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Other advice posts that may be of interest:
How To Study When You Really Don’t Want To
How To Do Uni Readings
Active Revision Tips
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Dealing With Executive Dysfunction - A Masterpost
The “getting it done in an unconventional way” method.
The “it’s not cheating to do it the easy way” method.
The “fuck what you’re supposed to do” method.
The “get stuff done while you wait” method.
The “you don’t have to do everything at once” method.
The “it doesn’t have to be permanent to be helpful” method.
The “break the task into smaller steps” method.
The “treat yourself like a pet” method.
The “it doesn’t have to be all or nothing” method.
The “put on a persona” method.
The “act like you’re filming a tutorial” method.
The “you don’t have to do it perfectly” method.
The “wait for a trigger” method.
The “do it for your future self” method.
The “might as well” method.
The “when self discipline doesn’t cut it” method.
The “taking care of yourself to take care of your pet” method.
The “make it easy” method.
The “junebugging” method.
The “just show up” method.
The “accept when you need help” method.
The “make it into a game” method.
The “everything worth doing is worth doing poorly” method.
The “trick yourself” method.
The “break it into even smaller steps” method.
The “let go of should” method.
The “your body is an animal you have to take care of” method.
The “fork theory” method.
The “effectivity over aesthetics” method.
Demonstrative Adjectives: Questo and quello
Demonstrative adjectives are so called because they clearly demonstrate this/ these or that/those. The first category (questo) is very simple, since it only has the four typical forms for adjectives: -o, -a, -i, and -e (in addition to quest’ for nouns beginning with a vowel). The second is a bit more challenging, with eight forms instead of just four, but you might notice a pattern:
maschile
singolare
questo fratello
(quest’uomo)
plurale
questi fratelli
(questi uomini)
singolare
quel fratello
quell’uomo
quello zio
plurale
quei fratelli
quegli uomini
quegli zii
femminile
singolare
questa sorella
(quest’amica)
plurale
queste sorelle
(queste amiche)
singolare
quella sorella
quell’amica
plurale
quelle sorelle
quelle amiche
If you noticed that the forms for quello correspond to the definite articles you’d need for those nouns, good eye! (Side note: the forms for the adjective bello, or beautiful, will follow the same patterns.)
If Israeli Jewish society is going to move forward dealing with its own racial tensions, it needs British and world Jewry to do the same. Generations of Mizrahi Jews in the UK no longer understand their own history: they have been taught to weep for Krakow but never for Sanaa.
Deep in the heart of North East London, where South Tottenham meets Stamford Hill, sits an Adenese Jewish community. Here, I was born and raised, born into a mixed Yemenite-Moroccan family in the middle of a Mizrahi Jewish bubble. Within that bubble, where Hebrew was sung in heavy guttural pronunciations, where cussing was done in Arabic, and where women ululated at bar mitzvahs and weddings, we lived an existence away from the “Fiddler on the Roof”-style clichés that have come to dictate society’s understanding of Jews.
In my community a large percentage were ’67 refugees. The last Jews of Aden, who in 1967 boarded British ships with nothing but the clothes on their back, forced to flee suddenly in the midst of the turmoil of the British colonial exit. An ancient community, 2,000 years old, uprooted overnight, made its way to North East London to join an already established Adenese Jewish community that traced its roots to the heyday of the British Empire. Yet, despite their historical place in the British Jewish landscape, their presence remains forgotten by the mainstream Anglo-Jewish narrative. Similarly, no one speaks of the Iraqi-Jewish merchants who set up thriving communities in London and British Mumbai, nor of the Egyptian-Jews who arrived with the empire, or the Iranian-Jewish presence.
Attending British Jewish schools my entire life, it did not take long for me to realize that my Judaeo-Berber surname, brown skin and Mizrahi identity were undesirable. Better yet, they weren’t “really Jewish.” That undesirability, that categorization of what is Jewish, is chained to a non-pluralist Eurocentric reality which dictates Jewish history and culture, from Israel to the UK.
