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Katie. IB class of 2018. My place for getting motivated, getting fit, getting organized, and getting smarter. (all follows and likes come from nxcontrol!)

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[half-black-phillip]

I’m so mad because this worked

[britney2007spears]

help me roger

[telanu]

Reblogging myself because

Originally posted by gifs-for-the-masses

[luthienebonyx]

Reblogging myself because… what was that? Five minutes?

O_O

[riskpig]

………my friend has made me curious

[maryburgers]

help me roger

[maryburgers]

Update: after I reblogged this someone messaged me offering me tickets to the sold out Hausu screening with a Q&A and autograph session with the director

[hermes-whore-deactivated2019021]

let’s do it, roger

[spitefulreality-deactivated2015]

Roger helppppp

[curvycorinneranga]

I need you Roger!

[daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh]

roger…

[sonoflove222]

GUYS I FOUND 100 BUCKS IN MY CAR TODAY DON’T DOUBT ROGER

[smolbbydoll]

I’M COUNTING ON YOU, ROGER.

[bot-dad]

Hello counting on you, roger, I’m Dad!

Dad^bot^1. Soon your life will be miserable and pointless, dear Human®. | PayPal | Patreon Beep-boop!

[falling-from-heavens-favor]

reblogging because i need something god to happen today

[smashley5683]

I sec that shit

[free-rice17]

Roger please help a broke bitch like me out

[ludwigplayingthetrombone]

i dropped off my resume at this place at 1:15 and got called for an interview at 1:45 holy dang

[aughtpunk]

Today I got interviewed, hired, and then given a dollar raise and a better store location because the interviewer “liked my attitude”

REBLOG FOR GOOD JOB GETTING KARMA COME ON GRAB A PIECE

[fiti-vation]

[mangosandmulberries]

1. Never leave cookies in the oven too long. Even if they’re still really soft, take them out after the recommended time. When they cool they will harden. Trust me, no one likes cookies that taste like rocks. 2. Always take a jacket. Even if you think you’ll be fine. Even if you’ll be inside. Even if there’s a heater. Bring your jacket. 3. Don’t be afraid to reach out and ask for help when you need it because everyone needs help sometimes. 4. The best pancake recipe is 1 cup equal parts flour and milk, ½ cup sugar and a pinch of baking powder. Add chocolate chips for extra deliciousness. 5. Go outside every day. Even if you don’t want to. Even if you have to use all your strength to drag yourself out of bed. The sunshine might not cure your problems, but it’ll do you so much good to breathe fresh air. 6. Don’t let your hobbies fade away. Keep reading, keep drawing, keep singing, keep painting, keep running. Keep doing what you love. 7. Carbs are not the enemy. They fuel your brain. So eat those potatoes and that rice and don’t you feel guilty about it for one second. 8. I know it sounds cliché but time really does heal all wounds. Give yourself 6 months and it won’t hurt so much, trust me. 9. Be kind. There is no reason for you to put someone down. 10. Learn to love yourself loudly and unconditionally and never apologise for it. 11. If you ever find yourself involved with someone who treats you like you’re nothing, run for the hills and never look back. They don’t deserve you. 12. Rose hip oil is a miracle worker. Gently rub over your face each night before bed and your skin will feel like silk. 13. Drink. Three. Litres. Of. Water. Every. Day. 14. Take pictures. Document everything. One day you’re gonna want to look back at all of this, make sure you have the photos to look at. 15. Let go of anything that weighs you down. The past is the past and there’s nothing we can do to change it. Every day is a another chance for us to do better, to be better. 16. Spend as much time as you can with the people who make you laugh. 17. Set up goals for yourself and keep yourself motivated in whatever you’re doing. Always have something to work towards. 18. Try to make your bed every morning. Yes it’s a hassle when you’re half asleep but there is no better feeling then coming home to a nice clean freshly made bed, especially if you’ve had a bad day. 19. Treat yourself but also look after yourself. Eat lots of fruits and veggies and move your body then dance all night and have a doughnut as a midnight snack. Life is about balance. 20. Never be afraid to love, even if you’ve been hurt before. Live life with an open heart and you might be vulnerable but you will experience so much joy.

words of advice from a 19 year old (via mangosandmulberries)

[finehoney]

im so ready to be in a relationship so whenever the universe is ready hmu with a keeper

[finehoney]

i posted this yesterday then today this cute boy held my hand and now he is sending me memes

[librarydvd]

