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@veneficusstudies
Ah, sorry guys! I’ve been swamped with media work and I totally forgot to take photos! I promise, we’ll be back to normal on Thursday! Thanks, guys!
It’s finally October, which means it’s almost Halloweeeeeeeen! My bus didn’t turn up today, so I got to stay home and do my work there. I ticked off almost every task on my list (which is extremely satisfying!) and treated myself to a film, Robin Hood: Men In Tights. It’s very funny, and I highly recommend it!
I actually forgot to take photos of my work today, but it was basically just tidying up my code. So, to make up for it, have some photos of a forest and a mausoleum near me!
HTML time today guys! Our teacher gave us a challenge to improve the layout of his website and update his router setup simulation. It’s really challenging...but what’s life without a little resistance? Hopefully I’ll learn some new skills. Also, more cat!
There’s a fine line between “pushing yourself out of your comfort zone” and “pushing yourself into a mental breakdown” and we need to fucking find it and stop encouraging people to do the second in an attempt at making them do the first.
Coding a help desk is gonna be hard, as I haven’t used the table asset before, but hey! It’s gonna be nice to learn something new! Spent some time outside today as well, gotta make sure to keep my wellbeing up!
Computer science project planning! I actually really love Gantt Charts, they’re honestly really helpful when it comes to planning out timings, so I would entirely recommend using them for large projects.
Gosh, these photos are terrible, but here, have a photo of the neighbourhood pheasant. I’m working on some computer science for the software development unit and I’m honestly pretty stressed. I’ve got both media studies and computer science coursework to do but I’ll just have to manage my time wisely.
messy lecture notes vs after class notes 🖊 ig: studylustre
BACK TO SCHOOL: HABITS TO DEVELOP
hi guys! i’m back with a masterpost of sorts, and a positive one since my posts haven’t been the most optimistic recently…
for some of us, back to school is right around the corner. for others (including me), we have a month left, and the realisation that school exists and we should probably start preparing is beginning to settle in.
start waking up earlier: wow, wow, wow. the most generic ‘tip’ ever to exist. but it’s true - if you keep waking up at 12pm, you’ve already lost most of your day and don’t have all that much time to do stuff. so, wake up earlier. i wake up naturally between 7 and 9am anyway (9am is a lie-in for me, thank you body clock *eyeroll*) so this isn’t a huge thing for me, but goddammit if you want any chance of not being an angry teenage monster when you have to go back to school, start waking up earlier a few weeks before summer ends.
follow your school routine: i saw this tip recently (i can’t remember who posted it, i’m so sorry! credit to you!) where you follow your school routine every morning, which can not only normalise it so you don’t associate that routine with school (that made no sense, i’m sorry - it just reduces the association with school, and when school comes around, you’ll hopefully associate it with summer break) but it gives you some kind of purpose in the morning so you don’t end up in bed all day with a jar of nutella for company…. i see you.
journal: this doesn’t have to be a perfect bullet journal like the ones you see all over tumblr, or a planner. i mean a journal, to write in and press flowers in if you wanted to, and just sit and feel like those girls who sit under a big window with books and a handwritten inky journal with no technology in sight that you see on tumblr in the lead-up to autumn. (phew, that was a long sentence). this grounds you, but KEEP IT PERSONAL! not school related! as a person who’s brain works on associations, it’s important to keep potentially stressful environments and aspects of my life completely separate from places of solace (in this case, the journal, where i go to write and say everything i need to).
have a ritual: yes, i’m a witch, so this could be a witchy ritual. but no, i’m talking about something you do weekly, whether it’s a friday night, a sunday or a mid-week pickup on a wednesday. this is an evening where you, for example, finish all your work by 8pm and then devote the rest of your evening to chilling. the fuck. out. put your books away and get your bag ready for the next day, and get up from your desk. draw a bath or take a shower. a long one. preferably a bath, so you can sit with bubbles and a book and chill out completely. then, make a cup of tea and sit in bed with a book or your journal, or an episode of your favourite netflix show. then go to sleep feeling really calm and at ease.
do your work as soon as you get it: every year - every term (okay sorry, semester. jeez, i’m a brit. anyway.) for that matter - we say to ourselves that the second we get homework or a project, we’ll do it immediately. do we end up doing that? no. should we? yes. set that same goal this year, and at least try to do it. okay but seriously, this is important if you want to keep up, all jokes aside.
