Book Smart Studies

Meghan | 15 | Sagitarious | Canadian | language, Literature and Linguistics "When you stop growing, you start dying." - William S. Burroughs   

[imanistudies]

Only one exam and one paper to go, then I’ll be officially half way done with law school. Bless up. 🙌🏾

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10.08.2017 Working on an English essay and diving into a literary theory and crit. book. Needless to say, I’m havin a great time.

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[pianoandstudy]

05/10/2017 :: Working on lots of maths today, some economics notes and then a piano lesson.

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10.06.2017 Working on Frankenstein and struggling with math. I have so much to do 😩 It would be dream to just dedicate myself to my English work, but I also need a good mark in Math, and I have to dedicate so much more time to achieve that. During double period the library always gets really loud and I die inside.

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10.05.2017 Desperately trying to understand what we’re doing in math, failing miserably. Another headline, I despise my English class.

[tolstoyanddostoyevsky-deactivat]

Tolstoy’s Ten Rules.

At 18 years old, Tolstoy set himself the following ten rules:

Get up early (five o’clock). Go to bed early (nine to ten o’clock). Eat little and avoid sweets. Try to do everything by yourself. Have a goal for your whole life, a goal for one section of your life, a goal for a shorter period and a goal for the year; a goal for every month, a goal for every week, a goal for every day, a goal for every hour and for every minute, and sacrifice the lesser goal to the greater. Keep away from women. Kill desire by work. Be good, but try to let no one know it. Always live less expensively than you might. Change nothing in your style of living even if you become ten times richer.

[studystory]

QUICK REMINDER: as a studyblr you don’t have to be taking the hardest classes ever. I’m taking college algebra and am allowed to struggle as much as I want!! This community is about personal success, and that means different things for different people :) so keep on going friends 🌻 we’ve got this!!

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10.04.2017 Reading ‘Call me Burroughs’ by Barry Miles, which is an actually enthralling biography about my fav writer, and planning for my book club (see: stack of Frankenstein’s books).

[hannahreveur]

Early mornings at empty libraries are my favourite!😻📚📝 Long day ahead… making sure I’m caught up and ahead of the game after my first week back in classes.

[hannahreveur]

To everyone asking, yes this is a bando planner in a large :)

[emmastudies]

that planner thooo!!😍

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10.03.2017 Working on math during study period, and realizing just how much I hate quadratics. Unit two for my media studies class is coming out tomorrow and I’m not looking forward to it. :/

[joiekeery-deactivated20171123]

tag urself as a student

i.d.g.a.f:  goes to school unbothered, doesn’t give a shit about makeup or looking nice, constantly has a water bottle filled, when they’re not taking notes they’re sleeping in class, goes home and actually studies/does homework, bottles up emotions, wants to travel

covfefe: lives their life on coffee and tea, always participates in class discussions, likes to observe, challenges themselves sometimes a little too much, needs more sleep, always trying to make plans to fill up their schedule, likes aesthetics

netflix & procrastinate: honestly wants to do well, gets distracted easily, when they’re focused they get shit done, pulls lots of all nighters, tells everyone ‘im fine’ when not fine, accidentally skips breakfast, loves their friends, gets anxiety over tests and quizzes

pastel: is always organized, loves to journal, actually listens to the teacher, people think they’re always super sweet, wants to visit japan, loves animals, does research for fun, looks over work 948208 times before turning it in, watches horror movies and then regrets it

complaint department: acts like they didn’t have enough time to do homework (they did), blames others for their problems, doesn’t study then cry when they get a bad grade, secretly is very insecure, is always out “sick”, acts better than others for no reason sometimes

chilly child: is very relaxed but knows how to work, is nice to their teachers, tries to avoid half-assing things, loves autumn, likes studying with other people, is very self motivating, tries not to focus on the letter grade but rather how hard they worked, and tbh they’re just tryna enjoy life, 

[tiny-loudness]

A Russian native speaker’s perspective on the Russian language

For those of you learning Russian or just curious about it :)

spelling is a mess 

punctuation is even worse: you have to know 76487658 rules and conduct a 10-step linguistic analysis to put proper punctuation marks in a more or less complex sentence

we constantly mix up similar-looking letters in English and Russian on the keyboard

everyone’s New Year resolution is to brush up their English

no one actually says ‘zdrav-stvuj-teh’ (здравствуйте, hello). It’s usually ‘zdras-tu-te’, ‘zdras-te’ (the most common variant), or even ‘dras-te’ (there is a russian meme ‘дратути’ (dra-tu-tee) mocking a way of shortening the word)

in fast speech it’s normal to drop like 10-20% of sounds 

there are quite a few widely used words an expressions originated from criminal argot, presumably left over after mass imprisonment under Stalin

the common way to address a stranger is мужчина, женщина or девушка (literally ‘man, woman, [young] girl’). Everyone finds it weird and inconvenient, but can’t to come up with smth else

Russian swear words sound way ruder than English ones (still almost everyone swears)

quite a lot of English words don’t have well-sounding alternatives in Russian (words like self-consciousness, counterintuitive, a rule of thumb will sound strange translated literally)

…but good luck translating 50 shades of meaning of Russian diminutives (кошка, кошечка, киса, кисонька, кисуля, кисулечка vs cat or kitty)

don’t ask me how Russian works without articles and link verbs, it’s probably just black magic

the Russian language is amazing. I’m fucking blessed to speak it as a first language.

[capymiri]

Domenica, 18 Giugno 2017: It’s so cool and bright here. I love it. 🍃

[bristudieslaw-deactivated202008]

Hi everyone, back again with another masterpost! I decided to do a guide to highlighting, I find highlighting extremely useful when I do my revision. It allows me to locate key pieces of information very fast, thus it is important to only highlight crucial details.  

Please note that this is just a guideline, so change and alter it for your usage.

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Bri xx

[medicxin]

012516 - It’s our mid-year break and we kicked it off starting with our research paper! My research groupmates and I gathered in a coffee shop to work together, and it turned out to be a nice coffee group date :3

[ghiblistudyy]

august 10, 2017

the last of my apush summer assignment! 

–> studygram!