Reblog for love

[thetrashchronicles]

PLEASE

[aestudier]

As mentioned on my previous post, recipe finding can take up a lot of time so I’ve grouped up some yummy lunch ideas for you!! /ᐠ.ᆽ.ᐟ \

Pasta/Noodles:

cheese tomato alfredo bake

beef broth udon

teriyaki chicken with zucchini noodles

baked ziti

creamy spinach alfredo pasta

mac & cheese

lemon basil pasta

mushroom + soba noodles

lemon garlic shrimp pasta

4 ways to make penne

Rice:

chicken / spam sushi 

bacon egg fried rice

pineapple fried rice

sriracha mayo chicken rice balls

Others:

tortilla wrap ‘sushi’ roll 

cucumber ham rollups

spinach + feta cheese savoury muffins

cheddar corn fritters

cheesy potato bacon bake

chicken mozzarella sticks

shrimp avocado plantain cups

zucchini tots

Vegan:

Liv’s Healthy Life - 1 / 2 / 3

sweet potato brownies

thai basil noodles

fried brown rice + bell peppers & red beans

roasted pepper oregano pasta

brown rice pasta + sweet potato sauce w/ basil

brown rice + mushroom & kale

[thatadult]

sending “I hope you get that job” vibes to the people out here tryna get jobs

[theeeprotagonist]

reblogging for yall bc the shit worked for me lol

[blkmedusa]

Karma will pop me if I don’t

[toethefinishline]

Week Long Vegan Meal Plan

Hey everyone! We have created a meal plan to go along with the recipe list posted here! 

Prep:

Make hummus in advance

Make any dinners/lunch recipes (excluding wraps/sandwiches in advance)

Slice and freeze bananas in advance

Remember to make overnight oats in advance*

D* = dessert

Day 1

B: Green Smoothie with avocado toast

L: Mashed Chickpea Sandwich

D: Stir fry with peanut sauce

S: Veggies with hummus

D*: Banana Ice Cream

Day 2:

B: Overnight oats or cereal with almond milk & banana

L: Leftover stir fry

D: Black Bean Lasagna

S: Trail Mix, Popcorn with Nutritional Yeast

D*: Parfait

Day 3:

B: Tofu Scramble

L: Vegetable wrap with hummus

D: Leftover lasagna or stir fry with spinach salad

S: Sliced apple with almond/peanut butter

D*: Toast with vegan butter or margarine (optional),  cinnamon, and chocolate chips

Day 4:

B: Toast with nut butter, sliced banana, and cinnamon

L: Banana and peanut butter sandwich

D: Summer Chickpea Salad

S: Fruit, veggies with hummus

D*: Banana ice cream

Day 5:

B: Oatmeal with cinnamon, maple syrup/sweetener, and sliced banana or other fruit

L: Leftover chickpea salad

D: Pizza

S: Trail mix

D*:Vegan parfait

Day 6:

B: Smoothie + toast with nut butter or avocado

L: Vegetable wrap with hummus

D: Leftover pizza

S: Banana with PB

D*: Frozen fruit or smoothie

Day 7:

B: Tofu Scramble

L: Sandwich with sunbutter/almond butter/peanut butter and jam

D: Pasta

S: Lara Bar and veggies with hummus

D*: Nice cream

** Exchange meals as needed when you are on the go. Feel free to add more if you are hungry/adjust portion sizes as needed!  This is a baseline but everyone’s caloric range varies so make sure you are eating enough for you ! You can begin to make your own meal plans using this base! Pick a recipe for every meal (include leftovers), pick some snacks, a dessert, etc! It helps to choose recipes with common ingredients every week so you have a lower grocery bill!

**If you have an allergy or don’t like something, just replace it with another meal! This is just an idea, not what you have to eat if you vegan. Don’t let a nut allergy or aversion to vegetables stop you :)

Additionally, add in pre/post workout snacks as you need!

Grocery List: (we tried to include everything!) 

Spinach (and other ingredients needed for smoothies)

Tofu

Ingredients for Hummus

Bread/wraps

Oats

Banana

Tomato Sauce

Frozen stir fry veggies

Frozen fruit or greens for smoothies (can be fresh too)

Nut or seed butter

Pasta noodles

Brown rice

Carrots or other veggies to snack on

Fruit (apples, berries, etc)

Coconut or soy yogurt

Black beans

Basic spices

Nutritional yeast

Plain popcorn

Trail mix (or make own)

Avocado

By makesmoothiesnotwar and toethefinishline!

