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To all my freshman babies who are panicking right now about how much your college textbooks cost: Yeah, you’re right, that’s some highway robbery. No, you don’t have to lie down and take it. You have options. Follow my advice and fly on your own debt free wings.

1. Forgoe the bookstore entirely. Sometimes you can get a good deal on something, usually a rental, but it’s usually going to be considerably more expensive to go through official channels. Outsmart them, babies.

2. Does your syllabus call for edition eight? Get edition seven. Old editions are considered worthless in the buyback trades, so they sell for dirt cheap, no matter how new they are. It’s a gamble, sure; there might be something in edition eight you desperately need, but that never happened to me. However, I’ve only ever pulled this stunt for literature/mass comm/religious studies books, so I don’t know it would work in the sciences.

3. Thriftbooks.com, especially for nonfiction and fiction. Books are usually four or five dollars unless they’re really new, and shipping is 99 cents unless you buy over 10$ in books, in which case shipping is free.

4. Bigwords.com. It will scan every textbook seller on the internet for the lowest price available, and will do the same to find the highest price when you try to sell your books back at the end of term. Timesaver, lifesaver.

5. In all probability, your library offers a service called interlibrary loan which is included in your tuition. This means if your library doesn’t carry a book you can order it for free from any library nationwide in your library’s network and it will be shipped to you in a number of days. Ask a librarian to show you how to search for materials at your library as well as though interlibrary loan; you’ll need to master this skill soon anyway. If you get lucky you can just have your required reading shipped to you a week before you need to start reading, then renew vigorously until you no longer need to item. I’m saving over 100$ on a History of Islam class this way.

You professors might side-eye you for bringing an old edition or a library copy, but you just smile right back honey, because you can pay your rent and go clubbing this month. You came here to win. So go forth and slay.

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Can I add to this? 6. Find PDFs of your book to store on your computer. I managed to find an up-to-date edition of my textbook for sociology by doing this, and other books for other classes. It may be risky to have to look high and low for them, but it’s a godsend trust me

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Other things to help college-bound kidlets:

Get Windows Office free.

If you’re having a panic attack.

When you’re writing a term paper.

Cheap school/college things. (Not all links are active, but still.)

College tips.

Cheap or free college books

Hobbies. (Because sometimes you need to turn off your brain.)

Libre Office. (Because Windows sucks.)

Practice in case you’re attacked.

If you have to deal with cops. (Especially important for POC because racism is still alive, sadly.)

#college

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my boyfriend surprised me with beautiful pink roses for my birthday!!! ˚₊*(ˊॢo̶̶̷̤◡o̴̶̷̤ˋॢ)*₊˚⁎

#bujo pictures

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This is one of my favorite spreads! The drawings are not that great but I’m trying

How to Handle Having TOO MUCH To Do

So let’s say you’re in the same boat I am (this is a running theme, have you noticed?) and you’ve just got, like, SO MUCH STUFF that HAS to get done YESTERDAY or you will DIE (or fail/get fired/mope). Everything needs to be done yesterday, you’re sick, and for whatever reason you are focusing on the least important stuff first. What to do!

Take a deep breath, because this is a boot camp in prioritization.

Make a 3 by 4 grid. Make it pretty big. The line above your top row goes like this: Due YESTERDAY - due TOMORROW - due LATER. Along the side, write: Takes 5 min - Takes 30 min - Takes hours - Takes DAYS.

Divide ALL your tasks into one of these squares, based on how much work you still have to do. A thank you note for a present you received two weeks ago? That takes 5 minutes and was due YESTERDAY. Put it in that square. A five page paper that’s due tomorrow? That takes an hour/hours, place it appropriately. Tomorrow’s speech you just need to rehearse? Half an hour, due TOMORROW. Do the same for ALL of your tasks

Your priority goes like this:

5 minutes due YESTERDAY

5 minutes due TOMORROW

Half-hour due YESTERDAY

Half-hour due TOMORROW

Hours due YESTERDAY

Hours due TOMORROW

5 minutes due LATER

Half-hour due LATER

Hours due LATER

DAYS due YESTERDAY

DAYS due TOMORROW

DAYS due LATER

At this point you just go down the list in each section. If something feels especially urgent, for whatever reason - a certain professor is hounding you, you’re especially worried about that speech, whatever - you can bump that up to the top of the entire list. However, going through the list like this is what I find most efficient.

