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Grad School Series Pt 1: Why Grad School
Want to know why I’m going to grad school and some lessons I learned from applying this year? Check out the post here!
Thesis/Essay Tips and Tricks
Thesis/Essay Tips and Tricks is #ontheblog.
Here's an excerpt: "I have found in my experience that the capitalist, competitive, individualistic values of Western society discourage collaboration and knowledge sharing as if you share something that’s helped you improve, you risk that they will compete with you and limit your opportunities."
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Exploring U.S. Second Wave Feminism
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The 1960s marked an incredible time for social change in the United States. Hegemonic feminism focuses primarily on the anti-war movement, free love/hippie movement, and the publication of the Feminine Mystique (we’ll get to that later) as starting the women’s rights movement. However, this understanding of the feminist movement is ahistorical at worst and racist at best. It is difficult to discuss the second wave feminist movement because if you split the dialogue into women of color and white women, it makes invisible the multiracial coalitions between women of color and anti-racist White women. I’m going to try my best to give some focus to both facets of the movement, but I recognize that there are gaps in my knowledge.
Easy, Simple Self-Care
I go to school full time and work part-time in addition to trying to maintain good physical/mental health. Suffice to say that leaves me with not much time, not a ton of energy, and in desperate need of a break/time to recuperate/take care of myself/not do anything/etc. Most of the time, this kind of mindful taking care of oneself is known as “self-care”. The University of Buffalo (SUNY) School…
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My Favorite Stationery
I’m kind of addicted to stationery. For this post I thought I would focus on the all of the different pens that I have and what I use them for. It’s gonna be a shorter post, but the pictures are pretty :) In my planner I love to use the Sakura Micron Pigma. As you can see from the picture above I have a crap ton of these pens varying from the 005 to the 03 to the 08 to brush pens, basically if…
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I Review So You Don't Have To...Fitbit Charge
I Review So You Don’t Have To…Fitbit Charge
As the responsible adult that I am, the moment I get paid I decide that I need to treat myself. So, to celebrate the new year and help myself in my fitness goals, I bought the Fitbit Charge 2. As someone who is constantly trying to be more mindful and conscientious of personal wellness, I thought that a fitness tracker would be a good tool in helping me quantify my health. At the time of this…
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Taking Care of Dry & Knotted Natural Hair
Taking Care of Dry & Knotted Natural Hair
I have been loving mini twists for the school year. Since I have work and a full course load, I don’t have the time to wash my hair every weekend or style it every single day. That’s why I think mini twists are hands down the best hairstyle for any natural girl in college. The whole process from wash to twisting takes me about 5 hours. That seems like a long time, but I’ve had my current set of…
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Free 7-Day Email Course: How to Study for Exams Effectively
Whether you are having your exams soon, or you want to learn more about some study techniques about how to study for exams, this course is perfect for you! This is a 7-day course made specifically for high school and college students, with tips on how to study effectively for exams. This course focuses on how you can use the minimum amount of time to reach the maximum outcome, which is great for students like you who are busy and want to achieve more with less time!
You should signup for this course on how to study for exams if…
You are having finals soon (it is not too late to signup a week before your exam – you can just study according to my email everyday!)
You want to learn more about how to study effectively
You want to plan their time well for exam preparation
You have no idea how you should prepare for your exams
What will I get if I signup?
In this coming week, you are going to get an email each day on how you should prepare for your finals. If you have read my post on How to Study a Week Before an Exam, you would probably have a rough idea on the outline of this course. Here, I am going to go much more in-depth into how you should prepare for an exam.
What will the course cover?
This is the course outline, and the topic of the emails you will get in the next 7 days!
How to Make an Exam Study Plan
How to Read Effectively Before Exams
How to Make Study Guides for Exams
Memory Techniques for Exam Preparation
How to Do Practice Problems and Quiz Yourself
How You Should Do Your Final Review on the Day Before Exam
Some Last-Minute Exam Tips for You
What if I have some questions about the course content?
I am always happy to answer your question! Just reply to that course email and I will get to you as soon as possible! If you need more (immediate) help, feel free to just Facebook message or DM me on Twitter!
Signup and Get the Course Now!
How I Balance College, Work, Blogging And Social Life
In this post, I am going to talk about detailedly how I schedule my time, and how I study effectively within the limited time I have.
I have covered detailedly the following:
1. Schedule Your Time Well
2. Get Into A Routine
3. Get A Planner or To-Do App, And Stick To It
4. Study Efficiently
5. Study and Read On-The-Go And During Breaks
6. Do Everything In Advance
Read the full article here :)
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5 Useful Tips On How to Deal With Stress During Exam
Useful tips on how to conquer your stress and not to let it get the best of you, which would help you to perform to your full potential at an exam.
This post covers:
1. Knowledge Is Power.
2. Oxygen Is Life.
3. Haste Makes Wastes.
4. Move Your Body.
5. There’s No Harm In Asking.
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We’ve all had to slog through pages and pages of long, boring textbooks, so I’ve compiled some tips to help make your readings more efficient and effective!
CREATE A PLAN
Break your reading into chunks. Divide the number of pages to read over the number of days you’ve been given to read it. Evaluate the difficulty of the text and your own level of concentration to make sure these chunks are manageable. For example, if your text is light and/or your focus is strong, you may want to read in 4 chunks of 15 pages. But if your text is harder and/or your focus is weaker, you may want to read in 6 chunks of 10 pages.
