What's In My University Bag?

[@JeansThoughts]

For those that have requested it I have filmed an updated version of this video now that I am doing my PhD - you can watch it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZvFZ36cZs54ipI

[@missblessedbellablessed]

Hey

[@starcoveredmind]

I'm starting university next month and this made me look forward to it even more!

[@JeansThoughts]

starcoveredmind Oh I am so glad :) good luck and have fun!

[@RoseKeats]

I am totally with you on the handwritten thing! I definitely respond more to things in terms of remembering or interpreting them when they're not on a computer screen! Such a cute selection of stationery, glad to see someone else gets as excited about it as me haha! :L

[@AprendeConJuliaL]

the bag is just AWESOME... it looks like the bag of my dreams.(large, cute and has a lot of space in there.)

[@sahibamann8079]

Oh the stationery!! Such beautiful stationery... I haven't bought any decent kind in so long I've forgotten how to do it. Loved the Apple Pi joke!! So awesome

[@ThatKatePerson]

Videos like this are my kryptonite, I can't get enough of them. All your stationary is so lovely, I'm very impressed.

[@BooksAreMyHart]

I am a life-long student. I am going to be going for my PhD this fall. I carry a lot in my backpacks as well:) Super cute video!

[@lifeisanovel4291]

I love videos like these! I'm obsessed with school supplies; personally I have a pen obsession.

[@robotnic]

I've never thought to look up stationery hauls.... may lose a day to this now. But I /love/ what's in my bags so this was fun to watch. I'm a fineliner and Moleskine diary devotee too! Hope the diss is going well.

[@JeansThoughts]

robotnic Oh my god you are going to go down a rabbit hole, this is like when I started reading pen blogs... We are one and the same, can't live without the moleskin and fine liners. Thanks, hopefully see you soon!

[@Yesica1993]

***** People have PEN BLOGS! Holy cow, I am not going to Google it. I will never get anything done ever again!

[@owlwaysthinking2141]

+Jean Bookishthoughts Are pen blogs really a thing? LINKS PLEASE.

[@teaspoones]

Really great video! I think a video with tips for BA/MA thesis or essay writing would be really amazing too! You seem so organised and like a great student in general!

[@princessroyalblue]

you are sooo organized :)) had fun watching this! I agree with you the colors make studying interesting

[@starian72]

OMG I love what's in my bag videos and stationary hauls! Your notebooks are so cute!

[@yessy9663]

Amazing!! Your handwritten is lovely!

[@strangerinbooks1030]

That backpack is so cute. I love the look of those notebooks.

[@ljmastertroll]

It's 6am here and I'm suddenly craving apple pie.

[@JeansThoughts]

***** Mwuhahaha

[@GraemeBell9864]

I get it.

[@lesliecastro2548]

It'd be cool if you could do a blog/time lapse of you working on your dissertation! I love watching people work!

[@Yesica1993]

Leslie Castro "It'd be cool if you could do a blog/time lapse of you working on your dissertation! I love watching people work!" I like this idea! I really don't know what is involved with something like that. I'd give anything to be in school, so I have to live through others!

[@Chouetterargentee]

Ooh, I love stationery videos. That folder full of plastic sleeves is a great idea! I don't like using binders either, so things just end up in piles and stuck inside books.

[@AthenaMatisseLit]

I love these types of videos too! Ahh studyblrs and stationery make me very happy, thanks for uploading this. :)

[@bookishbirthright7150]

Congrats in advanced!!! I'm OBSESSED with stationery and these kinds of videos

[@thisisthestory3418]

Having nice notebooks and stationery motivates me, too! :) Loved the apple pi joke, it took me a few seconds to get that. haha.

[@smileifyouarebored]

This was really nice and helpful! I'm doing a history course at uni this autumn, which I'm really excited for. I did a course in literature and film which I just finished, but that one was mostly just for fun, I will probably take the history course a bit more serious. I need to buy some nice stationary now. I can feel that that will also become an obsession.. I literally just bought a moleskine yesterday, I'm so excited to use it! And I just found out about bullet journaling, so I'm excited to try that out as well

[@bookchickcity]

What sort of job will you be doing now you've finished your masters?

