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grace. college senior, aspiring polyglot. trying to get my school life back in order.

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my masterpost | my studygram | ask me anything

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[transcript under the cut]

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

Keep reading

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clutuals and ghost appreciators look at this edited volume holy fuck

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if you want it and can’t afford it you can pirate it here ♥️

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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.

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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.)

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The struggle for Mizrahi recognition isn’t limited to Israel | +972 Magazine

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.

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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

[eintsein]

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).

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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

[emmastudies]

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

Other posts | Printables | Instagram | Youtube | Pinterest | Etsy Shop

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[fusdoq]

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!

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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! :)

[julstudies]

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.

[lookbeforeyoufall-ts]

one of my favorite so far 

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Roger Cecil (1942–2015), Untitled I.  Oil & mixed media on board,76 x 118.3 cm.

[ianbrooks]

[ivystudying]

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)