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@simplestudentstudies
Flexible Time Blocking: A More Breathable Way to Get Things Done
I’ve met a lot of people who struggle with sticking to a schedule - myself included - so here’s one way you can get things done without restricting your spontaneity.
Linked: The ABCDE Method: Accomplish Tasks More Efficiently
Hope this helps!
If we went home from our 9 - 5 jobs with 3 - 4 hours of extra work every day, we’d lose our minds. But we do it to high school kids and see absolutely no problem with it.
It builds discipline. If you go to college, you will have all nighters. If you build a white collar career and get on salary, you will be taking work home. I’m not on salary and am simply licensed in my field and have work to do at home.
Discipline won’t kill you.
Dude that’s not at all a healthy way to live. Having “all nighters” is not healthy. Making children devote their lives to a sedentary lifestyle of working and studying is not good for their development.
Yes, sometimes those things will be required and sometimes you just have to push through it but to make that the norm is completely unreasonable.
You absolutely do not need to revolve your entire life around working and studying in order to achieve discipline. Asking that your personal time be respected is not a lack of discipline.
All of my friends that have jobs hate the hours because we get out of school pretty late already (3:45) and one of my friends works from 5:00 to close 4-5 days a week and on school nights he doesn’t get home until 11:00 then has to do all of his homework. Everyone’s always saying teenagers need jobs but I promise you it’s so unhealthy to have teenagers work until closing then making them stay an hour extra to clean when they still have school work to do. I would like to have a job but my mom won’t let me work that late because my grades already aren’t the greatest rn.
tbh, the school system is shit and we all know that. but to NORMALIZE allowing CHILDREN to suffer is just cruel. at school we have a work overload and there are two scenarios:
1. A student passes out because they did not eat recess or lunch to complete a task for school. The teacher questions the student, “Why didn’t you eat during recess and lunch?”
2. A student couldn’t complete their work, yet is suffering from sleep deprivation. The teacher asks “Why didn’t you do it during lunch or recess? Or at home?” The student answers that he has a job that lasts until four in the morning everyday. The teacher tells the student to quit their job. The student tells the teacher it’s how they get the money for school and requirements. The teacher tells the student to value education more and gives him a fail.
REBLOGING AGAIN BECAUSE THIS !!!!
My teacher assigned us a partner project that we were to work on during our lunch time but me and my partner worked on it at home so we could actually eat lunch.
:night owl study tips:
Research suggests that being an early bird or a night owl is actually down to genetics (an interesting article to learn more about that here). Whilst many are getting their beauty sleep, you, brave night owl, are burning the midnight oil by choice! (One study has even shown that night owls are more intelligent than early risers.)
There are benefits of studying in the evening/at night: you are less likely to be distracted by phone calls/texts/emails/active social media, you are more likely to feel calm and relaxed because the bulk of the day is behind you, and most people experience a spike in creativity at night- meaning out of the box solutions or deciphering problems by approaching them in a different way. These tips are for you, my nocturnal friends, to get the most out of your time!
Improve your lighting
It’s natural to want to work in dimmer lighting come night-time, but working from the glow of your computer screen might not be the best for you (plus this can cause unnecessary eye strain), so switch some bright main lights on and see if that changes your energy
Alternatively, you might continue to work with bright lighting but may find that you work better with softer lighting. Play around with a desk lamp/fairy lights/dimmable lights if you have them, to create the ambience that makes you the most productive
Commit to your study environment
Just because it’s night-time doesn’t mean it’s bed time - create and use the workspace you’ve set up (at a desk or table) and avoid crawling into bed with a textbook
Hit the library
If your institution has a twenty four hour library, this is the perfect time to get the best seat in the house to study in. With the exception of the weeks leading up to the exam period, libraries will usually be very quiet!
Switch your phone off
Unless you need it to set break timers, switching off your phone is BLISS because not many exciting things will be happening when it’s late. Allow yourself the freedom to study without wondering who could be texting you/who just posted another beige facebook update
Keep to a sleep schedule
Just because you stay up later than some doesn’t mean you still can’t have a schedule and wake up early - in fact, it’s been suggested that night owls are actually better at waking up than the early birds! It’s a good idea to have a cut-off point for studying. There may be times when a creative streak or an academic rush propels you through the early hours of the morning and you find yourself still working when the birdsong breaks, and that’s okay. Allow all nighters to happen sometimes, because that’s when the best work can happen! But ensure you do still get enough sleep and keep a loose routine
Music: destructive or productive?
