Lace January

First year at the University of Cambridge, studying HSPS

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Tuesday 1st October

Todays to do:

Most of my packing, and then a quick clean

Empty out my car and stick a new dehumidifier in there so that I don't come back in december to mould

Make a serious dent in my reading, i'm currently just over half way through of my first of eight to read for my first supervision, an essay plan for Monday 7th

Make some biscuits so that people want to be friends with me

I have got my timetable now, but one of my papers, Egypt and Messapotamia, is not on the online system which is a pain. But i've emailed my DOS so that should be sorted out soon hopefully.

[khofiecloud]

Lazy Student (Study) Tips

The best study techniques (in general) are the SPQR method, flashcards, mind maps, split pages, teaching the content to other people, past papers and blurting

Free time tip : Carry flashcards or split pages around and test yourself with them whenever you have time to waste (during tv breaks, waiting for the bus ..)

Know your worst topics in all subjects and find resources for every single one of them. Since you know your weaknesses, you can ask for help from your teachers. If your teachers aren’t reliable (like mine lol), make a list of resources you can use to self study, and then self study whenever you can

Find your ideal study routine by testing out different environments: can you study for 1hr in a row or do you need breaks in between? Do you work best at night or during the day? 

Mentally go over 1 topic (your hardest) before bed

Best resources : Knowt (quizlet replacement), cheatography (study guides), ocean of pdf (free pdf site for literally anything), khan academy, ck12 (textbooks per grade, study guides, exercises for free)

Best study youtube channels for more study tips: Fayefilms, Cajun Koi Academy, Amy Wang, Han Zhango, Mike Dee, Study to Success, Crash Course, Tina Huang, Ali Abdaal

[duncebento]

maybe it sound pretentious to you cos u be watchin bluey only

[lacejanuary]

Tuesday 17th September

I want to try and finish this textbook of notes today; i'm only making the notes rather lazily so won't be too stressed if i don't. I have work the next two days, then I'm in Florence, then it's practically the start of term so i need to get a wriggle on

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Saturday 14th Sept

A fortnight before term starts i've decide to pick up some of my recommended reading. I'm taking the Cambridge A3 paper in Egypt and Mespotamia, so am making extremely brief notes on an Egyptian archeology textbook while enjoying a tea cake and some earl grey. I should have left it this late, but became very motivated this afternoon so hopefully i can continue to ride the wave

[deadpoet-skull]

from The New York Times

[lacejanuary]

two days till gcse!

whoops

i have hardly done anything since a couple of days ago when i decided i really needed to get my arse into gear, im sure my two followers are devastated lol .

i didn't do as well in my latin literature mock as k thought i would have done, nor my art. For my latin lit i got 68% ish but i wasn't too upset about that because i spent all of my time doing my final piece for art

i am very proud of it, i even used embroidery, but i only got 82/96, when i would have liked something a little bit higher, more secure so it was definite id get a nine, i don't know what i'd do if i didn't lol, as dramatic as that sounds. ( for those interested in my final piece, our theme was 'my environment' so i decided to take it very literally and focus on agricultural england, where i'm from. i tried to show how you can not have the natural without the man made around here they're very intertwined, with the lines throughout, in the grass and the shadows on the machinery and the sky, i even embroidered some of the dock leaves.)

yesterday i did jekyll and hyde revision after an APPAULING 57% in my mock, and today i'm going steady on biology (three topics) and maths, it's going pretty well

[lacejanuary]

47 days till gcses!

turns out i did have my poetry mock today it went shite xx but i'm glad i did a bit of revision for it because otherwise i would have been clueless.

stayed after school today for top set EXCLUSIVE after school chemistry support session because we're all bad x and it was very helpful tbf we covered electrolysis and it was very helpful i think because it was a smaller class size with all of my friends so i wasn't embarazzed to ask stupid questions

and on the way home we stopped at a daffodil field to take some photos for my art coursework although they're all kind of past their best and my shoes got muddy

and this evening i have done almost like by line translation flashcards for three of my latin lit texts, which was fun (not)

[lacejanuary]

48 days till gcses!

woke up to such a beautiful sight 🤩i love spring

had no choice but to revise unseen poetry because i'm pretty sure i have a mock on it tomorrow? idk. i didn't get maths or business done because i prioritised finishing verity by colleen hoover, very good very good don't regret it x

[lacejanuary]

49 days till gcses!

Getting in at the last minute here with my revision. pretty minimal shock horror i did some maths further trig and some rev for my geography paper three mock tomorrow

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54 days till gcses!

today was religious studies day at my school, where we spend the whole day covering a whole module which makes up 25% of the issues based paper three. we studied teachings about equality, freedom of speech and censorship, christian attitudes towards wealth and poverty and christian aid

I didn't get round to geography or lit revision today but i did do a cheeky summary sheet of chemisty topic 1 so

bit annoyed that it didn't fill the page but hey ho that's what you get when you miss out half of it i guess xx

[lacejanuary]

55 days till gcses!

tonight I have re revised what i got wrong yesterday and got my score up to 70% drastic improvement and once i realised what i had been doing wrong i got them all correct. I have revised our 'further light' topic in physics (which we've only really just done) and made resources for it. Lastly i revised the Gurus in Sikhism, and yet again made resources

oh, how i regret not making resources as i went along

[lacejanuary]

56 days till GCSES! Haven't done anything this evening yet, apart from make this blog. I hope i can get a little community here and help some people along the way with motivation :)

[lacejanuary]

ended up doing some maths on Dr Frost and only got 25% 🤩🤩

[lacejanuary]

cheeky revision timetable, nothing fancy

[lacejanuary]

56 days till GCSES! Haven't done anything this evening yet, apart from make this blog. I hope i can get a little community here and help some people along the way with motivation :)