Schedule your reading time. Determine the exact days in the week (or even the exact hours during the day) you’re going to read, so you’re not tempted to push everything off until the last minute. When scheduling, make a reasonable estimate of how long the reading will take, leave a little wiggle room, and account for taking breaks as well. Additionally, keep in mind restrictions on your schedule, such as sports practices or social gatherings, that may prevent you from reading on certain days. Put the chunks of reading into your planner or timetable under the day or times you’re going to complete them.
GET A BIG PICTURE
If you just flip to the first page of your reading and start taking notes, you’ll have no idea what’s important or what you should be looking for. In order to identify which parts are significant enough to write down, you need to get a big picture of the entire topic. You can get that “thirty-thousand foot view” before reading by doing the following:
skim through headings, pictures, and diagrams
if your textbook has them, read the summaries, practice questions, key words, and/or learning objectives at the end of the chapter
read a brief summary online or watch a video about your topic (Crash Course is great for this!)
Those resources will help you figure out the main points the textbook author wants to get across and your teacher wants you to learn, which will allow you to speed up your note-taking process by not taking notes on unimportant things.
READ SELECTIVELY
Not all information in a textbook should be treated equally. For maximum reading efficiency, adjust your reading rate depending on the importance of the material. Introductions and filler information might be quickly skimmed, or even skipped, while you should take your time reading and processing difficult/complicated explanations.
You should also adjust your reading rate depending on the relevance of the material, which I explain in further depth here.
Disclaimer: This tip may not work for you if your textbook is concise and doesn’t contain much, if any, filler text. As a high school student, the vast majority of my textbooks are very to-the-point, so I mostly only use this trick for a few supplemental readings. However, I’ve heard that college textbooks tend to be more rambling, so I figured this advice was still worth mentioning!
PEN>HIGHLIGHTER
In my annotating literature post, I recommended using highlighting, underlining, and marking up the text as active reading strategies. However, the same advice does not apply to textbooks. Marking quotes and passages to analyze later is helpful, but for information that you have to memorize and synthesize, studies have shown that highlighting and underlining are among the least effective study strategies.
Taking notes is a much better way to ingrain what you’re reading. Note-taking requires active engagement with the text, so you’ll understand more deeply and memorize it for longer. I also find that the act of summarizing and writing things down helps keep me awake while reading long and boring texts. Use these guidelines when taking notes:
Don’t pause to take notes after every sentence. Read a paragraph or section first before taking notes on the whole thing, to get a bigger picture.
Write everything in your own words as much as possible. This is especially helpful when you have to write an essay or paper, since you can refer directly to your notes without fear of plagiarizing the textbook.
Write in bullet points and fragments instead of full sentences. I also encourage turning information into timelines, cause/effect diagrams, and pro/con tables.
Simplify the language so that a 10-year-old kid could understand it.
Use personal connections, metaphors, and analogies that help you understand topics. These don’t have to make sense to anyone else.
Ideally, your notes should allow you to test yourself for comprehension later on. A popular way to do this is by using the Cornell notes method. I also like to use the headings in my textbook to formulate questions as I go along. For example, if I’m reading and I come to a section with the title “Causes of the Civil War”, I’ll get a sheet of paper (separate from my regular textbook notes) and write “What were the causes of the Civil War?” Later when I’m studying for my test, I can simply go down the list of questions on that paper and answer them to myself, thus making sure that I know all the most important points from the textbook. If I get stuck on any of the questions, I can refer to my regular textbook notes or the book itself.
If you’re reading the textbook to prepare for a lecture on the same topic, I recommend leaving lots of space in your textbook notes to fill in during your lecture. You could either write on every other page (textbook notes on left, lecture notes on right) or skip several lines between each section. That way you don’t have to start your notes from scratch during the lecture– the bulk of the information is already there from the textbook and you just have to add in a few extra details from your professor in class.
(P.S.: Once the school year starts and I begin to take my own textbook and lecture notes, I’ll post pictures of my own notes and explain my personal system in more detail, so stay tuned for that!)
EXTRA TIPS
If you’re struggling to focus while reading, try reading the book out loud. This is admittedly more time-consuming, but it will keep you engaged and, if you’re an auditory learner, it might help you understand better.
If your readings are extremely long, stick in some Post-its or page flags with the main ideas of the sections/pages written on them as you read to allow you to quickly find what you’re looking for if you need to refer to the book again.
While reading, note any questions or areas of confusion that need to be clarified either through online research or asking your teacher.
I already told you to use the vocabulary lists and/or the practice questions at the end of the chapters to get a big picture before reading, but remember to go back to these after reading to assess your understanding.
If all else fails, try the gummy-bear-in-a-textbook-method!
Thanks for reading! If you have questions, feedback, or post requests, feel free to drop me an ask.
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—Sophia :)
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10 Tools For Creating A Resume
[This is #4 of Get Your Dream Job Series: Tools For Creating a Resume]
10 amazing online tools and sites that would help you to create your resume or CV and land on the job or career that you want.
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1. Flavors
2. UK Writings
3. Kick Resume
4. Resume Writing Help
5. CV Maker
6. ResumUP
7. Assignment Help
8. Do You Buzz
9. My Perfect Resume
10. Online CV Generator
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What's In My Backpack?
What’s In My Backpack?
Now that the school year has started, I thought it would be fun to share what I’ve been carrying around everyday. I don’t always have all of these things in my backpack at any given time because my classes are at not always everyday, but this is usually what I have with me! Basically these are the main stays that are almost always in my backpack. I’m kind of a snob about what notebooks I use, so…
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