Pretty Common Stuff

things I do and don't - stuff I love and hate

[dramatiq-dreams]

the studyblr sisterhood is a tumblr network for those interested in journaling, taking notes, studying and generally keeping positive throughout the otherwise very stressful school year. whether you’ve been a part of the studyblr community for years or are only just discovering it, this is the network for you!

R U L E S:

must be following me

you need to fill out this form

reblog this post (likes are only bookmarks)

What we’re looking for:

❀ blogs who are a part of (or want to become a part of) the studyblr community

❀ organised blogs with a clean theme and a nice tagging system

❀ friendly and active bloggers

What you’ll get:

❀ a spot on the network page

❀ a place to talk about journaling

❀ a group of sisters to help you through the school year and talk about studying :)) 

❀ reblogs on your posts and selfies

❀ lots'n'lots of love!

If you’re accepted:

❀ be willing to give me your email so I may add you to the network chat

❀ submit an icon and a small description for the network page

❀ check out the other members and maybe give them a follow?

More Info:

❀ i’ll select 15 or more blogs (depending on the notes this post gets)

❀ must get at least 40 notes (or this never happened)

❀ you can enter until october 1st

❀ track the tag ‘studyblrsisterhood’

[vans-e-blog]

MOTIVATE ME! pleaaaaase :O

[truecrimecreep]

Good. I believe all public places should allow guns. Anyone trying to harm people in a public place or classroom isn’t going to see a “no guns” sign and be like “oh darn…. Guess I can’t come in.” This allows ACTUAL licensed gun owners to protect themselves and others if need be. Like, how is that so hard for people to understand???

[vans-e-blog]

okay, so. just imagine, gun laws make it harder for people to buy gun. harder for people to get the "right" to carry and even own guns. Don't you think that making it harder for people to actually get access to guns, make this a safer place? Decreasing the chance for some maniac trying to kill people with guns he or she can easily buy in a supermarket (SUPERMARKET, FOR F**S sake, not GUNSHOP) even only by 1 %? Are you sure that all students in college are sane enough to carry a gun to school? Do you feel safe if the guy that used to bully people, or still does, carries a gun around? Does it really help you to carry one yourself? Do you really think that if someone starts shooting, you or someone else will have the nerve to get their gun out, aim at the shooter and take them out? If you answered those last couple of questions with yes, you seriously need to rethink what "living in peace" really means..

[pharmstudies]

Hello everyone! I hit 2k followers on my birthday and as a little gift to this lovely community for all the help and support I have received since I made this blog last month, I’ll be doing a giveaway to celebrate! 

The winner chooses the prizes for this giveaway! You can choose items from the websites listed below with the price not exceeding $30 and I’ll be covering for the shipping as well. This is open to US residents only! (Sorry, international shipping will be very expensive for some of these websites.)

Note: I’m not being sponsored by any of these websites. I just genuinely like them. And the photos below are just some examples of what these websites have.

mochithings.com

bando.com

muji.com

riflepaperco.com

kikki-k.com

Rules:

Must be following me as this is a gift to my followers (if you’re following from a side blog please let me know your main in the tags)

Reblog this post, likes do not count as an entry

No giveaway blogs please

The winner can only choose one of the websites listed above for their prizes (shipping is expensive bruh)

Must be willing to share your address with me

This giveaway ends on July 18 at 11:59 CT. I will choose the winner using a random generator and you will have 24 hours to respond. If not, a new winner will be chosen. Please ask me if you have any questions. Thanks again and good luck everyone! x

[emmastudies]

Microsoft OneNote tutorial for study, class and lecture by emmastudies

Hello! I have had numerous people message me about how I structure my notes for OneNote so I thought I would put together a tutorial! Above is a small run down of the program and my little two cents on each feature. But now I’m going to go into a little more detail to help anyone who is looking for somewhere to type their notes. Through I’ll suggest my ideas on how to use OneNote for different reasons including study notes, class notes and lecture/tutorial notes.

Set up and use:

Start by downloading OneNote from the App Store or from their website if you’re using a PC. It is free!!! I would definitely recommend downloading the mobile or tablet app as well.