Judaism, we are told, is uniform: it is socially Eastern European, linguistically Yiddish, ethnically White. Judaism is never Brown, Arabic or Middle Eastern. Subsequently, the Mizrahi Jew is whitewashed from the Jewish historical narrative, which in turn has allowed for his erasure from both Western and Arab historical, social and political discourse surrounding the Middle East. The non-Jewish world thus understands Judaism and Israeli society through Eurocentric-Ashkenazi paradigms provided for them by the Ashkenazi experience, which has anointed itself as the sole narrative of world Jewry. The Mizrahi Jew is expected to partake in a mainstream historical narrative that sees itself between Warsaw and Minsk, but never Baghdad.
Throughout my Jewish education, lessons fixated on the Gaon of Vilna or the Cholent of Shabbat — never on the Baba Sali of Tafilalt or the sweet buttery Jahnoon of Yemenite Jewry. Efforts to inform teachers that at home our rituals differed, it was dismissed; one teacher conceded to the class that “Sephardis have different traditions” with an added eye roll for emphasis.
All of this served to place myself and other Mizrahi British Jews in a state of continuous confusion, dictating a one-size-fits-all Jewish identity that did not reflect the realities of our homes and traditions. Mizrahi Jews are subsequently pressured to Ashkenize, to avoid appearing “too ethnic,” to understand their Jewish identity as not only inferior but as a historical anomaly not worthy of mention in Jewish environments. From the secular to the religious who have adopted the black hats of religious Ashkenazi tradition, a rich aspect of the Jewish world is being extinguished, for the sake of “blending in” with Ashkenazi Jewry.
A significant aspect of the Ashkenization of Judaism is in part credited to the place the Holocaust holds within the Jewish historical narrative. A tragedy which barely touched Mizrahi Jewry apart from small parts of North Africa, which also remains absent from the culture surrounding Holocaust remembrance. Mizrahi Jews across the world are expected to own the Holocaust as if it is their own. In the process, generations of Mizrahi Jews no longer understand their own history: they have been taught to weep for Krakow but never for Sanaa.
The Mizrahi story has been sacrificed at the altar of collective memory, silently accepting that ancient Judaeo-Islamic civilization is not something worth mourning. We are fed the notion of a rigid dichotomy between the Arab and Jewish worlds, as if either were two separate homogenous blocs with no connection to the other. To belong to an Arabic or Middle Eastern culture and have a Jewish identity is an oxymoron — being Polish and Jewish is not.
That lack of recognition and ensuing racism is a product of a British-Ashkenazi mind-set that regulates Judaism to a race, condensing a socio-religious group according to basic physical features — features that we Mizrahi Jews do not posses, features that are strictly European. As a result the Mizrahi Jew is a humorous concept, he does not “look” Jewish; he is Indian or Arab but never Jewish. Not really a Jew, an anomaly.
The Mizrahi struggle in Israel today is one about cultural recognition, historical justice for the crimes inflicted upon it by the Ashkenazi establishment and a demand for a new pluralism, one that brings the Mizrahi story into the fold. However, the Mizrahi struggle is not solely confined to Israel, it is part of a wider struggle for Mizrahi recognition across the Jewish communities of the West. The Mizrahi identity is subsequently swallowed up by an Ashkenazi collective memory and voice; the Mizrahi is expected to conform to the Ashkenazi hegemon.
If Israeli Jewish society is going to move forward dealing with its own racial tensions, it also requires British and world Jewry to do so. If Western Jewish communities begin to understand the Mizrahi in their midst, to recognize his story and to restore his rightful place in the Jewish collective imagination, then maybe, just maybe Israeli Jewish society might begin taking steps regarding its own Mizrahi population.
