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Study Playlists
I saw that people post their favourite study playlists and thought I should share ones of my own. Hope they come in handy.
Fiction Ambience
Animal Crossing Music and Rain
Harry Potter Classrooms
Rainy Day at Hogwarts
The Shire
Aslan's Camp
Pride and Prejudice
Somewhere in Italy, 1983
Barbie Piano Instrumentals
Classical
Studying alone in the library at midnight
Dark Academia Spring Playlist
Dark Academia (8D Audio)
Classical music playing in another room + rain and thunder
Spring playlist
19th Century villain who won the game
This is a post where you can find all of my advice and asks very easily, all in one place, so you don’t need to search through the tags. My ask box is always open and I will try my best to answer as fully as possible and help you out. I will update this post with posts as I do them.
My Ask Box is always open if you want advice or support.
Find me on Instagram as @/myhoneststudyblr
How To Start A Studyblr
this is one of my most commonly asked questions so here is a really long post where i give you all of my tips on how to start a studyblr and also get involved in the community
How I Edit My Studyblr Pictures
i go through exactly how i edit my studyblr pictures using snapseed to make it bright and white but still have the colours pop!
How To Stop Procrastinating
in this post, i give you some of my tips for how to stop procrastinating and get productive. i include both some conventional tips but also some unconventional ones that you can try out.
How To Study When You Really Don’t Want To
sometimes studying can be really difficult, particularly if you have no motivation to do so. therefore in this post i give a selection of different tips to try and help you get to work even when that is the last thing you want to do
7 Strategies to Improve Concentration
Do you sometimes realise that your mind is wandering only 10 or 15 minutes after sitting down to work? Do you often read the same page repeatedly without remembering any of it? Try these strategies to monitor and improve your concentration!
Common Study Mistakes
No student is perfect and it is really easy to fall into bad habits. These tips will hopefully help you recognise the problem and give you solutions so that you work smarter, not harder. They will help you study efficiently and save yourself from burnout.
How to Focus in Online Classes
i know a lot of people still have online classes so i wanted to give some tips that i’ve learnt from experience on how to focus and make sure that you are getting the most from online classes.
Active Revision Techniques
in this post, i explain: active revision and the questions you need to ask yourself to deepen your understanding. i also outline some of the best techniques to make sure you are revising actively!
How To Do Uni Readings
in this post, i give advice on how to tackle lots of academic reading for university. i cover reading goals, selection, active reading and different reading techniques! also see here for the additions from @bulletnotestudies for med specific tips
How To Revise Big Subjects
this post gives you step by step tips on what to do when you are revising for subjects with lots of content to cover, from the very initial steps to the hours before the exam
How To Study Languages
a post for everyone who wants to start learning a language but doesn’t know how to. these tips are some of the most important tips and strategies you need to do to develop your language skills (not related to a specific language)
The Diffuse Mode of Thinking
I think a lot of people know this partially but have never actually seen it explained fully so I hope that this post will help you understand why this is such an important concept for learning and studying to really create something valuable and balance out focused time
Top 10 Tips to Boost Motivation
in this post, i share 10 tips that can help you increase your motivation for studying, both some practical things and tips more to do with mindset
Unusual Study Tips
there are a million and one study tips posts so in this one i try to give some ones you might not have heard before in order to give you some new ideas to boost your studying!
Why You Need to Think Like a 4 Year Old
4 year olds know where it’s at with learning! We could learn so much from their natural curiosity and hopefully this post will tell you how!
How I Use Google Docs To Take Notes
i got asked how i use google docs as part of my notetaking system and so in this post i explain what i like and dislike, about google docs templates and my overall notetaking system: cascading bullet points
How To Annotate
i give you all of my best tips for annotating - both in general and more specifically for literature (novels, plays and poetry) - from my own experiences and some research
Google Search Codes
in this post, i list some of the most useful google search codes because i know that google is often the first step for people when researching.
How To Sleep
so many students struggle with sleep which is so bad because it is so important to help boost studying. therefore, in this post, i outline all the best - and proven - tips to help you sleep better
The Complete Guide to the British Education System
this post is a detailed, in depth explanation of the the British school system, from primary school to university. i explain the differences between private and state schools and between the different UK nations.
My Experiences With GCSEs
in this post i talk about what i did to revise for the first external exams i’ve done. even though the title sounds very specific, it mostly gives all my advice on revision techniques and preparing for exams.
The Best Apps for Students
as the name suggest, in this post i give some of my favourite apps for students and the ones that i use all the time
List of Essay Questions for Foreign Languages (for Beginners)
this was answer to an ask but i think it deserves to be in this section. basically i give a bunch of questions separated into different categories that could be used to build an essay or just as writing practice for beginners in a foreign language. they are all given in english but they can be easily translated.
