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hey so itās march now aka the beginning of endometriosis awareness month and i feel obligated to remind you that debilitatingly painful periods are not normal. if you or someone you know is ending up sick or bedridden every month, you are not crazy and deserve medical attention from someone who will take you seriously
hey itās march again letās get this post circulating again
78/100 days of productivity ā wednesdayĀ february 14 2018 black pen ā brush pen ā highlighter ā notebook
Google like a boss!
This is relevant to librarian-ing.
This would make such an excellent hand out for students.
Wheee I use these! They make Google a much more effective search tool.
Thank you! Ppl donāt know these things when I tell them they donāt know how to use a computer
Studyblr Post: Back to School Essentials.
Hey Hey Hey! A lot of us will be starting school/college pretty soon so I thought I would do a (kinda) big post on back to school essentials. I will try to include as much as I can, like daily routine tips, Classroom tips etc, but if I miss something out or you have suggestions or tips to add, please feel free to inbox me to be included in the post, or simply reblog with your tips.
Your Back-Pack
I have tried to include as many things as possible. Some of thee things you might not agree with particularly and so you donāt need to bother if you donāt think itās needed for you.
Textbooks or your tablet with the PDF format. I personally take the PDF format with me to school because the textbooks themselves are really heavy!
Exercise books/Notepads. I think @studyign uses her iPad to make notes in class which I think is Ā FABULOUS idea because the iPad is lightweight and you can quickly scribble stuff down without feeling like youāre wasting paper.
Pencilcase. NOW WITH YOUR PENCILCASE REMEMBER TO PACK ONLY THE ESSENTIALS. Iām a stickynote, highlighter, fineliner kind of girl, but I limit myself as much as possible because I personally get distracted in class if Iām focusing too much on HOW my notes look in class rather than absorbing the information. So keep it simple. Pretty up your notes at home.
Your Planner (if you use one)
Miniature comb with hair-clips and hairbands
Lip balm of any kind
WATER BOTTLE please always DRINK AS MUCH WATER AS POSSIBLE
SNACKS are very important! Make sure that you always have something in your bag that you can munch on. (something that can stay in your bag that wonāt spoil) like biscuits, crackers, cereal minus the milk, dried fruit and a box of juice!
Handsanitizer or some wipes. Always keep your hands clean!
Battery Pack or charging cable for your devices
An extra scratch book for messy notes, doodles etc etc. Always good to have an extra notebook in case you leave one of your subject notebooks.
Bandages are always a great thing to carry on you for scrapes and bruises!
Tampons or Pads or Cups. Always! If ever you or a friend have an emergency.
Routines
Having a routine to lean on is an essential part of productivity and organisation. You may be like me and not like a rigid, hour by hour routine, so having a list of things you HAVE to do each morning or evening etc is good too. Following guidelines like that allows you to set up time for hard work and time for rest and relaxation.
In the morning, I suggest:
Drink a glass of warm water first thing in the morning.
Take a shower to rid yourself of yesterday and begin a new day smelling clean, like your favorite bodywash and perfumes.
You should ALWAYS have breakfast in the morning. Itās the most important meal of the day so please please make sure you eat something, even if you donāt want too. Some toast, rusks, porridge or scrambled eggs. Itās difficult to think on an empty stomach.
Fill up your water bottle either now or the night before and stick it in the fridge if you like it cold.
Having some fruits would be good too!
Have a cup of tea (or coffee) in the morning. Just one cup of coffee!
Read through some of your notes! If youāve got a lot of time either on the bus or train to school, some extra time before the drive to school, just reading through your notes (especially from the earlier part of the year) is a great way to keep up to date with your work and revise with a fresh mind.
Double check that you have ALL your stuff for the day.
If you can, do a little exercise Ā in the morning. 10 minutes of yoga, a few jumping jacks, some squats. Anything to get your heart pumping!
In the evening/before bed, I suggest:
Pack your bag for the next day so youāre not rushed in the morning.
AVOID ALL NIGHTERS PLEASE. Sleep is so important and I know how hard it is to stop working at 10pm-11pm without feeling guilty but you canāt function adequately on a few hours of sleep in the long run. Your health is more important that the grades,
Nightly routines should END with some down time. You should avoid working until you drop and jumping into bed. If you have to sleep by 11pm, stop by 10 30 so you can let your mind ease into that sleep ready state.
Never go to sleep on an empty stomach
Some breathing exercises or a few minutes of yoga would be a great way to end the day.
Avoid drinking coffee towards the later hours of the night.
Run through your To-Do list and make sure youāve done all you wanted to do. If not, allocate time to finish off the work.
Take some time off the phone.
Your Work Ethic
Itās very easy to get carried away at the beginning of a new school year with how much work you take on. While it provides huge motivation in the beginning, keeping up that motivation is a bit more difficult. ( I have 2 posts on this here and here) Make sure you work is consistent. Thereās no point staying up all night in the first few weeks and burning yourself out in the very beginning. When planning your approach to the year make sure you take time to rest. I have made the mistake of burning out in the beginning and all my test results and assignments towards the second half of the year were below Cās because i was already worn out.
