mmm hoard material for classes i will

hullo, pinned post has more info but this blog is here so i can collect and come back to useful study material. My name is Neo (or Sam, but that’s mainly for irl friends) Pronouns are they/he/any (no she/her) and may change occasionally (genderfluid) Currently a highschool student doing my best :3

[studymaterialtokeepforlate]

yeah hi this is basically just a place for me to reblog and organize study shit for classes im taking/will take and rant/talk about class related things (“info” tag is for potentially useful class info, “talking” tag is for commentary, (more tags to be added when i do more things))

i do my best to tag everything by the class as well as if i am holding onto the specific post (posts to return to) or the blog itself (blogs to return to) for future reference

feel free to yoink any of the resources collected here or just pass by and ignore me

(or give me more helpful resources, pretty please (my current classes: AP world history, AP english lang, AP computer science principles, my past classes: AP seminar, AP US government and politics (i got a 4 and 5 on the tests)))

feel free to send asks, submit posts, or dm me with questions about classes I’ve taken or are taking <3

(banner is from Drawfee on youtube)

[studymaterialtokeepforlate]

I don’t think I ever posted an update or anything here: I got a 5 on AP world, AP Comp Sci Principles, and AP Lang. Dual enrolled US history over the summer, and just finished dual enrolling English 1102, took the AP Comp Sci A exam, and am taking the AP Calc AB exam on monday. May or may not post study stuff here, we’ll see.

[penrosesun]

PSA: Don't use Open Office

I keep seeing people recommending Open Office as an alternative to Word, and uh... look, it is, technically, an open source alternative to Word. And it can do a lot of what Word can, genuinely! But it is also an abandoned project that hasn't been updated in nine years, and there's an active fork of it which is still receiving updates, and that fork is called LibreOffice, and it's fantastic.

Seriously, if you think that your choices are either "grit your teeth and pay Microsoft for a subscription" or "support free software but have a kind of subpar office suite experience", I guarantee that it's because you're working with outdated information, or outdated software. Most people I know who have used the latest version of LibreOffice prefer it to Word. I even know a handful of people who prefer it to Scrivener.

Open Office was the original project, and so it has the most name recognition, and as far as I can tell, that's really the only reason people are still recommending it. It's kind of like if people were saying "hey, the iPhone 14 isn't your only smart phone option!" but then were only ever recommending the Samsung Galaxy S5 as an alternative. LibreOffice is literally a version of the same exact program as Open Office that's just newer and better – please don't get locked into using a worse tool just because the updated version of the program has a different name!

[neil-gaiman]

I use LibreOffice. It's wonderful.

[studymaterialtokeepforlate]

I have achieved the status: Only person in AP World who knows what this assignment wants from us

[hamletthedane]

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

[hamletthedane]

Want to learn something new in 2023??

Cooking with flavor bootcamp (used what I learned in this a LOT this year)

Beekeeping 101

Learn Interior Design from the British Academy of Interior Design (free to audit course - just choose the free option when you register)

Video on learning to read music that actually helped me??

How to use and sew with a sewing machine

How to ride a bike (listen. some of us never learned, and that's okay.)

How to cornrow-braid hair (I have it on good authority that this video is a godsend for doing your baby niece's black hair)

Making mead at home (I actually did this last summer and it was SO good)

How to garden

Basics of snowboarding (proceed with caution)

How to draw for people who (think they) suck at art (I know this website looks like a 2003 monstrosity, but the tutorials are excellent)

Pixel art for beginners so you can make the next great indie game

Go (back) to school

Introduction to Astronomy (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Principals of Economics (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Introduction to philosophy (free college course)

Computer science basics (full-semester Harvard course free online)

Learn a language

Japanese for Dummies (link fix from 2022)

Ukrainian

Portuguese (Brazil)

American Sign Language (as somebody who works with Deaf people professionally, I also strongly advise you to read up on Deaf/HoH culture and history!)

Chinese (Mandarin, Simplified)

Quenya (LOTR fantasy elf language)

[hamletthedane]

Want to learn something new in 2024??

Beginner-oriented video on how to sail

This guy has so many videos on baking different types of bread. SO very many.