During the day, I am most productive when listening to music (I make study playlists that you can find under my playlists tag!) After about 10pm, I find that music becomes a nuisance and instead prefer working in silence. Rules can change at night. Find out whether this is the same (or the opposite) for you
Stay hydrated
Don’t forget to have a big glass or bottle of water with you (if you’re bad at remembering to drink enough water, there are lots of cute apps to remind you such as Daily Water for iPhone/iPad or Drink! for Chrome)
Allow yourself time off
Don’t always feel the need to study if you don’t want to- use the still of the night to work on that novel you’ve been writing, read a book for pleasure, paint, etc.
whenever you don’t feel motivated to work, just imagine your future self. if you do the work when you’re supposed to, your future self will be calm, collected and be able to keep working at a steady rate (and eventually finish the task at hand, stress-free). if you don’t do the work when you’re supposed to, your future self will be rushing around, trying to complete things they should have done before, and overly anxious and stressed. be kind to your future self and do the work now.
remember: discipline is just empathy with your future self.
None of the comments on the right work anyway. EVER.
This is 100% true
What’s the point of a diary if no one is gonna stumble upon it centuries later and fall in love with you after you’re dead?
Is this a vegan thing? Do vegan bones last longer? i’m confused.
What on earth are you talking about
Like milk is supposed to be good for ya bones right? But is this like anti-milk/cow product because it stops your bones from coming back to life in the future?
I need a little more info. Where are you getting milk or bones from in this post
Rachel how do so many people read your post as saying dairy and don’t think to themselves for one second they could possibly have read it wrong
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Hey guys! This is all about productive stuff you can do on Sunday to make the most out of it and have an amazing week! 🥑
Implementing some of these things in your Sunday routine, will help you not to . spend your Mondays trying to get your life together.
PS click on the pictures for better quality 🥑
Farewell online privacy
What happened?
Trump happened.
just get a VPN?
You can’t just tell people to ‘get a VPN (Virtual Private Network)’. Buying a VPN is like buying a house. It’s very very important. Having no VPN or having a ‘wrong’ one can seriously damage your life. Especially for Americans because their privacy laws are garbage. I am going to try explain why you should get a VPN but bare with me, I am from Germany and my English is far from perfect.
Let’s start with a simple test. Click this link here: https://whatismyipaddress.com/ It will tell your IP adres, your ISP (internet service provider), and your location. The location might not be very accurate, but then again, it’s just a simple website. Imagine what the government can do!
So basically, everyone can find out where you live. But there is more danger. Your ISP. Your ISP logs your every move online and they are required to keep it in case the government wants access to it (or if a 3rd party wants to buy your data (yikes). They have everything. What websites you visit. How long you stay on a website. What you download. Your search terms. European laws are more subtle on this but if you are from the US you are #@*#&, especially because Trump doesn’t support the open internet. It’s scary but maybe in the future you can’t get a job because the recruiter knows your searched on ‘how to deal with depression’ or anythings else that’s supposed to be private because it’s your f*cking right. Or you get a $100k fine because you pirated a movie 15 years ago. You need a VPN. You’re dumb for not using one. but what does a VPN do?
A VPN encrypts all your data so if it were be intercepted no one can ‘crack the code’ and damage your privacy.
Usually being online goes like this (simplified): Your computer —-> ISP (—–> keeps data —–> sells it)
But with a VPN it goes like: Your computer —–> VPN (encrypts data)—–> ISP (ISP can’t see shit)
Furthermore, a VPN hides your IP address and location by giving you another IP address located in Spain for example (you can often choose from a list and change as many times as you want).
Now that you know why you should get a VPN and what is does it is important to educate yourself because people often choose the wrong VPN. VPN providers are also businesses and have to obey the law. If you choose a VPN provider located in the US then you are throwing your money away because the laws in the US shits on your privacy. If the US gov wants the provider to give all their logs they have to obey. The ISP still can’t see what you are doing online and sell your data but the US gov can interfere with your VPN provider so NEVER CHOOSE A PROVIDER LOCATED IN THE US.