Sign in with an Outlook account and begin making your notebooks. For high school I would suggest a new notebook for each class. For university, I had one notebook for the entire semester. As I go into my second semester I’ll make a new one, and so one. For study notes, it is up to you. You could either make one notebook for all your study notes and use sections to divide per subject or make a new notebook for each subject again. Or simply and a new section in the existing notebook. Notebooks are linked to OneDrive meaning you can close the notebook and reopen it at any time. They’re automatically saved too, so you can edit on your phone and when you use your computer it is updated!

Start creating sections. These act as dividers so depending how you have structured your notebook, make them for either each topic of your subject (high school) or each of your classes/subjects (university). For my high school class/study notes I made a new section for each new topic and for university I have one per subject. As you can see in the photoset; my notebook was legal studies (subject) and each section was for a topic (crime, human rights, family, consumers, assessments and homework).

Create your pages for each time you have class. Add the title of what you’re doing and start typing your notes. For my lectures I usually just name them “lecture 1”, “lecture 2” because I’m lazy, however for study notes I would use each subheading of the topic in the syllabus. If you’re wanting to understand my headings and subheadings completely I suggest checking out the legal studies syllabus that I created the above notes too (you can see it here on page 26).

Time for decoration and colour coding. Usually as I’m typing I bold or underline and colour code but you can always go back and do it as a revision method. This also gives you a chance to add any extra information you find! You can see an explanation of my colour code in the final image of the photoset. I found colour coding and formatting super helpful when I was studying for my HSC final exams!

Printing time! When I had finished my study notes (or class notes) I would print them so I had a physical copy to highlight and annotate. Here is where it gets a little fiddly. To print on one A4 size piece of paper without cutting off half your text, you need to shrink the size of the text box. This is what you might see - with half the text cut off. I would say reduce it to about half the original size - you can usually see on print preview how close it is to the edge. After you have made the textbox thinner, it should look like this. Another tip is printing using one sheet for two or more pages. This helps to reduce the amount of paper you’re using. On the print settings look for “pages per sheet” and change it to the number of pages you want (obviously the more pages, the smaller the font). It should look something like this (I’m not 100% sure if every computer or printer has this option, but for reference I use an Epson printer).

That is pretty much it for how I use OneNote for my all my different types of notes! It is very simple once you’ve organised everything! I would 100% recommend this program. We were advised to use it in year 9 when we received laptops from the government and I’ve not stopped using it. Althought there are some different between the Mac and PC versions, the main elements are the same. However you can check out this post by @vanesastudies which is for the PC version. I hope this tutorial was helpful. If there is anything I’ve missed out, drop me an ask. Thank you for reading! x

[vans-e-blog]

oh wow, I never knew how to properly use OneNote! Now I do! Thank you so much :*

[kimtivate]

“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee

“Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen

“The Diary of Anne Frank” by Anne Frank

“1984” by George Orwell

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone" by J.K. Rowling

“The Lord of the Rings” (1-3) by J.R.R. Tolkien

“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Charlotte’s Web” by E.B. White

“The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien

“Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott

“Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury

“Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte

“Animal Farm” by George Orwell

“Gone with the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell

“The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger

“The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak

“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain

“The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins

“The Help” by Kathryn Stockett

“The Lion, the Witch, and the Wadrobe” by C.S. Lewis

“The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck

“The Lord of the Flies” by William Golding

“The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini

“Night” by Elie Wiesel

“Hamlet” by William Shakespeare

“A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeleine L'Engle

“Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck

“A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens

“Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare

“The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams

“The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett

“A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens

“The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” by J.K. Rowling

“The Giver” by Lois Lowry

“The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood

“Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein

“Wuthering Heights” Emily Bronte

“The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green

“Anne of Green Gables” by L.M. Montgomery

“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain

“Macbeth” by William Shakespeare

“The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larrson  

“Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley

“The Holy Bible: King James Version”