In the classroom
Always sit in the front of the room.
Avoid sitting next to your friends if you honestly know you canāt focus around them. Itās okay! You both know why youāre there.
Donāt focus on making your notes pretty at that moment. Scribble and make messy notes, learn.
I personally have to keep my hands busy while Iām learning, so I like to draw or write down the key points of what is being taught.
Make notes of what you donāt understand so you can ask the teacher or read over it yourself.
I hope this post has helped you as much as you can! Please follow if you like or add anything you think is necessary.
How To Make 2018 Your Year.
Make Peace With 2017
Take time to think about how the past year went for you. What goals have you achieved? What were the highlights of your year? What about your roadblocks?
Remember, itās perfectly fine if you blew things off! Focus on the things youāre grateful for instead of regretting the things you did or didnāt do.
What were the biggest lessons you learned this year?
Write it all down freely. This may feel strange especially if youāre not used to journaling, but the benefits of keeping a journal can change your life.
Begin With The End In Mind
Visualize your ideal year. By 31st December 2018, where do you want to be in your life? More specifically, what are the outcomes youāre aiming for in your health, academics, hobbies, or relationships?
Set a theme or intention for the year!! This is what the story of your life will revolve around in the next year. Some examplesā
PURPOSE: I want to find out what exactly I want to do with my life and live more intentionally.
SELF-CARE: I want to stress less about minor things and prioritize my health and learning more.
DISCIPLINE: I want to train myself to procrastinate less and follow through with the commitments I make to others and myself.
List down goals for different areas in your life. Give each of them a deadline. Make them outrageous. Please do hand-write them down, donāt just store them away in your brain and expect yourself to remember them.
Make a vision board. No, they are not BS made up by law-of-attraction enthusiasts. You know how inspired you can get when youāre scrolling through your feed looking at all the pretty studyblr photos? Images can be powerful if you use them to help achieve your goals.
Get on Pinterest and gather photos and quotes that inspire and motivate you. For instance, you can put pictures that resonate with your goals, like your dream university. Add a picture of yourself, because this is about what YOU want, after all.
Formulate A Game Plan
Now that you know what you want, itās time to make an actionable plan to achieve that.
Break down your 2018 goals into smaller steps, and figure out what habits you can implement daily, weekly, and monthly to achieve those.
To illustrate this, one of my goals is to master thirty songs on piano. I need to dedicate thirty minutes of my time daily to learning a new segment of a piece. Weekly, I need to plan which segments of which songs Iām going to practice on. These habits will lead me to learn at least three songs per month.
Figure out how youāre going to track your progress. You can do this by downloading an app to keep your habits in check, or perhaps make a page on your bullet journal specifically for reviewing your achievements and points for improvement.
Alternatively, there are many printables out there in the studyblr community to help you out with this =)
Set incremental rewards that make you want to get up and work. If you successfully finish making a revision guide for a certain subject, why not treat yourself to some new stationery? Here are more ideas for incentives.
Take Massive Action
Guys. Please take note. You wonāt be motivated all the time. Motivation is extremely fickle and unreliable. Ultimately, discipline is what will get you to your vision of where you want to be. Force yourself to follow through with your plan.
Be consistent. You wonāt achieve much if you only work on days when you feel good. Train yourself to do what needs to be done, ASAP.
āSet some goals. Stay quiet about them. Smash the shit out of them. Clap for your damn self. Repeat.ā
Invest In Yourself
Prioritize education over entertainment. This is so important. Iām not advising you to lay off your favorite series or band. I know how instrumental fandoms can be to your life. However, do choose to read more books, attend more conferences, and learn from mentors around you.
Donāt forget to take care of yourself and your health. Sleep and eat well, get some exercise, practice good hygiene, and drink a lot of water.
Always aim to be a good human being and serve the people around you.
āAt the end of the day, itās not about what you have or even what youāve accomplished. Itās about who youāve lifted up, who youāve made better. Itās about what youāve given back.ā āDenzel Washington
Resources
Printables/Workbooks
How to Make the Best Out of 2018 ā¢ Hello Peaceful Mind
How to Set Your One Big Theme For the Year ā¢ Arianne Serafico
The Ultimate Guide to Manifesting a Magical 2018 ā¢ Suzanne Heyn
In-Depth Blog Posts
How to Create a Personal Vision ā¢ Scott Jeffrey
The Extraordinary Power of Visualizing Success ā¢ Matt Mayberry
Helpful Books
You Are a Badass ā¢ Jen Sincero
The Power of Habit ā¢ Charles Duhigg
Outliers ā¢ Malcolm Gladwell
Happy new year to everyone and good luck in achieving your goals for 2018!! For more posts like this, just hit follow, and if you have any questions about this or you need someone to talk to, feel free to send a message or an askĀ ā¤ļø
day 39/100: still a little sick but hopefully going to get better soon. only one class today and it was super easy.