Some Readings from the UC eScholarship Website
1. Identity, Assimilation, and Representations of American Judaism in Philip Roth’s American Trilogy
2. Moses and Multiculturalism
3. Good Jews Don’t: Historical and Philosophical Constructions of Idolatry
4. Freud and Monotheism: Moses and the Violent Origins of Relligion
5. Lusting for Death: Some Unconscious Fantasies in an Ancient Jewish Martrydom Text
6. Rethinking Jewish Identity in Late Antiquity
7. Law as Faith, Faith as Law: The Legalization of Theology in Islam and Judaism in the Thought of Al-Ghazali and Maimonides
8. Joseph ben Samuel Sarfati’s ‘Tratado de Melibea y Calisto’: A Sephardic Jew’s reading of La ‘Celestina’ in light of the medieval Judeo-Spanish “go-between” tradition
9. Excerpt from Judah L. Magnes: An American Jewish Nonconformist
10. Arbiters of the Afterlife: Olam Haba, Torah and Rabbinic Authority
11. I am Black AND Jewish: Black Jewish Women’s Experiences in “White” Jewish Communities in Brazil
12. From the Gay Synagogue to the Queer Shtetl: Normativity, Innovation, and Utopian Imagining in the Lived Religion of Queer and Transgender Jews
13. Secret lives, public lies : the conversos and socio-religious non-conformism in the Spanish Golden Age
14. Jews, Ethnicity and Identity in Early Modern Hamburg
15. Mordechai Langer (1894-1943) and the Birth of the Modern Jewish Homosexual
16. A Prophet and His People: Israel Zangwill and His American Public, 1892-1926 and Beyond
17. Beyond the Saharan Cloak: Uncovering Jewish Identity from Southern Morocco and throughout the Sahara
18. A well in search of an owner : using novel assertions to assess Miriam’s disproportionate elaboration among women in the Midrashim of late antiquity
19. Rootless Cosmopolitans : : Literature of the Soviet-Jewish Diaspora
20. The Problem of Pleasure: Disciplining the German Jewish Reading Revolution, 1770-1870
21. Rabbis on the Road: Exposition En Route in Classical Rabbinic Texts
22. Muslims and Jews, Moving with God: Re-thinking the Relationship between Immigration, Religion and Theory
23. Cultural Translation and the Problem of Language: Yiddish in Joseph Roth’s Juden auf Wanderschaft
24. Making America / Makhn Amerike / Haciendo la América Jewish Immigrants Write the Americas (1880-1990)
25. Becoming Hungarian: Jewish Culture in Budapest, 1867-1914
26. La colpa di essere nati: Exile Through the Eyes of Italian Jews
Study Pack #2
by Eintsein
It’s a new year, and whether you’re looking to organize your current study process, or try out something more productive, this study pack can help you out. These are some of the methods I use to help myself study more effectively, and I’ve decided to make some printables out of them so that you can use them too!
In this study pack:
Day Tracker: to schedule your day or keep track of how you use your time.
Past Paper Tracker: to track all the past papers you’re practicing.
Past Paper Summary: to summarize the trends in your past papers so you can plan your studying accordingly.
Topic Tracker: to track the topics that appear in the past papers.
Syllabus Tracker: to help you know where you currently are in your syllabus: what’s been done and what’s left to do, along with how well you know the material
Click here to download! (link to study drive)
Hope these help, and don’t forget to tag me with #eintsein when you use them - I’d love to see them in action! And if you have any questions, drop me an ask/message. Have an awesome day :)
P.S. Examples of how to use some of these printables are in the gifs above, but of course, you’re free to use them in whatever method works best for you. For example, for the topic tracker, instead of distinguishing between the number of marks for the question, you could keep track of how many marks you’ve received for that topic (i.e. 100% means you get full marks for every single question of that topic).
because i spend 90% of my day online i’ve managed to compile a giant list of helpful school-related resources!! (◡‿◡✿)
planners/printables/etc
how to bullet journal (2)(video)
bullet journal inspo
bullet journal page ideas (2)
form your habits
giant daily planner
tons of calender printables
more printable planners
more printables
medication-taking schedule
motivation/time-management
behind in school?