[@JadeVenetkens]

I study Classics, too, MA in Venice (Italy) ;)

[@lynseymacmakeup]

Aww this was me this time last year, just a couple of months away from handing in my masters dissertation - it's sad how much I miss it!! Hope it's going well! Loved all your notebooks and jotters, I'm such a sucker for nice stationery too, could very happily spend an entire day in Paperchase! x

[@literaturegeek1570]

Totally share the love of stationery here! And as I am currently still living in Japan, I am basically in stationery heaven. ;) I will definitely pick up a few things before I go home again. Just saying washi tape and cute sticky flags... and I already bought my new calendar, which starts in September and I am soo hyped for it. It`s black with gold lettering, very classic looking. Haah... :D

[@IsabelleRubyXD]

The two Oxford World Classics you held up are the exact ones I'm reading right now! (Theyre also the only two that i own at the moment, but i plan on changing that)

[@gypsymoon474]

You sound Scottish!! I adore how you said Zed if I didn’t see the Z I wouldn’t have known what you were talking about and I thought the apple pie was funny 😂

[@JustCHICHI]

I wish you'd make more of these. I'm obsessed!!!!! Xox.

[@JeansThoughts]

Aha I don't really change things up that often - once I've found a system that works I stick with it ^_^ glad you enjoyed it though x

[@rosiethreakallrosiefreckle5765]

My mum got e the pink version of your rucksack, they are on sale in Cath Kidston right now!

[@parodybarbiegirl]

Loved this :) I miss going to uni and buying stationary for it :)

[@cosyclouds]

I loved this video. Everything you own is so cute! I'm a sucker for notebooks and pens and just anything organizational. Watching this made me want to go out and buy some Paperchase. :D What was that one folder you were mentioning that had the clear pages inside to put paper in? I didn't quite catch the name or where you got it from. Im surprised your backpack hasn't broken your back yet. It looked quite heavy.

[@askirmishofwit]

This video combines my two weaknesses - what's in my bag videos and (Paperchase) stationery. :P I'm at a similar stage as you- MA student, stayed at the same uni for postgrad, and it's weird to think that it'll all be over in a month. Equally weird is the knowledge that after that's done I won't ever have to carry around quite a similar collection of stuff in my own bag. Can't say I'll be sorry to leave behind some of the anthologies though!

[@xThisCityisatWarx]

Those notebooks are gorgeous! What brand are they? Also, I will be writing my Thesis this year, and was wondering if you could give me some tips on how best to organize note and things to prepare, what have you found works best for you?

[@wellthatsjustduckie]

I love those notebooks! Are they hardcover? I agree with you on the binders. I'm currently trying to catalog my old work in binders and its proving to be a hassle.

[@JeansThoughts]

wellthatsjustduckie Yeah :) really sturdy. I definitely thought I was alone in binder hatred so I'm glad to hear other people find them problematic too haha.

[@craighogg4389]

This is fantastic! As a Scottish student myself your videos are dead helpful! How is your dissertation coming along? What's the title of it? I understand if you cant say for plagiarism reasons and stuff haha! Really loved this video, but where did you get that jotter you showed us in the last few minutes of the video? I usually get the red rhino type jotters, it's like being back in school sometimes though, I'd quite like a jotter that didn't make me feel like I was back in high school haha!

[@unimportanttwaddle]

Aaah the woes of an arts student. I made one of the science kids in my halls of residence carry my bag during assignment season after he'd taken the Mick about literature not being a 'proper' degree and let's just say he soon stopped, especially as it was currently holding half the library. Good luck for you dissertation.... you're so close ! What are your plans for after ?

[@ladressable]

I had that backpack but it ripped at the straps after about 2 months! Such a shame, I loved it so much.

[@zoesemple3418]

I have this backpack in a rose pattern but they don’t make my exact pattern anymore so I hope mine doesn’t break!

[@silversoul97]

Congrats on your masters !! :)

[@Frizzbiscuit]

Oh my god. How has it only just occurred to me that I can carry eye drops and moisturiser and lip balm and things around in a makeup bag instead of just chucking them in my backpack and hoping for the best... That sounds incredibly obvious now, but since I very rarely wear makeup to uni, I never even considered it. I'll never have to fear the lotion explosions again. Thanks!

[@khanomeir97]

I just love Scottish accent.

[@leahmk93]

what did u study. I had one notebook that i took to college to take notes for all my classes and i always wrote in black pen. When i got home I had 1 notepad for each subject that I used to colour code according to the section in the notepad.

