10 Reasons Why Studying is Hard
1 . You don’t know WHY
You don’t know why you have to study. You don’t know your true purpose.
Let me inform you: You have to study because this is the stage in life where you create a foundation of all the basic knowledge you need and learn all sorts of things.
In the next stage, you get to choose what career path you want to take. That is why you should think about your “WHY”.
I am studying because I want to study every day and be prepared for my exams.
2 . You don’t know HOW to study
If you are like my brother, then you don’t know how to study.
Somehow, when we join high school, nobody really teaches us how to study.
Studying involves using different tactics to understand and remember things for the future, or for exams.
You need to learn to memorize.
This is how I memorize things for my exams:
I condense my notes into a few tiny words (summarizing)
I memorize these little words by:
Writing them over and over again
Closing my eyes and remembering them
Testing myself by writing the words again
3 . You are not studying at the right time
Are you a morning person or a night person?
Do you feel energized at 10 am or 10 pm?
These are questions you need to ask yourself to learn why studying is hard for you.
You need the answers to these questions in order to actually study.
4 . You don’t study every day
Alright, you don’t have to study every day.
But that doesn’t mean you only study at 1 am the night before the exam!
That is not smart at all. How are you supposed to teach yourself 3 months-worth of work in a few caffeine-spurred hours?
Stop making studying hard! Just study a little every day.
5 . You don’t have motivation to study
You can’t study at all because you don’t motivate yourself to study.
That is sometimes an excuse because here is the secret: Action comes before motivation, not the other way round.
Stop waiting for the right moment to come down from the sky like clouds parting and the sun shining down on you.
Just open your book right now and read it.
6 . You have some bad habits
If you can’t study at all, maybe you need to study your own habits.
Get a notebook and begin to track every single thing you do in a day. I would advise tracking habits after every hour.
Then you will begin to notice that you are doing some bad habits that make studying hard for you.
7 . You can’t focus on studying
Studying is hard for you and you can’t study at all because you can’t focus on studying.
My advice for you is to sit down and ask yourself why you can’t focus on studying and find a solution to that.
8 . You don’t have fun while studying
Studying to you is probably boring work!
You need to make studying appealing and inviting so you will feel motivated to study.
9 . You don’t know any study hacks
Everyone has their own study hacks.
You probably don’t. That is why studying is hard for you.
You need come up with a personal game plan for how you plan to get good grades on your next test.
10 . You are just plain lazy
Maybe you are just lazy. Everyone gets lazy once in a while. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t get off your butt right now and start studying.
Do the least you can possibly do. Open your book and plan to learn just one thing today.
Remember only you can go deep inside and find out why you can’t study or why you never feel like studying. Ask yourself these questions.
That is how you will begin to create a good mindset that will help you to study.
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In the past I have been highly critical of the fact that so much Holocaust memory is constructed through the autobiographical/memoiric writings of men, like Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi. And I remain critical, because that male canon obscures the experiences for women.
I've understood for a while that women write for their families while men write for history, but I've finally figured out how to put words to another piece of it. Because women perceive their individual experiences to have been unimportant, or as a tiny part of a whole, their writings are much harder for laypeople to understand.
One of the most moving Warsaw Ghetto resistance memoirs I've read so far has been I Remember Nothing More: The Warsaw Children's Hospital and the Jewish Resistance by Adina Blady-Szwajger. Towards what I'm going to call the first ending of this memoir (pg. 153), she writes:
When I finished the last page of my memoirs, I went back to the beginning. I read them through-and suddenly realized that something was wrong. I had wanted to bear witness to the true events of those times, but I had done it very awkwardly. Over the last forty-five years, the world has changed, new generations have grown up, and everything that happened has faded in the mists of history ... Everything has changed - even the streets I wrote about are no longer on the map of contemporary Warsaw. So much of what I wrote has ceased to be clear and comprehensible ... We have crossed the barrier of shadows, and one by one we are leaving. The young are left behind. And it would be a good thing if something of those years remained for them. And so we need to explain, not just to reminisce. I don’t know whether I am able to. I am not a professional writer, or a chronicler. But I must try ...