“The Color Purple” by Alice Walker

“The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas

“A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith

“East of Eden” by John Steinbeck

“Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll

“In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote

“Catch-22” by Joseph Heller

“The Stand” by Stephen King

“Outlander” by Diana Gabaldon

“Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” by J.K. Rowling

“Enders Game” by Orson Scott Card

“Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy

“Watership Down” by Richard Adams

“Memoirs of a Geisha” by Arthur Golden

“Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier

“A Game of Thrones” by George R.R. Martin

“Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens

“The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway

“The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” (#3) by Arthur Conan Doyle

“Les Misérables” by Victor Hugo

“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” by J.K. Rowling

“Life of Pi” by Yann Martel

“The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge” by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“The Chronicles of Narnia” by C.S. Lewis

“The Pillars of the Earth” by Ken Follett

“Catching Fire” by Suzanne Collins

“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by Roald Dahl

“Dracula” by Bram Stoker

“The Princess Bride” by William Goldman

“Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen

“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe

“The Secret Life of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd

“The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel” by Barbara Kingsolver

“One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

“The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger

“The Odyssey” by Homer

“The Good Earth (House of Earth #1)” by Pearl S. Buck

“Mockingjay (Hunger Games #3)” by Suzanne Collins

“And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie

“The Thorn Birds” by Colleen McCullough

“A Prayer for Owen Meany” by John Irving

“The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot

“Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The Road” by Cormac McCarthy

“The Things They Carried” by Tim O'Brien

“Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse

“Beloved” by Toni Morrison

“Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut

“Cutting For Stone” by Abraham Verghese

“The Phantom Tollbooth” by Norton Juster

“The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The Story of My Life” by Helen Keller

[cockbiteproductions]

“all that matters is that u tried ur best”

me: *instantly flashes back to every moment i procrastinated and wasted*

me: ha hah haahah…… ….. yeah…….. my best……. that is the thing i totally did

[vans-e-blog]

this is so me :O

[dumbfilmhoe]

since i know a lot of you like to have something playing while you study or do homework i decided to just make a masterpost of some playlists and other stuff i like listening to while doing stuff

study like you’re in harry potter

hagrid’s hut

hogwarts express

potion class

dumbledore’s office

no.12 grimmauld place

weasley’s place

slytherin common room

gryffindor common room

ravenclaw common room

hufflepuff common room

hogwarts library

lord of the rings

rivendell

hobbit hole

the green dragon inn

doctor who

in the tardis

game of thrones

castle black

meereen the great pyramid

littlefinger’s brothel (lmao)

collections of study playlists

(x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x)

just classical

(x) (x) (x) (x)

[vans-e-blog]

i didnt even know something like this exists!!!😍😍😍

[grangergrades]

Hi.. I'm new to studyblr thing. How do I get more motivated and noticed? Do you have any advices?

hello! really sorry for such a late reply, was super busy with exams.. anyways lets get on to your question!  

An appropriate theme. having a theme that’s minimalistic, clean, and appealing is the best way to enhance the illusion of productivity ++ it’s really popular on many studyblr blogs! some examples of popular thememakers are neonbike themes, micealis, and odeysseus themes or you can find others too.

Make an Introduction Post. this allows people to get to know you! you can include what school system you’re under, how old you are, your hobbies etc. you can also tag studyblrs who have inspired you to make a studyblr!

Original content is what i recommend to get others to ‘notice’ you, and also to motivate yourself! i find that posting my notes motivate me to make and post more of them! if you think your notes are not ‘acceptable’ or not ‘pretty enough’… nah man. what matters is that you got work done. a few things you can participate in/post are: 

the notes you got done that day

motivational graphics 

masterposts on something academic related

join the 100 days of productivity!

