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btw there should be Drink Stores and they should be open 24/7 and they should have Every Drink. coffee tea boba lemonade etc. and they should be on every street every 300 meters. bc girls need drinks
and they should be free. who are they to deny a drink to a girl in need
No to Low Stress College Study Strategy
I started using this study method my 2nd month of college, when I realized that it was better for study-life balance and my emotional wellbeing. It makes me feel productive and alert all day, and gives me plenty of free time to pursue hobbies, clubs, and personal interests. It sounds kind of hardcore at first, but it’s seriously wonderful if you give it a try! Here’s the game plan:
After the first few days of the semester, I sit down with all of the syllabi from all of my classes and write down every single assignment for the rest of the semester into my planner. Include exams, readings, lab report due dates, worksheets, essays, etc. Everything.
Every weekend, I set aside however much time I need to knock out every single assignment for the upcoming week that is possible to do in advance. I do my textbook readings, textbook practice problems, my humanities readings, short essays or write-ups to accompany those humanities readings, etc.
Even though I’m doing more work, I generally spend the same amount of time in the library as my friends who only do their work for Monday over the weekend. This is because if you don’t commit to doing a large number of assignments, you tend to spend a lot more time on minor assignments than is truly necessary - do I really need to spend 3 hours on this 1-page essay for my English class if it’s only graded on a 10 point scale? Couldn’t I finish this in 1 hour and then devote more time to the rest of the readings I need to do for that class this week?
I still have enough time to sleep in, have long lunch breaks, go the gym, go to parties in the evening, etc.
You can do this, no matter your workload. I am a pre-med science major taking 20 credits (max course load) a semester, with two labs, and I can get it done. My roommate is an English major with heavy novel reading assignments and she can get it done. (Disclaimer: this mostly applies to undergraduates.)
Research papers and midterm exam studying generally get their own day separate from homework assignments. I like writing essays in 1 or 2 sittings, but if you like to spread it out just break up the essay into manageable pieces and do it over multiple weekends, or do the pieces between classes (see next bullet point).
After blasting through most of my assignments over the weekend, during the week I generally only have to do busy-work that is assigned at the end of classes and continue studying for midterms that week. I easily finish these assignments in the breaks between classes during the day.
With this strategy, I always complete all of my homework well before dinnertime, and often have days when I don’t have any assignments to do. I use this free time for club meetings, hanging out with friends, going to the gym, marathoning Netflix, pursuing hobbies, working a job, whatever.
I also use this extra time to be able to study for exams much more effectively - when you don’t have busywork assignments floating in the back of your mind, it is much easier to focus. You will study more productively and effectively, and with much less stress. Exams are worth way more of your grade than the homework assignments you blast through each weekend, so it’s best to be able to focus exclusively on them Monday - Friday.
The best part about this strategy is that your workload is heavy on Sunday and sometimes Saturday, but you get to relax Monday - Friday. You basically have a 5 day weekend every week, assuming you enjoy going to class.
If anyone also uses this method, I’d love to hear from you or hear your variants/study suggestions! If anyone tries out this method for 1 or 2 weeks and finds that it works for them, I’d love to hear about it! If you try it and hate it with a fiery burning passion and loathe me for even suggesting it, I’d love to hear about it!
I believe in you!<3 No matter what study method you choose to use, just do your best and exceed your own expectations.
my advice for the youth of today is go to bed at 10pm. literally nothing else matters
anyone have good resources to learn statistics?