This type of ambivalence towards one's right to record their memories over such a traumatic past is a typical presence in women's Holocaust memoirs, but so is the issue Blady-Szwajger so eloquently points out above: the memories recorded are niche, interpersonal; recording events and landscapes and individuals which have not penetrated collective memory, and remain obscure to laypersons. At the time, the massacre of a Ukrainian shtetl was the most memorable moment in a writer's life, but from the lens of us, as students of history, it may be a blip in the larger history of Einsatzgruppen actions at the beginnings of Operation Barbarossa.
Because male writers are much more likely to understand themselves as purveyors of history, and not simply as small, modest pieces of a collective, many of their writers include attempts to contextualize events they personally experienced within the larger history of World War II and the Holocaust. Whereas women, simply remember.
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14.9.22
Been having too many meh productivity days this week. Just gonna focus on one task and one task only today ✨ have a great day
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17 september 2023.
i am really very grateful to have a few hours in the early morning, with the sun and a crisp chill and an hour to read the newspaper and learn about the city's history and one man's post-retirement viola journey. feel like my eyes did way too much work today. i'm burning out by trying to fly through my syllabi rather than let it take until the end of the semester. don't know how to make myself feel more settled, less like there are a million things i need to do and yet feel like i can't do just one. feel like i need a good hour outside doing nothing yet, i tried that, and i wouldn't let myself be a part of it.
on my mind:
should i reread the mortal instruments?
the good feedback i got on my first history paper ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶
how the dialogue in plays seem to contain so much
i love my big wool sweater
soul feeling a bit parched
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06.19.23 | i took myself outside for a dose of vitamin d ☀️ while doing some research reading
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The most unrealistic thing about All Systems Red is that every member of the PresAux survey team (except for Pin-Lee) has a doctorate. Realistically the team should be more than half grad students.
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chesca and hank had THE TALK again about their relationship. hank wants to work it out while chesca is still much indecisive. she somehow was reminded about her parents' relationship when they were also in college but her dad left them. chesca recognizes that her struggle to commit traces back to her trauma to which she decided she'll try to get herself therapy.
hank on the other hand tried to be patient about the situation as he understands chesca's feelings and trauma. he is also supportive of her getting therapy.
chesca is also pressured to keep up with her grades and maintain her gpa. she's running for a latin honor to which she thinks being in a relationship would hinder that as that's what her mother went through. however, she also thinks ending a relationship would cause more distractions in her studies and it will only make matters worse.
chesca believes a couple's therapy would be their best option. she loves hank and sees a future with him but she needs to fix herself and her commitment issues to put a stop in hurting her partner.
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i went to some vintage and thrift shops today looking for a leather bomber jacket for my launchpad mcquack cosplay. i didn’t find the right jacket, but i did stumble upon these collectible mickey glasses!! i love weird collectible glasses SO much, so these were an instant buy.
also spotted a straight up scrooge jacket at my favorite vintage place LAWL, but it’s too small for me so i left it for someone else.
here’s the items i ended up getting:
spotted this INCREDIBLE shirt at my vintage place. the material is really nice and i adore the colors and patterns. i will definitely be wearing this one to work a lot.
i’m pretty sure this one is a scout’s uniform? the shirt is made of a durable and stiff material and i really like it. the white fastens on the shoulders are too cute! i also nabbed that handkerchief today.
this cropped jacket is REALLY rad. it’s hard to tell because i couldn’t get a good picture in my tiny house but the crop is pretty severe and baggy. it’s actually a size too small on me, so fastening the cuffs are out of the question with my fat wrists, but i absolutely love the way it looks on me. it also kind of gives me della duck vibes.
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Grad school makes you want to bite things
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10 Rules to Stay Focused on Studying
Here are my very own tips and tricks to keep you focused on studying:
1 . Hydrate to stay focused on studying
This is a tip that my friend gave me a long time ago.
When your mind begins to wander while studying, take a sip of water.
