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From ADHD in Adulthood: A Guide to Current Theory, Diagnosis, and Treatment
digging through my bookmarks, I found this again which made me aware of ADHD and helped me seek help. Now I'm diagnosed, medicated and gain new perspective for my life.
Hello everyone! If any of you remember I posted a previous network to make finding studyblrs in university easier, see here or paste this link https://witchylillie.tumblr.com/UniNetwork, into your browser.
The network, or directory, was amazing and it still has a lot of active blogs on it, however, I wanted to make an updated one as the previous one was posted in August of 2020, how time flies haha
If you're interested simply reblog this post with your major, location (you can be as specific as you would like), classification (i.e I'm a first-year master's student), and any social media information you would like me to add (i.e. insta: witchy.lillie) I will compile everyone's information together and post an updated page to make it easier to make friends and connections on here!
women reading is my favourite genre of art
Ok, I've seen this sentiment before, but the amount of Kindle Unlimited ads I've been seeing is forcing me to repeat it-
Kindle Unlimited is offering two free months of unlimited ebooks. As a trial. Which will then become a paid subscription.
Your local library is offering unlimited ebooks all the time. Forever. No contracts, no predatory practices, no tracking of how long you spend on each particular page in the hopes that information about your habits can be sold for a profit.
Use your library. They want so badly to give you all of the things for free.
The Library Is a Magical Place and You Should Fucking Go There
The Library Is
a Magical Place and You
Should Fucking Go There
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Seven years after, I see you again 😚
Guys this completely changed my writing, heed it. I often do an entire draft just looking at sentence variation and oftentimes the results are absolutely transformative in the difference.
This is very very good advice, and absolutely worth following. Read this. Read it again. Follow it. Your writing will get much, much better.
whenever i see this post i am like goddamn this is so true
11.14.2022
pictured: reading and taking notes with my little model 🐈⬛✨
14 November 2022
Found a cute cafe with vegan options pretty much on my campus and I had a really good time revising complex numbers there 💕
Sndhsjs @yughostlavia @frenchiepal congrats for the funniest tags I've seen under my posts so far
Wandering in bookshops and hanging out with cats brings me so much joy! I propose we all get together and open a cozy cat sanctuary that doubles as a library ♡
ive trying to consciously make studying enjoyable, but also rigorous and productive lately. started by downloading forest and tidying up my desk (a very good mix of art and law obvs). today is day one. hope everyone is staying safe.
ok, it’s time to talk about college students - and I mean the poor ones
I’m not sure if you guys know but here in Brazil there’s a lot of public universities and they are usually top quality. the thing is… most of people who study in these UNI are wealthy and that isnt just because we have really hard admission exams, but because we study full time there. in other words: no time for work.
in fact, what happens is: you have spots saved for low class people, people of color and from public schools. Half of them, actually. but then…the ones who finish their graduation are, mostly, the rich ones.
we have some programs where you work as TA or at research projects and you get paid something, theres also a permanence assistance but, where I study, for example, there was a cut in 20% in all of these programs last year.
I have a lot of friends that aren’t studying right now because they needed to get a job instead. Jee, the only reason I am studying is because I had some savings working as a freelance artist (and yes, I’m open for commission).
anyways I just saw some posts of people shitting at college students as if they were all spoiled kids. But thats not how it works everywhere. We re fighting hard here. me and my 2 colleges walk 2 hours everyday because we can’t even pay for public transport, I only have lunch and dinner at UNI restaurant cause it’s R$1.40 for meal($0.28) - other than that…well, I’m not that lucky everyday. and that’s because my parents are giving me all the support they can, but we don’t have much for start, so imagine the kids who can’t have any.
we are fighting for better conditions, we‘re fighting hard for science and we’re for being able to work and give back to the community in services what we received in form of education. But it’s getting harder everyday, with every cut to education, not only the quality of it falls, but thousands of students start to get hungry and need to give up on their rights for survival.
I want to bring to your attention that I don't feel confident enough to call this some-blr with good aesthetic, pretty art, pictures or advices or any sort of inspirational blog we can find around.
I have the feeling that this is more a personal blog than any of that. I wanted to make it about myself and my journey to find life, or better saying, my life. In my mind, I feel like I’ve faced with a big mountain which, in order to climb, I have to go through many changes and I can only hope they mean I have become stronger, wiser and closer to what I believe is my true self. In this journey, I believe that in orther to find my way I have to ask myself what I want to live for (hence, the name of this place).
