A new school year is approaching, and since I have to nail my A* this year I put together a masterpost with helpful links and tips that I have gathered throughout my school years. Good luck this year: you´ll do just fine!
1. Learn ´em languages
Learn terms and glossary in Quizlet.
Learn a language for free on Duolingo.
Learn a language for free on Busuu.
Oxford Dictionaries.
Games and fun activities for English learners.
Irregular English verbs.
2. Do your research
Google scholar.
Scholarpedia.
You can learn anything (KhanAcademy).
Didn´t listen in class? (Crash Course).
Simple Wikipedia.
Learn littérature without having to read it (SparkNotes).
Wolfram Alpha.
TED.
Open 2 study. (Online studying)
Free college courses.
3. Learn how to write like a God
10 practical tips for writing better exam essays.
Writing an essay.
Harvard writing resources.
Writing application essays.
Writing a personal statement.
Genre characteristics.
Writing a literary analysis essay.
Answering essay questions.
Get feedback.
Bibliography maker.
What is the word you´re looking for?
4. Oh yes sweet reading
8 tips to remember what you read.
How to read Shakespeare.
Effective reading and note-taking.
How to take notes while reading.
Note taking tips.
170 free textbooks.
1000 free textbooks.
5. Get your studying and organization game on
Time Management
Get your school life in order with organization.
Reach your goals.
Goals worksheet.
Finding information on the internet.
Using sources.
Get a hold on mind mapping.
How do you learn best?
Sound without music (Such as cafes).
Make flashcards.
6. Stress and anxiety management because school is stressful
Coping strategies.
Stress reduction tips.
Stress relief for students.
Managing test anxiety.
Dealing with test anxiety.
Self help: Keeping calm.
Introverts in college.
Coping and calming down. N.1
Coping and calming down. N.2
Do nothing for two minutes.
7. Go get ´em tests
Study skills for test taking.
Study tips for finals.
Multiple choice exams guide.
The seven days study plan.
15 steps to success.
How to prepare for a test.
Checklist for essay tests.
8. Classroom participation - because teachers love that shit
sentinel's no BS guide to good notetaking
for cyberstudious' masterpost jam day 2
yesterday, we got set up in obsidian. now that your vault's up and running, you'll need some killer notetaking methods to go with it. here's where pkm comes in. personal knowledge management, or pkm, is how you gather, organize, store, and use information. for mp jam day 2, i'm recommending my favourite books about pkm.
start here:
getting things done | david allen
the para method | tiago forte
building a second brain | tiago forte
these 3 books are great for laying the foundation to improve your productivity (and brainpower tbh). they explain pkm in an accessible way and describe methodologies/systems in great detail that lend extremely well to building out your obsidian vault. i 100% attribute my success as an academic weapon in large part to these books.
notetaking methods:
i recommend searching for what methods typically work best for the course/topic! for myself in compsci, i've found the most success in the cornell method and developing my own system. here's some starting points to find what works best for you:
cornell method
outlining method
charting method
if these three don't appear to work for you, i highly recommend searching "best notetaking methods for [course/study topic]"!
none of this is working for me. now what?
you keep trying! literally the coolest thing about pkm and obsidian is that you just keep tinkering until you find what works for you. a bunch of people in the obsidian and pkm communities are nd and they've been building pretty cool stuff that works for them. i did the same and i've developed *almost* an entire productivity system of my own that works super well for me. highly recommend checking things out and just tinkering until you find what works for you.
got a question?
i tried to keep jargon out of this as much as possible, but i might've made a mistake! if you get stuck, or have a question obsidian, markdown, pkm, or finding a notetaking method that works, let me know! i'm more than happy to help :)
what's next?
tomorrow's theme is free resources! i'll be sharing my favourite resources that helped me organize my obsidian vault to become an academic weapon
the concept and idea of “you can always start trying to be a better person” is extremely important to me both in media and irl and i continue to be deeply deeply disturbed by the trend on this site pushing that these ideas in media are bad writing or even morally reprehensible
because theyd rather someone stay terrible or just straight up die than become a better person
from a compassionate point of view it’s deeply distressing
and from a pragmatic point of view it’s outright frustrating
I think part of the pushback about this is the idea that, to “redeem” bad people, their victims must first forgive them for unforgivable acts.
This is false. No one is obligated to forgive you. You can learn from your mistakes and become the best, kindest person on earth, and the people you’ve hurt still won’t forgive you, and you’ll have to accept that. And that doesn’t mean you aren’t allowed to grow. Because we aren’t just “pure” or “sinful”, we’re complex.
this is by no means a comprehensive list of every Classics-oriented professional society in the world, but it's a pretty sizeable list. google around and see if you can find more that suit your interests! as you can tell from this list, theres a society or organization for practically every subfield within Classics. a lot of these societies also offer scholarships and grants.
based on my experience as an american, most of these are going to be based in the US; any that are international or outside the US will be indicated in blue. each state also typically has its own state-wide association (i know california has two distinct associations for different part of the state and new york has several, with some of them specifically geared toward NYC.