I just wanted to make that very clear so my followers don’t buy false security.
There is still more danger! Who says your VPN provider isn’t selling your data? You need to check their logging policy. Do they keep logs? If yes, what for? For how long do they keep them? Tip: Choose a provider who doesn’t keep logs
More about law The US is part of the Five Eyes program (the worst):
The Five Eyes, often abbreviated as FVEY, is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. These countries are bound by the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence (source)
There is also a Nine Eyes (bit better) and Fourteen Eyes Program (better). You don’t want a VPN provider who is located in one the Five Eyes countries. If you had to choose go for a provider located in a country that’s part of the Fourteen Eyes Program or even better, go for a country that isn’t part of any program!
I know this is a shitty explanation and please pardon my english but now it’s time to do your own research. Take your privacy seriously. Maybe WWIII breaks out and you get killed for liking the ‘wrong’ FB-page.
Go to this website: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/simple-vpn-comparison-chart/
Make sure that your future VPN provider both has green boxes for Privacy Jurisdiction and Privacy Logging.
I recommend ovpn.se and trust.zone. ovpn is located in Sweden so they are part of the 14 Eyes Program and they keep minimal logs. Their business ethics, however, are alright.
Trustzone is located in the Seychelles. No country can interfere and their privacy jurisdiction is the best you can get. The US want your data but needs to get it from Trustzone? The Seychelles will simply give them the finger and wave them goodbye. However, this makes this provider very appealing for people who torrent and criminals because they keep no logs (and that is how it shoud be) Also, there are almost no marketing efforts so this provider is one the cheapest)
Also, often providers such as ExpressVPN are being called ‘The Best’ on websites about VPNs but know that this is just marketing which also makes those provider more expensive (and they too shit on your privacy)
This must be the worst article you have ever read but please, please take your privacy very seriously.
EDIT: I got many people asking me which provider I use. For those who want to know, I use Trust Zone. They offer a free 3-day trial with no strings attached. But still do your own research!
I am also with Trustzone but I think you forgot to explain one of it’s most important features. It protects you when you are using someone else’s Wi-Fi. If you are at Starbucks and you use their Wi-Fi your privacy is at risk. Anyone with ill intentions could steal your information. Especially if you are using an unsecured Wi-Fi hotspot. With a VPN your data gets encrypted so no one can steal it.
Wait, what’s going, on? Did trump destroy internet privacy with a bill or something? Where’s the news? Oh wait, why am I getting visions of Alex Jones and selling water purifiers?
He hasn’t yet but he says he wants to. And if he is serious about it it would be really easy to do. Since all our data is already recorded, as the person above explained.
Trump wants more surveillance of Muslim Americans. This in a country where internet privacy is already close to non-existent.
Trust.Zone has a free trial. Use it.
btw this post only has 11k notes? That’s quite disappointing for something this important.
Don’t reblog this post to save a life. Reblog this to protect an entire family!
@earth-ruins @writing-prompt-s Should I get trustzone for my mobile device?
If you use public Wi-Fi, then yes. Which VPN you use is up to you, amigo. Take @earth-ruins advice. Do your own research first.
@elvesfromthedeep just brought the current situation in the US to my attention (March 30, 2017).
Sources
Anger as US internet privacy law scrapped
Congress just voted to let internet providers sell your browsing history
To all my friends in the US, please read this entire post. Making everyone aware of VPNs is going to be my mission. Your privacy matters. Please reblog this post.
Don’t tell me you just wanted to scroll past this. Stop looking at pictures of cats for a moment, okay? Don’t you realize how important this is? This is dangerous! ‘America, the best FREE country in the world’ my ass.
With this new law your ISP can sell your Internet history which could include passwords, usernames, religion, credit card numbers, race and much more to the highest bidder. So here is what I want you to do. You are going to read the whole thing and before you think ’this is so important. Let me reblog this real quick and go back to admiring cats again-’ NO! Don’t reblog this. Take action first. Then reblog. Sign up for a free trial! Trust.Zone offers one (here). Yes. It might be difficult to set up a VPN for some people. But is that going to stop you from protecting yourself and your family? 30 minutes. 30 minutes is all that it takes. 5 if you know how to install software. The problem with some of you is that you see ‘difficult’ as something negative. I want you to see difficult differently. I need you to push through this stuff. You are going to protect yourself. There is nothing negative about that. VPNs are fun and costsaving too! A VPN bypasses geographical restrictions so you can access websites you normally can’t or you could start Netflix’s one month free trial over and over again- forever. And it’s legal! (unless you use it to buy weapons etc.,) Don’t tell yourself that you are too tired and that you will do this tomorrow. Because that isn’t going to happen and you know it. You have to do this right now. You only have to click on it. Don’t let this/shit/life just happen to you. Take yourself seriously. Get a VPN.
