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@cornerstudying
If you’re still here..
I have long since moved this blog to @gamma-cray !
Last I posted here, I was still doing my diploma. I’m now 2 years through my undergrad in physics haha. 4 years fly by really quickly.
If you followed for the studyblr content, I’m glad to say I am still at it at my new account. See yall there and have a good day:)
20.08.16 / what’s in my package? Exciting stuff! It’s the large hadron collider pop up book😍😍😍
20.08.16 / two papers down, two to go! Screwed up yesterday’s paper, but alas it’s already over, what can I do.. ah well. It’s a beautiful saturday, I’ve jotted down some ideas into my projo (“project journal” of sorts!) and went to collect my package today! But now.. it’s time to study. Sigh HAHAHAHA
18.08.16 / one paper down! Went quite alright I guess, advanced math tomorrow but I feel so lazy:-(
17.08.16 / and so finals begins tomorrow.
17.08.16 / early afternoon reviewing in a new-ish location! Lighting here is so horrible that I had to use my phone flashlight as a table lamp HAHAHAHA. Hope to finish a bit more before lunch, then head to a better spot to continue studying.
16.08.16 / last leg of today. Some telly and casual solution reading (multitasking isn’t effective, but hell am I lazy..) before I head to sleep! After all I did survive today on 4 hours of sleep… gg. Hopefully I sleep better tonight.
16.08.16 / slept in, doing exam papers now
16.08.16 / productive evening! Finally reviewed some chapters I’ve been procrastinating for weeks. Did a couple of math questions here and there too. Well, empty classroom with a bunch of friends and working on the teacher’s table proved to be effective. Tomorrow’s the last day before finals kick off🔥🔥🔥
15.08.16 / did half a math paper in the afternoon, and finished transferring half of these electronics notes. Yes, transferring notes is really time consuming but in all honesty, FUN HAHAHA. A nice revisit of this chapter, a break from prepping for this week’s math finals. I guess I can afford the time. Ah well, time to call it a night. Tomorrow shall be as productive💪💪💪
15.08.16 / math summary sheets!! One hour of distracted working, and I’m about 40% done. Aiming to finish before lunch💪💪💪
15.08.16 / continuing after lunch! BAH so sleepy but I guess progress is progress? The exams aren’t gonna study themselves.
14.08.16 / ahh.. it’s been an unproductive weekend, but on the bright side I’m more or less recovered from my flu! Awards ceremony was held on Friday too hoorah. Math and advanced math finals in the coming week. I WILL be more productive tomorrow.
Today I got to therapy a couple hours early to take advantage of my therapists office kitchen, she’s welcomed me to come and study there anytime I need a quiet/safe space :)
Tomorrow I’m hoping to make my first masterpost: Managing Study with Mental Illness :)
happy august everyone!! july was a busy month for me, and now I’m just looking forward to seeing everything this month brings! 🌻
We’ve all been there before. Staying up into the early hours of the morning, trying to complete that essay you’ve left until the night before it’s due, you reach that euphoric moment of completion, only to glance at the word count and be bombarded with anguish. Somehow in your haze of too much caffeine, 3am tears, and zero cares, you have to cut out a chunk of your essay to reach the word limit. Have no fear! Here are a few simple tricks to reducing your word count so you can meet that dastardly word limit without having to rewrite whole sections of your essay.
Plan and structure your essay before writing it Pre-planning and structuring your essay will not only give your essay a clear voice and a more coherent argument, it can also help in reducing your word count before you start writing! Spending 15 minutes creating an essay plan will ensure you address your argument’s main points without straying and writing about irrelevant ideas. You could even set yourself a word limit for each paragraph depending on it’s content and significance to your argument.
Use gerunds Gerunds, -ing verbs, are an easy way to reduce your word count, simply by rewriting a few sentences to remove unnecessary words. Consider the following:
He ran towards the car and quickly gulped down his coffee. (10 words) Running towards the car, he quickly gulped down his coffee. (9 words)
Delete adverbs Using adverbs can, at times, be an insult to the reader, and adds unnecessary words to an essay. The redundancy of those (majority) -ly verb modifiers can be trying. When I’ve finished an essay, I always ctrl+f search -ly and decide which ones need the cut. Let’s look at that example again:
Running towards the car, he quickly gulped down his coffee. (9 words) Running towards the car, he gulped down his coffee. (8 words)
By definition, the act of gulping is to swallow quickly. Why waste your precious word count for an unneeded word? Alternatively, write actively by removing an adverb and replacing it with another verb!
The window shook loudly. (4 words) The window rattled. (3 words)
Keep in mind some adverbs may be necessary if they provide important information!
Delete ‘that’ I had a family member who refused to read over any of my work until I had gone through and deleted every unnecessary ‘that’ I could find. Often, it’s such a superfluous word that you could almost strike it from the English language. Now reread the previous sentence without ‘that’. You’ll be surprised how often you use it!. Ensure you read the sentence you’re removing the word from; it’s not always useless!
Delete auxiliary verbs I’ll admit to finding this difficult, deleting ‘can’, ‘could’, ‘might’, ‘should’, and the like. Deleting these unnecessary verbs both reduces word count and also gives your writing more strength and authority! While useful for expressing tentativeness, you shouldn’t be tentative in arguing your point. For example:
Many may have been negatively impacted by the Great Depression. (10 words) Many were negatively impacted by the Great Depression. (8 words)
Replace phrases with words Some phrases become fixed in our writing, using long strings of words instead of simply one. There’s no set rule for this, it just comes with reading through your work. Google can be your friend here!
On the other hand… (4 words) Conversely… (1 word)
These are the ways I most commonly use to lower my word count, but there are definitely a lot more out there! Hopefully they can help you too! Feel free to message me if you’d like!
[45/100] {01.08.2016}
Long time no see! I have been busy with the research activity at university. Also been busy with being depressed, so I didn’t do anything productive. But I’m having a break from work (also got a cold because I was caught in the rain), and I hope I will feel better.
Started learning German grammar. Mechanically studying verb conjugations, haha.
A list with things I need to do are:
write the calibration algorithm
study Python and C++
study Sebastian Thrun’s tutorial on Udacity
study German
revise math
look over next year’s courses
I also finished reading “The Ring Sets Out”, the first book from the Lord of the Rings series, and I’m also rewatching the movies.