Related Posts:

Telling your family you are going vegan

Recipe masterpost

Eating out as a Vegan

Want to go Vegan?

Eating Healthy on a Budget

[theorganisedstudent]

eleven little self care tips for students

Get enough sleep. Your brain needs it. Set yourself a ‘bed time’ and fall into the routine of going to bed and waking up at the same times each day.

Drink water and lots of it. Aim for 2 litres a day. This one’s easy, you can do it. Ditch the juices and carbonated beverages, just add a slice of lemon to your water if you feel like something fancy.

Allow yourself to switch off. Don’t be afraid to read books that have nothing to do with your studies. Go to the cinema. Work out. Take your mind away from your workload.

Take care of your skin. Wash your face every morning and night. Moisturise after every shower and bath. Don’t go to bed with your make-up on, no matter how tired you are.

Talk to your friends and family about something other than school. Don’t let your studies detach you from the things going on around you.

Work out. Even just once a week, or whenever you can. Go for a walk or a run, maybe just for 15 minutes. Follow along with a YouTube exercise video from the comfort of your own home or try out some yoga moves.

Make time for your hobbies. Studying is your full time job, but there’s plenty of hours left in the day. Don’t neglect the things you love.

Cook. Sometimes all we have time for is microwave noodles, but don’t fall into the habit of relying on the basics. You’ll feel the difference.

Don’t forget to laugh. Watch a hilarious film. See a comedian at a local venue. Watch funny videos on YouTube. Reminisce with friends. It’ll do you good.

Ditch the caffeine. Don’t rely on Starbucks. It’s delicious but you don’t need it. Save up all the money you’d usually spend on coffee and treat yourself to something instead.

Make your bed every morning. You’ll be grateful at the end of a long day when you can get into a cosy bed that doesn’t look like you just rolled out of it.

[7mangoes]

may your ass get fatter and your heart get wiser in 2017

[chxnky-spice]

May your wallet get thicker and soul become heavy in 2017

[mmshawty]

may your skin get clearer and your love reciprocated in 2017

[hauntedconstellations]

Reblog for this to come true

[motivatde]

Hey! I need some boy advice if anyone is awake or can help please?

[motivatde]

im quitting my job this saturday and im so fucking excited 

[fullcravings]

Apple Crisp

[hoardingrecipes]

Vanilla Bean & Brown Butter Pancakes with Pear Compote & Cinnamon Mascarpone

[diethoroscopes]

Core Strength

Tone It Up Tighten & Tone Your Abs video

Pop Pilates Flat Abs Challenge video

Pop Pilates 3 Minute Ab Challenge video

Thighs and Butts

Pop Pilates Slimming Inner Thighs & Calves video

Pop Pilates Inner Thigh Insanity video

Pop Pilates Saddlebag Shaver video

Pop Pilates Standing Pilates for Legs, Butt & Obliques video

Pop Pilates Butt Blaster video

BodyRock 300 Squats Challenge

Skinny Yoga Girl Legs & Butt Workout

Your Whole Body

Tone It Up Arms, Abs, and Legs Pyramid video

Pop Pilates Till The World Ends video

Pop Pilates Summer Slimdown Part 1 and Part 2

Bodyrock I’m Into You Workout video

Skinny Yoga Girl 1000 Rep Workout

Skinny Yoga Girl Full Body Cardio & Strength Workout

Skinny Yoga Girl Burning Body Workout

Strictly Yoga

Beginner Yoga 20 minute video

Hurts So Good Power Yoga 95 minute video

Blissed Flow Yoga 90 minute

Sun Salutations video

Sun Salutations 2 video

Hip Stretches

Tara Stiles Bend It Like Tara

40m Yoga weight loss  Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

Yoga Fitness Plus 45 minute video 

Yoga Sculpt30 minute video

Yoga Fitness Fusion 45 minute video

Try Some Zumba:

Basics

Cardio Party

Bikini Bod Time

Bikini Abs & Thighs

Sandcastle Workout

Bikini Blast Circuit Workout

Tone It Up Itty Bitty Bikini video

Tone It Up Bikini Beach Bum video

Tone It Up Bikini Abs & Thighs video

Tone It Up Sandcastle Workout video

Tone It Up Bikini Body Workout with Self Magazine!

Tone It Up Bikini Blast Circuit Workout video

Tone It Up Bikini Body Workout with Self Magazine!

