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[minimaliststudy]

bad study habits to leave in 2017

cramming the night before. do a little every day and get a good night sleep before the test

procrastinating. promise yourself you’ll do 5 minutes of a task you’ve been putting off for a while. you’ll be surprised how quickly that 5 minutes turns into 10 and 10 into an hour and before you know it you’ll be done and able to enjoy guilt-free leisure time

not asking for help. make the most of your teachers and classmates who want you to succeed. don’t suffer in silence

saying yes to everything. it’s important to try new things but it’s also important to have enough spare time to see your friends and get enough sleep

being distracted. turn off the tv. turn off your phone. focus on studying so you can get your assignments done as efficiently as possible so you can enjoy your free time

not having a planner. this doesn’t have to be a beautiful bullet journal. just make sure you have a way of keeping on top of everything you have to do so you don’t get overwhelmed whether that’s in a store-bought diary or in you phone’s calendar

eating (too much) junk. fuel your body and your mind with fruit and veg. if you’re at university try cooking in bulk to keep costs down. you’ll be able to concentrate better if you’re eating well

not taking breaks. your brain needs to take breaks, even if you have a big test coming up. for every hour you spend studying take a 10 minute break and stretch/make a snack/take a shower/call a friend 

not rewarding yourself. take time to be proud of everything you’ve achieved so far. enjoy the success you’ve worked so hard for

[coffeesforstudiers]

Some TED talks that will change your life.

How to make stress your friend by Katie McGonial (14.5 minutes) 

“Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive, and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out to others.”

8 secrets of success by Richard St.John (3.5 minutes)

Why do people succeed? Is it because they’re smart? Or are they just lucky? Neither. Analyst Richard St. John condenses years of interviews into an unmissable 3-minute slideshow on the real secrets of success.

A simple way to break a bad habit by Judson Brewer (9.5 minutes)

Can we break bad habits by being more curious about them? Psychiatrist Judson Brewer studies the relationship between mindfulness and addiction — from smoking to overeating to all those other things we do even though we know they’re bad for us. Learn more about the mechanism of habit development and discover a simple but profound tactic that might help you beat your next urge to smoke, snack or check a text while driving.

Don’t regret regret by Kathryn Schulz (17 minutes)

We’re taught to try to live life without regret. But why? Using her own tattoo as an example, Kathryn Schulz makes a powerful and moving case for embracing our regrets.

How to make hard choices by Ruth Chang (14.5 minutes)

Here’s a talk that could literally change your life. Which career should I pursue? Should I break up — or get married?! Where should I live? Big decisions like these can be agonizingly difficult. But that’s because we think about them the wrong way, says philosopher Ruth Chang. She offers a powerful new framework for shaping who we truly are.

The danger of silence by Clint Smith (4 minutes) 

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don’t,“ says poet and teacher Clint Smith. A short, powerful piece from the heart, about finding the courage to speak up against ignorance and injustice.

How to speak so that people want to listen by Julian Treasure (10 minutes)

Have you ever felt like you’re talking, but nobody is listening? Here’s Julian Treasure to help. In this useful talk, the sound expert demonstrates the how-to’s of powerful speaking — from some handy vocal exercises to tips on how to speak with empathy. A talk that might help the world sound more beautiful.

Your body language shapes who you are by Amy Cuddy (21 minutes)

Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how “power posing” — standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don’t feel confident — can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain, and might even have an impact on our chances for success.

The happy secret to better work by Shawn Anchor (12 minutes) 

We believe we should work hard in order to be happy, but could we be thinking about things backwards? In this fast-moving and very funny talk, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that, actually, happiness inspires us to be more productive.

A call to men by Tony Porter (11 minutes) [TW: graphic desc. of rape] 

At TEDWomen, Tony Porter makes a call to men everywhere: Don’t “act like a man.” Telling powerful stories from his own life, he shows how this mentality, drummed into so many men and boys, can lead men to disrespect, mistreat and abuse women and each other. His solution: Break free of the “man box.”