Okay, I have to admit that Iāve been absolutely horrible at bullet journaling this year (-999 points for constancy), but the new year is going to be different, I promise. ( Thatās it, āNew Year- New Meā is my ultimate motto for 2018)Ā
What is in your New Year resolutions list?
09.92.17 ā¢ a cheery little spread for a not-so-good week.
I hope you all are doing well. And thank you for 750 followers!! It means a lot to me āŗļø I love you guys
Congrats on your milestone! šø
concept: walking out of that exam hall, head up high, cheeks flushed because itās over, itās finally over. breathing in fresh air, eyelashes fluttering and you knowĀ that all the late nights, the caffeine overdoses and the tireless hours spent studying, havenāt gone to waste and youāve done your very bestĀ
When someone says āNothing can be more complicated than loveā. Just throw Pharmacology books on their face.
Our Pharmacology professor on the first pharmacology lecture of the year (via mk-9x)
december bullet journal setup! canāt believe thereās less than a month until 2018 watch my plan with me video
Maleficent, come save me!
As children, we never realized how good evil fairy actually was, how great was her gift.
What I wouldnāt give for a spindle of a spinning wheel that could restore my sleep pattern back to normal.
Frankly, after my shifts this weekend, 100 years of sleep look pretty good.
I still got a film festival to worry about.
7.1.2017 || i hope everyoneās having a great summer so far, june flew by so fast for me to be honest. also, thank you so much for 4,000+ followers <3
š§ : First Summer - Bobby Earth
[12.03.17]Ā 82/100 days of productivity
One more week until finals! Iām working on applying for campus jobs for next semester and finishing up all the big papers and assignments I have left for this semester!Ā
December desktop calendar by @emmastudies
Note-Taking
Hey guys! So Iāve been receiving questions regarding my note-taking style and strategy for quite some time now but I believe I have never answered them in detail. The good news is, I finally decided to make a post about this (plus, I had fun making the graphics :D). Note that I am a visual learner, so my note-taking methods may not be effective for some of you, but I hope you can all learn something.
Class Notes
I only use one notebook for all my class notes, an A4 grid notebook whose pages I divide into two columns.
I use the outline method for in-class notes, which means I write information chronologically, in the order that they are taught. Some teachers do not have properly structured presentations/lessons (good thing my physics teacher does) so when in need, I use arrows to connect related information.
Abbreviations to me are one of the most important things to master when taking notes. I personally make them up as I go along. Some examples of abbreviations I use are:
w/c - which
w/ - with
cpd - compound
envt - environment
digenz - digestive enzyme
It might be confusing, but to me, knowing the context and part of speech are enough for all abbreviations to be comprehended.
Hereās an example:Ā āIndonesiaās tsunami pre-warning system is made up of two types of componentsā could becomeĀ āIndoās snmi pre-warn sys 2 type compā.
After Class
The first thing I would do is highlight keywords and terminology (and sometimes formulas). For physics, since my teacher is relatively succinct, I donāt really highlight, but for humanities and biology, I look for words that would be expected by a mark scheme, words that are crucial to the understanding of each particular piece of information.
I would then check if the material taught coincides with the syllabus, and if not, note down any points that are missing or have yet to be taught. You could write these on a post it or on the syllabus itself, but I prefer to highlight the syllabusā pdf file.
Rewritten Notes
My rewritten notes are arranged based on the order they appear in the syllabus unless there are pieces of information that are related to more than one topic.
I use a black pen for rewriting notes as well as colored pens to write keywords and terminology only. I know some people who write whole sentences in colored pens but to me that is ineffective; we all have our own learning styles. When making tables, I usually use different colors for different columns (see the table for different types of radiation above) which is most often the color I associate with each word. For example, water would be blue, ocean would be a darker shade, ice would be a lighter shade, and water vapor would be purple.
I still abbreviate words in my rewritten notes, but theyāre not as condensed as the ones in my class notes. Another thing I find helpful is leaving a bit of space between separate points especially if the page doesnāt have a lot of diagrams. I canāt think linearly, so I canāt remember super lengthy bullet points.
I use mildliners and a drawing pen to make my diagrams (more of these in my biology notes) but I only start with pencil if itās a complex diagram. I rarely highlight my rewritten notes, but even if I do, itās usually only the headings and formulas.
I donāt have a rough draft for my notes, but I try to visualize the layout. I try to alternate between words and pictures/diagrams so that when Iām sitting for an exam, all I have to do is imagine that Iām looking at that page and I can remember where everything is.
Well, thatās all from me. I hope that this information could be of some use to every single one of you. Donāt hesitate to ask me questions if youāre confused about note-taking or any other problems you might have :)
17.7.2016 // I finally assembled my ikea desk! Iāve been studying to get ahead on classes this fall.
