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Here and Now

Yes, you can teach this girl new tricks.

by Layla

NB: This pic was taken a year ago. I haven’t been to the UP Diliman campus since the Enhanced Community Quarantine was announced in March. So yeah, I miss my university. While I’m enrolled right now, attending classes on Zoom is a different ballgame. I know this feature picture is totally irrelevant to the current blog topic, but this university has given me a...

05/11/2020
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Academia schmacademia, Graduate School, Life Lately, Productivity, Something personal

Out of School Things

05/11/2020

Yes, you can teach this girl new tricks.

NB: This pic was taken a year ago. I haven’t been to the UP Diliman campus since the Enhanced...

by Layla
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14/10/2020

Sorry, I just couldn’t shake this off.

Trigger warning: suicide. A few weeks ago, my work friends and I encountered huge traffic on our way home,...

by Layla
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10/09/2020

The Life-Changing Magic of Having Everything You Need On Your Desk

I usually prepare my room for a life change every year (well, almost every year). Going back to school,...

by Layla
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01/09/2020

Recently Read 3 || American Duchess by Karen Harper

This is the last of the three books I have read during the three-month quarantine that I am reviewing....

by Layla
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Favourite Study Music for November

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1950s England 1950s music Amazon gift cards Anne with an E apple crumble pie baking Books caramel Christmas baking Christmas celebrations codals condensed milk cookie dough cream of carrot and celery soup Dropbox Eva Rice Evernote food Friday rant grad school diaries grad school life graduate school healthy eating holidays law school learning leaving law school M&Ms memory aids mini apple pies Miranda Hart note-taking system Post It productivity puff pastry research reviewers salted caramel apple pie school supplies Scribd Staedtler triplus fineliner pens Supreme Court Reports Annotated The Chubby Girl's Kitchen The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets vintage inspired fashion

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Academia, schmacademia

Academia schmacademia, Graduate School, Life Lately, Productivity, Something personal

Yes, you can teach this girl new tricks.

NB: This pic was taken a year ago. I haven’t been to the UP Diliman campus since the Enhanced Community Quarantine was announced in March. So yeah, I miss...

05/11/2020
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Life Lately, Mental Health, Something personal

Sorry, I just couldn’t shake this off.

Trigger warning: suicide. A few weeks ago, my work friends and I encountered huge traffic on our way home, which was an understatement. We checked in on Waze, to...

14/10/2020
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Graduate School, Life Lately, Productivity, Something personal

The Life-Changing Magic of Having Everything You Need On Your Desk

I usually prepare my room for a life change every year (well, almost every year). Going back to school, or just plain needing a change, my room’s layout gets...

10/09/2020
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Academia schmacademia, Graduate School, Life Lately

Preparing for a new semester.

Well, hello there! And hello, August! We’re having a pretty late start where the first semester is concerned, but with the world being pretty much upside down at the...

08/08/2020
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Academia schmacademia, Graduate School, Revision Diaries

The Revision Diaries 1: The original and its comments

Hola amigos and amigas! Over a month ago, I submitted my research proposal. The proposal was about the introduction of more flexible working arrangements in the Philippine government sector....

26/07/2020
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Academia schmacademia, Graduate School

A year on: Graduate school, impostor syndrome, and all that jazz.

This time last year, I was on the phone at work, asking for the entrance exam results for graduate school admissions. At first, I thought I heard it wrong,...

20/05/2020
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Snippets

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”

Desmond Tutu

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