[the-potential-drgreen]

Beautiful floral medical art

Find them here :)

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How to Study Like a Harvard Student

Taken from Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld, daughter of the Tiger Mother

Preliminary Steps 1. Choose classes that interest you. That way studying doesn’t feel like slave labor. If you don’t want to learn, then I can’t help you. 2. Make some friends. See steps 12, 13, 23, 24. General Principles 3. Study less, but study better. 4. Avoid Autopilot Brain at all costs. 5. Vague is bad. Vague is a waste of your time. 6. Write it down. 7. Suck it up, buckle down, get it done. Plan of Attack Phase I: Class 8. Show up. Everything will make a lot more sense that way, and you will save yourself a lot of time in the long run. 9. Take notes by hand. I don’t know the science behind it, but doing anything by hand is a way of carving it into your memory. Also, if you get bored you will doodle, which is still a thousand times better than ending up on stumbleupon or something. Phase II: Study Time 10. Get out of the library. The sheer fact of being in a library doesn’t fill you with knowledge. Eight hours of Facebooking in the library is still eight hours of Facebooking. Also, people who bring food and blankets to the library and just stay there during finals week start to smell weird. Go home and bathe. You can quiz yourself while you wash your hair. 11. Do a little every day, but don’t let it be your whole day. “This afternoon, I will read a chapter of something and do half a problem set. Then, I will watch an episode of South Park and go to the gym” ALWAYS BEATS “Starting right now, I am going to read as much as I possibly can…oh wow, now it’s midnight, I’m on page five, and my room reeks of ramen and dysfunction.” 12. Give yourself incentive. There’s nothing worse than a gaping abyss of study time. If you know you’re going out in six hours, you’re more likely to get something done. 13. Allow friends to confiscate your phone when they catch you playing Angry Birds. Oh and if you think you need a break, you probably don’t. Phase III: Assignments 14. Stop highlighting. Underlining is supposed to keep you focused, but it’s actually a one-way ticket to Autopilot Brain. You zone out, look down, and suddenly you have five pages of neon green that you don’t remember reading. Write notes in the margins instead. 15. Do all your own work. You get nothing out of copying a problem set. It’s also shady. 16. Read as much as you can. No way around it. Stop trying to cheat with Sparknotes. 17. Be a smart reader, not a robot. Ask yourself: What is the author trying to prove? What is the logical progression of the argument? You can usually answer these questions by reading the introduction and conclusion of every chapter. Then, pick any two examples/anecdotes and commit them to memory (write them down). They will help you reconstruct the author’s argument later on. 18. Don’t read everything, but understand everything that you read. Better to have a deep understanding of a limited amount of material, than to have a vague understanding of an entire course. Once again: Vague is bad. Vague is a waste of your time. 19. Bullet points. For essays, summarizing, everything. Phase IV: Reading Period (Review Week) 20. Once again: do not move into the library. Eat, sleep, and bathe. 21. If you don’t understand it, it will definitely be on the exam. Solution: textbooks; the internet. 22. Do all the practice problems. This one is totally tiger mom. 23. People are often contemptuous of rote learning. Newsflash: even at great intellectual bastions like Harvard, you will be required to memorize formulas, names and dates. To memorize effectively: stop reading your list over and over again. It doesn’t work. Say it out loud, write it down. Remember how you made friends? Have them quiz you, then return the favor. 24. Again with the friends: ask them to listen while you explain a difficult concept to them. This forces you to articulate your understanding. Remember, vague is bad. 25. Go for the big picture. Try to figure out where a specific concept fits into the course as a whole. This will help you tap into Big Themes – every class has Big Themes – which will streamline what you need to know. You can learn a million facts, but until you understand how they fit together, you’re missing the point. Phase V: Exam Day 26. Crush exam. Get A.

