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Ethic notes on ethics notes. Still thriving on these sticky notes, it's an addiction. If anyone doesn't use sticky notes when talking notes I definitely recommend it. Also watching a documentary on charter vs. public school and it's incredible

#studyspo #study motivation #study notes #studyblr #ethics #ib studyblr #ib stuff

smallepics

I looked up today at the clouds edging in with a threat of dark metal lining their edges and a tear gathered between one blink and the next. Perhaps it was the season change in my nose or what I saw: leaves curled (in growth or death? Did they need the growing clouds or despise what may fall?)

See, it’s probably all explained in the metaphor of my dreams, where I’ve changed into something sweeter or perhaps alluring. I’m a rat trap poison with the promise of sugar cane stuck on teeth and I’m so scared at the movements of my body and the woman behind them but I can’t help the daydreams looking to go back.

See, right now i’m just trying to walk slow unsteady steps of an overgrown colt. With no one to lean on, I cannot afford to fall. I must stumble down the path of childhood the way I stutter over these words. I can’t help it when I let Mama down on Sundays, it’s not my fault I don’t know which traps to set for myself and which fences to build. I want to get stuck inside the small backyard of my mind, it seems easier than running and losing myself to the leaning grasses of fields and fields of possibilities whose flowers are too wild for me to grow.

See, I’m terrified in the way of night terrors with too vivid quicksand filling my mouth and hindering screams in a dry drown - no - . In the way of teenage hormone cocktails rising up sternums to build bile and anxiety and hearts tap against the walls of their cage trying to ask ‘how much more adrenaline do you need?’ Or maybe not even that, but I can say in the least poetic way possible I’m scared to be the teen angst poet

See, because I can’t tell if I’m as raw as the girl with the night terror past. I believe like a rooted subconscious habit that one day I’ll burn my poems the way I’ve burned every single one of my diaries, trying to destroy evidence of the crime I was a person I cannot bear to be anymore. Trying to delete the way my voice sounded when scrawled across an ink skinned page the way others delete texts from phone contacts they can’t bare to see rather than heal with the closure of a final phone call, the long lasting 1 hour and 20 minutes one. I’ll backspace all my poems letter by letter then delete my .docs but even in this - this untrained untested unsure dream - I want to mean something.

See, I even have a list to prove my whims don’t last.

ONE

I no longer feel homesickness twisting my belly and making my nose pull back in a defensive snarl when the scent of downy detergent on suave body wash rises off clothes. I can’t even regret the loss of my spreading back muscles laid upon a bed in a room that I called mine and the closing of curtains when I thought that meant safe. When I thought that meant I didn’t have to think and I thought that meant just me and my distracted mind. Just the occasional hand missing air and ear missing words I swear should have been whispered just a decibel too loud and drift down the hall. And a yellow dog too, of course.

TWO

When my brain is heavy with haze but light with thought I just want to read poetry written by greater poets, cry in all the right places and laugh when the I look up, and remember the ways sunbeams fall through blinds and mosquito screens instead of the stifle of a closed window and a sun that heats a fevered curtain.

Today I’m reading poetry to the tune of a severe thunderstorm warning eating chinese delivery I wasn’t home to eat the night before. I’d lie if I said I was ready to enjoy the way the rain tinkered down my tin shed roof and draw love poems from the awe of a wrathful sky, I’ll just let my bones rest instead.

THREE

For every animate person that hasn’t even screwed me twice over yet, a metaphor poetically describes the beauty of my sore body ache in inanimate terms. I’ve learned them in the essays for books I’ve never read but now I’m writing poems for a life I haven’t really seen yet. I fake the different colors for red if it makes me sound pretty, let me imagine love that explodes vermillion and anger spills slow sweet cherry while ignoring the red regret of the veins in my eyelids during too late mornings. With too late alarms blinking dull red to remind the chipping bitten away red of nails flying to meet deadlines of slow written poems.

