#real studying

[veralernt]

Today's findings:

- 🍷 🍵 I really missed Club-Mate and good old German (blackcurrant!) spritzers and realized that I can best tolerate caffeine from tea

- 🥱 Getting up early is really not my thing, but finishing work earlier is 🫠

- 📑 4 days into my internship, I can slowly concentrate on one task for longer at a time again

- 🎧 Noise-canceling headphones are the most valuable purchase I've ever made - financially and health-wise

- ✅ To-do lists only work for me if they are written by hand on a piece of paper in front of me. On the screen, they just disappear for me!

- 🛰️ I like to look up old satellite pictures haha

- "Out of sight, out of mind" applies to me in all situations. The window with a vital paper that I really want to read is minimized for a moment? Then it's out of my head for the next two hours and I'm really happy when I find it again in another tab while I'm researching literature. 🫣

[nozerodays]

Day 1- introduce yourself and what you study!

Hi I'm Liv and I study film. I'm in my second year in the UK. 😊🎥

I am working late tonight!

Just annotating a client contract for my producer for one of my modules. This is the thing about filmmaking. No one tells you how much bloody paperwork is involved.

Sorry this isnt particularly aesthetic or whatever. I'm currently set up on an old camping table. I have bought a desk though. The camping table has warped from being outside so every time I type on it, all the loose pens have a party.

[perfectavenuetaco]

nice things to say to a student:

you don’t need to have those pretty notes, all underlined. and you shouldn’t feel bad because you can’t afford such things or it’s not just your style. take a look at my case: i have a 19.0 average (which must be pretty close to a 4.0 GPA) and the only thing i use is a blue pen.

have fun. really, don’t be the person who drowns themselves in books. be kind and play videogames for an hour (or 4 like me). i usually play them friday and saturday night.

important: please choose subjects you like. it’s way easier to study something you really enjoy. if you don’t know what you like, try taking a look a little bit into each subject and see what is good and what it isn’t.

it can happen, some parts of a subject aren’t exactly nice. i hate geology but it’s part of my biology program.

focus in class. really, if you actually focus and like the subject, you’ll get home and you barely need to review. i know it’s complicated, i also have the memory span of a goldfish but i swear picking a subject you like is awesome.

don’t drink too much coffee.

don’t be sorry about “not studying during the day”. the time i am more focused is actually at night. find the best time to study.

listen to good music. videogame soundtracks were made for you to focus on the game and give you an atmosphere. oh yes, and wonderful lo-fi. Synthwave is optional, i use it more for night sessions.

do exercises as you get thought the subject, not just to study for the test. when you review you already know everything.

i know this is a little different from my usual posts, but the chaos we live in can make you a little nervous. it’s alright to be like that. if you get to exam day nervous and not confident, you didn’t study enough.

from a kid who is taking a biology and chemistry exam this year, good luck!

[sstudine]

24.09.2018 // messy details from today’s hard work

autumn has come to stay, at least where i live - a perfect excuse to cuddle up, light some candles and have an extra cuppa

[meilancholic]

03-07-17

Tomorrow’s my ever feared day - the start of finals. Honestly, I don’t know if my brain absorbs the information that I am currently reviewing. 😅 My last resort is memorization - the one thing that I am pretty bad at. Well, I wish myself good luck.

By the way, to those who are taking their exams/tests right now, good luck to us! May we pass (and ace, hopefully) the exam with grace! ✨

[nicenotesandprettycolours]

1/100 days of productivity: What does my real desk look like? This. Midterm papers are all due this week, and so my desk is insane. Its 11.51 at night, and Im writing my history midterm paper on Ralph Waldo Emerson and democracy now. Ft. Wait for it: Hamilton. I havent listened to Hamilton before, but I figured it was appropriate to my current history paper.

[melaschnie]

Thursday, 03/01/19

I don’t feel like a fancy setup today (any day, really) which is why I think of switching my original posts to black and white from now on. What do you think? Anyway, this is what a study session normally looks like - surface needs to be charged, bad lighting and the very not photogenic bottle of water next to me.

Got some studying done today plus I revised my notes for Controlling, which is nearly as bad as Taxes (but it includes more numbers so I’m happy with that). Only 6 more days till the exam!