[universi-tea]

Hey babes! As requested, here’s a roundup of my favorite study tips that I’ve picked up over the years. Happy studying!

studying for exams

Create a study group and meet regularly (not just before exams!)

“Teach” the material to someone – your pet works well!

Keep a list in the front of your notebook/binder of topics or points that seem important enough to be on the exam, that confuse you, or that you’re interested in so you can go back and study them.

Study a little over a long period when you can, instead of cramming for an entire exam in one night.

Create a “cheat sheet” of important information for studying on the go.

Try the Pomodoro method to keep from getting burnt out.

Try creating a timetable for studying so you don’t spend too long on a certain subject and run out of time for the others.

Knock out your least favorite subject first, so you can have the rest of the day to work on more enjoyable subjects and relax. 

Create a study guide for the class using Google Docs that you can all contribute to.

If you’re unclear about something, Google it. There’s more than likely a video that can explain it more clearly than your textbook.

Keep a running list of questions to ask during office hours, & actually go!

Study in a public place (the library, a coffee shop) so that you’re less likely to get distracted watching cat videos knowing people can see what you’re doing. 

Get plenty of rest the night before an exam! Cramming is not worth it.

homework tips

Write everything down, even if you think you’ll remember it.

Keep a planner and check it first thing in the morning.

Do the work for your least favorite class first so that it’s out of the way.

Start early. Way earlier than you have to. That way you have time for delays, to start over if you have to, or to take a night off to go to a party. 

If it’s something quick, like a worksheet, do it as soon as it’s assigned.

If you have a long break between classes, use it to work on small assignments that you can get out of the way.

For big projects, like papers and presentations, break it up into smaller pieces. “Write thesis” is a lot less daunting than “write 8 page paper”.

Do homework before you study, so you’ll know what you’re confused about and need to pay more attention to. 

If there’s an option to buy an ebook rather than a physical copy of the textbook, do it. Not only is it usually cheaper, but it frees up space in your bag and you can search for specific terms easily.

If you have a lot of work to catch up on, set aside a block of time to knock it all out at once (with breaks, of course).

If all the homework for a class is due at the end of the semester, give yourself due dates for the individual assignments so you don’t put it off and have to do it all at once. 

Install a site blocker so you don’t get distracted from your work.

If you have an online class, schedule a regular time to work on it as if it were a traditional class.  

Don’t just Google your way through the homework! It may save time now, but it’ll only make things harder when it’s time for exams.

even more tips!!

More Study Tips

Time Management

Intensive Revision (Cramming)

Public Speaking

Writing Papers Quickly

Study Habits

Final Exams

[extram0chi]

21 July 2018 Day 9/100 days of productivity🌸 Skipped a day or so cause i felt like i wasnt productive enough but hey here are my biostatistic notes shdjdjf i got a practical test this coming friday and i’m honestly scared ?????

[extram0chi]

18 July 2018 Day 8/100 of productivity🌸 whelp studied stats today cause theres a test tmr ahdjdjfk wish me luck huehue :,( stats is lowkey difficult zzzz fINALS ARE COMING TOO someoNe hElp😫

[whenstudyblooms]

『07.01.18』 In the name of the moon, I’ll punish you! ☆ I think I’ve found my aesthetic, and that is 90s anime. uwu So why not create a bujo theme for that (but almost(?) completely Sailor Moon bc why not owo?) Oh, I also need to study for my SAT subject tests… ;w; . 「Quick tip: Thinking of buying <stationery> to add to your collection? To make sure you’re not impulsive buying, write it down/keep it in mind for a whole month. If you still want to buy it after the 30 days, go ahead and purchase it! 」

[extram0chi]

Hey there! So I've got two probably silly questions. I hope that's ok. 1. What kind of pen do you use? The notes look really nice with it! I mean, obviously it's also down to your handwriting but it made me wonder about the pen. 2. What's that "so and so man days/100 of productivity" about? I just came back to tumblr and I've seen it on a few study tumblrs. Your answers would make me very happy. Thank you! Cheers!

