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I’m wondering if there might be any interest in an English lit university primer class for incoming freshers who are missing out on their last bit of school before uni? I would happily take students through some wee bits of central texts to give a bit of help and support to smooth the transition. Lmk if anyone is interested?

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every semester, without fail, there’s some freshman who’s like “oh I never check my email lol” and i get worried for them, bc they’re going to miss some important email about a pop quiz or a test, or something and then fail. so if you’re a freshman reading this, CHECK YOUR EMAIL im not joking, professors will send you stuff via email that they’ll never mention in class. I’m in my email every hour on the hour before and after class. check that shit. put that app on ur phone, turn on notifs, go in and refresh every hour, check your spam, check your email

this has been a message from your concerned dad. check ur email, do well in school, i love you

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Our baby sparkles ✨

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Alicia Silverstone, 1990s

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graduating later than other people means absolutely nothing at all. like you both completed the same requirements and have the same qualifications–why does it matter if you completed it in 5 years and they in 4?? in 6? in 3? you had experiences they didn’t have and they had experiences you didn’t have. relax. take your time if it’s allowable. if that’s what it takes for you to get through your degree and do your best, that’s what you should do. you’re going to succeed. you’re going to be okay.

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A friendly ghost rest stop before you continue your day! 💗

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please take a moment right now to ask for help if you need it 🌸

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I know you’re tired bitch but keep fucking going

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she’s gonna pass her classes and she’s gonna graduate

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Who

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the girl reading this

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everyone who reads this will pass their classes and graduate!!! spread the word!

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as a studyblr with high grades I feel the need to put it out there, I’ve never pulled an all-nighter. Yes I’ve stayed up late in an effort to get assessment done but never past 11:30pm. I can count on two hands the times I’ve sacrificed my sleep and long term health for school. As a studyblr with sleep apnea and anxiety, to me it is not worth pulling all-nighters. Instead use your time effectively. Start assignments straight away and aim to have them finished two days before the due date and just going over and editing until it’s due. The key to never having to sacrifice sleep is good planning and following through. Maybe it’s that you should stay at school for an extra hour or two to get work done, or maybe it’s that you need to wake up super early to work before school. Whatever it is, figure it out and carry through. Please don’t glorify bad sleeping habits, it hurts you more than you could know.

edit: I understand how not everybody can live this way and that sometimes mental/physical health leaves people unable to work during the day and have to sacrifice sleep in order to get stuff done. I have seen and experienced this and I know how hard it can be. My love and support is with you, you can get through this.

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How to Fix your Sleep Schedule

We’ve all been there. You’ve been pushing back your bedtime for an entire week and now you feel exhausted and you don’t think you can function as well as you normally could. You just want to get enough sleep again, but how?

Make small changes

It’s a lot easier to push back your bedtime than to push it forward—but it’s not impossible. You just have to take it step by step. Go to sleep 15-30 minutes earlier every night until you reach your desired bedtime. You could try going to sleep much earlier than your regular time, but according that doesn’t usually work out. If you’re waking up later than you want to, you might also want to try waking up 15 minutes earlier each morning until you get up at the desired time.

I remember there was a week this semester when I went to sleep at 1am for several days in a row (I usually sleep at 11). I was sleep deprived and exhausted and I tried to sleep at 8 to catch up on lost sleep, but I couldn’t. I just laid in my bed for an hour until I gave up trying to sleep and decided to work on some homework until I felt sleepy again. What I should’ve done was go to bed 15 minutes earlier each night until I could go to sleep at 11 again.

Adjust exposure to sunlight

Exposure to adequate amounts of sunlight is key to helping our bodies maintain their circadian rhythm, which is the process that regulates our energy levels during the day and tells us when to be awake and when to go to sleep. Sunlight helps our body produce optimal levels of melatonin, a hormone that makes us feel sleepy at night. Studies have shown that people get better quality sleep in the summer because there is a greater exposure to light.

That being said, you should expose yourself to more light during the day to get better sleep at night. This might mean waking up earlier so you don’t miss hours of sunlight in the morning.

At night, you should reduce your exposure to any sort of light - both natural and artificial - so that your body knows it’s time to not be awake. I personally turn down the lights (and only have my fairy lights on) after 10:30 pm. When you’re trying to get back into your desired sleep schedule, you could aim to turn down the lights 30 minutes before your desired bedtime for that day.

