You ARE capable. Prove It.

[thepumpkinqueenn]

[beauty-is-all-around]

I can’t wait to walk through the leaves! 🍁🍂

[beauty-is-all-around]

“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.”

Lauren DeStefano (via beauty-is-all-around)

[beauty-is-all-around]

[halloweenmagick]

[hall--o--ween]

🎃🍂👻 23 Days 👻🍂🎃

[lana-del-haayy]

This is magic cat. Reblog to pass all your exams 😫💯👌✍️🔥🙌🏼✅

[instantglittergiver-blog]

Please

[dilfosaur]

i’ve given up on being relatable

[phoenixyfriend]

It’s honestly still so shocking to me that some people don’t engage in egg-to-egg combat on Easter? Like??? How do you even eat them, just the boring way??? What’s the point in that?

[brattylikestoeat]

We’ve decided to fancy-up this breakfast favorite - ya know, because it’s French and all. 🍽🍫❤️ @Nutella Stuffed Red Velvet French Toast 🍞

[instantglittergiver-blog]

Dessert for Valentine's Day !

[ohleaf]

🌼🌻study smarter🌻🌼

(here are some study tips straight from my psych notes)

1. interest: the brain prioritizes by meaning, value, and relevance so u remember things better if ur interested

find a study partner

do extra practice or research

teach it to someone else (this works so well!)

2. intent: be actively paying attention. very little learning actually takes place without attention

use a concentration check sheet (every time u get distracted, put a check on ur sheet. this is supposed to program ur mind to pay attention)

while u read, talk back to the author

ask questions during lectures (this is scary ik!! but do it!)

3. basic background: make connections to what u already know

preview and skim the material before u read it. or google it!

write out a list of vocab words before a lecture and leave some spaces between them to fill in during the lecture

read ahead of lectures

watch crashcourse tbh

4. selectivity: start by studying whats important

look for bolded words, graphics, pictures, chapter review questions in ur readings

listen for verbal clues like emphasis and repetition during lectures

make urself a study guide as u read and write down questions for urself to answer later as review (kinda like cornell notes)

5. meaningful organization: u can learn/rmr better if u group ideas into diff categories

apply vocab words to ur life

make flashcards and sort them (try not to have more than seven items in one category!)

use mnemonics

6. recitation: saying ideas aloud in ur own words strengthens synaptic connections! when u say something aloud u r forcing urself to pay attention

after u read, ask urself questions

talk abt what u learned w/ classmates outside of class

again, teach someone else

7. visualization: ur brain’s quickest and longest-lasting response is to images

convert info into a chart or graph

draw it out

make a mental video of a process

look at picture/video examples

8. association: memory is increased when facts are consciously associated w something u already know. memory = making neural connections

ask urself: is this something i already know?

9. consolidation: give ur brain some time to establish a neural pathway

make a list of what u remember from class

review notes at the end of the day, every day

stop after reading each prg to write a question in ur notes

make ur own practice quiz

10. distributed practice: we all know cramming doesnt work but we do it anyway! but yeah short and frequent study sections work better

make a daily/weekly study schedule

create a time budget/time tracker (track everything ur doing for a week and see how u can be more efficient w/ the time u waste)

divide the reading/vocab by the number of days before an exam and do a little bit each day (u can use sticky notes to divide ur reading)

other tips:

stop stressing! this sounds stupid and it isnt going to be easy, but anxiety causes u to lose focus. try ur best to think positively. sleep a lot. minimize ur caffeine intake. take a walk maybe

when u need to remember something, look upward or close ur eyes (when ur eyes are open ur using visual parts of ur brain that u might not need to be using)

find a rival! (like the person right above u in class rank) secretly compete w/ them (envy can improve mental persistence bc it makes u focus more intensely) but dont overdo it! 

walking and sleeping build memory storage in ur brain

eat flavonoids! (grapes, berries, tea leaves, cocoa beans make neurons in the brain more capable of forming new memories + increase blood flow to the brain)

obstacles force ur brain to try harder, so space learning lessons apart or create a puzzle to solve or change ur physical setting

[4hd4ev]

