#note writing

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Thinking about starting something diary adjacent. Writing notes/letters. But, I don’t know who I would address them to. It isn’t like towards an actual person, but I’m not writing to myself either, or a diary(I don’t love the Dear Diary format anyway)

Does anyone have any ideas??? Please lol

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Law review note writing process!!!! Feat. My very Helpful Law Cat. 🐈‍⬛ So relieved to finally turn it in!!!

I am thinking of writing a how-to post for how to get selected for law review/ tips for completing the law review write-on process. Can y’all let me know if you’d be interested???

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Neat Notes and Messy Words

Fandom: Blue Exorcist/Ao No Exorcist

Pairing: Bon/Rin

Summary: Rin starts to find notes in his locker and assumes they're for his much more popular twin. (Hardly unreasonable since his feet are always covered in the notes falling out of Yukio's locker.)

Except they might not be for Yukio at all, which begs the question: who is leaving the notes?

Part: One, Two, Three

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The next day saw him once again kicking away Yukio’s flood of notes while he tried to get in his own locker.

“We should just move the trash can closer.”

Yukio’s expression made it abundantly clear that Rin’s idea was terrible. It seemed rude considering it was Rin’s feet that were currently covered in little bits of notes.

He grabbed the lock, twisted his combination in, and jerked it off. 

“I could possibly get a garbage bag and hold it under the door when I open it.” Yukio mused, and that didn’t really sound better than just dragging the trash can over. Maybe a little less noticeable.

“Just keep ‘em on your side.” He kicked them away again as he pulled his own locker open, and—

Another note? He pried it open and recognized the handwriting from yesterday. There was a little heart drawn in the corner that it looked like the author had tried to rip off but only gotten part of it.

[Your laugh makes my heart flutter.]

He read the words twice and tried to squash the immediate jealousy that unfurled in his stomach. Why couldn’t the note writer get the lockers right? He’d love to get notes like this, and all Yukio did was complain about them. Just look at the thought in this. It was short, it was sincere, and it made him think about someone else's gruff laugh and how much it made his own heart flutter.

Rin wanted to make hearts flutter (or a heart, he wasn’t greedy or anything) with his laugh. And whoever this was wanted Yukio to know that he had a great laugh. Yukio’s laugh was great, and he rarely did it. It was sweet and ugh, it was just mean to keep doing this.

“Someone really doesn’t get the locker system here.” Rin muttered,  folding the note — he couldn't find it in himself to crumple it, not with the half-torn heart and the message — and passed it to Yukio. “You gotta put up something to let them know you don’t want any messages.”

Yukio took it with a sigh. “How do you know it wasn’t meant for you?” 

Rin kicked away a few more notes. “Gee, I wonder why.” He grabbed up a handful and tossed them at Yukio’s face. “Write a note.”

Yukio batted the notes away with a scowl. “Why don’t you write a note,” he muttered as he crumpled the sweet note with the embarrassed heart, “if it’s bothering you.”

“Whatever.” Rin freed his sloppy notebook from his locker and shoved it in his bag along with an extra shirt for their demonology class. Light made it sound like it’d be messy today. He shut his locker and slammed the lock back in place before stomping off towards his class.

He was halfway there before he heard someone shouting. “Okumura! Oi! Wait up—”

Ryuuji jogged up to him with a neatly folded blue shirt in his hands. Rin’s shirt. Huh? Oh, he hadn’t shut his bag. It must have fallen out. 

“You lost this,” Ryuuji passed him the folded shirt — it was adorable and hilarious that he’d taken the time to fold it — and shoved his hands in his pockets. “Everything okay?”

Rin plastered a smile on his face. “Yeah! Just… arguing with Yukio. You know.” He set the shirt back in his bag and snapped it shut this time. “His love notes are taking over.”

“Oh, does he get them too?” Ryuuji immediately blushed, and Rin couldn’t even appreciate how cute it looked because damn it, everyone got love notes. And how could Rin compete with all of them? Even if he did get the nerve to actually write a note, anything he wrote to Ryuuji would just disappear in a flood of notes like Yukio’s.

Wow, what a depressing thought. 

“Yeah, all the time. They keep falling on me when he puts his books up.” 

“I just hooked a bag to my locker slot during Valentine’s day because it got out of hand.”

Rin beamed. “That’s what I told him to do!” Ha! Ryuuji-I-pull-all-straight-As had thought of the same thing. Take that world!

His tail wagged behind him, and Ryuuji was nice enough to not comment on it. Actually, he just smiled, which made Rin’s tail wag harder. It was an annoying cycle, but at least he got to walk to class with Ryuuji.

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It almost didn’t surprise him when a note fell out of his locker the next day. Rin knew he shouldn’t, but he still opened it up and read the neat, cramped words and let his heart flutter for a wild moment, pretending it actually was for him. He let himself imagine that someone had thought of him every morning and spent their school day trying to write the perfect note so they could drop it in his locker later. Maybe they were even hiding nearby to watch when he read it. Maybe they’d be excited to see him happy, and maybe his smile would make their heart flutter.