Don’t eat too close to bedtime

You should wait 2 - 3 hours between dinner/your last meal and bedtime. I would talk about how studies show that eating too close to bedtime can possibly damage your health, e.g. causing reflux when you’re lying down, but that’s all been said before. The only thing I’d like to reiterate is that you sleep better when you wait after you eat. But as for my own logic on why you shouldn’t go to sleep when you’re full…

When you wait a few hours after you’ve had your last meal, before you go to bed, you won’t go to bed full, meaning that in the morning, you’re likely to be hungry. I don’t know about you, but I can’t go back to sleep when I’m, like, starving, so being hungry when I wake up causes me to resist sleeping in.

Don’t sleep in

You would think that sleeping in is, in fact, good for catching up on sleep. In reality, it doesn’t make you stop sleeping late, since you’d probably still spend the same amount of time awake. Instead, once you wake up, you should stay up, and don’t go back to sleep. You’re likely to get sleepy at an earlier time, and this will help you push forward your bedtime.

Resist napping

Resisting naps also has a similar logic to not sleeping in. If you take a nap, you’ll feel more energetic and night, and you might not be able to fall asleep as soon as you wanted to. If you resist taking a nap, however, you’ll be more tired at night, and you’ll fall asleep more easily.

Be strict with yourself

Finally, the key to having a good, consistent sleep schedule is to be strict with yourself. Don’t let yourself stay up for just 5 more minutes because you still have a ‘small’ task to take care of. When it’s time to end the day, end the day.

Maybe it’s hard for you to be strict with yourself since you can’t justify going to sleep over completing whatever task or responsibility you have left. Well, here’s my logic:

You could stay up 5 more minutes and risk extending that to a few hours or so in attempt to finish something. There’s no guarantee that you’ll finish it, and you might just lose all those precious hours of sleep for nothing, since you’ll wake up in the morning tired and unable to effectively do the task you wanted to do; or

You could stop everything you’re doing and sleep on it. You wake up in the morning feeling refreshed and clear-headed and ready to tackle on your tasks for the day. You find a new way to think about the task you were stuck on, and you finally solve it in less than half an hour.

I do realize that this only applies if the task isn’t super urgent. Let’s say you have a project due 11:59 PM and you’re rushing to finish that. In this case, the core problem is probably something else: an inability to manage your time, or procrastination. If that’s the case, you might want to check out my posts on how to beat procrastination and how to create an efficient (revision) schedule. The latter post is tailored for exam preparation, but the main ideas are the same for general scheduling (there’s a recap at the bottom if you just want to know the main ideas).

Additionally, you might wanna check out my post on my night routine.

And that’s all I have for you today! Hope this was helpful, and if you have any questions, feel free to drop me an ask or message me. Have an awesome day :)

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growing out of certain insecurities and realizing that there’s no competition in my universe has been one of the greatest things i have ever done for myself.

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‘there’s no competition in my universe’ that is so powerful

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Listen, time’s running out. Will do something about it?

Y'all don’t GET how much I want you to win for yourself. Every time I write my posts, I have one (1) thing on my mind: please let this help someone snap out of their BS and allow them to go win.

Staying in a negative environment has made me realize that you have to take care of urself. No one’s coming to help u “get ur shit together”, you have to do this for yourself because you realise you deserve so much more than the shit you’re experiencing now.

People ask me why I’m ‘motivated’ and it’s really funny to me. You’ll be motivated too if you knew what being unmotivated feels like. What it feels to be numb and hate your life. What it feels to be feel you’re worthless, incapable, out of control and unhappy. What it’s like to be dead inside, look back on your life and want to cry, because you haven’t done anything for yourself, you just existed and forgot to live.

Please don’t do this to yourself. Y'all don’t know how painful it is to live worthlessly. It’s a numbing experience, when you drift aimlessly, voicelessly, but on the inside, you’re screaming because!!! this ain’t it, chief!!!!!

If you’re experiencing what I’ve experienced, listen. Take ONE step today. Do something about this thing called life! Make your bed today before you leave it. Write next day’s to-do before sleeping tonight. Read a self-help book, and this time around, TRY the things the author tells you to. Try out everything—art, sketching, acting, baking, writing—to find what truly brings you joy. No tips or articles or videos you watch will help unless you so something with the shit you consume.

So in short, fuck existing, try living.

Please look after your happiness. Please. Protect it! Don’t let yourself die this way, it hurts I KNOW, but you’ve GOT TO do something about it. And you’ve got to start soon, for time is running out.

Try something different today. Fix yourself. Heal yourself.

Try. Go make your bed.