check who you’re surrounding yourself with: are these people motivating? positive? do they lift you up, and keep you on the right path? or do they drag you down with their own woes that they drown you in, or do they belittle you, or make you feel like school is dumb and ruin the motivated mindset you had ten minutes ago? if so, leave. find new, better people who tick all the boxes. in school, you need a support base of people who help you academically, and listen to you - but remember, you need to be returning that. you need to listen to them when they need it, and help them in return.
eating breakfast: i suck at eating when i’m not at school - in the three weeks i’ve been on summer break, i don’t think i’ve eaten lunch once. but school reminds me to eat, and i come v close to dying if i don’t eat breakfast before school, but i know that suddenly eating in the morning after six or seven weeks of… not… can suck and can make you feel pretty shit, so start doing it a week or so before - if you haven’t noticed, these habits are all things to start before school, so they’re already habits by the time summer ends!
make a study group (chat): i’m kicking my social anxiety in the ass and i posted to my snapchat asking for people to message me if they’d be interested in being in a study groupchat on snapchat, which hopefully could turn into an actual study group when exams get closer. i’ve never done this before, but it seems promising so i highly recommend you try this as well! it doesn’t have to be a post-on-story-and-wait-for-applicants, it can just be your friends, and have that chat be strictly-study related, not just a groupchat. i had one like this last year, and we had strict rules that you weren’t allowed to talk about non-study stuff, since it was a group with my best friends and we had two other groupchats (i take things way too seriously lol)
okayyyy that’s all i have! feel free to reblog and add on any tips you think of (we gon need all the help we can get next year, studyblr gotta stick together yknow)
More computer science! This time I brushed up on my Visual C# skills before our assignment was set. The photo of the forest was from the weekend walk for media studies, it’s such a nice place.
Finally, something other than storyboarding! I’m working on learning some html in computer science right now, which is entirely fun because I love coding and creating things so creating my own website is like a dream.
It doesn’t matter
* if your notes aren’t 100% aesthetic
* If you don’t wake up 5 AM to start studying
* If your handwriting is messy
* if you didn’t achieve that grade
You’re worthy of love and respect. Your value is not defined by your grades or notes. If they cannot appreciate the incredible person you are is their problem, not yours.
Common mistakes when studying
1. Studying what you’re good at
It can be quite tempting when studying, to study what you know, rather than what you’re not so good at. It’s okay to sometimes study something you know to give yourself that little confidence boost, but don’t forget to go over the things you are weakest at. Make a list of the topics you struggle with - you can identify them perhaps by doing test papers. It’s quite likely that those topics will come up so make sure you understand them
2. Underestimating work loads
When i had my GCSE exams, i went over what i had to study before i had the exam in February (exams in may), and made a timetable for studying; it turned out i had so much more to study than i realised and so little time left. I was glad that i checked at that point in the year and not any later, because my timetable brought me right up to the first day of exams, and that was just to study things once. I really recommend at the start of this school year or now (depends where you are in the semester/term) to check what work you have and make sure you don’t run out of time.
3. Passive studying
If you’re like me, there’s no way information can go in your head just by writing it down. It may work for some people, but chances are, just copying down notes straight from a textbook isn’t going to get you that A*. There are plenty of other ways to study that are effective - flashcards are great, as long as you condense the information - quizzing yourself and getting others to quiz you - trying to visualise things rather than read them, perhaps draw pictures related to processes to help you understand them.
4. Focusing too much on memory
Memorising is vital, yes. However, it isn’t any good if you have no idea what the things mean that you are memorising. Your brain works best when it can make connections to things, so if you try your best to understand what you are memorising, you’re more likely to remember it. I found that when i read something that i didn’t understand and then re-read it and tried to make sense of it, it was one of the things that i never forgot, because i took the time to go over it.
5. Cramming
We’ve all done it. Sunday night up until 11pm. It’s not nice. You wished that your past self had done some work. Your brain can’t handle cramming, especially late at night. If you do find yourself in this situation, don’t study everything; pick out the biggest topics, the ones your teachers emphasise the most, and the ones you don’t understand. Leave the rest behind and pray it doesn’t come up lol :)
so that’s all my tips for fixing bad study habits, i’m hoping to do more original help posts like this soo please follow to see them!
Back with the cat, and back to media. I only have about 58 seconds left to storyboard, so I’ll be done with this soon, I promise. I’ll probaby work on some computer science tomorrow, because I have a 4 hour lesson. Also, the second picture was taken by my little cousin who is literally the cutest. I sense a budding photographer!