#studyblr masterpost

[threecheersforsuccess]

I've been yapping for too many years, so I need a living masterpost of the guides and blogs from my Tumblr and Instagram. I feel some of my old work might be outdated, so please take my wording with a chunk of salt.

I'll update my with my content as I go.

Stuff from 2024

♡ What's in my bag? (2024)

My Motivation Education Video Series (2022-2023)

♡ Part 0: Something Much Needed Among Students: Motivation ♡ Part 1: Bare Bones Definition of Motivation ♡ Part 2: Self-efficacy, I think ♡ Part 3: Where is the control? ♡ Part 4: Reward or Autopilot ♡ Part 5: Determination to Continue ♡ Part 6: Personal Interest ♡ Part 7: Outside The Model ♡ Part 8: Where is the willpower? ♡ Part 9: Is stress even a bad thing? Note: I stopped because I did not like the short video format. I'm not sure if I may pick this up again, but I do think the lessons I learned from my readings are pretty neat :)

5am.Raining's Studying Challenge (2022)

Note: A challenge led by my cool mutual 5am.raining on Instagram. I slowly figure out how to make videos. It's a little wonky at the beginning, but I find my style! I made these posts in 2022 ♡ Poorly Filmed Day in My Life! ♡ My Studying Role Model... Haruhi from Ouran... ♡ Fave Leader in My Field: Carol Dweck ♡ What gets me in the mood to study? ♡ What I want to do with my degree... ♡ My Fave Reading Assignment ♡ Study Tunes ♡ How to get back into reading books ♡ Favorite study supplies ♡ Planning Routine (2022 version) ♡ Organizing My Desk ♡ What's in my backpack? ♡ Inspiring Film or Doc on My Field ♡ Imposter Syndrome ♡ "Study Buddy" ♡ Coping with Long Study Sessions

Flipd Productivity and Motivation Challenge Blogs

Note: I yapped so hard I won the productivity challenge. I wrote these around junior year of college (2021). ♡ Long-Term Destination, Short-Term Motivation: Living in The Moment ♡ Embedding Self-forgiveness in Your Self-Care ♡ Study Essentials ♡ The Importance of Play and Breaks ♡ Quote of Week Analysis: Self-Acceptance ♡ How I Plan My Everyday ♡ The Biggest Time Management Misconception I'm Trying to Get Over ♡ Recognizing Burnout (and Listening to Yourself) ♡ Building an Academic Support System ♡ Ways to Make Yourself Take Breaks ♡ The Challenges of a Positive Mindset ♡ How I Build Habits (based on James Clear's Atomic Habits)

Diana's Studying Challenge (2021)

Note: A challenge lead by my cool mutual dianas.desk on Instagram. I made these posts in 2021. Day 1: Challenge Introduction Day 2: What Gets Me Motivated Day 3: Cleaning My Desk Day 4: Study Tunes/Songs I Listen and Avoid Day 5: Current Books I'm Reading Day 6: Relaxation! Arknights Projekt Red Bullet Journal Spread Day 7: My Happy Place Day 8: Week Reflection Day 9: How I Plan Day 10: My Summer 2021 Work Routine Day 11: My Desk Essentials Day 12: Study Snack (Natto) Day 13: Digital or Paper Notes? Which is Better? Day 14: How I Self-Care Day 15: My School Bag Day 16: Proudest Achievement Day 17: Most Favorite Productivity App/Website Blocker Day 18: Work Buddies Day 19: Inspirational Quotes Day 20: My Favorite Place to Work Day 21: #MessyDesk Day 22: Guilty Pleasure Day 23: My Favorite Study Accounts Day 24: Study Methods I Do Not Like Day 25: Trying out a new place to work? Day 26: Part 2 of My Unconventional Study Tips (same as above) Day 27: My Outfit Day 28: Making a Gratitude List Day 29: My Aspirations Day 30: Today I learned… Day 31: September Goals

My Study Tips

Note: I wrote many of these either in 2020 or very early on (2017-2018). Super old stuff. ♡ Unconventional Study Tips Part 1 + Part 2 ♡ One Effective Memorization Tip ♡ Dealing with Bad Grades: What I Do ♡ How to get 800 on the SAT in Math and Full Points on Grammar ♡ Causes of Procrastination + Methods for Each ♡ How to Study When Unmotivated ♡ Making Your Discord Study Space ♡ Ways to Go to Bed Early ♡ My Super Ultimate Guide to AP Calc AB and BC ♡ Using Your Phone Productively (2018)

