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UChicago ‘22❤️

I got matched through Questbridge to UChicago and I can’t believe it. They’ve been my dream school ever since I visited and this feels like a dream. A full ride to Chicago - I am hyperventilating

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I just got an IPad a couple days ago and I love it so much! It motivates me to study and reorganize my notes so I think it’ll be really helpful for me! These are my notes on intermolecular forces from chemistry in sum.

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My notes from Kinetics for chemistry💕

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Language Learning Tips!

This is my first ‘masterpost’ which is inspired by BBC’s language learning website. Please leave any of your own tips or tricks from your language-learning journey as well for others!

1. Crosswords - These are really useful for solidifying vocabulary you’ve learned from a certain chapter and it can be more fun than quizlet or memrise. It’s a nice way to twist things up every now and then. You can make your own crosswords here. I recommend doing them more than once as a way to review old vocabulary as well.

2. Actually Use Your Target Language - I am quite guilty of NOT doing this because I don’t have anyone around me who knows Japanese. With that being said, you should still be speaking and writing in your target language as this is a part of exposure. You don’t have to be talking to someone else to speak your target language. You can talk to yourself for 5 minutes in the mirror or in our head while getting ready in the morning. Little conversations with yourself like this actually do help, so do them! Another way to use your language is to keep your bullet journal, planner, or diary in your target language. You can even find fun prompts online to write essays or express your thoughts on in your target language.

3. Find Fun and Foreign Reading Material - The usual reading material that you will see people use is academic novels and newspapers. This is great for expanding a more formal kind of vocabulary, but don’t be afraid to use magazines, which use a more every-day-type language. This can help you read faster since it will most likely include vocabulary and grammar structures that you know.Familiarizing yourself with the language in many forms is the key to fluency!

I hope these few tips were a little bit out of the box from what you would normally hear. Let me know if you would like me to write another post about something more specific! 

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*6-25-17* My computer home screen and some stats notes 🔥

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New SAT Score!

I've been prepping using Prepscholar lately for SAT. The one I took in June just had the scores released and I'm so proud! I increased a whole 80 points and I can feel myself getting closer to my goal! I used to have a 1360 but I just got a 1440, 1450 with super score! I only increased in math last time but it increased a lot to 760 and I'm incredibly happy. Hard work truly does payoff - whether you see the results immediately or not. I want to focus on really improving my reading without neglecting math now. I truly recommend this program for people who have enough money for and can push themselves to go online for at least one hour a day. There is a money-back guarantee but I don't think I'll be using it! Good luck this summer on your goals of writing your essays or improving your scores. You can do it for sure!

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Doing Micro! I was slacking for a while... The multiple choice for my bio exam I think went well for the most part. Tomorrow is FRQs! I'm about to look some up and then do some Japanese.

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I left my Japanese homework for the weekend again and had 12 pages of conjugation to do 😭It took around 2 hours but I'm finally done!