Coding in Python - one of the most flexible and adaptable high-level programming languages out there - explained through projects making video games

Learn to swim! (for adult learners. I don’t care if you live in Kansas or Mali or wherever. LEARN TO SWIM.)

Learn how quantum mechanics works. Then read some more about it

[Learn about quantum mechanics again, but in a more advanced engineering/mathematics class. Then read more about the math and physics of it]

Poetry Handbook, by Mary Oliver

Something I learned this year: how to sew a quilt (Here’s a very easy beginning pattern that looks amazing and can be done with pre-cut fabric!)

How to hit the ball in softball

Tutorial video on what is under the hood of most (gas) cars + weird engine sounds and what they mean

Full beginner mechanics technical training, if you want to go more in depth

Playlist on how car engine physics work if you want to go ultra in depth

Lecture series on architecture design through study of buildings

How (American income) taxes & tax law work (choose “audit course” at checkout for free class)

Pickleball for beginners (so you can finally join your neighbor/friend/distant cousin who is always insisting you join their team)

+ Para-Pickleball for beginners (for mobility aid users!)

School is so much more fun when there’s no tests:

American Law - Contracts

Shakespeare’s Life and Plays

Fairy Tales: Meanings, Messages, and Morals

Modern Poetry

World History [Part 1, Part 2]

Learn a language:

Arabic + Resource Guide compiled from Reddit (includes info on different dialects)

Chinese (Cantonese) (audio)

Urdu (frequently recommended course on Reddit) + Resource Guide

Yucatec Maya

[studymaterialtokeepforlate]

the fact that my un was supposed to be “studymaterialstokeepforlater” but got shortened to “studymaterialstokeepforlate” is really funny because it implies i will be keeping each of these until it is too late

[callese]

refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

[growing-yet-into-magic]

Worldcat is my bestie and my one true love!! Not only does it tell you what library a book is at, but it also price compares different used book sites against each other for easy view! It's how I got Tarot For the Master for $10!!

[callmebliss]

Y’ever read something and have understanding that has eluded you interminably suddenly stop, curl up, and snuggle neatly into a fold in your brain because a new way way opened to it?

[macleod]

I've seen this passed around a few times, and I have one thing to say:

It's online. The book was carefully and wonderfully recreated online by hand. You can find it here. The entire book is this easy.

calculusmadeeasy.org

[eleventeenratsinaflannelsuit]

lmao i just did 8 days worth of AP World notes/homework in one day because the quiz is tomorrow :3

watched some origin smp vods in the background and found it surprisingly enjoyable (i am now in desperate need of friends who have the mod to play with - help i am lonely)

the notes did have to be handwritten tho and now my hand is in pain :<

[eleventeenratsinaflannelsuit]

Exerpts from my absolute onslaught of “clarifying” comments on my “simple” calculator assignmeng for AP compsci principles (it is over 182 lines long)

(we’re starting our python unit. I already know basically everything that will be taught in this unit. wtf (teacher said ill get to code fish game as a project if i want /pos))

#unrelated but have you seen that one code of a like, C# or java coded calculator that can add/subtract/divide/multiply any two individual numbers up to 60-something and the coder did it by coding something else to hard code every operation. like, if num1=3 and num2=5 and operation=addition answer=8 type of thing? terrifying. I want to do it. (i looked for the code but couldn't find it (sad))

#I need blank lines and I can't be bothered to check if /n works in python. Also this is funnier [in relation to me using 'print("")' to get blank lines on the terminal]

#I don't want to code in fault tolerance and that stuff so... yeah if you do something wrong the server is down

#help how do i python for loop with a variable

#lol i don't need python for loop here

#etc.

#kindness matters :)

#(extra or statements to account for user error (i don't want to figure out how to ignore whether a letter is caps or lowercase so i will instead code more. This is my mantra.))

#(you know it's sad that python doesn't use semicolons to seperate command because in languages that do use it I can just code EVERYTHING on one line and the camp counselors didn't like that but they couldn't do anything because it was technically correct lol)

[studymaterialtokeepforlate]

Major props to my AP World teacher for putting “The Banana” last in the guided reading notes

[studymaterialtokeepforlate]

so i went through elementary and middle school with a ‘being able to finish near all homework in class’ mindset and quick material absorption.