People said to me that I have things, that I feel things or that I am things. In some of those people I believed, with others I disagreed. A lot of terrible things were said from me to myself (a terrible habit I keep doing from time to time). Until now, they helped in making me see in many perspectives and made me more aware of myself. But right now I feel tired of just listening and I want to take some actions that will make me feel like I’m improving my condition (be what it is).
With my presence here I just want to be open about what I go through while struggling to be what I call a better me, actually allowing myself of being me. I read somewhere that a good way to get out of a bad moment in life is to create movement. I decided I want to move forward, I don’t know yet where or how the path looks like. But this is what I aim to find out in this self discovery journey.
If you happened to find me in this corner of the web, feel free to join and get ready for the ride.
almost 5 years later and 2 in therapy and I happy to say I am still in this journey and got to live through incredible things and am amazed by plenty of other things I got to figure out about myself
Starting slow
I’m going back to work on my bachelor’s graduation work, trying to find a pace that won’t make me feel overwhelmed!
I wrote a little reminder for myself in the first planning page of my notebook, that I have to keep in mind this year: go slow and steady
Hi, I dare say am trying to come back? I checked my posts to find the first one, and that was a journey down in memory lane. I am still quite fond of what I did in this blog, my work in myself during this time. I can give myself a clap on the shoulder because I have grown in the direction I hoped when I started writing this first post!
And since I am soon to start working on my master thesis, the time could not be more appropriate for a comeback 😅
Until2022′s Guide to Catching Up When You’re Drastically Behind in Study:
I. Assess the damage
The first step in the plan is to confront how bad the situation is and then make some calls about what you can realistically achieve in the time you have left.
List everything you have to do, down to exact detail - don’t write ‘catch up on readings for Virology’, but instead note down every chapter. This will make it a lot easier to gauge how much time and energy you need for each assignment or exam, and will help to motivate you as you work through.
Use an Eisenhower matrix to sort these tasks:
Important and Urgent: Any and all compulsory assignments, exams, tests, etc.
Important but Not Urgent: Lectures for upcoming exams, compulsory readings or labs, etc.
Urgent but Not Important: Additional homework or tasks that are due soon but aren’t worth much, like logbooks or small quizzes
Not Important and Not Urgent: Additional readings, nice lecture notes, and other ‘good-to-haves’
Now cross out everything that you can afford not to do. That’s going to be everything in your ‘Not Important and Not Urgent’ zone, and probably all of the things in your ‘Urgent but Not Important’ zone. I know that it’s annoying not to get everything done, or to sacrifice the 5% that you could have gotten, but unless you can do it in 10 minutes and it’s really worth it you simply don’t have the time to spare here.
Having said that, if a class has lots of small assignments due, don’t overlook them because they’re not worth much on their own - make sure you take a look at the overall percentage left to go in that subject. If you can dedicate a whole day to just that subject and smash through all those assignments in one, you’re crossing a lot of work off your list. For example, I have weekly quizzes and 2% labs in my Pathology course - if I’m behind, I’ll dedicate a whole day and do all of those assessments. That’s 20% out of the way and a big leap towards catching up.
II. Tackle the low-hanging fruit
Seeing the product of countless days of procrastination is probably pretty daunting right now. I could offer you platitudes here but it’s a lot easier for you to actually take some action and feel better about it yourself, so:
Do everything that will take you less than 10 minutes to complete. Reply to those emails, the messages in the assignment group chat, upload your peer assessment, do all the little things you need to do for someone else. That should cross out a big chunk of things from your list, and you’ll be left with the important stuff like finishing assignments and studying for exams.
If you’re panicking (seeing the huge list of stuff which you have to finish in an impossibly short time will often do this!) then try an easy square breathing exercise. Breathe in for a count of 4, hold for a count of 4, exhale for a count of 4, hold for a count of 4, repeat. Splashing cold water on your face is helpful too, as is having a glass of water. Do not use this time to procrastinate! It might sound like a good idea to relax by watching Youtube or Netflix, scrolling through Instagram or playing a video game, but you’re going to be sucked back into the procrastination game that got you here in the first place.
III. Create your plan of attack
You’ve left it too late to be regularly revising, so our plan of attack is basically going to be: cram every subject consecutively. This is the best way to get everything done when you’re pressed for time like this - don’t switch tasks or subjects. Interleaving subjects is great when you’re on schedule, but right now you don’t want to spend quarter of an hour getting into the groove of a certain subject and then switching before an hour has passed.