FOUR

My head used to lean against the thrumming window of my family’s biggest car until my teeth felt weird without the constant friction and my temple shot me off center. I think we all counted the seconds between lightning and thunder just to know how far off the storm was even when it pounded sheets across the thin layer of metal between itself and me. I just liked to know. It’s just too hot air meeting cold streams but I don’t think my peeling sunburnt skin will meet cool long fingers anytime soon. While the goddess of the sky and the goddess of the sea may meet to bruise purple, kisses in the clouds this car ride is the journey of a small small girl touching her own. I can’t tell if I’m as raw as the girl with the night terror, small fingers to her own shaking mouth and learning how not to bite.

If I made this a poem my metaphor would run back to the dying leaves. I wish I knew what Autumn time will do to me. If I will still reach for the summer sun or miss the rain sheet falling storms - that’s a habit I can’t remember.

Originally written for @soliloquiemagazine:

“SOLILOQUIE MAGAZINE is for those who are always speaking their thoughts. Who have many thoughts. who have thoughts before they even finish the last one. Who want their thoughts to be heard. who want a listener, a hearer.“

Really loving sticky notes right now for both my planner and for notes. Been doing a lot of work in coffee shops lately so here's a few pictures

#studyspo #studyblr #study motivation #study notes #studying #school #coffee #study aesthetic #aesthetic

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Super excited to get back into school and studyblr after taking a break from studying. If anyone wanted to keep up with me outside of studying my I'll link my other blogs Aesthetic blog: @rereaesthetics Photography blog: @rerephotos Thank you

lucubro

last week’s spread! 🌼🌿 the most adorable drawing of the McElroy boys is by @geraltsbeard :’) i’m currently kinda obsessed with them so i wanted to feature them in my bujo as well!

#new name: rerestudies #rere #studyblr #bujojunkies #bujolove #aesthetic #study aesthetic #bujo goals #queue me up before you go go

asforetold

Favourite narrative tropes:

“That was ONE time!”

“Due to an administrative error”, or any major plot point which is caused almost entirely by bureaucratic fuckups

“Contrary to popular belief” appended to something that’s either really obvious or completely subjective

A character makes an assertion, then cut to the narrator contradicting it (‘“Everything’s fine!” Everything was not fine.’)

First-person narrators who call a specific character by a series of increasingly convoluted nicknames

Unusual narrative euphemisms. I still hold that describing around a curse word is almost always funnier than just using the word.

Establishing character moments which subvert your expectations right from the get-go. The best example is in the Brooklyn Nine Nine pilot, where Jake’s fooling around at the crime scene before revealing that he’s already solved the case.

Montages. Just montages of any kind, for any reason, anytime. I actually think they work better in text form because you can do so many creative things with them.

Side characters with a level of fourth-wall awareness / quasi-supernatural ability which is never quite certain, like the janitor in Scrubs.

Double meanings in narration that take a while to make themselves clear.

Really, really specific similes.

peachisty

journal ideas 2.0 🌻

my imaginary mini garden/terranium: step up your flower and plant art doodle and make a garden or terranium instead!

quick ways on how to save the bees: let this dedicated page serve as a constant reminder that you must help in saving the bee population

how do i plant my *insert plant here: i have this page called how i plant my sunflowers and it may also double serve as my seed count recorder. quick suggestion: do it in numerical bullet form

my pet profile: this is absolutely adorable if you make one for every pet that u have and add a little box where u can doodle em

soothing notes to self: one-liner reminders in bullet form to read and write regularly for a healthy heart

monthly goals: step up your monthly goals game by making mini squares and doodling your goals in every box instead of the old bullet way!

mini paintings: of absolutely anything: your pets, flowers, whatever that inspire the monet in you

pressable mini sentimental things: tickets, candy wrappers, tea packs, cute tags, book marks, mini notes, old stickers, stamps, flowers, leaves, petals, etc

what i love about today: write it down. like the old times. no need to doodle stuff, just narrate your day because there’s nothing better than raw stories.

what’s in my backpack: quick illustration of the stuff u have inside your jansport, kanken, whatever u bring in school or anywhere else!

my skincare routine: i dont actually have this page but it feels like a good addition because it’s a way of reminding myself that i have to care for my skin

small gestures of self-love: things that i plan to do for myself for optimal self-love!! more like a plan?