13.03.2017 

#marchstudychallenge day 12: favourite quote  

late again but, to be fair, i live in one of the earliest timezones so it’s still march 12th nearly everywhere else…

i’m really bad at picking favourites but i really like this quote. 

i’m a bit of a perfectionist. it’s a problem. it’s impossible to be perfect so… stop expecting perfection from yourself. stop asking yourself to do the impossible. start focusing on actually being good at what you do/want to do.

it’s a great mentality to embrace. it’s applicable to studying as well as life in general. it’s also a bit of a tip to beat procrastination. always remember that something is better than nothing. five minutes of work is better than nothing. a poorly written draft is better than nothing. you don’t always have to do your best work on your first try. you just have to try. 

tl;dr be nicer to yourself. good things will come. 

[deeplylearning]

Productivity Tracker - Free Printable!

Have trouble with taking too many breaks or getting distracted? This printable can help keep you on task! Use highlighters, markers, or colored pencils to shade in the appropriate color every 30-60 minutes.

Green: Productive! You’re doing what you need to be doing.

Blue: Neutral. This can include tasks that you need to do such as eating, commuting, or showering. Earned break time also goes in this category.

Red: Unproductive time! This can include neutral time that has gone on too long, as well.

At the end of the week, look over how you did and make a game plan. You might decide to move your work time to times of the day you are more productive or make a pact with yourself to be more productive each day by eliminating at least X number of red blocks a week. You could also make other uses out of these, such as creating a school or work schedule. It’s up to you!

The file linked above is from 7AM-11PM. If that time schedule doesn’t work for you, download a blank version here to fill in your own times.

Enjoy!

– Melissa

[mounak-s-deactivated20170517]

‘the artist’s dilemma: to share or to save?’, journal pages (1)

more journals here

[short-weird-stories]

Let me introduce you to three of my friends: hallucigenia, opabinia, and wiwaxia. They’re all from the Cambrian explosion, the period of time around 500 million years ago when life was just starting and was still trying to figure out questions like “how should a mouth work?” and “legs?”

Hallucigenia was about an inch long (most life back then was tiny, they were only a few eras removed from being single celled after all) and it had sixteen clawed legs, hard spines coming out of its back, and a wicked tentacle neckbeard. 

Opabinia was between two to three inches long and it had thirty fins along the side of its body, along with five mushroom shaped eyes on top of its head. By far though, it’s most interesting feature was its strange proboscis. Like a Dr. Moreau style mashup of an elephant and a lobster, the long nose terminated in a large claw that it used to grab prey and bring it to its backward facing mouth.

Finally, this is wiwaxia. This danger-artichoke was a two inch long armored slug-like creature with no head. In fact, its actual body was largely just its one massive foot. 

I find these animals interesting for three main reasons. First, it’s incredibly fascinating to see all of the potential paths that life on earth could have taken. Imagine an ocean filled with elephant lobsters! Second, whenever I feel like my life is going nowhere and all my choices are the wrong ones, I like to think that I’m in in my phase where I’m still developing hallucigenias and wiwaxias, and not yet making awesome things like butterflies or velociraptors. Finally - it serves as a stark reminder that if we ever find alien life, there is a fantastic chance it will look like nothing we’ve ever seen before - it might look more like one of these creatures than a human being. 

[instantglittergiver-blog]

Me, a comparison:

Studying in the morning: the sunrise is wonderful, i feel refreshed and rejuvinated, the world is in harmony, this coffee is superb, I am invincible

studying at night: i am tired and want to go night-night. oh look I'm on tumblr! It's 2 AM. What happened. Why do I do this to myself

[instantglittergiver-blog]

Me : yeah I can finish my homework in 5 minutes

Lemony Snicket : Many things can be done in five minutes including enjoyable events such as confessing your love, opening a gift, or eating a delicious meal, as well as miserable events like death, a violent crime, or a severe anxiety attack... one thing that cannot be done in under five minutes is a ten page essay, a word which here means "a student's worst nightmare", and while I can assure you, dear viewers, that the boy would achieve one of these feats within five minutes, I am sorry to say it was not the essay, but rather the anxiety attack.