@miss-shirley thanks! I'll look them up!
anyone have good resources to learn statistics?
to everyone else in school right now:
please use sparknotes. please use khan academy. please listen to school house rock songs and watch the history of the entire world i guess and tim and moby and bill nye. any documentary you watch in class can be found somewhere online with a quick google. get your books from project gutenberg and z-lib. download textbooks off the internet whenever you can find them. use desmos for a free online graphing calculator. if you’re learning something and you don’t get it look up the wikipedia page on it and put it into simple english to get the gist, then put it back into regular english to get the full story. cheat if you have to. school sucks so bad rn and if you’re like me and you get all your materials secondhand or from the lost and found, online resources are really useful rn; all of the above have helped me pass a class in some way, and i hope they can help you too.
stay inside and stay safe. best of luck to all the students out there.
i used sparknotes for every fucking book i was supposed to read last semester. FUCK this online school garbage, you deserve all the shortcuts you can get
I promise you that as a university student who has done so many university literature courses, if you are smart about paraphrasing and using sparknotes and even wikipedia as a base then rewording/organising your arguments in a smart way using the evidence it points to in the book then you can literally get a high distinction for books you’ve never read. If you’re at a level where you feel comfortable looking at literature journal articles that’s another great place to steal argument ideas if you find some free ones. YOUTUBE THE CRASHCOURSE SERIES. I CANNOT stress enough how great these are at explaining concepts from SO MANY SUBJECTS. They are accurate, well researched, and interesting but more importantly explained clearly and simply. I literally watch them if I need to refresh my knowledge on a topic for a subject I’m teaching.
Hey I’ve been using Khan Academy since I was in 3rd grade!
It’s a bit boring but it really is helpful and is the reason I have gotten to the level I have in math :)
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to everyone else in school right now:
please use sparknotes. please use khan academy. please listen to school house rock songs and watch the history of the entire world i guess and tim and moby and bill nye. any documentary you watch in class can be found somewhere online with a quick google. get your books from project gutenberg and z-lib. download textbooks off the internet whenever you can find them. use desmos for a free online graphing calculator. if you’re learning something and you don’t get it look up the wikipedia page on it and put it into simple english to get the gist, then put it back into regular english to get the full story. cheat if you have to. school sucks so bad rn and if you’re like me and you get all your materials secondhand or from the lost and found, online resources are really useful rn; all of the above have helped me pass a class in some way, and i hope they can help you too.
stay inside and stay safe. best of luck to all the students out there.
perchance would any other schizospec folk have any uhhhhhhh tips for studying
I'm just. like. having a lot of trouble with the whole "reading and processing and understanding and retaining huge blocks of information" side of things. n trouble with memory. n trouble with disorganised thoughts. n brain fuzz got words just turning into meaningless shapes. gotta read the same sentence eight times out loud to understand it. then immediately forget what it said
or I mean they don't even have to be schizospec tips just like. hey. hey. anyone got any tips at all
someone give me those good good neurodivergent study tips, I know they exist, probably, hopefully
study is cool when my brain is cooperating but sometimes my brain is..... not doing that
I keep hearing people say that it’s ineffective and downright impossible and meaningless to study vocabulary from vocabulary lists but… I do learn vocabulary from vocabulary lists? And I actually remember them? And I’m able to recall and use them in context afterwards? Anyone else? I can’t possibly be the only one!
It really depends on what I do with the vocabulary list. Certainly if I just read a vocabulary list and never visit it again, I won’t retain any of the information. But if I put the vocabulary list into an app like Memrise, which forces me to revise the vocabulary using spaced repetition, I will remember it. Ultimately I have to use the vocabulary in some way in order to remember it.
I assume that’s the same for others? Or do people literally just read through a vocabulary list and it all magically goes into their brain? If so, I’m so jealous of you omg.
Maybe it depends on your learning preference? Like I have a strong kinaesthetic learning preference, so it’s incredibly important to me to have real-world application (ie context) to learn anything. So for me, vocabulary lists are good starting points, but I HAVE to take those words and put them into context (and I’ve just realised it’s something I insist other people do because “that’s the only thing that helped me” but that’s probably forcing my own learning preferences on other people, gonna make a mental note to stop doing that).
But maybe someone with a reading/writing preference can just make a vocab list, or read a vocab list (and maybe copy it out), and that’s enough for them. Maybe a visual learner just needs to see the words written down or come up with visualisations associated with the word. Maybe auditory learners need to read them aloud or hear them spoken and benefit more from apps with audio than just a list.