Privacy is not a privilege, it’s a fundamental human right
Ok sorry that it’s so freaking long and also sorry for the language, but this is extremely important. Please reblog!
Reblogging again bc this is important
Everyone needs to know this
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BUILD ROOMS
WITHIN ROOMS
BUT THEY AREN’T LIMITED TO INSIDE THE HOME
THAT’S RIGHT
THERE ARE SECRET ROOMS FOR CARS
HONESTLY THOUGH
YOU EITHER LIKE SECRET ROOMS
OR YOU’RE WRONG
I have always wanted a house with secret rooms.
My goal in life is to become an eccentric recluse with an entire manor filled with secret rooms young intrepid junior-detectives will want to explore to look for clues. I will then proceed to spook them periodically while wearing a bedsheet with holes cut out, and stare at them creepily from behind paintings.
This is my ultimate goal so far
Hell yess, and if I ever have grandkids I'll sprinkle clued now and them for them to discover the rooms
Hi! Any advice for studying a different language? 🙂
Here are a few things that might help:
things to remember when learning a language
how to learn foreign languages
10 tips for studying a language
tips and tricks for learning a language
how to study languages in four easy steps
language learning: tips and resources
how to learn a new language
language learning masterpost
different ways to learn a language
I also made two language-specific printable packs which you can download for free which might be helpful! Xx
1 Month 1 Language
1 Month Kanji Challenge
6 Words A Day
14 Day Langblr Challenge
30 Day Langblr Challenge
34 Hour Langblr Challenge
55 Days of Vocabulary Challenge
90 Day Vocab Challenge
100 Days Challenge For Langblrs
100 Hour 40 Day Language Challenge
Advanced Language Study
A Question A Day Challenge
BaBaDum Challenge
Build Your Vocab Challenge
Composition Challenge
Fiction Writing Challenge
Langblr 25 Challenge
Langblr Accent Tag
Langblr Culture Challenge
Learn A Language Challenge
Original Langblr Content Challenge
Review Challenge
Subtitles Challenge
Summer Language Challenge
Translating Challenge
Writing Challenge
Challenges for certain months:
February Polyglot Challenge
March Polyglot Challenge
April Polyglot Challenge
May Polyglot Challenge
May Polyglot Challenge
August Polyglot Challenge
September Polyglot Challenge
September: 30 Day Langblr Resource Photo Challenge
October Polyglot Challenge
November Polyglot Challenge
December Polyglot Challenge
December Polyglot Challenge
10 Polyglot Things to Do This September
10 Polyglot Things to Do This October
Langblr NaNoWriMo
Your work is absolutely amazing. So beautiful without ever ditracting from the meaning of the words. How did you get started on web design and design in general? Could you please give me some pointers on software, tutorials, sites or books that could help me get started? Anything would be very much appreciated!
Hi, dear!
Just to note, I’m only a beginner in creating websites at the moment since I’m still studying, but I have listed a few of my favourite resources that have helped me so far throughout both web design and the actual development.
My area of interest is mostly coding, so I’m afraid I don’t have that many reliable resources for the design aspect.
As far as I’m aware, at the time of writing, all these resources are online and free (though some may require you to register an account).
Web Development
HTML & CSS
HTML and CSS are coding languages which help to create very basic websites and style them. They’re also really easy to learn as a beginner.
Codecademy
Codebar
Interneting Is Hard
JavaScript
JavaScript is a programming language that can be used to help make websites more interactive for users.
You can learn a little bit more about it here.
Codecademy
Khan Academy
W3Schools
Codebar
PHP
PHP is a server-side scripting language which is made specifically for web development.
You can learn a little bit more about it here.
Codecademy
When you’re testing PHP, you will need a server. I prefer to use USB Web Server for its simplicity, but I’m sure there are many more if you search for them.