Some people do like to save the 5 minute tasks for kind of a break between longer-running tasks. If that’s what you want to try, go for it! You’re the one studying here.

So that’s how to prioritize. Now, how to actually do shit? That’s where the 20/10 method comes in. It’s simple: do stuff like a stuff-doing FIEND for 20 minutes, then take a ten minute break and do whatever you want. Repeat ad infinitum. It’s how I’ve gotten through my to do list, concussed and everything.

You’ve got this. Get a drink and start - we can do our stuff together!

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WOAH THIS SOUNDS HELPFUL. I’M GOING TO TRY THIS IMMEDIATELY. Also, I made a chart for myself, but if anyone else wants it for reference (or if this is wrong and I misread you can tell me) here it is:

#ref #study ref #todo list #productivity

Don't actually understand what any of this means 🤷🏾‍♀️

#highschool studyblr #studyblr #studyblr community #physics #note taking

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#bujo pictures

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this is where i go to dream *:･ﾟ✧ ♡

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A tip for native English speakers learning romance languages

In English, most verbs have a lot of different significations, and you can use the same verb in a lot of different contexts, sometimes just by changing the preposition that goes after the verb, for exemple: to look at, to look after, to look forward to… English speakers use the same verbs, such as “to have”, “to take”, “to go”, for a lot of different situations, whereas romance languages speakers will change the verb to be more accurate depending on the situation.

So if you want to speak French, Spanish, Portuguese etc. like a native, you will have to do a lot of work on vocabulary to learn the different verbs so that you can use the right one depending on the context. An example of this is that the verb “to bring” can be translated in French by “amener”, “emmener”, “emporter” and “apporter”, which are all pretty close but still have a slightly different meaning.

Here are some examples in Spanish and French to help you be more accurate:

TO TAKE

To take a picture - SACAR / TOMAR una foto - PRENDRE une photo To take a video - GRABAR un video - PRENDRE une vidéo To take a pencil - AGARRAR un boli - PRENDRE un stylo To take the bus - TOMAR el autobus - PRENDRE le bus To take an exam - PRESENTAR un examen - PASSER un examen To take someone to - LLEVAR alguien a - EMMENER quelqu’un à To take a shower - BAÑARSE - PRENDRE une douche To take away - QUITAR - PARTIR To take back - DESVOLVER - RENDRE To take off - IRSE - S’EN ALLER To take out - SACAR - SORTIR To take a walk - DAR un paseo - SE PROMENER To take something from someone - ARREBATAR algo a alguién - PRENDRE quelque chose à quelqu’un

TO GET

To get something - ENTENDER algo - COMPRENDRE quelque chose To get to the destination - LLEGAR al destino - ARRIVER à destination To get to study at Harvard - LOGRAR a estudiar a Harvard - REUSSIR à étudier à Harvard To get $100 - GANAR $100 - GAGNER $100 To get along with someone - LLEVARSE bien con alguien - S’ENTENDRE avec quelqu’un To get around - SALIR a menudo - S’EN SORTIR To get away - ESCAPARSE - S’ECHAPPER To get dirty - ENSUCIARSE - SE SALIR To get back - VOLVER - RETOURNER To bet better - MEJORAR - S’AMELIORER To get dressed - VESTIRSE - S’HABILLER To get into - ENTRAR - ENTRER To get in trouble - METERSE en problemas - S'ATTIRER des problèmes To get married - CASARSE - SE MARRIER To get on - SUBIR en - MONTER sur To get out - SALIR - SORTIR To get started - EMPEZAR / COMENZAR - COMMENCER To get up - LEVANTARSE - SE LEVER To get worse - EMPEORAR - EMPIRER

#spanish #q