PLANNER CHAT & FLIP THROUGH | grad school, ocd, and life updates 💩

[@woofytron]

good luck on your exams, lauren! i finally caved and bought a common planner for 2024, but i am not a weekly planning person, so i love seeing how you use your weekly layouts to get ideas for mine. regarding your motivation and existential crisis, i just wanna say hang in there! i actually work at a university and seeing the ways our students and faculty members have been using their knowledge, skills and resources these past few months has been inspiring. organizing teach-ins, supporting undergraduate student activists, putting pressure on university admins to support students & show up in solidarity, having thoughtful & engaging dialogue with their peers and students, etc. the work you do is so important!! i know it might not feel like it now when there is so much happening in the world, but i promise you're making an impact in your own way ✨

[@theoryof.lauren]

thank you so much! i hope you love the common planner as much as i do! 🤍 thank you so much for the words of encouragement!!! it seriously makes me feel so much better knowing i have people like you cheering me on 🤗

[@megjwatkins]

Sorry had to jump in with a comment about your fear that being a phd student is inconsequential when it comes to making a difference, and say that my partner in his role now as a prof, he exposes his students to so much material that opens their eyes to social justice and equity issues they’d never heard about or learned about, and so many of them tell him they are forever changed by learning from/with him. And you do that as a TA too. Hang in there ❤❤

[@theoryof.lauren]

ahhh thank you so much meg 🤍 that is such a helpful reminder. i remember that feeling as an undergrad myself and what an impact my professors had on my worldview as well!

[@jenhasaplan]

Literally the only way I even remember my journal has weeklies is when I watch one of your videos. They’re sooo lovely to look at. ✨

[@theoryof.lauren]

omg thank you so much 🥹🤍

[@ellesbooks]

This felt like an early Christmas gift!! So good to see you back 🥺 Best wishes for your exams, and general good wishes too - I really hope things improve for you soon ❤‍🩹

[@theoryof.lauren]

thank you ellie!!!! lets hope for a better december for both of us! 🤍

[@autisticbucky]

best of luck on your exams!! and please feel no pressure to upload regularly. your videos are always lovely but your wellbeing is much more important!! 💛

[@theoryof.lauren]

thank you bucky!!! always so grateful for your support 🤍🤍

[@kerih35]

Good luck on your Comps, Lauren! You’ll do great ❤

[@theoryof.lauren]

thank you so much 🤍

[@EmEmJee89]

All the strenght and wisdom and luck to you on your coming exams!!! Your planner spreads are sooo satisfying to watch.

[@theoryof.lauren]

thank you so so much 😭🤍

[@PLANNERMONKEYCO]

Love how you have used the freely noted! Your spreads are always so amazing and so well done Lauren!

[@theoryof.lauren]

thanks Sydney!!! the freely noted paper is my absolute FAV to work with -- i will always have one of these notebooks in my rotation 🤍

[@productivitymodeon]

Yesssss we missed you so much!!!

[@theoryof.lauren]

LIKEWISE 🤍🤍

[@XioWrites]

EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED! thank u for feeding me today, Lauren. Hope you are doing better. I admire you for being able to identify what you need from your planners - good luck with your exams!

[@theoryof.lauren]

no, thank YOU 🤍🤍

[@kamrynkadota4355]

Wishing you the best of luck with your exams!!

[@theoryof.lauren]

thank you kamryn!!! fingers crossed it goes well hehe 😂

[@mybrainonplans]

Thanks so much for sharing and all the best for the exams! The timing sucks but I hope you can rest and relax and have some fun when they’re over!!! I also hope there’s some good moments during them too 🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾

[@theoryof.lauren]

thank you carlita!!!! 🤍🤍🤍🤍

[@ginarghhhhh]

Ahh Lauren, I feel you so hard. As a fellow PhD student with OCD my comps were hell (and they’re a lot less involved in the UK). Currently just started thesis write up and it’s a wild ride 🤪 I don’t really have any words of encouragement except you are not alone in this and I’m sorry this is so hard ❤ but we’ve got this! A fellow student likes to remind me that far more mediocre people have managed to finish their PhDs and we will do this too 🙏🏼

[@theoryof.lauren]

oh my gosh it makes me feel so much better knowing i am not alone 😭 I know everyone experiences ocd differently but it as made the comps process SO abysmal! we have totally got this!! 🤍🤍🤍🤍

[@CarolinaBury]

Good luck in your exams!!

[@theoryof.lauren]

thank you Carolina 🥰

[@kiahammond9419]

This seriously feels like a holiday gift 🤣♥️ good luck with exams ✨

[@theoryof.lauren]

omg this comment made me laugh! thank you so much 🥰🤍

[@ChantelleArts]

your journal is fantastic ❤❤❤

[@theoryof.lauren]

thank you SO much for watching 🤍

[@kathleenducharme5749]

Sorry you had such a rough time. Comprehensives are the WORST! The fear and apprehension are worse than the exam itself. You got it. I love your daily headings. What black and white pens do you use? ❤

[@theoryof.lauren]

yes thats exactly it -- the apprehension is the worst part!! for my daily headings I use a black tombow fudenosuke pen and a white gelly roll gel pen. in my opinion the tombow fudenosuke is the really important piece of this duo because it responds best to the gelly roll ink!

[@leahsjournals]

would you ever make a spend a day with me in my freely noted? to see how you do it?

[@theoryof.lauren]

this is definitely something i want to do in the future!

[@gaylejakubowski]

Promo`SM 😕