One day I will have dark brown furniture and more space to store all my stuff rather than this mess, but for now this will suffice.
School starts in three days, and I may not be able to attend due to issues with me qualifying for instate tuition despite the fact that I’ve lived in this state my whole life and qualified last year. Out of state tuition is 3x the amount of in state and I simply cannot afford it. I’m doing everything I can to make sure I can start this upcoming Monday, but the bureaucracy is testing me. If anyone has any advice for this sort of situation, it’d be greatly appreciated.
Trying not to stress too much though! If I can’t go to school this year, I will figure something else out in the meantime.
I discovered notion last year after falling down a YouTube rabbit hole, and I cannot believe how perfect the tool is for me. I constantly have a million thoughts in my head, and on-going tasks to track. Notion has simplified that process immensely, and made it possible to make a fully customizable portal that suited my preferences.
First, I have my dashboard. Notion is the first app I open on my computer every time I use it, and this page serves as my hub to everything else that I use on a regular basis. (Forgive the alignment since I screenshot this on a tablet - it’s perfectly spaced on desktop!) Everything here is either a link to a website that I need regularly, or linked to a page where I can record / track more information that I need to remember.
I also have pages like this where I keep track of long term goals and larger scope projects. I use the toggle feature to take notes on topics that I want to remember quickly, databases to organize meeting minutes and resources, and to-do buttons for goals I may have. This page in particular tracks the personal projects that I undertook last semester. My favorite part about this is how easy it is to move everything around, and how I can move all of this to its own toggle once I start the new semester. Out of sight, out of mind, and a cleaner overview.
I will also sometimes create pages to break down my revision for exams by topic. When a class is especially difficult, this helps me keep track of how many topics I have left to review, and I can shuffle the order in which I want to study them with ease. I also have separate pages for my reading and watch lists, where I add tags based on the genre. People are constantly recommending content for me to consume, and it’s easy for me to pull out my phone and enter it like this so I don’t forget. The tags allow me to filter my database based on my mood, and make the decision making process much easier.
Lastly, my favorite part about my notion is my to-do list tab. Before you laugh, yes I am a computer science major using a kanban board to track daily tasks. It’s highly effective lmao, don’t come for me. Whenever a new thought about something I want to do crosses my mind, I add it to the not started column. I add the essential tasks for the day (based on my google calendar) to my in progress column. Whenever I start a task, I also move it from not started to in progress. When something is fully complete, I move it to the completed column. I display the date that each task was last updated so that I can keep track of how long it has been since I have seen that entry, which helps with accountability. Lastly, at midnight everyday, the completed column automatically resets, and so I wake up to a blank canvas of tasks waiting to be completed everyday. Tasks completed in the past are stored in the backend, in case I ever need to reference them. I literally love this system so much, and it has increased my productivity immeasurably.
And that’s about it for my notion. I’ve barely made a start to what I really want to do with it, especially with the release of the notion api recently, so this is bound to evolve soon. However, I am super proud of her, and I hope that it inspired you all as well. Love, M :)
Every month there’s a new tweet that’s like “I cannot BELIEVE libraries would just THROW OUT decades-old copies of popular books instead of investing money, labor, and space they don’t have to slowly donate each moldy copy of Brave New World to a child who’d want it” and every month librarians will write painstaking threads detailing why this practice occurs and why these well-meaning suggestions do not work, and every month nobody reads them and then this happens all over again
@vampiregrrl98 It’s REALLY not, though, which is the point of this post. They’re not throwing out books anyone wants to read, or books anyone is trying to check out. Some of those books are damaged. And if they’re damaged because people have been checking it out so much, then they’ll probably get another copy that isn’t falling apart. Libraries don’t have room to keep everything.
For example: when I worked in the school library in jr. high, we threw out a whole shelf of non-fiction books about other countries because they were 30-40 years out of date. They were better sources, some of them were about countries that didn’t technically exist anymore (because, in the interim, the cold war had ended, among other things), and a lot of them were kind of racist!
Another difference someone else pointed out is that book burning happens to destroy information.
These books are being destroyed because they’re unwanted, the information still exists either in a better form or just in a newer wrapper.
Books don’t last forever. I was shocked the first time I learned about weeding, but mum explained it to me.
Libraries do often give away a lot of books for free or at low cost. They sell them at the library itself. If people don’t grab them what’s supposed to happen then?
Do you know how many books are kept in the stacks?
They pile up really quickly.
I really appreciate all the people who are kindly and patiently explaining the weeding process to those who are shocked by this practice because I need such people to counter my tired ass just telling them “Fuck you and fuck your books too I love pulping them actually, and fuck you, again”
The school library was weeding some books while I was teaching art camp this summer, so I grabbed an armful the day we were going to make collages.
The shocked gasp that rose from those children when I lifted a book up and Ripped it in two thrilled me a bit more than is probably okay. I then had to explain that these are old, cheap books, no one will want or buy them, they’re falling apart, etc. Reusing them for art is a kinder fate than throwing them straight in the trash.
A few of them ended up being delighted in the transgressive feeling of cutting up a book to use in art. If they remember anything from camp, it’ll probably be that moment
Books are not, in and of themselves, sacred. They are the vessels of knowledge and stories, but vessels age and wear out and must be replaced.
• Photomath: Photomath is an app where you can take a photo of a math equation and it solves it for you but unlike some other apps that give you straight up the answer Photomath provides you with a detailed analysis of the solving procedure.
• Hemingway: This a site that comes really handy when it comes to double-checking essays. After finishing a big essay most people make mistakes (e.x. some words might not be correctly written or might not “fit”) so you copy and paste the whole article or whatever you’re writing there and it highlights the vocabulary or syntax mistakes made.
• IXL: This is a website for maths practice problems that I mentioned in my previous post. There’s not much to explain, it provides you with all kinds of exercises for whatever you need and at least for me it has done wonders.
I’m going through hard times lately but yesterday, talking to my family and my boyfriend really helped me even though I knew it was going to be hard to talk about the problems that i have and indeed it was harder than I thought. Just don’t save your thoughts or emotions to yourself, it’ll never be the best way to deal with it so think about sharing without any fear. I’m just saying don’t mind me.. (baby if you see this ily)
12th July - What is the worst vacation you have ever been on?
I actually don’t remember having any bad vacations cause like it’s always better than staying at home in summer days, imo of course
hey everyone! i haven't been posting lately because i haven't been feeling well for the past few days. it's not that i'm sick or anything, my mental health just isn't in its best shape. but here are some life updates during my slow, off-days:
I finally got to decorate my boring and bare white wall.
my placemat and coaster I ordered online arrived this month too.
reached 400 followers on my studygram. it's not that much but i appreciate it 🥰
found myself fangirling over seventeen and i think i am now officially a ✨ carat ✨ if you ask me who my bias is, it's mingyu.
made a playlist full of kpop songs that i can't lie, are sooo good especially if you're like me who isn't into rap music.
Hey, can you tell me how to memorize something faster.
Hello, anon!
I'm honestly the worst person to answer this because I have terrible memory and also because I haven't take a test in years (I'm guessing that's why you want to know how to memorize something faster, but if not please let me know!).
However, I know our wonderful studyblr community has several posts about this subject, with amazing tips and each one with different methods you can try. I gathered some that I could remember off the top of my head, but if anyone knows any other posts let me know, and I can add them here.
a guide on how to memorize content by @littlestudyblrblog
I have terrible memory. how do I study? by @estudying-blog
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