It works because it turns your focus to drinking and feeling the sensation of water hitting your system.
2 . Remove all distractions
You can’t focus on studying because your phone is right next to you.
There are so many distractions in the world today.
I was writing on my laptop while the TV was playing in the background, but my phone was playing YouTube at the same time!
If you want to focus on studying, you need to remove all distractions.
Turn off your wifi on your phone.
3 . Start a stopwatch
This is my very own tip to stay focused on studying.
All you have to do is start up your stopwatch on your phone.
Remember that it’s a stopwatch, not a timer! All it does is track how much time you can focus on studying before you get distracted.
It really helps me. It might sound weird but try it out.
4 . Make studying fun
Studying is boring and a lot of people hate studying. Those are the facts.
If you want to focus more on studying, switch things up.
5 . Fix your mindset
Stop studying just to get good grades on your next exam.
Change your mindset.
Become a person who studies every day just because.
It’s not about the exams anymore. Live and breathe studying.
That is when you can focus on studying better.
Think of it as a journey, not a means to an end.
6 . Resign yourself to your fate
What do I mean by this?
I mean that you need to understand that studying is an inevitable part of your life.
You are going to have to focus on studying. So, stop being stubborn and study right now.
Be practical and stop studying at 1am when your exam is at 10am – you drink coffee to stay up but all it does is mess up your system!
7 . Take breaks to stay focused on studying
Breaks are very important to focus on studying.
A break can be as simple as standing up once every 10 minutes and stretching.
Stop slouching and hunching over your books for 1 hour and then complaining when you can’t stay focused on studying!
Take more breaks.
8 . Guided meditation to focus on studying
If you can’t focus on studying because your thoughts get in the way, it might be time for you to try out guided meditation.
What is guided meditation?
Go on youtube and type it into the search.
It is a video where someone tells you what to think about. It reduces distraction in your head.
9 . Get enough sleep
I have done experiments on sleep. If you sleep late, trust me you won’t be able to focus on studying.
Forget 8 hours of sleep! If you are a young student, you need 10 hours of sleep. 8 is the minimum.
10 . Eat right to focus on studying
If you don’t eat the right amount of calories for your body, you can have trouble focusing on studying.
If you keep eating things that your body hates, you won’t be able to stay focused on studying.
My body hates milk and coffee. Trust me when I say I won’t have any of that!
I need to take care of my body to keep it at its best.
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wanted to start cooking with all the local vegetables i have never tasted so this month's is butternut squash. i actually wanted to taste the vegetable first so i looked for the non blender options. stir fried it to add to my hoisin ginger noodles that i usually have w red and green onions and broccoli. its definitely not like lauki... so much sweeter!
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10.9.22
Really pushed myself this week to get through so much of the reading I have piled up for work but each attempt flopped for one reason or the other. I set some time aside this evening to get through it and organise myself/thoughts so hopefully I should be on track to achieving some of my big goals. Eeek I’m so excited.
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11 october 2023.
went to work today after being under the weather last week and a slow long weekend at home. think i love being by myself but need to have scheduled interactions with others or else the shadows get taller and taller on the walls, though not a huge fan of leaving each interaction with people with the refrain of “why do i act like this, so far from who I want to be?” been thinking that maybe me unguarded is the me that is finally beautiful. in maybe the exact same way, i went on a whole walk with a rock in my shoe. wonder if it will ever dislodge.
on my mind:
remus lupin
going from binge reading the shadowhunters books to classic lit is a welcome change but man what a JUMP my brain is recalibrating
remember when you had to recalibrate your wii
"cool about it" on repeat
maybe all the static in my head is a necessary evil to moving on
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Day idek of working on my thesis
I’ve started with the writing which is very freeing. I’m also doing a significant amount of coursework so it means there’s a fixed amount of time I’m working with. Not to mention a second shorter thesis I’m doing in translation. That one doesn’t consume all of my time though. I’m thinking of setting aside two hours for exegetic writing and slowly increasing it as the semester goes on.
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