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PRODUCTIVITY:

Productive - Yielding results, benefits or profits

When studying, there’s often a feeling of anxiety from not doing enough. Whether that’s enough studying, exam prep, sleep or cups of water drunk, thinking about how best we can complete the tasks ahead of us isn’t always as simple as just doing it. Some of the things I state may seem fairly obvious, but it’s important to stay rounded; even the minutest changes can help lift someone out of a slump.

PRIORITIES:

Whatever tasks you have ahead of you for the next week or fortnight, it’s important to prioritise tasks so that the most burdensome can be dealt with strategically, and in a manageable way. A great way of improving time management is through using a planner. Personally, I use a Kikki.K planner and a Filofax though there’s plenty of great ways to get started, and get organised. Some popular ones include:

Kikki.K - Slightly more pricey but if you look around you can get them quite cheap. Really durable and high quality, though the A5 planner can be quite cumbersome.

Filofax - A classic planner, great if you wan’t something that is low-effort to maintain and has lots of super helpful sheets inside.

Bullet Journal - Bullet journals are more customisable and personal to you. However, they are more work to maintain than pre-made planners, so this may not be for you if you just want somewhere to keep track of assignments.

Academic Year Diary - These can be super useful as they have school holidays and term dates written inside in most cases, and are tailored to suit the school year as opposed to a regular journal/diary.

EISENHOWER MATRIX:

One way of sorting priorities, especially in a busy time of year is with the Eisenhower matrix. Though this may not work for everyone, it’s a useful template to decide which tasks should be completed first:

The basis of the Eisenhower matrix, is to prioritise based on urgency, and importance. For example, if your tasks for the week include studying for a test, walking the dog, meeting up with your friends, and visiting your grandma, you can use the Eisenhower matrix to assess what order you should do them in. Perhaps the most urgent and important would be the test, so dedicate the most time to that. However, visiting your grandma and seeing your friends is also important to you.

You can plan a time to do this in, so you can still get your studying done. Walking the dog is non-urgent and (personally) unimportant (making sure pets get exercise is important for their health), you could delegate this task to someone else i.e ask a sibling/parent to do it for you. Additionally, if the task at hand is important but not urgent, you could delegate it to another week for you to work on to help manage the workload. Last but not least, tasks that are neither important nor urgent should be eliminated from your top priorities, and engaged in when the work of the week is completed. This means you spend less time on trivial things, and can reward yourself for the hard work already done.

How you use the Eisenhower matrix (if at all), is entirely up to you, as what’s important and urgent is different for everyone.

RESULTS:

Productivity can help us achieve both short-term and long-term goals. It’s not uncommon, however, to aim to achieve long-term goals in a short amount of time. There’s a saying in the UK ‘take care of the pennies, and the pounds will look after themselves’. If you take care of the smaller tasks, personal and academic, then the less work there is to do in the big picture. Remember, no matter how little or how much work gets done, it is still that much less work you have to do compared to when you started. By studying every week and making notes throughout the year, the resources that suit your best way of learning are already there to help you with end of year exams and assignments. Here’s some productive things you can do to help contribute towards your personal and academic long-term goals:

Email your teachers/tutors questions about things you don’t understand when they come up, it’s better to address an issue as it comes up as opposed to when you’re in your last week of exams.

Make notes as you go along - maybe I’m preaching to the choir here, but if you make your notes as you go along, such as mind-maps or flashcards for end of modules/topics, then when it comes to sitting an exam you’ll have all the relevant information already summarised for you, from when it was still fresh in your mind. End of module tests are also great to hang onto so that you can spot weaknesses in your knowledge.

Take the time to do something nice for yourself and for others. It’s easy to get swamped in the workload of life, but it’s important to take a break and look back at what you’ve accomplished. Take regular breaks when you’re studying, and hydrate yourself. Have a Kitkat, or a cup of tea and remind yourself you’ve done a good job. If you see a friend on the grind, make sure they take a break so they don’t burn themselves out. Studying can be a lot to manage alone.

Take care of your hygiene! This may seem obvious, but having clean sheets and fresh hair can turn a day around. Getting up at a reasonable time, getting into the shower, putting on makeup (if that’s what you like to do) and getting fully dressed can help energise you and make you feel good about the day. These things can be a struggle when you’re feeling depressive, stressed or anxious, but it’s key to maintaining a good base level of productivity.

Cook a meal for yourself/friends & family. This isn’t viable for everyone I am entirely aware, but making your own food can often be cheaper, and learning to cook is a rewarding skill. There’s nothing quite like sitting down and enjoying food you made yourself with good people around you. Eating breakfast with someone can help uplift your mood.

That’s just about all that I can think of today in regards to productivity! If you have any more suggestions, feel free to add them to this list, send them as an ask or even make a post of your own! There’s lots to gain and nothing to lose from sharing advice and help. Special thanks to @juliebunny-study

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Hey, hope you are doing well ^^ this September I'll start uni and I'll also be studying maths!! I'm so excited haha ^^ How is it for you? How different do you think is math in uni compared to math in high school (I'm from a french system so our curriculum might be different though) Thanks in advance!

