revision (hopefully)

clare - university of oxford PPL (I follow from shwangle)

[plateaupus]

lmao I redownloaded tumblr to see what I last put on here! full on into 2nd year of A levels now, about 15 weeks away from exams I think and feeling pretty negative about everything tbh :(

I’ve been ill a few times in 2018 and now I’ve got a MEGACOLD that is KILLING ME on a week when I said I was going to do SO MUCH work

in other news the most ridiculous thing happened... I just scrolled down here to me talking about biochemistry at uni and how scary oxbridge is!! meanwhile I’m now on 4/5 offers for psychology & philosophy at university and I did my interviews at oxford in december in the snow! just waiting to hear Fromm Edinburgh now who are taking aaaages!!!!

anyway looks like I’ve gotta get A*AA and I hate that because I know I possibly could but it’s definitely in my outer limits of smartness and if I keep working as I am now without amping up a bit I won’t get there!

[olivestudying]

28 June: photos from this past semester I forgot to post.

[plateaupus]

Can highlighting become an addiction? Looking back over history from september to figure out how I will revise for A level mocks!

[postitnotesandglitterpens]

20-05-17: almost done with exams and I couldn’t be more excited!! Also I’m loving mind maps at the moment

[plateaupus]

Having one of those classic ‘I missed a load of work because I was in the college production of the Addams Family’ catch up study sessions😅

[studybrickbybrick]

07.12.16 so finally today’s my last test of the year! :D

[studynostalgic]

// sketch

[minnie-studies-blog-deactivated]

16-04-17 I must have been in class when we did this topic since I wrote notes on it and even highlighted them, but I have no memory of it. Like, what even is a cyclin dependent kinase? 🤷🏻‍♀️

[limbile]

Little fact about French because I just learned that

The accent circonflexe (^) exists in French words to replace the “s” that no longer exists but used to be there in older French.

For example: fenêtre used to be fenestre

It is still possible to see the “s” at times in family words like “défenestrer”.

[culmaer]

knowing this, « être » becomes much more regular :

être  → estre (es, est, sommes, ê[s]tes, sont ; ser-)

some French derivations become clearer :

fenêtre   → défenestrer → L. fenestra

fête   → festival

hôpital → hospitaliser (E. hospital, ise)

intérêt  → intéressant (E. interest, -ing)

ancêtre  → ancestral (E. ancestor, -ral)

arrêt    → arrestation

épître  → épistolaire (E. epistle)

some English cognates become more obvious :

hôtel  → hostel (E. ‘hotel’ borrowed from French)

forêt  → forest (tipp to remember ^ goes on the ‹e›)

bête  → beast

côte  → coast

honnête → honest

pâte, pâté → pasta, paste

quête   → quest

enquête  → inquest

tempête  → tempest

vêtements → vestments (ie. clothes)

baptême → baptism

sometimes, the acute replaces the circumfex for phonetic reasons :

ḗcole   → escole → L. schola (E. school)

ḗtranger   → estrangier (E. stranger)

ḗtudier   → estudier (E. study)

dḗgoûtant → desgoustant (E. disgusting)

dḗbarquer → desembarquer (E. disembark)

rḗpondre  → respondre (E. respond)

rḗpublique → L. res publica

Also, where « c → ch » (eg. cantare→ chanter) :

château → castel (E. castle)

pêcher → L. piscare

and « w → gu » (eg. war→ guerre ; warden→ guardian) :

guêpe → E. wasp ! (this is my n° 1 favourite cognate)

bonus etymologies :

tête   → L. testa

fantôme  → L. phantasma (E. ‘phantom’ borrowed from French)

Pâques  → Gk. pásxa → Am. pésaḫ (E. Paschal)

Also just be aware that the circumflex has some other uses too, like distinguishing « sur — sûr » or « dû » and the vowel quality in « âge »

[hayley-studies]

Where was this post when I was doing A-Level French! This is actually a really interesting language change called “syncope” (the loss of a medial segment within a word) and what makes it even more interesting to me is that not only was the -s- dropped post vocalically and largely before voiceless stops, but that the circumflex was (unnecessarily but coolly) adopted as an orthographic marker of the lost -s-. Even more interesting is that syncope usually occurs in vowels. I love this.

[plateaupus]

Trying to condense all of bio from 2016 into one A3 sheet :'))

[plateaupus]

Have had v unproductive day and now wrapping my head around classification in bed… I see now that it’s quite simple but honestly in the lesson I was like ???!!

[aspiring-medicalstudent]

~ 13/04/2017 ~

I want to try and be more active on here/post more original content. So, have today’s ‘masterpiece’ haha! I have now half completed my AS Biology mind map/poster (onto A1 card). Module 2 = COMPLETE!!

So satisfying :)

[br-ead-loaf]

✨my weekend is consisted of…

[teacomets]

decorated my dorm room wall the other evening! it’s my lil corner to do some reading in when i’m not doing any studying that requires writing things down on paper & it keeps me happy~ ♡🍃

[revisionaesthetic]

summary posters are the best way to study a-level physics ⚖️

[plateaupus]

A moment to appreciate those of us who can't possibly maintain a tidy bullet journal all the time because their diary has to reflect their messy thoughts...

[plateaupus]

Exchange! This week je suis allée à Chalons-En-Champagne. I really think my French has improved this week (mainly through watching bizarre reality television…) Now on way home 🇫🇷🇬🇧