying to find everything i can then i’ll compile a list of what was most helpful sometime during or at the end of the semester :))

brainstormed and made an account who wants to be tt mutuals 👀

i wanna start a studytok but i need ideas first 🤔

GUYS THIS HAS BEEN THE BEST WEEK OF MY LIFE I SWEAR. I THOUGHT THEY WOULDNT LET ME KNOW FOR A WHIIILE OMGOMG IM GOING TO TAIWAN

I also majored in anthropology!! I really enjoyed it

its really fun!! i love how broad or specific it can be depending on your interests, i have so many class options (i just wish we had anything related to linguistic anthro at my school 😭) im super excited for some of the courses i plan to take in future semesters tho

if i’m not autistic but struggle significantly with mental illnesses that make it difficult to function and suspect a learning disability, do you think i would also be able to access some of these accommodations?

this would sadly be dependent on whether you have some kind of diagnosis as they do require documentation of a disability and also possibly what your schools disability office decides they can offer based on that.

i was told quite a few of my accommodations, such as extended assignments/attendance flexibility, are typically available for people with conditions that are episodic in nature (i also have ptsd along with other comorbid conditions + some chronic physical health issues). i’m not sure what accommodations would look like otherwise or what can be offered for disabilities aside from what i personally have. i obviously can’t give a straight answer but i’d say its worth a try to ask about!

in my experience you’ll usually have to meet with someone from the disability office to discuss your diagnosis, how it effects your day-to-day/where you struggle with school, and then decide which accommodations are applicable to your situation. it could be helpful to take some notes beforehand on anything you might want to bring up.

hope this helped! i wish i could give you an easier/more complete answer but they like making these things difficult :/ wishing you luck!!

suggestions and advice on how to remember and memorize characters? it's the part I'm finding the most difficult

i struggle w this too rn bc of the pace my professor has been going at. if you dont have a practice workbook i def recommend those bc they show the stroke order and just give space for you to write repetitively. otherwise just try and write sentences using the characters/words you know or generally practice writing/reading as much as possible.

i like skritter a lot for practicing characters or learning new vocabulary related to things im actually interested in and would talk about in real life rather than a lot of the stuff ill learn in class.

because of the lack of alphabet a lot of people (me included) tend to rely heavily on pinyin but since ive started learning zhuyin i’ve definitely felt it helps. not having romanization means i have to actually try and cant just fall back and give up like i would if something was shown only in characters + pinyin.

i specifically like using my ipad or an external monitor when im studying characters so i can blow up the characters and look at them like an image rather than a letter (im learning traditional these little things have so many strokes i like to make sure i can see/recognize all of them) then also i feel like it stays better as a visual in my brain.

im still taking elementary level mandarin so realistically i dont know all that much, only what ive been trying and what works for me if anyone else has tips pls feel free to reply

updated fall semester schedule!

- realized i have to take a math class 😭 so i did my placement exam today and changed my schedule around a little

- applied to work in the library for fall so i can be on campus more! (w these new classes ill be there 5 days a week which will take away availability for my off campus job) will also be applying to the bookstore and wherever else i can find

anyway here we go

- Ballet 1

- Hip-Hop Dance

- Anthropology of Mass Violence

(^ all stayed the same, new classes below)

- Ancient Cities & States

- Quantitative Reasoning (Math)

annoyed abt math but i should get it over with, excited for ancient cities & states, hip-hop may still end up being dropped and moved to a different semester depending on my chinese placement in the summer.

i want to make videos while im in taiwan studying abroad, is there anything people would want me to cover about studying abroad or studying in taipei specifically?

HIII im back fr this time lol here are updates on life and my studies

- did not get enough funding for my planned study abroad in taiwan sadly, BUTTTT i last second was able to get into a summer program at korea university in seoul!! (will post summer + fall schedule after this)

- ended up failing a class this semester because the listed grading system on the syllabus was apparently not what was used but its fine ill live, just need to do reallly good in the fall to bring my gpa back up (it went from 3.425 -> 3.0)

- im either switching my minor to east asian languages or dropping it all together and focusing on anthropology/archaeology in school and languages in my own time :) i already dropped the chinese minor as i dont want to continue taking courses with the single professor at my uni but still want my credits for the mandarin and japanese courses ive taken to count towards my degree if possible

- currently trying to rest during my short summer break before i go to korea so im not burnt out there or in the fall but also starting to read ahead on the classes im taking there when i have the energy

finally comfirmed all my summer courses so heres the schedule!

for context: im studying at Korea University in Seoul for a 6 week semester abroad.