I read vocab lists or just new words in general and retain them pretty well. I read them a few times spaced over a couple of days if I want to be extra sure, and I copy them if I want to be completely sure. Usually just reading is fine though - or hearing it in a lesson, then I usually don’t have to actively learn it anymore, at least for content words like verbs, nouns, adjectives etc. It’s tougher with things like particles and pronouns, for those I do learn with tables because then I can just remember the position in the table, if that makes sense.
it definitely depends on learning preferences but also the intention of learning the vocabs. if I want to be able to still use them in a year or two I definitely need to practice with complete sentences and write them down once. expanding my active vocabulary without repeatedly using the vocab in context feels impossible haha. but back in school if I just wanted to pass the test I’d simply read the list 2-3 times the night before and then they’d stay in my brain for a week or two. it still worked last term for sign language except I read the word and then did the sign for it bc reading a sign isn’t really a thing. but maybe that’s more like reading the native language word and then saying the according target language word?
i never really actively studied my languages! Like I had vocab lists ofc but I rarely studied off them apart from last minute cramming/reference when i forgot something specifically. As far as I know my entire learning process was just absorbing them when they were said in class, maybe reading them in context. (doesnt apply to things like conjugations, which i think u kinda have to memorise until theyre instinctive)
I just wrote the entire first chapter of my thesis within a day, after staring at a blank page for a solid week, and the quality might not be amazing, but I am wishing everyone else who is academically stuck because of this whole corona situation that same kind of miraculous productivity <3
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They are not some anonymous “a tribe in India”, they are the War-Khasi. Speaking as a former anthro student and as a reference librarian, I am beyond sick of posts (and articles, and emails, and museum displays) like this that present the work of a people without actually naming the people. It’s erasure, it’s reducing the great works of a culture to an Ozymandias-esque curiosity for foreigners to consume rather than an accomplishment that should help bring awareness of that culture’s existence.
They are the War-Khasi, a division of the Khasi, a people who call themselves Hynñiew Trep. They live in Meghalaya, and they have been building these bridges in the town of Cherrapunji for longer than anyone knows. They are not anonymous.
@ayellowbirds Thank you for this!!
A few small corrections:
1. ‘Hynñiew trep’ (seven huts) is a part of folklore and refers to a place from which two tribes emerged: the Khasi and the Jaiñtia. Contemporarily, a region in eastern Meghalaya is called Ri Hynñiew Trep, where both the Khasi and the Jaiñtia tribes reside. It it does not refer to people and we do not call ourselves Hynñiew Trep.
2. Root bridges are not just located in Sohra (Cherrapunji is the colonial name of this town), but rather all throughout Meghalaya, particularly in the southern part. The earliest record of root bridges was in 1844, which happened to be the ones found in Sohra. Both Khasis and Jaiñtias have made root bridges for generations.
ALSO I’d like to point out that the root bridges and the environment that surrounds them are in danger due to tourism. Excessive advertising of these structures as tourist spots have caused stress that the roots have never had to endure even two decades prior. From being used by just the local residents, quite a few root bridges are now seeing hundreds of tourists everyday. There’s not only undue strain on the structures, but also pollution; people throw trash, are noisy, and do not respect the environment.
If you do visit the root bridges, please be respectful. Despite the prominent promotion of these bridges as tourist spots, people ought not to treat this as a structure available for consumption. People and other beings that use the root bridges are losing a very useful part of their lives; routes that have been around for centuries.
Why I have cred: I’m half Khasi
Thank you so much for the corrections!
This Is How You Actually Take Notes In College, Bitches
it’s occurred to me that nobody fuckin knows how to take notes in classes and most advice about it is bad. What the fuck are “key words?”
So anyway here’s how I’ve gotten a’s in all my classes in college so far
I’m not gonna bother too much with telling you to take notes in class. Everyone knows that shit. But most people’s note taking skills suck ass and there are two main types of sucking ass I have observed
The first is the one where your notes look like a list of key terms and words. Sometimes they are underlined or there are dashes that connect them to other words. So if your prof was talking about Henry VIII you’d write down something like
Henry VIII
Church of England—divorce
DON’T DO THAT. Those words are gonna show up on the test, sure, but writing them down isn’t gonna help you with the test. What the fuck does any of that mean? High school is shit and your “key words” can’t help you now.