My Favourite Pens (2019)
i am a huge stationery lover so in this post (which was my very first big post) i give some of my absolute favourites
My Study Routine during Exam Season
Tips for Staying Focused (with ADHD)
Motivation/Discipline tips
Talking about My Motivation
Tips for When You Are Feeling Overworked or Anxious and How Keep Up with Your Work
Tips for When You are Having a Rough Day
Tips for Taking Studyblr Pictures
My A Levels and How Hard They Are
Tips for Starting a Studyblr and How to Get Involved in the Community: [Ask 1] [Ask 2]
How to Make Friends on Studyblr [Ask 1] [Ask 2]
Tips for Doing Languages at A Level
Books, Films and TV Shows to Practice German
Motivation for Posting
2020 Quarantine Challenge : March - July 2020
Summer Studying Challenge: July - September 2020
The Studyblr Community Challenge: Can be done at any time
Winter Studying Challenge: December - January 2020/21
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The Ultimate Studyblr Taglist
this post is a collection of tracked tags from blogs in the studyblr community! if you want to be added, please send me an ask telling me your blog name and your tag
Updated to include:
The Diffuse Mode of Thinking
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[transcript under the cut]
Other advice posts that may be of interest:
How To Stop Procrastinating
How To Study When You Really Don’t Want To
Unusual Study Tips
How to Focus in Online School
Keep reading
my masterpost | my studygram | ask me anything
[click images for high quality]
[transcript under the cut]
Other advice posts that may be of interest:
How To Study When You Really Don’t Want To
Active Revision Techniques
How To Do Uni Readings
How to Revise BIG Subjects
Common Study Mistakes
Keep reading
my masterpost | my studygram | ask me anything
[click images for high quality]
[transcript under the cut]
Other advice posts that may be of interest:
How To Study When You Really Don’t Want To
Active Revision Techniques
How To Do Uni Readings
How to Revise BIG Subjects
Common Study Mistakes
Keep reading
my masterpost | my studygram | ask me anything
[click images for high quality]
[transcript under the cut]
Other advice posts that may be of interest:
How To Study When You Really Don’t Want To
Active Revision Techniques
How To Do Uni Readings
How to Revise BIG Subjects
Keep reading
my masterlist of 'how to life’ tips
Cleaning & Tidying
Make your bed in the morning. It takes seconds, and it’s worth it.
Reset to zero each morning.
Use the UFYH 20/10 system for clearing your shit.
Get a reed diffuser and stick it on your windowsill.
Have a ‘drop-zone’ box where you dump anything and everything. At the beginning/end of the day, clear it out and put that shit away.
Roll your clothes, don’t fold them - or fold them vertically.
Automate your chores. Have a cleaning schedule and assign 15mins daily to do whatever cleaning tasks are set for that day. Set a timer and do it - once the timer is up, finish the task you’re on and leave it for the day.
Fold your clothes straight out of the tumble dryer (if you use one), whilst they’re still warm. This minimises creases and eliminates the need for ironing.
Clean your footwear regularly and you’ll feel like a champ.
Organisation & Productivity
Learn from Eisenhower’s Importance/Urgency matrix.
Try out the two-minute rule and the Pomodoro technique.
Use. A. Planner. (Or Google Calendar, if that’s more your thing.)
Try bullet journalling.
Keep a notebook/journal/commonplace book to dump your brain contents in on the regular.
Set morning alarms at two-minute intervals rather than five, and stick your alarm on the other side of the room. It’s brutal, but it works.
Set three main goals each day, with one of them being your #1 priority. Don’t overload your to-do list or you’ll hit overload paralysis and procrastinate.
If you’re in a slump, however, don’t be afraid to put things like “shower” on your to do list - that may be a big enough goal in itself, and that’s okay.
Have a physical inbox - a tray, a folder, whatever. If you get a piece of paper, stick it in there and sort through it at the end of the week.
Consider utilising the GTD System, or a variation of it.
Try timeboxing.
Have a morning routine, and guard that quiet time ferociously.
Save interesting-looking shit to instapaper. Have a set time where you read through the stuff you saved to instapaper and save the shit that you like from instapaper to evernote (or bookmark it properly).
During your working hours, put on your footwear, even if you’re sat on your bed. (Why?)
Have a folder for all your important documents and letters, organised by topic (e.g. medical, bank, university, work, identification). At the front of this folder, have a sheet of paper with all the key information written on it, such as your GP’s details, your passport details, driving licence details, bank account number, insurance number(s), and so on.
Try using StayFocusd and RescueTime (or similar apps/extensions). (I promise, you’ll find that you’re not as busy as you think you are.)
Schedule working time and down time alike, in the balance that works for you.
Money
Have. A. God. Damn. Budget.
Use a money tracker like toshl, mint, or splitwise. Enter all expenses asap! (You will forget, otherwise.)
Have a ‘money date’ each week, where you sort through your finances from the past seven days and then add it to a spreadsheet. This will help you identify your spending patterns and whether your budget is actually working or not.
Pack your own frickin’ lunch like a grown-up and stop buying so many takeaway coffees. Keep snacks in your bag.