Tag people in your original posts! many studyblrs have tags they follow! so they’ll reblog your posts and maybe even check out your blog! a few people you can tag are: 

@elkstudies (#elkstudies)

@genspen  (#heygen)

@studypetals (#studypetals) 

@obsidianstudy (#obsidianstudy) 

(( you can even tag me #natlookhere hehe ))

Talk to people!!! everyone loVES talking to other studyblrs trust me i’ve made so many new friends through this community!! the studyblr community is filled with loooovely people. so you can interact with others by

sending asks!! if someone reblogs an ask game, you’ll definitely be noticed if you send em something

message them! the tumblr private message is actually a blessing.. it’s so much easier to talk to people like this

i met so many amazing people by just going up and talking to them… though it may seem daunting, i can confirm that even the studyblrs that post the most breathtaking content are just huge nerds when you talk to them (see: @love-adore-study-more who i’ve actually met irl what a blessing. see: @asazora who’s probably the hugest dork ever. see: @obsidianstudy what an actual cutie. see: @genspen probably the sweetest human being ever) 

Networks and communities are also very helpful with getting to know people. a few communities include: 

the Studyblr Network

the Studyblr Index 

As for motivation, a good way to start is to list down what motivates you. refer back to this list from time to time, or when you feel unmotivated. other ways include:

Forming habits. Because while motivation fails you somedays, discipline makes you get it done. a few printables allow you to track your habits! (this one by @educatier is my fav!)

Trying different note taking methods is also helpful in finding out what’s best for you! methods such as mind mapping, dot point notes, and the blank sheet method are a few examples!

listen to pump up music while studying!! (pls listen to i can feel it by hey violet)

there are many motivational graphics circulating the studyblr community. print some of them out and put them on the wall of your study space and look up at it whenever feeling unmotivated!!! 

masterposts on motivation!! are super!! helpful too!! a few of these masterposts include:

motivation by @asazora

focus and motivation by @katsdesk

motivation by @areistotle

motivation masterpost by @elkstudies

Other new studyblr masterposts include:

Tips for Starting a New Studyblr by @theorganisedstudent​

How 2 Studyblr by @areistotle​

i really hope this helps!! im really sorry for the messiness of this… >.< but feel free to drop by anytime if clarification is needed!! or even just to chat :) good luck with the whole studyblr thing, im sure you’ll be just fine~

love, nat 

[alexandrasprout]

General study tips. - 101 study tips by @study-early - Back to school advice by @honorably-studious - 10 steps to reaching your full academic potential by @theorganisedstudent - How to study for an exam by @chemistrynerd2020 - Masterpost of educational youtube channels by @stvdyghost

Notes. - Guide to color coding by @study-well - Annotations & Note-taking by @novanovelist - Notes abbreviations by @mystudentid - Guide to graphic notes by @study-well - Notes examples:                       1 by @study-read-study                       2 by @cw0630 < also beautiful handwriting                       3 by @reinanotes                         4 by @shannastudies                        5 by @ib-study-and-tea

            Handwriting.                - Improve your handwriting by @areistotle                - Youtube video on how to improve handwriting by @nehrdist                - How to get neater handwriting by @stuudytips                - Tips to better handwriting by @cutestudystuff                - Handwriting examples:

                             1 by @stuudiesblr                              2 by @atstudies                              3 by @stylishstudyy                              4 by @clareqart                              5 by @booksflowerstea

Organisation - How to get organized when you’re not by @wonderfullifee  - College packing by @postmarq - How I organize by @leahrning - Masterpost about bullet journals by @studyign - 5 ways to make your life more organized by @lizzylearns

            Time management.                - The 5-day Study Plan by @dutchstudyblr                - Ultimate guide to time management in college by @college-advice                - How to wake up early by @teandstudyblrme                - Time management tips by @becoming-a-lawyer                - Overcoming procrastination by @miss-studious

Productivity. - Getting the most of lecture by @strive-for-da-best - Tips for effective studying - How to stay productive during the holidays by @areistotle - Productivity tips by @thedutchstudent - 5 tips for staying productive by @lizzylearns

Anxiety? Stress? Depression? - Overcoming anxiety by @studyrose - Studying with depression 1 by @study-well - Studying with depression 2 by @bloggerforstudentprogress - Managing stress during finals by @studyocracy - What to do on a bad day by @maryplethora // @saturdaystudying

Reading - POPSUGAR’s Reading Challenge 2016 - The Nerdy Book Club on Goodreads by @dutchstudyblr - Reading more by @thebooker - How to read more by @reignofbooks - How to get through your whole booklist by @gothamcityballet

If you guys want me to do a bigger masterpost for each subject, please let me know! I’ve only gathered 5 links per subject, but ofcourse there are a lot more great posts about these things!