Here’s the other type of bad note taking:
It was necessary for Henry VIII to have a male heir who could succeed him, but his wife was unable to conceive a son. The Catholic Church
I stopped writing there because your professor moved on to something else. But, tbh, even if you can write fast enough to keep up with the content of the lectures (and you can’t for the entire lecture) it’s not helpful to have a solid wall of Everything That Was Covered In The Lecture, in grammatically correct complete sentences. Are you gonna read that shit again? No!
And honestly most people have like, sentences here and there that look important instead of the whole lecture. Which is also bad.
So what’s the not shitty way to take notes? It comes down to these principles:
Shorthand
Show Relationships of Things
These kind of go together
I cannot emphasize enough that you don’t need to write sentences like a normal person. Shorthand everything, and I don’t mean some fucked up studying shorthand you just came up with like “AmR” for American Revolution, I mean like...fuckin text/memespeak. Don’t write complete sentences, completely abandon formality. Abbreviate anything you would in a text message, you know what it means.
HOWEVER: You Must Show How Things Are Related To Things
To understand broad concepts you gotta understand how the things in them are related to other things.
That’s why writing down “Henry VIII” and “Church of England” isn’t gonna help you, because you’re not learning that there is a Church of England.
Did Henry VIII burn the Church of England? Cheat on his wife with it? Who knows? Definitely not you.
This is why you have to connect stuff like
Catholic Church says no divorce
Henry VIII—starts Church of England
But ya know you can make that more memorable AND more clearly show how one thing caused the other
Henry VIII: divorce >:)
Catholic Church: no
Henry VIII: fuk u *church of england*
I’m completely dead serious about this, this kind of slang is very good at indicating exactly how things relate to things in zero time and you know exactly what it means and you’ll remember it
But furthermore
You have to come up with shorthand to quickly indicate how things are related. Say you write down the definitions of two terms for like, opposing theories on government in class. That’s great but you’re leaving it to yourself to work out the opposing part later from what you write, and your brain’s a flaky bitch.
Like part of what you’re doing it giving yourself help with HOW to study your notes later.
So like. Do something like write a jagged line in between the definitions, indicating conflict. Write “OTOH” or “HOWEVER” in between in big fuckin letters. Writing down “Catholic Church” and what that is and “Church of England” and what that is, is fine. But like, if the main theme is the contrast between the two, “Catholic Church HOWEVER Church of England” immediately tells you the basicest basics. It’s like a tiny outline, telling you what to expect. Sure, you can figure it out reading your notes but I’m telling you how to write skimmable notes that you can glean stuff from even when you’re half spaced out and shit, okay?
Same thing for like, dates and sequences and cause-and-effect and stuff. Even if you’ve got the dates down...be sure to put arrows or something so even at a glance you’ve got basically what’s going on.
Also i know it feels like wasting paper but DONT scrunch all your notes together into small space on the paper. That lil dialogue between Henry and the Church of England is spread out over 3 lines which means if you have ADHD like me you can actually fuckin read it. Turn things into bullet lists. Indent things with little arrows to show things leading to things. If there’s a clear move to a new topic, new page. If you’re actually filling up the paper all the way that shits hard to read and it’s even harder to pick out the Big Important Stuff.
Last word of advice: If you end up like writing down two things and can’t tell what they’re for or how they’re related to each other...ASK QUESTIONS. Like “I’m sorry can you explain how the Church of England is related to the Catholic Church? I didn’t quite catch that.” If talking in class makes you feel like you might be percieved badly, you can frame it like a Nerd Question “So, what kind of relationship would you say the Church of England and the Catholic Church had?” or just play it off like you didn’t hear it like “I’m sorry, what was that last thing you said about the Church of England and the Catholic Church?”