Web Design
Smashing Magazine
My go-to for all things web design and development-related. I highly recommend it. There are some fantastic articles there that will help guide you and keep you up-to-date with current design standards.
Usability
Explains a lot of the theory behind design decisions. A good foundation for learning more about web design and how this affects your website.
There are many amazing resources out there if you do a quick Google search. The ones that I have listed above are ones that I have used a lot and have genuinely helped me. If you have any specific questions, please do let me know I’ll try my best to answer.
Also, if anyone with more experience with web design and development would like to add on to this with some more resources or advice for beginners, that would be fantastic. Feel free to do so.
Just for future refference
I believe in free education, one that’s available to everyone; no matter their race, gender, age, wealth, etc… This masterpost was created for every knowledge hungry individual out there. I hope it will serve you well. Enjoy!
FREE ONLINE COURSES (here are listed websites that provide huge variety of courses)
Alison
Coursera
FutureLearn
open2study
Khan Academy
edX
P2P U
Academic Earth
iversity
Stanford Online
MIT Open Courseware
Open Yale Courses
BBC Learning
OpenLearn
Carnegie Mellon University OLI
University of Reddit
Saylor
IDEAS, INSPIRATION & NEWS (websites which deliver educational content meant to entertain you and stimulate your brain)
TED
FORA
Big Think
99u
BBC Future
Seriously Amazing
How Stuff Works
Discovery News
National Geographic
Science News
Popular Science
IFLScience
YouTube Edu
NewScientist
DIY & HOW-TO’S (Don’t know how to do that? Want to learn how to do it yourself? Here are some great websites.)
wikiHow
Wonder How To
instructables
eHow
Howcast
MAKE
Do it yourself
FREE TEXTBOOKS & E-BOOKS
OpenStax CNX
Open Textbooks
Bookboon
Textbook Revolution
E-books Directory
FullBooks
Books Should Be Free
Classic Reader
Read Print
Project Gutenberg
AudioBooks For Free
LibriVox
Poem Hunter
Bartleby
MIT Classics
Many Books
Open Textbooks BCcampus
Open Textbook Library
WikiBooks
SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES & JOURNALS
Directory of Open Access Journals
Scitable
PLOS
Wiley Open Access
Springer Open
Oxford Open
Elsevier Open Access
ArXiv
Open Access Library
LEARN:
1. LANGUAGES
Duolingo
BBC Languages
Learn A Language
101languages
Memrise
Livemocha
Foreign Services Institute
My Languages
Surface Languages
Lingualia
OmniGlot
OpenCulture’s Language links
2. COMPUTER SCIENCE & PROGRAMMING
Codecademy
Programmr
GA Dash
CodeHS
w3schools
Code Avengers
Codelearn
The Code Player
Code School
Code.org
Programming Motherf*?$%#
Bento
Bucky’s room
WiBit
Learn Code the Hard Way
Mozilla Developer Network
Microsoft Virtual Academy
3. YOGA & MEDITATION
Learning Yoga
Learn Meditation
Yome
Free Meditation
Online Meditation
Do Yoga With Me
Yoga Learning Center
4. PHOTOGRAPHY & FILMMAKING
Exposure Guide
The Bastards Book of Photography
Cambridge in Color
Best Photo Lessons
Photography Course
Production Now
nyvs
Learn About Film
Film School Online
5. DRAWING & PAINTING
Enliighten
Ctrl+Paint
ArtGraphica
Google Cultural Institute
Drawspace
DragoArt
WetCanvas
6. INSTRUMENTS & MUSIC THEORY
Music Theory
Teoria
Music Theory Videos
Furmanczyk Academy of Music
Dave Conservatoire
Petrucci Music Library
Justin Guitar
Guitar Lessons
Piano Lessons
Zebra Keys
Play Bass Now
7. OTHER UNCATEGORIZED SKILLS
Investopedia
The Chess Website
Chesscademy
Chess.com
Spreeder
ReadSpeeder
First Aid for Free
First Aid Web
NHS Choices
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Please feel free to add more learning focused websites.
*There are a lot more learning websites out there, but I picked the ones that are, as far as I’m aware, completely free and in my opinion the best/ most useful.
this is so cool, love it