General Organizations
Society for Classical Studies (SCS)- one of the biggest Classical Studies organizations in the world, a catch-all for all subfields of Classical Studies and Classical Archaeology (including but not limited to Mediterranean prehistory, late antiquity, early medievalism, Near Eastern Studies, etc.) *INTERNATIONAL*
Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS)- the largest regional North American Classical organization (31 US states and 3 Canadian territories are included, divided into smaller subregions) *US & CANADA*
Classical Association of New England (CANE)- New England region Classical Association
Classical Association of the Atlantic States (CAAS)- Atlantic states (Virginia, Maryland, etc.) region Classical Association
Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest (CAPN)- Pacific Northwestern states and Canadian provinces region Classical Association *US & CANADA*
American Classical League (ACL)- a lot like SCS but not as prominent and restricted to the USA
Eta Sigma Phi- honor society for undergraduates; you can apply for scholarships for up to 8 years after graduating from your undergrad
Digital Classics Association- an organization focused on the teaching and study of Classics through digital media
Classical Association of Canada- like SCS and ACL but specifically for Canada *CANADA*
The Classical Association- like SCS and ACL but specifically for Great Britain *GREAT BRITAIN*
Hesperides: Classics in the Luso-Hispanic World- an organization focusing on the study of Greco-Roman influence outside of the normal geographic constraints (i.e., the Americas, Caribbean, Pacific, etc.) with an emphasis on underrepresented voices in the field including Hispanic, Indigenous, and African descent; website available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese *INTERNATIONAL*
Language & Author-Specific Organizations
International Ovidian Society *INTERNATIONAL*
Vergilian Society
American Association for Neo-Latin Studies (AANLS)
American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (ASGLE)
International Society for Neoplatonic Studies (ISNS)
Society for the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin Literature
Minority Identity Organizations
Classics and Social Justice- not an organization, but an extremely helpful and important resource for Classicists who are not content with the current social and political climate and want to work towards change
Women's Classical Caucus (WCC)- affiliate organization of the SCS focusing on women's and gender studies in the Ancient Mediterranean
Mountaintop Coalition- a relatively new organization focusing on the professional advancement of students and scholars of the Ancient Mediterranean and its reception who identify with an underrepresented ethnic minority
Lambda Classical Caucus (LCC)- an organization for queer Classicists and allies
Eos- a relatively new organization focusing on Africana and Africana Reception Studies
Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus (AAACC)- an organization focusing on the promotion of scholarship by Asian and Asian-American Classicists
Multiculturalism, Race, and Ethnicity in Classics Consortium (MRECC)- an organization focusing on the teaching of race and ethnicity in ancient cultures, as well as sensitivity to those subjects in modern scholarship
Archaeological Organizations
Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)- the largest archaeological organization in the US and a sister organization to SCS; not limited to Classical archaeology *significant international presence*
American Society of Papyrologists
American Friends of Herculaneum (AFoH)- an organization focusing solely on the study of the archaeological site of Herculaneum
Etruscan Foundation- an organization dedicated to the study of Etruria
Historical & Religious History Organizations
Association for Ancient Historians (AAH)
Society for Ancient Medicine and Pharmacology
Society for Late Antiquity
Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions (SAMR)
Society for Early Modern Classical Reception (SEMCR)
MOISA: International Society for Ancient Greek & Roman Music and Its Heritage
Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
Schools
Most European countries have their own Schools in Rome and Athens, which may offer membership and scholarship opportunities.
American Academy in Rome
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
College Year in Athens
Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome
2nd March: Do you consider yourself a workaholic? What times do you feel most productive?
I was avoiding calling myself that because surely I will have days where I wouldn't want to work - and there are days still when I walk into my office and think, alright here we go again and sigh. But I do enjoy my work - it's has a nice rhythm in its consistent variation and the right balance of technical and social skills (I do struggle with communication a lot and emails are a life saver over phone calls). I work out of office hours some days because of the timezones and I hate not being on top of everything.
That being said, I do not open my work laptop on the weekends (besides the three hours for a course I am doing on my work). I need my weekends to freshen up and relax from all the hours and the emails of the week.
I feel most productive after 8 pm and it can stretch till half four or five in the morning. However, I can be productive during the day if I am out of my house but it doesn't last as long. In the office I am most productive from 11 am to 1 pm and I try to get most of my work done during that. There's something about the after noon that makes me want to nap all the time, no matter the day.
1st March: What are your goals for this month? What's something you're looking forward to?
During March, I want to return. To research, languages, and reading. Not intensely perhaps, just enough to make a habit, so it becomes more of a muscle memory, not depending entirely on motivation.
I also want to make less mistakes at work and practice more confidence.
I am looking forward to knitting, finding a really good TV show, and spending time with my friends.
nobody asked but I'm going to elaborate anyway. if the room a language gives you is too small to express what you need you are forced to make dents in its sides, to press against its walls until they buldge and sagg and make more space. you create new ways in which to say the same old things which is what poets have been bending over backwards to try and do for millenia
“Most of us write as if we're getting paid a dime a word. We've been conditioned, I suppose, by school assignments calling for more words than we have ideas. That gets us into the habit of phrase-stretching a hard habit to break. Then, too, it's easier to think in long, ready-made phrases, which have the added attraction of sounding elegant. What secretary or bureaucrat doesn't feel indebted to the coiner of "please be advised," "enclosed please find," "thanking you in advance," and "in reference to yours of ... "?
This habit of thinking in prefab phrases slowly dulls our sensitivity
to words as words. It's inevitable. We may hear someone say "at this point
in time" and pride ourselves on recognizing the phrase as a cliche, but
we'll probably not notice that it's also redundant. (What does in time say
that at this point doesn't already say?) If we think in terms of months,
we're only half-conscious of days. If we think in terms of phrases, we're
only half-conscious of words.“
I already had a feeling that this week was going to be busy then I put down everything in my bujo. At least, it looks like on Thursday I’ll be able to have a rest in the afternoon.
Day 12 - How much time do you spend on studyblr per day on average?
On average, I guess one or two hours at max though it’s just my time on tumblr not necessarily restricted to studyblr...
The movie Thirteen Going On Thirty is way more relatable for me these days because apparently "secretly being a 13 year old girl pretending to be a 30 year old woman" is exactly what being a 30 year old woman feels like.
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