Period 1 - North Korea: History, Society, Politics

Period 2 - Media & Popular Culture in South Korea

Period 5 - Beginning Korean 1

im very interested to see how the class on North Korea will be, i have started some of the recommended reading as well as doing my own research & finding friends in the class and looking forward to it. definitely not a course i could ever find/take at a university here at home.

media & pop culture also super excited for bc i want to dive deeper into studying pop culture, performance art, fandom spaces and more within the realm soso bad

korean 1! i do have some korean learning and time in the country under my belt already but ive never taken an actual class (my speaking is very casual/informal bc of who/where i learned from lol) i feel like i definitely have missed or not fully understood a lot of grammar in the past also so i wanna kind restart the learning process w more structure :)

if anyone has questions abt the classes/program/study abroad/ etc lmk and ill do my best to answer !! excited to be back and motivated and study the things i love after a pretty difficult spring semester

Day 2 and 3

What does your url mean...

I am fully aware that it’s not leviOsa  spelled with “un”. It’s not perfect in it’s imperfection and honestly, that’s what I am aiming for with that url... Sometimes my notes a beautiful mess and sometimes they are just a mess! Hell, sometimes I am a mess. University life is... Well, it's adult life. Never expected it to be easy, but it's coming together. Still looking for a job and it kind of sucks. Gotta love those entry level jobs that want like 5 years of experience, driving license and 3 references, am i rite?

I wish I could wear cute skirt and a white shirt, but how do you do that if you need to clean the house before leaving? How do you go to coffee shops and not starve later, bc... y’know... money? How do you get into "a zone" if there is a person who needs you and who needs a dinner? I wish I could be a cute distaster in a messy bun and wearing an oversized sweater, but honestly - not within my reach.

...and why did you start your studyblr?

I want people to remember that if you study and work and need to care for another person, you are still VALID. If you do this, while being an anxiety filled mess, you are still VALID. Hell, even if your grades aren't great, you are still VALID. If your notes aren’t cute, if you scribble on your papers, if you cross out words instead of using correction tape. It's alright. You are doing your best, your work is just as valuable. It took me so long to feel like I belong with community living... The Life™. I eventually realized that my notes just won’t be perfect and it’s alright. They need to be good enough. And I feel like people need to hear this.

My desk is just not big enough to fit in a notebook and a laptop at the same time. My laptop itself is dying during video-calls bc of the processor. My house is fucking cold, because we can't afford heating and i’m seating curled up under a blanket. My back hurts. I will be able to afford stationary i want in the future life (altho yellow highlighter is kind of a vibe???), maybe, but for now I am struggling to afford a bus ticket. They lost my student ID and i don’t know when will it come to me. I had to pay 5 pounds for a T-shirt I didn’t like. And then I came home and studied hard, because honestly - if shit can’t be perfect, it can at least be good enough.

PS. One of my new friends offered to give me a few of his colorful gel pens and honestly - I aspire to be this level of kind <3

hi everyone!

i'd been shying away from this moment ever since, but it's always better to start now than never, right?

i'm hri! i'm 18 and i'm in midst of my gap year studying for NEET. (it's a competitive exam to get into med school in india!)

i intend on using this blog to journal my progress throughout the year, and use it almost as a personal diary of sorts to help me navigate through what is currently a challenging phase of my life.

i hope that along the way, i'm able to help people out who find themselves in similar positions as me, and also make friends :)! (please feel free to reach out ♡)

here's to new beginnings, cheers! 🥂

day 1: wednesday, 9th october.

today wasn't as productive as i'd hoped, but to be honest, that's been the case for pretty much the entirety of this week. couldn't study much on monday since i went out with friends for some pandal hopping! here are some snippets :)

anyways, this is all what i did end up doing today:

finished 'mechanical waves' lecture (3 hours-ish?)

revised skeletal system from locomotion & movement

revised animal kingdom till aschelhelminthes (we have a test on this portion on the 23rd ://)

did some questions on SHM

revised atomic structure

finished morphology of flowering plants (with the exception of newly added families)

currently, it's 22:03 so i still have time to update myself on more studying. i would've been able to do more honestly, but i had to go out in the evening for festivities. [loved it, but guilt is eating me up because everything lowkey feels like a time waste :(]

anyways, i'll update you guys later! till then, bye :))♡

(ps. i'm going out tmrw w a friend for pandal hopping again, and im so so excited)

hi im...back? after a while for sure 😔💔

this'll kind of be a small vent (sorry) but i've just been feeling frustrated? i couldn't study the entirety of last week because we had a family trip to north east (i loved it though ♡) and even prior to it, i had been completely off contact with my books because i had to undergo surgery :/

while i know that my circumstances were unavoidable and in a way it's not my fault. but also, i can't help feel guilty about not getting stuff done? i mean i have a HUGE pile of backlogs and i feel so terribly out of loop – even trying to sit down with books and trying to solve mcqs feels like a damning chore because i'm unable to solve a lot of questions that i know for a matter fact i'd find easier normally.

anyways, i also know that i can only change this for myself so i've been trying to slowly, but steadily get back to my routine. i'll probably start sharing my snippets from tomorrow again :), but i can't lie it feels nice to get this off my chest haha lol.