Or just make a mark on your notes to remind yourself that you need more info and to go to your prof’s office to ask questions. I would really not be nervous about that, professors normally really like it when students show that they really want to succeed in the class and that they care. Unless they’re like, a complete dickhead, in which case, fuck what they think, right? You’re gonna ask questions and it’s their problem because you’re essentially paying them for your presence in the class.
So...yeah.
what does the "llan-" place name mean in welsh? am in South Wales at the moment and noticed that it's in a lot of the names, got curious
It means a parish or settlement! It’s roughly a cognate of ‘land’ but usually (although not always) with a religious connotation; basically an area of land set aside for settlement or habitation. A lot of people will translate it directly as ‘the church of ___’ but it’s not always the case.
The bit that follows Llan- is often the name of a saint (like Llanbedr = the parish of Saint Pedr/Peter, Llanfair = the parish of Saint Mair/Mary) or another fixture of local geography (like Llanddulas, in which the -ddulas part comes from the River Dulas, so the settlement of the River Dulas.)
Actually, gonna elaborate my reply to a reblog. So in the reply, I asked what makes “Pedr” morph to “bedr” (whether it’s a sound thing or a grammar thing), and I can see the p -> b connection with the bilabial stops… but how do you get from “Mair” to “fair”? From bilabial nasal to labiodental fricative?
I mean, for the sounds the answer could just be “… it just works that way”, but are there cohesive grammar rules for when/how this happens?
MUTATIONS, BABY
It’s a grammar thing! I am not a Welsh teacher, but I’ll try and give a very brief overview (and I do mean very brief, because they’re actually fairly lengthy to explain.)
By mutation, I mean an initial consonant mutation, whereby the first letter of a word changes depending on the word that precedes it and the context of the word in the sentence.
For example, a noun that’s preceded by the definite article (‘the’ in English, ‘y’ in Welsh, or ‘yr’ if the noun starts with a vowel) will, if the noun is feminine and starts with a certain letter, mutate.
Ditto if it follows a preposition, such as ‘i’ (‘to’ in English) or ‘yn’ (‘in’ in English.) There are many, many other conditions in which a word will undergo mutation, but those are probably the most common ones.
Welsh has three types of mutation:
Soft (this is the grand daddy of mutations, and affects the most letters and contexts). This affects the letters b->f, c->g, d->dd, g->(is removed), ll->l, m->f, p->b, rh->r, t->d. They teach you this one in school by making you chant ‘p t c b d g ll m rh’ said in the Welsh way so that you sound like a steam train. I cannot explain further.
Nasal. This affects the letters b->m, c->ngh, d->n, g->ng, p->mh, t->nh.
Aspirate. This one is probably the one you’ll see least often, and affects the letters c->ch, p->ph, t->th.
Wiktionary has a helpful guide to every single mutation and all the conditions in which they happen (I told you it was lengthy) but here are some of the common ones!
Soft: this is the one you’ll see most often, and is the one you ask about! ‘Pedr’ mutates to ‘bedr’ and ‘Mair’ mutates to ‘fair’ because they undergo a soft mutation (p->b, m->f) as part of the compound words ‘Llanbedr’ and ‘Llanfair’. You also see this mutation if you want to say ‘I’m from Cardiff’; the Welsh word for ‘Cardiff’ is ‘Caerdydd’, and certain nouns undergo a soft mutation after the preposition ‘o’, meaning ‘from’ - ‘dw i’n dod o Gaerdydd.’ There are other prepositions that also precipitate a soft mutation, including ‘drwy’ (‘through’) and ‘gan’ (‘by’) amongst many others, but again, not all nouns are affected. Usually, an epithet will take this mutation, as in the case of Llywelyn Fawr. ‘Mawr’ means ‘great’, so he’s Llywelyn the Great, and he mutates. A handy rhyme for a good pal.
