Marta's Notes

3rd yr college student / all posts are mine 

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photo dump: college life as of late. one of my classes has me analyzing this old belgian map of michoacan & surrounding areas in mexico... but i dont speak french and I only barely speak latin....

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an example of textbook notes vs. a study sheet

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slowly getting over this stupid sickness ive had & ive finished all of my midterms!!! woooo!!!!!

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feeling sick so i skipped my classes today .. got almost nothing done today but sometimes taking a break is a-okay. also updated my ipad homescreen :)

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just wasted all morning editing the arrangement of apps on my ipad instead of doing bio notes... oops. anyways here some photos of my lovely campus and some silly mice i drew for my bio notes <3

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Hello! Firstly, wanted to say that I adore your blog, and your notes are the perfect balance between aesthetic and useful.

I’ve recently downloaded GoodNotes for the iPad and am slowly becoming a digital convert - what made you take notes digitally rather than on paper?

Another question: how do you use your notes to study for exams? Cornell, summary sheets, etc? I’ve been trying out the Cornell method (which is going good) but just was curious on your perspective.

Hi! Thank you so much! I think I'm hardly qualified to answer this question,, but here's my thoughts :)

I like to take notes digitally for three main reasons, 1) as a stem major, its really useful to be able to add pictures and diagrams to my notes very easily. 2) for my humanities classes, most of them assign pdf copies for reading, and i like being able to mark them up while I read instead of printing. 3) i LOVE not having to carry lots of books around

I find the cornell method ~kind of~ works for me, but only for humanities classes -- I have a hard time using it for my chem and bio stuff. Going in to a test I usually compile my notes with my in-class typed notes to form a cohesive summary study sheet. They're not pretty though, its usually a pretty sloppy sheet with arrows pointing everywhere :)

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this week i set up some shelves behind my desk and added some postcards of some of my favorite paintings.. im so happy! but,, i spend all my free time gazing at the renoir instead of doing work....

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been making some progress decorating my dorm .. but the amount of posters i own feels so daunting

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big chemistry studying day for me! .... also i'm not sure why my photos are uploading so blurry but its bothering me

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Back at college and have finally started work on setting up my desk! The walls are a little bland right now, but i've picked up all my plants that I left behind and am enjoying my new monitor :)

The reading is for my history of science course ... which I'm worried will be a little dense for me, but i guess we'll find out

&& the notion template shown here is available for download in one of my prev posts

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id love to see your notion for this semester released as a template :0 its one of my favs ive seen so far! thank uuu

I've gotten a few requests to release my notion template, so here y'all go! I've never done this before so hopefully it works. Once you click the link, duplicate it into your own notion space and customize away! Please let me know if you have any problems :)

My Fall 2022 Notion: https://adorable-rover-e2f.notion.site/marta-s-fall-2022-notion-template-7378e7b3ac1d4329b1f8e76b9f21c6da

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aaaaand,, here are some of the individual class pages for my fall 2022 notion setup. i'm digging bright colors and minimalism right now for some reason.

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I've just finished setting up my notion page for the upcoming semester! I tried to simplify it compared to my notion page from last semester by putting all my classes in individual pages. Last time, I had all my classes as sub-pages within one notion and it was really laggy all the time. My favorite thing about this set-up is that the master calendar is synced with the assignment databases in each class, so any assignments that I add within the class pages will show up in the main calendar! If anyone is interested, I could try to figure out how to release this as a template but I have no idea how to do that...

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a look into my spring 2022 notion page ... I really loved this page because it was beautiful ... but it was so laggy! I think the lag was partially because I ran everything out of one page and partially because I used a significant number of online widgets (indify).

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This was my desk setup for my freshman year - pretty simple since I just used my laptop. even though my room was pretty small (~90sqft), and trapezoidal, i kinda miss it ... but I'll be living in an apartment with a bigger room next sem and I'm getting a monitor!!! super exciting things

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i’m back

oh boy did i get swept away by the school year and forget to post here ..... :(

The last time I posted on my blog was at the end of my senior year of hs, and I just finished my first year of college - so it’s been a while. Its a shame that I forgot to post here for so long - especially since this blog always served as a great personal motivation thing for me. Even though it wasn’t documented, I took some really swag notes and learned a lot of things this year - so in the coming days I’ll do some retroactive posts, and hopefully I will carry this energy into the fall semester!

It’s good to be back and see what people have been up to, but ik that a long hiatus means that you lose a lot of mutuals and a lot of followers become inactive 💔 So - what I mean to say is that if anyone wants to become friends, mutuals, just chat etc - feel free to dm me! I’ve missed y’all

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I’m gonna graduate in like a week? eeeek its kinda scary