little things that i should do more often: things that you are going to do in the near future to live your life to the fullest and help you grow and become a better person

sunshines in a bottle: make mini bottles and paint each bottle with your very own version that reminds you of the good things that happened to you this week or month maybe!

the go-to art materials: an illustration + list of my favorite art materials that i use almost everytime! i wanted to add this page because it helps you organize your brushes or something

the coffee stars: rate and maybe even sketch the coffee shops that you’ve been to for the past few weeks! dedicate maybe 3 or 4 pages max for better effect!

weekly mantra: what is your chant for this week? write it down and make it look like art (i.e: through calligraphy, etc)

popcorn n flix: a movie + snack favorite list that should be done once a month!

girlwomanetc

school is stressful, so here’s some posts that save me on a daily basis! i’d be shook and lost without these posts tbh so i wanted to share

notes notes and more notes

different types of note taking by @study-well

aesthetically pleasing notes by @studyearlgrey

how to take notes! by @lazymodelstudent

lil lecture notes guide by @strive-for-da-best

simple colorcode tips by @kimberlystudies

v helpful for textbook notes by @strive-for-da-best

guide to flashcards by @pseudocodead

typing ur notes by @study-well

studying is tiring

my favorite guide to studying by @sic-transit-pizza

‘oh god it’s the night before the exam’ by @renaistudying

6 things people don’t tel u about studying by @behindonstudying

v simple guide for studying by @milkystudies

create a study schedule!! by @mindofamedstudent

hungry? by @tbhstudying

resources and gr8 stuff by @areistotle

essays, literature, and languages are ???

annotating saves lives by @tbhstudying

gr8 essay writing tips by @hermionegoals

essay checklists by @wonderfullifee

words to replace ‘said’ by @msocasey

lifesaving literature masterpost by @highlightcrs

advanced english vocab by @blackteaandlanguages

a website for finding a word that you can’t remember

website for frequently used words

tips + tricks for learning languages by @ofminervas

literary devices w printables by @studie-s

planners, journals, and handwriting! yikes!

ultimate guide to a bullet journal by @studypetals

simple cute bujo by @bluelahe

super super cute bujo by @studyfulltime

aesthetic simple 10/10 bujo by @studywithinspo

10 types of planners by @sic-transit-pizza

more planning systems by @universi-tea

handwriting sample #1 by @tbhstudying

handwriting sample #2 by @jujustudy

handwriting sample #3 by @cesca-studies

printables are 11/10 (+ some life guides ;)

guide to a studyblr by @areistotle

job interview 101 by @marias-studyblr

what to do on a bad day :(((( by @bookmocha

pomodoro printables by @cmpsbls

a SUPER helpful printable masterpost by @studie-s

that’s it! i use these constantly and wanted to share them! i’ll try to do masterposts for different subjects eventually…

tbhstudying

thanks for including me on here :’)))

theclonewriter-blog

“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.

onewordtest

“Unless you are following the dialogue with an action and not a dialogue tag.” He took a deep breath and sat back down after making the clarifying statement.

joehywheelah

“However,” she added, shifting in her seat, “it’s appropriate to use a comma if there’s action in the middle of a sentence.”

tenoko1

“True.” She glanced at the others. “You can also end with a period if you include an action between two separate statements.”

cj-amused

Things I didn’t know

prismatic-bell

“And–” she waved a pen as though to underline her statement–“if you’re interrupting a sentence with an action, you need to type two hyphens to make an en-dash.”

jawnwats-deactivated20160713

You guys have no idea how many students in my advanced fiction workshop didn’t know any of this when writing their stories.

rerestudies

I always end my dialogue with commas and my ia comes in and adds periods. Gonna him this post new week

#studyblr #study notes #studyspo #arabic #math notes

yhbgk-blog

How to Study Like a Harvard Student

Taken from Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld, daughter of the Tiger Mother