Nasal: ‘Cymru’ is the Welsh word for ‘Wales’. If you want to say ‘I live in Wales’, you would say ‘dw i’n byw yng Nghymru’. Here, ‘Cymru’ undergoes a nasal mutation: c->ngh. This is because the preposition ‘yn’ precipitates a nasal mutation. Similarly, you’d say ‘fy nhad’ for ‘my father’, even though the noun is ‘tad’, because it mutates after ‘fy’, meaning ‘my’, and it would be ‘fy nghath’ for ‘my cat’, rather than ‘fy cath’.
Aspirate: the possessive ‘ei’, meaning ‘her’ (as in ‘her house’) triggers an aspirate mutation. Therefore, going back to dads and cats, it would be ‘ei thad’ and ‘ei chath’. The negative particles ‘ni’ and ‘na’, which basically make a sentence negative (not in the emotional sense) also trigger an aspirate mutation. For example, ‘he slept’ would be ‘cysgodd e’, in which ‘cysgodd’ is the verb and ‘e’ is the subject. ‘He did not sleep’ would be ‘Ni chysgodd e’. HILARIOUSLY, ‘ni’ and ‘na’ also trigger soft mutations in the other consonants. Why? I do not know.
This is not a complete overview - if you click on the Wiktionary link I gave above, you’ll get a much fuller picture of them! These are just some of the more common examples you might come across.
Honestly, mutations are very intuitive, and you can usually tell when you’re meant to do it purely because it makes the sentence easier to say. I absolutely don’t know all of the rules for them off the top of my head, but I can usually (although definitely not always) tell when I need to do it.
Oh my god I’d sort of assumed they followed the same or similar rules and patterns as séimhiú and urú mutations in Irish but they don’t! How cool!
In Irish we make it easier on readers by leaving the mutated letter behind so you can see the original spelling, though you only pronounce the new letter, not the one that’s part of the standard pronunciation. So you have Creoso i Gymru where Wales on its own is Cymru, but if the Irish for Wales was Cymru (it’s not, it’s An Bhreatain Beag, which this rule doesn’t apply to because vowels and stuff) we would write Fáilte go gCymru. Same sentence, same sound change, but we write it differently!
Séimhiú and urú are some of the ways to tell which possessive pronoun is in use. His, her and their is the same word: a. But you can tell which one it is by the mutation it causes.
Shoe = bróg (brogue)
Her shoe = a bróg (a brogue)
His shoe = a bhróg (a vrogue)
Their shoe = a mbróg (a mrogue)
“His” and “her” use the same word in Welsh as well!
cath - cat fy nghath - my cat (nasal mutation) dy gath - thy cat (soft mutation) ei gath - his cat (soft mutation) ei chath - her cat (aspirate mutation) ein cath - our cat (no mutation) eich cath - your cat (no mutation) eu cath - their cat (no mutation)
Notice that “his” and “her” have the same possessive, and are distinguished only by their mutation. (In speech, we’ll often throw in the possessor’s pronoun *after* the possessed - “ei gath o” and “ei chath hi”.)
When I state my pronouns online in a Welsh context, I give “ei / fo / treiglad meddal”. (“Treiglad meddal” being the Welsh name for soft mutation.) Those are the equivalent of common binary “he/him” pronouns.
I’ve encountered a Tumblr bio where the pronouns were given as “ei / hw / treiglad trwynol”. So:
“ei” - the possessive used for both binary genders “hw” - looks to me like a neopronoun based on “nhw” (they) “treiglad trwynol” - nasal mutation
Note that nasal mutation isn’t one of the ones used for either binary gender.
So…
Ffeindiodd Tom ei gath. - Tom found his cat. Ffeindiodd Alys ei chath. - Alys found her cat. Ffeindiodd Sam ei nghath. - Sam found xyr cat.
Phew. I had to memorize soft mutation by osmosis. Remembering that it usually either makes a stop/nasal into a fricative, or makes something unvoiced become voiced, got me a lot of the way there.
I’m still looking for answer as to why some kings’ epithets mutate and some don’t. We have Llywelyn Fawr and Hywel Dda, but we also have Rhodri Mawr (and Beli Mawr).
Intermolecular forces in a nutshell