University is just one assignment after another, no breathing space in between, especially towards the end of the semester. All you need to do is work out what’s due first and what’s worth most, order everything according to those criteria and then focus on the first assessment until you’re done. Once the assignment is handed in or you’ve sat the exam, then you can move onto the next task.
If you have two different assignments due for different classes on the same day, plan ahead so you can dedicate a full day to each subject instead of working on both at the same time.
Plan out every single day - make sure you’re scheduling in time to eat, shower, sleep, and take breaks as well as to study. Be specific when planning your time out each day as to what tasks you’re hoping to achieve - don’t allocate too much time to any single lecture, but at the same time, be realistic about how much you can cover in one hour.
Choose wisely based on what you do or don’t know. There isn’t much point in spending this precious time revising the things you already know you’re good at, so suck it up and schedule in the hard stuff first up, but be prepared to move on if you can’t get it down. You’re far better off going into the exam knowing 10 things badly, than 1 thing really well, so focus on the basics and if you have time to learn the more complex details then go back and do that later.
You also need to be flexible and prepared to adjust - sometimes an assignment will take longer than expected or a day just won’t be as productive as you thought it might be. Don’t panic, just re-plan and shift things around so you keep moving in the right direction.
IV. Grind it out
Now that you have a clear idea of what you need to achieve and when, it’s time to get it done.
For once, you shouldn’t need to worry about simple procrastination. You’re probably already panicking, so turn that anxiety into motivation which will fuel you and let you focus for long time periods. Fear can be a great driver - when the threat of the exam is looming over you, it’s amazing how well you can knuckle down, assuming you don’t want to fail.
Pack a bag with everything you need - your laptop or tablet, your charger, headphones, a water bottle and a travel mug, snacks and meals for the day, and anything else you like to have with you when you’re studying. Then take yourself to the library, the local coffee shop, the office - wherever you like to study, but don’t sit at home. There’s too many opportunities for distraction and you cannot afford that right now. Being in an environment where other people are working will motivate you to do the same.
If you’re working on an assignment, the best way to get things done quickly is to let go of any preconceptions of doing a great job, or having a perfect draft, and instead just focusing on having a draft. Bash out the worst draft you’ve ever written, fill it with run-on sentences and spelling mistakes. But make sure you finish a draft. Then all you have to do is edit it, and it’s a lot quicker to do it this way than it is getting bogged down in the details before you’ve even begun.
When you’re studying for exams, the number one way to learn is through active recall. There is no point in wasting time writing out a full set of notes if you’re two days out from the test. Even if you feel like you don’t know a single thing, start off straight away by testing yourself - do past exams, drill flashcards, try and write outlines or mind maps and then check your notes or textbooks and fill in what you’ve missed. If you don’t know the answer or you get it wrong, look it up and try to understand it, and then test yourself again in twenty minutes.
It’s important to strike a balance here: don’t overextend yourself, but don’t continually take breaks. If you think you need a break, you probably don’t. Take two minutes to stretch your legs and drink some water, but do not pick up your phone. If you’re starting to feel mentally fatigued, especially after a few hours, it can be helpful to switch locations - go outside and study on a park bench, or shift to the dining hall. Sometimes the change of scenery is all you need to feel refreshed.
V. Rinse and repeat
This is your life now. Make sure you stick to a regular sleep schedule - aim for at least six hours a night - because otherwise your fatigue levels will seriously impact your memory, retention and critical thinking abilities. It’s not worth the few extra hours you might get in, and you probably won’t be productive anyway.
Remember that the advice I’ve given you here is based on what I do when I am severely behind, not how I study on a daily basis when I’m on top of everything. These tips aren’t all great for long-term learning, but are the most efficient way to cram when you’re behind and under pressure.
You’ve got this.
A comprehensive guide to catching up when you’ve fallen behind and assignments and exams are looming!
13.1.22 | 11/100 Days of Productivity
A busy day of lectures, stats work, and diss prep
Day 17/100...
I've completed all my projects for coding.😃So I'm going to do them again but this time with videos playing along so I can see how to improve. Spanish is improving a bit I think..
https://www.instagram.com/p/CNgZ6xMLM5D/
again and again and again i’m sitting here in my parents’ garden, wondering about things and things and things
i’m struggling with uni a lot these days. because of that i’m often angry at myself. but then i realize: bae, you’ve been doing this shit on your own since april 2020. 14 months of not making friends in uni. not getting to know the city. no study groups. no group motivation that keeps you going. hell, i haven’t even seen a library from the inside since last year’s january.