Preliminary Steps 1. Choose classes that interest you. That way studying doesn’t feel like slave labor. If you don’t want to learn, then I can’t help you. 2. Make some friends. See steps 12, 13, 23, 24. General Principles 3. Study less, but study better. 4. Avoid Autopilot Brain at all costs. 5. Vague is bad. Vague is a waste of your time. 6. Write it down. 7. Suck it up, buckle down, get it done. Plan of Attack Phase I: Class 8. Show up. Everything will make a lot more sense that way, and you will save yourself a lot of time in the long run. 9. Take notes by hand. I don’t know the science behind it, but doing anything by hand is a way of carving it into your memory. Also, if you get bored you will doodle, which is still a thousand times better than ending up on stumbleupon or something. Phase II: Study Time 10. Get out of the library. The sheer fact of being in a library doesn’t fill you with knowledge. Eight hours of Facebooking in the library is still eight hours of Facebooking. Also, people who bring food and blankets to the library and just stay there during finals week start to smell weird. Go home and bathe. You can quiz yourself while you wash your hair. 11. Do a little every day, but don’t let it be your whole day. “This afternoon, I will read a chapter of something and do half a problem set. Then, I will watch an episode of South Park and go to the gym” ALWAYS BEATS “Starting right now, I am going to read as much as I possibly can…oh wow, now it’s midnight, I’m on page five, and my room reeks of ramen and dysfunction.” 12. Give yourself incentive. There’s nothing worse than a gaping abyss of study time. If you know you’re going out in six hours, you’re more likely to get something done. 13. Allow friends to confiscate your phone when they catch you playing Angry Birds. Oh and if you think you need a break, you probably don’t. Phase III: Assignments 14. Stop highlighting. Underlining is supposed to keep you focused, but it’s actually a one-way ticket to Autopilot Brain. You zone out, look down, and suddenly you have five pages of neon green that you don’t remember reading. Write notes in the margins instead. 15. Do all your own work. You get nothing out of copying a problem set. It’s also shady. 16. Read as much as you can. No way around it. Stop trying to cheat with Sparknotes. 17. Be a smart reader, not a robot. Ask yourself: What is the author trying to prove? What is the logical progression of the argument? You can usually answer these questions by reading the introduction and conclusion of every chapter. Then, pick any two examples/anecdotes and commit them to memory (write them down). They will help you reconstruct the author’s argument later on. 18. Don’t read everything, but understand everything that you read. Better to have a deep understanding of a limited amount of material, than to have a vague understanding of an entire course. Once again: Vague is bad. Vague is a waste of your time. 19. Bullet points. For essays, summarizing, everything. Phase IV: Reading Period (Review Week) 20. Once again: do not move into the library. Eat, sleep, and bathe. 21. If you don’t understand it, it will definitely be on the exam. Solution: textbooks; the internet. 22. Do all the practice problems. This one is totally tiger mom. 23. People are often contemptuous of rote learning. Newsflash: even at great intellectual bastions like Harvard, you will be required to memorize formulas, names and dates. To memorize effectively: stop reading your list over and over again. It doesn’t work. Say it out loud, write it down. Remember how you made friends? Have them quiz you, then return the favor. 24. Again with the friends: ask them to listen while you explain a difficult concept to them. This forces you to articulate your understanding. Remember, vague is bad. 25. Go for the big picture. Try to figure out where a specific concept fits into the course as a whole. This will help you tap into Big Themes – every class has Big Themes – which will streamline what you need to know. You can learn a million facts, but until you understand how they fit together, you’re missing the point. Phase V: Exam Day 26. Crush exam. Get A.

Finally made a 2016 spread. I included movie, football and concert tickets, 2 notes from outdoor school and a picture of my best friends

#2016 #2016 recap #bullet journal #journal #collage #memories #studyblr

studyblroyalty

the side that is shown on studyblr : sitting at a desk on a nice windy day, writing away in a grid notebook with mildliner highlighters laid out in front of you, listening to classical music

the side that isn’t shown on studyblr : staying up til 4am to write an essay, crying yourself to sleep due to stress, doing a chinese paper while suppressing an anxiety attack

yes it’s nice to study, but sometimes it sucks and that shouldn’t be overlooked in this community. it’s time to show both sides to let people know that they aren’t alone in their mental illnesses and exhaustion.

#studying