I just sat down and spent 2 hours and 20 minutes working on AP World homework

I do not think I have ever sat down and just worked on stuff at home for that long

Accomplishments :3

granted i didnt work for that long straight (cause im not straight lol (laugh at my joke. please))

i used the whole ‘Work for 20 minutes than Break for 10 minutes’ strategy (works surprisingly well - definitely helps unfocus brain with no work ethic) do recommend if you’re someone else trying to actually start doing work alone.

(find a break activity that uses different things than your work activity - i worked on taking notes from the online textbook and planned for Dragon con and held a cat in my breaks)

Also actually telling someone who will hold you to it (ie. parent) so you cant back out

[eleventeenratsinaflannelsuit]

Sent this email to my ApCompSci teacher at almost midnight

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[callese]

refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

[carolinecrane]

PDFDrive stopped working a couple months ago, but you can try oceanofpdf.com instead.

[studymaterialtokeepforlate]

lol when we went over the frq portion of the AP gov/pol exam in class i just sat there like ‘i completely fucked this up, huh’ and then i did not in fact fuck it up.

[studymaterialtokeepforlate]

augh AP lang summer reading is kicking my butt.

like, i can read a book in a few hours if i just sit down and read it, but executive disfunction, amotivation, procrastination, and failure to be good at time shit is really working against me here.

I needed to read four chapters of a book about persuasion and arguing and note down general takeaways and the main idea from each chapter.

and then read an entire nonfiction book (we got to pick from a list tho and the one i picked looks interesting as fuck and i want to read it but the brain wont let me :<) and annotate it and connect it back to the arguing book.

i had the entire summer (school starts in like 2-3 weeks, its due a week into school) and i only started last week and i have finished reading the four arguing chapters, used sticky tabs to not important takeaways/main ideas as well as just general interesting shit (also places i definitely think will relate to nonfiction book), and have only written out the main idea/takeaways for the first chapter.

it would take barely 5 minutes to write down the stuff for the other 3 chapters. but i cant.

aaaah

[fishingforcolleges]

AP Cram Packets Galore!

Someone on the Internet consolidated this list and sent it to me. So so helpful! GOOD LUCK everyone!

Art History Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history Course-notes Barrons pdfs Biology AP Biology Exam Guide Chapter Review Giant Review Sheet Calculus AB & BC Cheatsheet (AB & BC) Stuff You MUST Know Cold for AP Calc (AB) If you see that, do this (AB)

EDIT: When you see that, do this 

Chemistry AP Chemistry Notes Podcasts Quick Review Comparative Government and Politics Government Comparisons Cramsheet Study Sheet Computer Science Review: Part 1, Part 2 English Language Rhetorical Strategies AP Language Review Environmental Science Vocab to Know Tips APES Review European History STUDY GUIDES Exam Review Sheets French Language Cram packet Human Geography Course-notes Macroeconomics Every Graph You Need To Know (YouTube) Cram packet Microeconomics Cue cards Study guide

Physics B & C Cram sheet (B) Equations (C Mech) Equations (C Mech) Unit Notes (C Mech) Unit Notes © Unit Notes © Equations © Psychology Crib notes Cram packet Quizlet sets Statistics Cram packet Inference Procedures AP Stats formulas U.S. Government Cheat Sheet Review Materials U.S. History Cram Packet: part 1, part 2 The Giant AHAP Review Unit study guides Quizlet sets Quick Review The Comprehensive AP US History Study Guide World History Cram Packets and Review Sheets Cram packets by era Course-notes Mr. Hubbs History Reviews Released MC and review books Kiwiasian’s site ‒ released MC exams, review books in pdf Chilldude’s collection ‒ released MC exams, review books, textbooks in pdf

(note: NOT MY STUFF. The MC exams have been officially released by College Board. None of these materials were acquired through illegal means.)

[fittehmooh]

best thing ever

[diarygirls]

EDIT 12/1/14: I was going through this and realized the AP Calculus “If you see that, do this” link doesn’t work anymore, so I crossed it out and replaced with another one I saw online. Let me know if it’s helpful.