Journaling

♡ How I Journal (2017) ♡ How I Use My Notebooks (2018) ♡ How to Keep a Daily Journal (2020) ♡ How to Get into Creative Journaling (2022)

Dividers by @fairytopea

[apricitystudies]

here's a quick guide on how i proofread and edit my essays as an humanities undergrad! i tend to spend more time on research and editing and much less time on writing and my first drafts are often horrendous, so editing is really important for me :^)

i've also created guides on essay preparation, the 5-paragraph essay, how to research, and how to write essays. you can find all my other masterposts here.

transcript below:

how to proofread essays by apricitystudies

(section one: before beginning) ideally, you should finish writing your essay a few days before the due date so you can step away from it for a while. this helps you to 'forget' what you wrote and allows you to proofread with fresh eyes. after staring at the same piece of writing for so long, your brain tends to fill in the gaps itself as you read, leading you to miss mistakes.

(section two: the key to effective proofreading is to edit in rounds) each round, focus on and attempt to fix a different issue. this requires you to have a little bit more time to edit, which is why you should finish writing early.

(round one: content) argument: does your argument make sense? is it strong? is it logical? evidence: is your research robust? are your points all backed up with sufficient evidence? is every piece of evidence necessary and relevant to your argument? elaboration: is your argument well developed? is every piece of evidence explained, analysed, or critiqued? is the research you provide linked back to and used to support your argument?

(round two: flow) map: have you provided a clear and concise roadmap of your essay? linking: are your paragraphs linked? do the last sentences of each paragraph flow into the next? have you shown how your points are connected? coherence: is your argument logical? is the order of your points easy to follow? is the reader able to see the progression of your argument? TIP: put all the topic sentences of your body paragraphs into one single paragraph. do they make sense together?

(round three: language) vocabulary: have you repeated words/phrases excessively? is your paraphrasing accurate? sentence length: are your sentences overly long? can they be split up? cohesion: does your writing flow? does it sound stilted or clunky? is everything you've written clear? punctuation: are your quotation marks correct? have you used em dashes, colons, and semicolons accurately? small errors: are your spelling and grammar correct?

(round four: format) referencing: are your in-text citations/footnotes correct? is every piece of evidence referenced? style: have you used the correct font size/style? is your line spacing correct? are your paragraphs justified/indented if they're supposed to be? page setup: are your margins set up properly? are your headers/footers/ page numbers correct, if required? bibliography: are your bibliography entries correct? are they in alphabetical order? is the line spacing and indentation correct?

(section three: other tips) 1: change your font to something like comic sans. this makes your brain work harder to read and stops it from skipping words/phrases. 2: print out your essay and go over it with a red pen. mark as if you were a teacher and pick out as many mistakes as you can. 3. read it aloud or use a text-to-speech function. listening to your writing helps you to identify awkward writing and repeated words.

(ending slide: thanks for reading!) this is just my method of proofreading and it might not work for everyone. that being said, i hope it was still helpful! from @apricitystudies

[lostlibrariangirl]

Weekend is here, folks! Yay <3

Talking to @leaveblackkbrosalone, I figure how important these study communities here on Tumblr are, and how special they are. We cannot keep motivated all the time, actually, it doesn't exist, this "eternal motivation". What we do have are dreams, objectives, and those are the things that really makes us wake earlier or go to bed late night. The way we see ourselves in a near future, working with something we like, doing what we like... is what keep us moving forward. So I will put some people here, people who are helping me to do a little bit every day, to make me get there, where I want to be =＾● ⋏ ●＾= @web-dev-with-bea @anndcodes @xiacodes @xiabablog @code-es I know I am forgetting some people, and I promise I'll make a master post with tech profiles (please, if you're reading this, let me know if you want to be mentioned in this future list [or not] ʘ‿ʘ Thanks in advance!).

[bulletnotestudies]

a bit different than our usual book rec posts, but we thought we'd share our fave reads of the year with you :)

we held a vote and here are our winners - the books that we enjoyed reading the most in 2021, consider all of them recs for the friend recommendation prompt of the Winter Reading Challenge ❆

These are not in a strict order of how many of us deemed the book a fave, but in general, the higher up on the list, the more people (re)read it in 2021 :)

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston - standalone novel - contemporary lgbtq+ romance - enemies to lovers, humorous banter galore

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir - 1st in the Locked Tomb series (the rest is just as amazing) - a never before seen fantasy-sci-fi-horror fusion - brilliant atmospheric writing, enemies to something else