[@JerryMarbas]

wow Im using the *exact same* bic mechanical pencil! They come in different colours and as you held up the red one... I looked my red one laying right here in front of me ;D I also use yellow highlighter and handwrite *everything*. Almost no one I know handwrites anything any more so that is a rare trait these days. I also write notes in the blank spaces in technical books I read but am running out of space so I was thinking of writing things in a separate book. I like the way you think Jean! :) I didnt laugh at your apple π joke though.

[@peachclementine4130]

I hope you don't mind the question but do you work with the original texts in ancient Greek or do you use the translations only? I've always wondered 😄

[@juliequick5526]

You look really relaxed here with only a month to go! Do you have one big thesis to hand in or has it been partly ongoing assessment? You've inspired me to go back to studying a bit. I've been a fan of lifelong learning, but sometimes life gets in the way! Thanks for another interesting video.

[@JeansThoughts]

Julie Quick Haha it is a mirage, I think I'm on track so that helps but you should see me in the evenings, that is when panic kicks in :). It's a thesis, I'll hand it in on the 14th and hopefully not have completely screwed it up, it's difficult doing all this work on one 15,000 word piece and not knowing how you're doing :S. I'm so glad, I completely agree with you, I hope I can keep studying new things here and there as long as possible.

[@juliequick5526]

Wishing you all the best with this and your passion for your subject shines through! Whenever I get really stressed, it repeat a one word mantra "peace" - to myself only of course, I don't want to be the weird middle aged woman who everyone avoids!

[@gabrielleoliveira3311]

Where did you buy those beautiful notebooks? I'm in love with the one with feathers

[@JeansThoughts]

Gabrielle Oliveira Paperchase :)

[@typacsk]

I know it's late, but congratulations on getting your degree! (You beat me by about a year ;) )

[@cherilynncrosby]

Can you please do a video on how you take notes on your mac book pro?? I'm looking in to getting one but is it really worth the price?

[@JeansThoughts]

cherilynncrosby I don't take lecture notes on my laptop, like I said I am hand writer still haha, I just use microsoft word on it to write my essays etc. I had to buy word to put on it though. I think the benefits of the macbook pro are they have fantastic battery life, they rarely get viruses, they come with iMovie which I use to edit all of my videos and also I have never owned anything other than apple computers so I've never considered buying anything else aha. I know that absolutely none of my friends who used to use non apple laptops have regretted it when they switched to the macbook.

[@cherilynncrosby]

Ok thank you that helps alot.

[@BooksUnstitched]

Where's your top from? It's really nice

[@JeansThoughts]

BooksUnstitched It is from Urban Outfitters but it is a dress :)

[@BooksUnstitched]

***** Ah, thank you!

[@sadiobayne1642]

Just.........AWESOME

[@KittyAndTheBooks]

I always get confused with foreign educational systems. ^^ So you're doing your master's degree and your disertation at the same time?

[@JeansThoughts]

BeautyChemCam This is my second dissertation/thesis :). I wrote one in the final year of my undergraduate degree and am now writing a second one as the final module of my postgraduate masters. We basically just did regular postgrad classes from september to may and then get until mid august to write a 15000 word dissertation :).

[@KittyAndTheBooks]

So dissertation doesn't mean PhD in English, but just a final paper? Because Dissertation here is when you get your PhD. :)

[@DheaMohammed]

We have the same bag!

[@sadiebanana1963]

Apple Pie LOL 😅👌🙌💕

[@NEHOMAS2]

You don't want to see the extreme amount of coloured pens that I'm in possession of.... and I don't have Uni as a practical excuse, hehe!

[@fifibella4959]

Thank you vert much

[@audreyhendrix4473]

What is your dissertation on?

[@JeansThoughts]

+Audrey Hendrix it was on women's honour in ancient athens :)

[@audreyhendrix4473]

+Jean Bookishthoughts that's so cool! :)

[@mohankashyap3534]

nice video

[@dondavis911]

Apple 3.14 , hehe hee. And your bag and you carry a huge load.

[@JeansThoughts]

dondavis911 Studying is quite literally back breaking work sometimes aha :).

[@dondavis911]

***** Yes, you may be right If its not back breaking then its not studying(in your case research).

[@MrToxicSausage]

Can't stand hardback notebooks, they never open flat and make it difficult to use so you skip every other page and waste half the book. The design does look nice though.

[@susannaolmi]

APPLE PIE ALL THE AWARDS

[@25missjojo]

Your back must be killing you!