Or maybe they were too shy and they were as far away as they could get, worrying that he didn’t like it.

He even let himself imagine it was someone he knew, and someone that loved him.

Scanning the words had his heart fluttering in delight for an eager moment as he read the love note.

[There’s nothing quite as lovely as the color of your eyes. I’m always looking for it now.]

Oh! He blinked hard and immediately regretted reading and letting himself think it was for him. That hurt. It hurt a lot. Too much. The note wasn’t for him. It was for Yukio and his teal eyes. Not Rin and his demonic eyes. 

He folded the note up, set it in his locker, pulled out his falling-apart notebook, shoved his books in his bag, shut his locker, and pressed a piece of paper against it. He scrawled his own message in large, sloppy letters and tried to swallow away his emotions like Yukio was always doing. 

[Whoever is leaving the notes, this isn’t Yukio Okumura’s locker. He’s one over   -> ]

He taped it over his slot and ran to his class before anyone could see him. He didn’t feel like chatting today.

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✨ Day 3 of the Summer Studying Challenge ✨

12th July - What is the worst vacation you have ever been on?

Worst vacation is kind of an easy question, my parents and I were traveling to a resort in a hill station along with my aunt and her family. The day before we left for the trip though, I, very foolishly drank two whole-milk milkshakes knowing full well what it would do to me (i'm lactose intolerant). Miraculously, nothing seemed to be happening that day and I didn't have any urges to camp out in the washroom for hours. But the next day, about an hour into our long drive my body decided to act up. From what I'm told the scenery was gorgeous and everyone had loads of fun but the only thing I can remember is having to smell lemons at the back of the car to keep myself from vomiting and stopping at roadside shops every half hour or so to go to the washroom. We had to cut-short the trip as I had to be admitted to a hospital for about a week after. That entire experience successfully kept me off any kind of diary for a long couple of months after 🥲

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How to Take Notes for Uni

If you’re off to university in the fall, one of the biggest learning curves is taking notes for your classes! Here are some tips for useful and organized note taking. 

Knowing what information to put in your notes when a professor is lecturing is difficult at first, especially if it’s at 8 in the morning, and the only thing on your mind is breakfast. You don’t need to write down every anecdote your prof tells the class, but you should take note of key concepts, theorists/names of people they frequently mention, and explanations of major events. If they share their power point with you, take a look at the slides after the class, and just takes notes on what the prof says. You can compare what you wrote to the power point and see if you were on the right track with picking out the important information. If the professor only shows the power point in class, make brief point form notes of the slides so you don’t feel rushed to keep up with the presentation and what they’re saying. 

How you organize your information is also significant to creating useful notes, especially when it comes time to studying! I’ve said this in a few other articles: design your notes like study notes. This saves a lot of time for preparing for exams. It’s also good if you can create categories for your notes in a class, you can do this digitally or with handwritten notes! If you’re actually writing down your notes, leave space for each topic, so you can add information when a topic gets brought up again. This way, you’ll have similar concepts grouped together and you’ll be more organized for assignments and tests. 

Creating shorthand for yourself and terms specific to the class is also helpful for writing notes faster! You can make a legend for what your abbreviations stand for. Also keep your shorthand simple enough that when you’re reviewing your notes it’s obvious what you were trying to say. Creating abbreviations for repeated terms and phrases can help reduce anxiety about keeping up with the pace of the class!

It’s a good learning habit to ask questions in class when you’re confused! You should also write down your questions when you don’t have a chance to ask them in the moment! If by the end of the class any of those questions are still unanswered for you, you can ask the professor to clarify any information/concepts you’re unsure of. 

One final good note taking habit is to leave space for textbook notes. Often, the information in your textbook will overlap with your professor’s lectures, so you don’t want to waste time writing two sets of notes that are basically the same. You only need information from the textbook that  your prof didn’t cover. This also works the opposite way when you have to do a reading before a class. Take down the key points from a textbook reading, and then add in new or extended information your prof gives during the lecture. 

Hope this helps with your college studies! Please check out the blogs I used gifs from! :)

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09/01/2018 My Celtic Studies notes 📝

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8.2.2017 Criminy, it’s too hot outside. I find myself crawling back to the same spot on hot days because they set up tripping hazards–I mean fans–big blowing fans, to cool down patrons. And it works! So I eat a lite dinner and do some bujo or reading and cool off before another round of work or sleep.

I also find myself guilty of nabbing these note taking pens from the teachers closer every time I go make copies of papers for kid projects or send faxes to the main YMCA office. Staples give free boxes of supplies every year to the school and they end up with extras. These were in the unused boxes of projectors pens boxes (we no longer use projectors, I mean I bet some kids on Tumblr don’t even remember the joy of unwinding projector spools and spray cleaning all those math notes off so we could re-use the spool again!). Anyway the school I work in is getting ready to goodwill these pens so I’ve been putting them to good use. Scandlous I know but I have a bad habit of losing pens. And hair ties. Mostly my purse is a black hole.