stop procrastinating
studyblr community list
time management hacks
more time management
taking notes
effective reading/note-taking
note-taking styles
visual notes
how to take lecture notes
reading and note-taking
note-taking tips
making organized notes
how to mindmap
efficient note-taking
more tips
phone/laptop apps for school
momentum (chrome)
microsoft onenote (pc download)
evernote clearly (chrome)
stayfocusd (chrome)
save to pocket (chrome)
highlighter (chrome)
top 14 productivity apps
hemingway (website)
google keep
best iphone study apps
mindmeister
rogerhub final grade calculator
photomath (iphone)
finals/tests/studying
finals survival guide
dont freak over finals
how to multiple choice
make your own flashcards (2)(3)(4)
how to make a study schedule
how to study
exam lifehacks
how to win at finals
how to remember better
study hacks
studying for visual learners
how 2 study
studying for auditory learners
condensing info method
homework help
what is that word im thinking of???
10 common essay mistakes
reading strategies
accurate citation site
didnt read that book?
strategic reading
crashcourse (videos)
khanacademy (learn anything relating to math/science)
solve math problems
how to read shakespeare
change small words to big words and vice versa
“how to write good”
google scholar
scholarpedia
essaytyper
mental health is most important
stress relief
cute/happy things tag
test anxiety coping
the dawn room
how to get a good sleep
comfort spot
dealing with depression and good grades
distract yourself
2018 Student Guide
With the start of 2018 well underway, I wanted to make a masterpost full of links on how to adjust your perspective with studying. Perhaps you want to become a better student overall, improve your focus or get into your dream college, there is always something we want to do better! Hopefully these tips will make 2018 your best academic year yet!
Organisation
2018 student planner
planner brand recommendations
planner vs bullet journal: pros and cons
how to set up a bullet journal
setting up a digital bullet journal
bullet journal spread ideas
bullet journal decoration hacks
bullet journal brand recommendations
whats in my bag
my favourite stationery
back to school basic supplies
how to improve your handwriting
handwriting font suggestions
balancing study and work
desk/workspace essentials
student finance tips
2018 monthly planner printables
Productivity
productivity and time management applications
how to remove distractions
types of procrastination and how to deal with them
google chrome new tab options for improved productivity
10 small ways to improve your productivity
applications to block websites
no distraction writing applications
100 days of productivity challenge
how to focus in class
how to stick to a schedule
how to stay alert
how to build self-discipline
how to organise for exams
my after school routine
how to reduce perfectionist ideas
Motivation
what to do when you’ve tried everything
how to gain back motivation
motivational monday printables
how to stop avoiding studying
what to do when you feel exhausted before studying
how I stay motivated
tips on maintaining motivation
how to start a studyblr
how to utilise your studyblr for motivation
how to set up a studygram
dealing with competitive people
how to bounce back from ‘failure’
how to learn from a lower than expected grade
how to structure a weekly review
how to deal with a difficult class
things to do during holidays/study vacations
Studying
applications for students
how to take effective class or lecture notes
how to take notes from a textbook
how to prepare for exams
my note-taking method
my notebook system
how to write faster
how to study more effectively
how to summarise information
how I organise my binders
good habits to implement
how to study (my method)
how to revise from notes
how to organise a colour code
how to memorise information effectively
how to memorise quotes
how to use flashcards
how I reduce waffle and narration in essays
tips for essay writing
how to find out where you’re going wrong
how I prepare to study
different ways to study
how to study during the semester
how to annotate a book/novel/etc
how to get ahead in school
how to break up a large textbook
studying as a visual learner
how to practice and present a speech