hello there!! don’t worry they arn’t silly questionsss ;;; i use uniball 0.38 most of the time and sarasa 0.4!! i prefer using thinner pens :)) and for the 2nd question ; 100 days of productivity is just a thing where you are productive for 100 days and post the things you’ve done (if im not wrong im still kindda new to this) i hope i helped :)

[extram0chi]

17 July 2018 Day 7/100 of productivity⚾️ ya gurl got a statistics test on thurs and iM exhausted shdjdjdj got practical tests coming up finals coming up everything is hitting me at once😫😫😫 godbless me ;-; bUT AT LEAST TRAINING WAS FUN TODAY🤧🤧🤩 uWu

[whitemapleleaf]

17-7-2018

Day 10/100 of 100 days of productivity

GosH this killed off 70% of my brain cells i swear (considering im self studying this chapter) i have sO MANY QUESTIONS and i dont understand what pKw is??? Potential of equilibrium constant of water??!?!?!?! Idk man im confused if anyone who sees this understands pls help out a ho

I really really need to get done with my practical revision+practicals as well as start studying my pharmacology module… so after today i probably wont touch chemistry for a bit hhhh

Also im drinking milk green tea!!! Big tasty, makes me less tired lolol

[extram0chi]

dr teoh will save the day on thurs hehexd

[extram0chi]

16 July 2018 Day 6/100 of productivity😁 had my pharmacy presentation in school today ;;; so glad its finally over i guess it was okay HAHAHAH tbh i didn’t do much studying today :,( mainly had to finish up my assignments ;-; i got so much work to do esp for statistics😫 and i got a statistics quiz on thurs ahdjdjff god bless me I really cannot wait for this semester to be over so I can kindda relaxxx uWu

[extram0chi]

15 July 2018

Day 5/100 of productivity🍃

welp ;-; did some pharmacy revision and chemistry lab reports today as well as kindda prepare for my presentation on pharmacy tomorrow im HONESTLY kindda scared cause its all facts and i can’t rlly smOke my ass through tmr’s presentation zzzz rip i hope evErything goes smoothly shdjfjfk its 1.30am i gotta wake up at 6.15am tmr godbless me zzz have a great day people💗

[stemcellee]

Biochemistry study-posters I made for last quarter (that i’ve procrastinated posting)

I’ll post printout versions of these eventually lol 

[whitemapleleaf]

14-7-2018

Day 8/100 of 100 days of productivity

Even more biostatistics!!! My lecturers all say that bstats is really important in pharmaceutics lolol

Also i drew pokespe moon in bc i love her hwnhxjns

Im honestly so tired tbh??? And i find it hard to study in the morning which is rubbish smh me but im trying to fix my sleeping schedhule lolol

Im drinking Earl Grey! It keeps me awake and i shouldnt rely on caffeine but it tastes good so–

[extram0chi]

when u read too much pokemon uWu ily💖

[whitemapleleaf]

Ok but tbh i the parts where that character appears isnt even translated i just love her design lmAOOO

[extram0chi]

bUT iTs cutee

[ysocereals]

July 14th, 11/100 days of productivity

Some close up shot of my bio notes!! I love how it turned out pretty

🌃moodㅡsayonara elegy//masaki suda

[whitemapleleaf]

14-7-2018

Day 8/100 of 100 days of productivity

Even more biostatistics!!! My lecturers all say that bstats is really important in pharmaceutics lolol

Also i drew pokespe moon in bc i love her hwnhxjns

Im honestly so tired tbh??? And i find it hard to study in the morning which is rubbish smh me but im trying to fix my sleeping schedhule lolol

Im drinking Earl Grey! It keeps me awake and i shouldnt rely on caffeine but it tastes good so–

[extram0chi]

when u read too much pokemon uWu ily💖