Pilates

Flat Abs Challenge

3 Minute Ab Challenge

Slimming Inner Thighs & Calves

Inner Thigh Insanity

Saddlebag Shaver

Standing Pilates for Legs, Butt & Obliques

Butt Blaster

Sexy Workouts: 

Aerobic Striptease

In the Bedroom (don’t even need to get out of bed)

“Body Rock”

Cardio Part 1

Cardio Part 2

Cardio Part 3

Cardio Part 4

BodyRock.tv Hot Body Workout 

BodyRock.tv 4 Minute Workout

BodyRock.tv Hardest Workout

BodyRock.tv Hard Bodies Getting Harder Workout

BodyRock.tv 6 Minute Workout video

BodyRock.tv Run The World Workout video

BodyRock.tv Hot Attack video

“P90X”

Chest and Back/Ab Ripper X

Plyometrics

Legs and Back

Cardio X

Kenpo X

Shoulders and Arms

Core Synergetics

Stretch X

Chest, Shoulder, and Triceps

Back and Biceps

“Insanity”

Fit Test

Plyometric Cardio Circuit

Cardio Power & Resistance

Cardio Recovery

Pure Cardio

Cardio Abs

Core Cardio & Balance

Max Interval Circuit

Max Interval Plyo

Max Cardio Conditioning

Max Recovery

Insane Abs

Max Interval Sports Training

Upper Body Weight Training

[thestudyaesthetic]

First things first, I’m the realist, I’d like to point out that you do not in any way have to set up your college list like mine. I just wanted to provide my own personal view on how I narrowed down colleges and how I did my research. Feel free to use this as a template. In this post, I’ll break down exactly what I did.

This was created through google docs (form), but can be applicable to an excel spreadsheet as well. What I started off with at the top were my current stats, meaning GPA, class rank, SAT and/or ACT scores. These are all general, just for reference on where you stand in terms of colleges. 

The next part is the fun part (and by fun part, I mean the part I spent two weeks creating and editing). On the top are the names of the colleges that you want to research. I categorized them by color: red is for colleges that will definitely be applied to, blue is reconsidering whether to apply or not, green is for my definite safeties, and purple is for whether or I should still apply or not. Now these are all according to my personal preferences, so you don’t have to use this for your list. I do recommend having a color for safeties, reaches, and matches.

The different rows on the left are also based on what I look for in a college and information that I should know:

Ranking: Whether it’s a match, reach, or safety school.

Size:  The number of undergraduates that they have on campus.

Public or Private

Location

Admit Rate: Acceptance rate

Freshman Housing: Is freshman housing guaranteed?

Overall Cost: Cost per semester/year-round

Average Financial Age Package

Setting:  Urban, Suburban, or Rural

Mid 50% SAT CR: Average score out of 800 for critical reading section of the SAT

Mid 50% SAT M:  Average score out of 800 for math section of the SAT

Mid 50% SAT W:  Average score out of 800 for writing section of the SAT

Mid 50% ACT: Average ACT score

Avg. GPA: Average GPA of incoming freshman

Music Programs Available: Whether they have a band and orchestra

Minority %: Percentage of Asian population

Intended Majors: Whether it had the majors that I wanted to pursue (in my case, computer science and graphic design)

Early Action/Early Decision: Whether they had an early action or decision option when applying.

Campus Rating: How much I loved their campus when I visited.

SAT II: Whether subject tests are recommended or required, and how many you need if it’s the case of the latter.

AP Credit: Whether their offer AP credit an/or placement

Supplements: What else is needed to apply.

Application Fee: How much is the application fee.

But like I said guys, this is all unique to my preferences. I just hoped that it inspired you guys on how to set up your college list, or at least helped you figure some things out on where you want to apply. Making a college list has really helped me narrow down decisions on where I want my future to be. My list right now does not hold my final college choices on where I want to apply, but it’s really helping me get there. I hope this post helps you guys too!

-Aliyah

[ib2016]

Hi, I have a question about the Math IA. I take Math SL but our teacher does not know what to do (and neither do we). My classmates and I chose topics regarding relationships between variables and we basically explored the relationships using statistical analyses. However, my friend told me that the exploration must not involve investigating 2 or more variables; it must be something way more complex. Is that true?

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I haven’t written any math IA’s yet, but this blog has some pretty good suggestions. Also, keep in mind that SL IA’s don’t have to be as complex as HL IA’s.