mindmapping apps and extensions
how to deal with online classes
how to study a language
how to study maths
how to improve group assessments/projects
Self Care
how to improve your sleep schedule
how to wake up earlier
how to study when sick
over-coming self doubt
dealing with stress
how to balance studying and anxiety
how to balance studying and depression
apps that help with depression
ways to reward your productivity
my favourite tv shows
my favourite podcasts
ways to use empty notebooks
how to be more sociable
tips for getting a job
advice for the first day
things (personal, academic, etc) to do every week
Printables
2018 monthly planner printables
2018 student printables (includes 2018 overview + calendar, daily + weekly + monthly planner, 30 habit tracker, class overview and timed worklog)
weekly study schedule
weekly planner
weekend planner
daily planner
assessment planner
subject to do list planner
study session planner
exam revision printable pack (includes revision checklist, formulas + definitions sheet, essay + project planner, weekly schedule)
note-taking printables (includes dotted, grid, lined, cornell method)
organic chemistry printable
literary techniques and devices sheet
100 days of productivity tracker printable
ultimate student organiser pack
study and revision pack
2018 student planner
2018 weekly planner
pomodoro tracker
grade and assessment planner pack
essay guide and planner pack
productivity planner
student reading journal printable
student finance planner
goal and habit planner
customisable weekly study planner
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Hii do you have a few recs for Arabic songs?
hi! i don’t know what genre you prefer, so i’m going to list some singers from each type along with a song of theirs that i chose.
POP:
Nancy Ajram - 3am Bet3alla2 Feek
Tamer Hosny - Ya Mali Aaeny
Myriam Fares- Nifsi Aoulhalak
Saad Lamjarred - Salina Salina
Nassif Zeytoun - Adda W Edoud
this section is infinite..
ALTERNATIVE:
Ÿuma - سماك smek
Mashrou’ Leila - Fasateen
Souad Massi - Ghir Enta
Faia Younen - Fi al Tariki Ilaik
Abdulrahman Mohammed - Craziness
Soap Kills - Tango
CLASSICS:
Fairouz - Bektob esmak ya habibi
Majida Al-Roumi - Aynak
Julia Boutros - ya assas
Abdel Halim Hafez - Ahwak
Warda - batwanis Beek
hope you find something you like in this list ^^ enjoy the diversity of Arabic music!
Can you explain when to use para and por? I always get them wrong :/
¡Hola!
I answered a similar question before, and I made a Google document about this. But I’ll post it here (because I get this question a lot) with some extra things. :)
Well, first of all I don’t recommend you to learn “por and para” as “to and for” because this is not always correct, and you might get even more confused. The truth is that these prepositions don’t have an exact translation in English or any other language, so the only thing you can do is to know the uses and differences between them.
This is how I recommend you to learn them:
POR: reason, cause, method, way, durationPARA: purpose, goal
I think para is easier to understand. Para always refers to a purpose, a goal or an effect. So if you’re not sure which one to use, ask yourself “Does the next phrase after para talk about a purpose or goal? If yes, use it. If not, 80% of the times is por. (I say “80%” because this is not an official rule. This is just something I thought about to help you choose the right preposition).
Now let’s see some examples to make this clearer:
✦ por vs. para
¿Por qué? - Why? What is the reason?
¿Para qué? - What for? What is the purpose?
Lo hice por ti. - I did it because of you. (You were the reason)
Lo hice para ti. - I did it for you. (You were the purpose)
Trabajo por mi madre. - I work because of my mother. (She got me a job / she is the reason I got a job).
Trabajo para mi madre. - I work for my mother. (I work in her business / I’m her employee).
Una canción escrita por mi amigo. - A song written by my friend. (My friend is the reason why this song exists now)
Una canción escrita para mi amigo. - A song written for my friend. (The song was dedicated to my friend)
✧ por + [place] = way, route (focus on direction, not destination)
Por aquí. - This way
Me fui por la avenida. - I went down the avenue. (The avenue was the way I chose to get to my destination.)