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo - duology - ya adventure fantasy - high-stakes heist with amazing whiplash-worthy plot twists

All for the Game by Nora Sakavic - trilogy, check trigger warnings! - contemporary new adult fiction - college sports? mafia? found family? aftg has it all

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller - standalone novel - historical lgbtq+ fantasy - friends to lovers against a backdrop of mythology, The Illiad retelling but make it gayer

(the rest under the cut, we aren't dash-clogging monsters)

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune - standalone novel - contemporary urban fantasy - magical found family, literally a warm hug and a cup of your fave hot beverage in book form

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone - standalone novella - sci-fi lgbtq+ romance - time travelling agents of the opposing sides of a war, exchanging letters with a healthy dose of taunting-turned-teasing, all weaved together with captivating prose

The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater - series - ya urban fantasy - gorgeous prose and loveable characters on an all-encompassing quest where, maybe, the real triumph was the friends u made along the way (don't ask us to explain the plot, please)

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas - standalone novel - ya romance with paranormal elements - an ownvoices story of self-discovery, growth, and young love, all doused with Latinx folklore

The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer - standalone novel - ya lgbtq+ science fiction - a fight for survival, wrapped in mystery, a true sci-fi delight

The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon - a series to go insane with (in the best way) - ya distopian fantasy - queers with forbidden clairvoyant powers start a revolution that isn't fixed by one heroic act and needs a heist or two

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake - 1st in a series - adult urban fantasy - a science-based magical system, a deadly competition, intrigue, and insane (in a good way!) characterization

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell - 1st in a series - ya fantasy - lgbtq+ wizards, chosen one, enemies to lovers, and they were roomates

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - standalone novel - fantasy / magical realism - a magical atmosphere filled with mystery, follow the story through the wholesome main character's journal entries

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara - standalone novel, please check trigger warnings! - lgbtq+ contemporary fiction - want to be destroyed by a book? a little life is the one for you! (seriously, this deals with very heavy topics, proceed with caution)

We hope you had a good reading year, take care and we'll see you in the next one with fresh book recs!

[academes]

[hbios]

[studeeon]

It's that time of year! Last year I made a six part guide to writing college essays, which I will link below.

There is no one way to write a college essay, but if you aren't sure where to start or which questions to ask for help, hopefully these guides can give you some foundation to work with. Below the cut I also included some honest personal advice on college essays after four years of helping people write them and graduating from undergraduate myself.

Best of luck to everyone writing essays this year!

Part One: Reading/Picking a Prompt

Part Two: Picking Your Response

Part Three: Outlining Your Essay

Part Four: Writing

Part Five: Editing - Content

Part Six: Editing - Details

Honest College Application Advice

Research/Liberal Arts- I know we all love the dark academia aesthetic, but if you are applying to any university, especially a liberal arts one, ask in your interviews, campus connections, and online research about how research vs. practical focused they are. I attended a research-heavy liberal arts university, and working to gain practical experience was another burden on my schoolwork. For example, our psychology department rarely taught applications of psychology, but focused more on experimental methods, to the frustration of many of my peers. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but try and understand how committed a university is to practical vs theoretical work.

Get the Gossip- Join that university's meme page on Facebook (seriously you will learn so much about the school from just this) and browse their school newspaper. Notice what kinds of people are publishing and about what. Online communities will usually reveal the quirks, flaws, and serious pitfalls of a school.

Think Beyond Prestige- Okay this is hard. I still struggle with this one, and so do many people I know, even the ones who dunk on Ivy Leagues all day. Hold universities accountable to suiting your long-term financial, educational, and personal goals. Take a moment to deeply compare how each university can help you fulfill your goals.

Early Decision- Early Decision can be a hard deal for many due to financial reasons, as it is a binding agreement that you will pay tuition regardless of financial aid. However, if you want to go somewhere and have the means to agree to tuition with a dice roll on scholarships, it will greatly improve your chances of acceptance at any university.

Enjoy- Listen I love reading and learning but listen if you do not get outside and do some things you maybe regret! Living your life, engaging with your hobbies, relationships, and interests will make you a much better student and interesting peer. While you are applying to college, don't forget to support your own joy and growth.

[studying-in-yellow]

29.01.2020 // today i took aesthetic pictures of my bed. the bed that i actually napped in for like three hours because i felt like i was being physically weighed down by all my emotions and seasonal depression who is a JERK. but then i got up and i tidied my room a bit and i actually read through some of my chemistry notes and did an online quiz and maybe everything will be okay if i just take it one step at a time.