Go to your bank and take out £100 in £1 coins (or w/e your currency is). That shit will come in useful for all kinds of things and you’ll never be short on change for the bus or the laundry.
Food & Cooking
Know how to cook the basics: a starch, a protein, a vegetable, and a sauce.
Simple, one-pot meals (“a grain, a green, and a bean”) are a godsend.
Dried porcini mushrooms make a fantastic stock to cook with.
Batch cook and freeze. Make your own ‘microwave meals’.
Buy dried goods to save money - rice and beans are a pittance. (Remember to soak dried beans first, though!)
Consider Meatless Mondays; it’s healthier, cheaper, and more environmentally friendly.
Learn which fruits and vegetables are cheapest at your store, and build a standard weekly menu around those. (Also remember that frozen vegetables are cheap and healthy.)
Learn seasoning combinations. Different seasoning, even with the exact same ingredients, can make a dish seem completely new.
Don’t buy shit for a one-off recipe, especially if you won’t use it all. If you really want to try out a recipe, see if a friend would be interested in making it with you, then pool for the expenses.
Make your own goddamned pasta sauce. Jamie Oliver has a decent recipe here, but the beauty of tomato sauce is that you can totally wing it and adapt the fuck out of it.
Misc
Have a stock email-writing format.
Want to start running, but find it boring? Try Zombies, Run!.
Keep a goddamn first aid kit and learn how to use it.
Know your OTC pain relief.
Update your CV regularly.
Keep a selection of stamps and standard envelopes for unexpected posting needs. (It happens more regularly than you would think!)
Some final words of advice:
Organisation is not a goal in itself, it is a tool. Don’t get caught up in the illusion of productivity and get distracted from the actual task at hand.
Routines and habits will help you. Trust in them.
You have the potential to be an organised and productive person, just as much as anybody else. It just takes practice.
Her name is Katalin Karikó. Hungarian. Daughter of a butcher. Her thesis work became the basis of the mRNA vaccine technology. Read the article here.
My favorite bits from the article include how Dr. Kariko celebrated the fact that the vaccines that used her mRNA research worked
“On Nov. 8, the first results of the Pfizer-BioNTech study came in, showing that the mRNA vaccine offered powerful immunity to the new virus. Dr. Kariko turned to her husband. “Oh, it works,” she said. “I thought so.”
To celebrate, she ate an entire box of Goobers chocolate-covered peanuts. By herself.”
MTR Residence Lac Tremblant Québec Canada
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Edinburgh by rostbiff
all queer history on here is just US-American or maybe sometimes some UK history as well and it makes me sad that there’s so little information about other countries’ queer history on here :(
@makingqueerhistory has some diversity, as of historical queer people, and they’re doing a great job, but there’s a lot of work ahead.
OP is definitely right, there still is a huge gap in the discussions of queer history, and thank you for recommending us!
This isn’t perfect, and many of these only have one article, but here is our list of countries we have written about. We are hoping to one day have at least one article for every country in the world but as @every-book-has-a-secret there is a lot of work still to do.
Europe
Albania Austria Belgium Czechia Czech Republic Denmark England Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Scotland Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland
Africa
Algeria Cameroon Egypt Kenya Morocco Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa Uganda
North America
Canada Costa Rica Crow Nation Cuba Grenada Jamaica Menominee Nation Mexico Puerto Rico United States of America
South America
Argentina Brazil Chile Colombia Guyana Peru Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay
Asia
Afghanistan Bangladesh China Hong Kong India Iran Israel Japan Pakistan The Philippines South Korea Sri Lanka Syria Turkey
Oceania
Australia Māori Nation New Zealand
Antarctica
Antarctica
!!! This is what I was looking for! thank you!
Of course! Glad we could help!
I’d like to add Tom Of Finland (Touko Valio Laaksonen), the one who drew those erotic pictures of muscular men clad in leather, to the Finnish list.
Some say that Tom Of Finland was the father for the leather gay movement.
PERUVIAN QUEER HISTORY???? God, I love this site
[ID: The Chris Fleming “was anybody going to tell me” meme. A person standing in front of a brick wall speaks, with the captions edited to read, “Okay, was anybody going to tell me that my country has queer history I would’ve adored to know before, or was I just supposed to learn it from a wholesome Tumblr post myself?”]
@queerasfact is a pretty cool blog and podcast dedicated to international queer history!
Thanks for tagging us! We’ve got a list here of all our episodes sorted by country. There’s definitely a lot we haven’t covered, but if you’re looking for a specific area, you can check it out.
my masterpost | my studygram | ask me anything
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Other advice posts that may be of interest:
How To Stop Procrastinating
How To Study When You Really Don’t Want To
Unusual Study Tips
How To Do Uni Readings
Active Revision Tips
How to Focus in Online Classes
my masterpost | my studygram | ask me anything
[click images for high quality]
Other advice posts that may be of interest:
How To Stop Procrastinating
How To Study When You Really Don’t Want To
Unusual Study Tips
How To Do Uni Readings
Active Revision Tips
How to Focus in Online Classes