[sprouht-studies]

{06.08.17} 1/30 days of productivity!! have been inactive for a while, due to my busy schedule,, ;_; spent the day doing math questions, writing chemistry notes and finishing up on some homework!! anyways, hope you guys have a productive week ahead!! ✨

[take-up-and-read]

04.06.2017 // I did four (double) lectures worth of readings. I think my brain has stopped working now.

[gabiestudies]

november 26th 2020, 16:57

hey!! long time no see 😳 i can’t believe the month of november is almost over!! it’s been a pretty good one (i got to visit abbey @tiredbiostudent 😎), but now my city is back in partial lockdown and i’m a bit flooded with end of semester assignments

listening to: garden song - phoebe bridgers

[hiotisa]

Best Advice for Succeeding in School (I learned it the hard way)

In high school, I was considered a pretty average student. I knew that I was more than that, but I prioritized my extra curricular activities to have a fun experience in high school. I also thought being “well rounded” would make up for the fact that I had A’s and B’s and once a C. When it came to my Senior year, I realized I screwed myself over by inflating my ego and getting rejected by my dream school.

I was always put into advanced classes in grade school, but this is not something that I want to brag about. It actually hurt me because it inflated my confidence giving me a false sense of self. From this point as a student, I thought I was given the natural ability of intelligence and I learned to never study for tests and exam (except for science which was my achilles). My grades in grade school were A’s and A-’s.

This habit carried on in high school. I had an ego in which I was intelligent enough to not put in any work. The people around me often didn’t seem as bright as me, so I settled to stay in classes in which I felt comfortable being at the top.

I didn’t realize that making myself uncomfortable by putting my self in more difficult classes would have made me smarter. I didn’t want to compete with the smartest students in the class because I didn’t want to feel dumb.

I never studied for my AP Bio or AP US History exams. I loved History so I felt that there was no need for me to prepare because I knew I would get a good grade. I thought my “natural intelligence” would help me pass. I hated AP Biology because I just didn’t get Biology. I never asked for help because I thought I was too smart for help.

I ended up getting 2′s on both of the tests. Because of my inflated sense of intelligence, I never studied for the ACT. I did extremely poorly, and it was too late to fix by the time I applied for college. 

It was time for me to change as a person. I needed to stop pretending to be “naturally gifted” and actually work towards my goals. Upon going to Indiana University, I realized that I needed to make the best of my experience there. I met people that were a thousand times smarter than me and my former colleagues in high school.

I lost my inflated sense of intelligence. I started studying for my quizzes, tests, and exams. I started engaging with my professors when I needed help. While I never really needed actual help, I ended up connecting with a lot of professors. They would give me a lot of inside information on how to succeed just because I was being vulnerable and asking for help. The classes in which I performed the worst were a product of me not going to office hours or asking for help. 

Stop thinking of yourself as intelligent in the academic sense. Nobody cares except for you. Outsmart the smartest people by dedicating time and energy into resources that are helpful. Engage with people that are willing to help you, and don’t engage with people that want to compare themselves against you. Additionally, step out of your comfort zone when it comes to classes and work. You will learn a lot more when you are put in an unfamiliar environment as opposed to a familiar environment. Once you feel comfortable with the work you are doing, that becomes dangerous slipper slope for stagnancy in your learning and growth as a person and academically.

[violetsnotebook-archive]

04.10.20 / happy sunday my friends! consulting my notes today for a historical fiction wip i’m building. i also got a new succulent because why not lol. i hope there’s sunshine where you are. take care ♡

[booksnjournals]

this is probably one of my fave spreads, it’s from back when the bts comeback happened :’) god i’m still completely obsessed with their album.

ig: booksnjournals

[hristinasview]

Old memories… Pt. 4

IG: hristinasview

[leilasengineeringjourney]

31.1.18 〜History and a lot of cups of tea〜

[studying-kidney]

Summer break is almost over. Time to hit the books 📚

[baektostudying-deactivated20170]

77/100 days of productivity!!! 2 more days until the start of mid years and so many things to do 😳

[hristinasview]

[21.11.2017] When mornings are sweet as this… (Wops, you can see my pyjama in the last snap 😅)

IG: hristinasview

[latetothestudygame]

& it’s back, I missed you little fake marble desk

[thefragilepages]

It’s all coming together 🌼

[eintsein]

22.10.17 // this week’s bullet journal spread. couldn’t really do my usual scrapbook-y style bc i was busy this week, but i did set aside some time to paint 🎨 the quote is from the song Afterlife by Nothing But Thieves. also ft my physics notes for a test this tuesday (wml!)

[literaryhistories]

Editing my thesis at the library café ☕

[ceriniity]

7.12.19 // these pictures are from earlier in this week when I was writing an essay on David Hume’s case against miracles. Seeing as I just made a post about how I write essays, here are the pictures of me frantically worrying about this one in particular (tap for better quality idk tumblr does this to me)

[coffeeandpies-deactivated202012]

18.07.2020 |  18th July - What do you usually do during the summer?

This picture is an answer itself :D

song of the day: ITZY - DALLA DALLA