Lo vi cuando pasó por la ventana. - I saw him when he passed through the window. (My window wasn’t his destination)
Caminé por el parque y vi esta flor. - I walked through the park and I saw this flower. (I was walking around the park without a definite destination)
Ayer pasé por tu casa. - I passed by your house yesterday. (I was going to another place and casually your house was on my way).
Viajé por varios países. - I traveled around several countries. (I’m not specific about each country I visited)
¿Por dónde te vas a ir? - How are you going to go? (What’s the way you’re going to choose to go?)
✧ para + [place] = towards, “on my way to..” (focus on the destination)
Voy para el centro. - I’m going to downtown. (I’m on my way to downtown).
Nos vamos para Perú. - We’re going to Perú. (We’re on our way to Peru).
Viajamos para el Caribe en 30 minutos. - We travel to the Caribbean in 30 minutes. (On our way to the Caribbean in 30 minutes)
Voy para tu casa. - I’m on my way to your house.
¿Ya vienes para acá? - Are you coming here? (Are you on your way?)
✧ por + [time] = for, in (during)
Trabajé por 8 horas. - I worked for 8 hours.
Se fue por días. - He left for days.
Ha estado viajando por meses. - He/She has been traveling for months.
No lo vi por años. - I didn’t see him for years.
¿Por cuánto tiempo tienes que tomar los medicamentos? - For how long do you have to take the medications?
✧ para + [time] = due (deadline)
Tengo que terminar esto para las 8:00. - I need to finish this by 8:00.
La tarea es para el miércoles. - Homework is due Wednesday.
El proyecto es para la próxima semana. -The project is due next week.
Tengo que ahorrar 500 dólares para junio. - I need to save 500 DLS before June.
¿Para cuándo es la tarea? - When is the deadline for the homework?
✧ por + [method] = by
Te envié las fotos por correo electrónico. - I sent you the pictures by email.
Le hablé por teléfono. - I called her/him on the phone.
Lo contacté por Facebook. - I contacted him by Facebook.
¿Por dónde me mandaste los documentos? - How did you send me the documents? (Through what? what method?)
✧ por as cause
Por dormir en clase reprobé el examen. - Because I slept in class I failed the exam.
Lo has conseguido por todo tu esfuerzo. - You’ve got it because of all your effort.
Por comer mucho, ahora me duele el estómago. - Because I ate too much, my stomach hurts now.
✧ exchange / change + por
Quiero cambiar mis dólares por pesos mexicanos. - I want to exchange my dollars for Mexican pesos.
Te cambio tu sándwich por mi ensalada. - I’ll trade you my salad for your sandwich.
✧ gracias + por
Gracias por ayudarme. - Thank you for helping me.
Gracias por la comida. - Thank you for the meal.
Gracias por todo. - Thank you for everything.
More examples with gracias + por.
✧ para as goal
Trabajo todos los días para ganar dinero. - I work everyday to make money.
Hago ejercicio para bajar de peso. - I exercise to lose weight.
Practico para mejorar. - I practice to get better.
I hope this was useful! :)
motivational monday #6
concept: i’m one of those girls who wears oversized sweaters and soft sneakers and has nice pens and who drinks naked smoothies and who smiles at people and lights up rooms. i’m one of those girls who takes notes and participates in class and who comes home and does all of her homework. i’m one of those girls who reads and reads and reads and watches ted-ed videos and learns and retains all of that knowledge while still being kind because knowledge and kindness are both very powerful, but together they are unstoppable.
one of my favorite so far
Roger Cecil (1942–2015), Untitled I. Oil & mixed media on board,76 x 118.3 cm.
It’s been a while since I’ve made a post, and I figured that these tips might be extra helpful with exam season approaching. As someone who struggles a lot with procrastination, I do everything I can to fight the urge to put assignments off until the last minute (even though I’m not always successful).
As always, good luck! (ᵔᴥᵔ)