[damienhaaas]

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The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.

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KEIMENA: This page is entirely in Greek, but if you’re looking for modern Greek literature, this is the place to access books online.

Proyecto Cervantes: Texas A&M’s Proyecto Cervantes has cataloged Cervantes’ work online.

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Poetry: This list includes “The Raven,” “O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde.”

Poem Hunter: Find free poems, lyrics and quotations on this site.

Famous Poetry Online: Read limericks, love poetry, and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Lord Byron and others.

Google Poetry: Google Books has a large selection of poetry, fromThe Canterbury Tales to Beowulf to Walt Whitman.

QuotesandPoem.com: Read poems by Maya Angelou, William Blake, Sylvia Plath and more.

CompleteClassics.com: Rudyard Kipling, Allen Ginsberg and Alfred Lord Tennyson are all featured here.

PinkPoem.com: On this site, you can download free poetry ebooks.

MISC

Banned Books: Here you can follow links of banned books to their full text online.

World eBook Library: This monstrous collection includes classics, encyclopedias, children’s books and a lot more.

DailyLit: DailyLit has everything from Moby Dick to the recent phenomenon, Skinny Bitch.

A Celebration of Women Writers: The University of Pennsylvania’s page for women writers includes Newbery winners.

Free Online Novels: These novels are fully online and range from romance to religious fiction to historical fiction.

ManyBooks.net: Download mysteries and other books for your iPhone or eBook reader here.

Authorama: Books here are pulled from Google Books and more. You’ll find history books, novels and more.

Prize-winning books online: Use this directory to connect to full-text copies of Newbery winners, Nobel Prize winners and Pulitzer winners.

[rarestcat-deactivated20150809]

Thank you, angel who made this.

[amor-intellectualis]

YOU GUYS THIS SO BEAUTIFUL I WANT TO CRY THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY. IT MAKES ME SO SO SO HAPPY.

[vans-e-blog]

Thank YOU !! :*

[aleyshaaa04-blog]

Hi! How do you use the timeline you've got on top of your BuJo? I've always been trying to figure it out, but somehow I can't find proper instructions :)

Hello! Ok so I do not always use a timeline, usually for the days I don’t have class or work to go to and I have a lot of time for school work. I use them to prevent myself from procrastinating.

What I do either the night before or in the morning I will plan out my day. You can draw the timeline however you like, but I use two lines so that each box is a pretty good size. (Each drawn box is an hour) The top line runs from midnight to noon, the bottom from noon to midnight. Then with highlighters (I like yoobi because it has many pretty & bright colors and they’re very affordable. Sold at Target) I have a color for each class, for sleeping, and for work. The blank spaces are free time used for eating, self-care, cleaning, non-academic tasks, and doing non-productive activities.

As I color in my timeline I write the tasks below the line in order that I want to do them and use color dots next to the task to show what class it belongs to.

Make sure when you plan out your day, plan realistically. Writing a 5 page research paper in 1 hour or doing homework for 6 hours straight is not realistic.

I do not schedule in small 5 or 10 minute breaks I just take them every half hour or every hour, but I do schedule in big brakes for eating or exercise.

Stick to your schedule as much as possible, otherwise there is no point in making this timeline. If your timeline says you should switch to a different task but you did not yet finish, switch anyway (unless the task you’re working on is due today or tomorrow and other tasks are not).

If you finish a task but you still have plenty of time dedicated to this task you can do a few things. Either relax and do nothing (I recommend not doing this because it usually gets me out of my productive mood). You can get started on the next task. You can add a new task (one that would take about as much as you have left over, or only add part of a new task to fit the time. For example if you’ve got 30 minutes left you can read 30 minutes of the next chapter) but after that you get back to your schedule. I also sometimes use this time to do some extra cleaning of my apartment.

I hope this helps and wasn’t too confusing. If you have anymore questions or need me to clarify something let me know!

[vans-e-blog]

This definitely answers it! It’s actually pretty easy, I don’t know how I couldn’t get a hold of that myself :D Thank you so much, Now I’m able to include a timeline for my last 2 weeks off uni! :)