Hey,

I’ve typed a reply to this message three times now because I’m so clumsy and keep accidentally closing this tab!! 😂

Firstly, congratulations on your achievements!! 🎉🤓 I hope you enjoy studying maths at uni!! (Feel free to message me about it whenever you want!!)

For me, pure maths is really different to high school maths. It’s a lot more wordy and more about definitions, statements and proofs than actual calculation. So far in my pure maths career, I’ve studied Abstract Algebra, Linear Algebra and Analysis. I think most universities (at least in first year in the UK) split pure maths into Algebra and Analysis.

Abstract Algebra involves Set Theory, Number Theory and Group Theory. Linear Algebra is about linear spaces (it involves vectors and matrices). Analysis is about the properties of sequences, series and function.

I’ll show you some questions to demonstrate what I mean when I say pure maths is wordy:

These are two Abstract Algebra questions on Group Theory.

This is a Linear Algebra question.

These are two Analysis questions. The first is about the convergence of sequences and the second is about the continuity of functions.

As you can see, all these questions build on definitions and statements. None of them require calculators. In fact, I think only the Linear Algebra question involves any arithmetic at all and that’s only basic arithmetic in part (f) of the question.

Seeing these kind of questions was scary to me at first. I barely understood the language they were presented in; the wording of questions wasn’t what I was used to and there were so many new symbols to learn. It was almost like learning a new language!!

For example, instead of writing:

for all real numbers x there is a real number y that is greater than x

you can just write:

This literally translates to:

for all x in the set of real numbers, there exists a y in the set of real numbers such that y is greater than x.

It’s quite convenient actually but might take time to get used to if you haven’t seen it before.

Because of this new “language”, I definitely struggled with pure maths in the beginning of my first semester. For me, Analysis got better and easier to understand (in fact, Analysis is my bae at the moment 💛) but Abstract Algebra was the opposite. To this day, I hardly understand it. I think I just overcomplicate things in Abstract Algebra. Sometimes another student will explain something to me and it’ll seem so simple, but my brain just can’t see simple explanations. I don’t think Abstract Algebra is for me. (But other people love Abstract Algebra and that’s completely fine!) I’m finding Linear Algebra to be much better and I’m really enjoying it at the moment.

On the other hand, applied modules e.g. calculus, statistics, probability, are very similar to high school. They build on what you learnt in school (but don’t worry; the lecturers will (or at least they should) do recaps of what you learnt at school so it’s okay if your high school maths knowledge is a little foggy). I actually find applied modules a little tedious sometimes for this reason. Applied maths at school was never really my favourite, so to have to study it still kinda sucks, but sometimes it’s a nice relief from pure maths. I used to enjoy differentiation and integration in high school, but now not so much!! I would much rather be doing Analysis proofs than complicated calculus these days! If your first year doesn’t count, use it as a way to experiment to see what you enjoy and what you don’t. Your opinion and perspective on maths will probably change!

Also, another thing I want to say: don’t worry if you don’t immediately understand things. I feel like a lot of maths students grew up having a relatively easy time with mathematics and so university maths can be quite a shock to the system sometimes (it was for me!). Take your time with it. I felt like I was the only one struggling and for most of semester 1 I felt so dumb. I didn’t have much confidence going into my exams. Everyone around me seemed to understand what was going on, whereas my brain hurt just trying to do abstract algebra homework questions. But actually, I think most people felt like this, and people just didn’t and still don’t talk about it which sucks. Don’t be embarrassed if you’re struggling - maths at university isn’t easy at all and I don’t know anyone who hasn’t struggled at least a little bit. Talk about it with others - talking about it helps you learn and fill in gaps in your knowledge, and it helps you realise that most people are in the same boat as you!! ⛵️ (Talk to me about it if you so wish!!)

I hope that helps and all the best with your studies!! 😃

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12/12/2017

Meal-prepping 1/??? by juliebunny-study

Sooo I've decided I will actually do as I said in a previous post and start posting about meal-prepping as a student, so here we go!

Last Sunday I tried out this green pesto chicken and veggies meal from Tasty (link here!), and it turned out great! It's super easy and quick to make too, definitely recommend for a busy student.

Btw I really want to continue posting these kinds of posts so from now on, I'll tag them as #juliebunny cooks !

13/08/2017 This week’s spread in my bujo, with my attempt to have a minimalist layout 🎶 So far I like the minimal aesthetic, we’ll see if I’d continue this in the following month.

My bujo is nearly coming to an end, in good timing because that means I can get a new bujo for back to school! Seems logical for me hahaha I can’t believe it’s been a year and 2 months since I started using a bujo, and through trial and error, I finally managed to find a convenient bujo set up for me (check out this post for how I set up my bujo as a student!).

12/08/2017 Realistic maths problem solving notes hahaha it's such a mess and not Aesthetic™

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11/08/2017 Maths problem solving and this week's spread from my bujo