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never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱

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my tips for students that struggle with consistency

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i am discovering methods of procrastination hitherto unknown to man. brainstorming a conference paper to avoid writing a simple email. organizing and tagging my entire zotero library to avoid typing up notes on an article i've already read. cleaning out hundreds of emails from my inbox to avoid reading a new article.

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Wizards are not naturally immortal, in fact creating their own form of immortality is their graduate thesis.

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hi hellen! i'm a high schooler thinking of pursuing law - i know it's tough to get into, but i'd like to give it a shot. how did you know that it was right for you, and what would you consider to be the most important things to do to prepare to study it in advance? any additional advice would be great, thanks!

Well, the thing you often hear about "oh, you're so good at arguing, you should be a lawyer" is mostly bull. The actual main skills for a lawyer are research, writing, analysis/application, negotiation, debate (not arguing) and emotional regulation. If that sounds appealing, it may be a good fit!

I pretty much always tell people that you should do your bachelor's in something other than prelaw. In fact, it should be in whatever field you would want to have a career in if you weren't a lawyer. Law schools generally do not require specific undergrad majors, as I, with my double art degree can attest. Law school is geared to give you all the basic tools necessary for being a lawyer. I did not notice any meaningful advantage a prelaw major provided to my peers. If you have a particular law school in mind, look into their admissions criteria, but otherwise--get your bachelor's in your backup career.

Work on your reading and writing, and go to court. Courts are open to the public and these days most of them actually have facebook and twitter pages where they post dockets; many courts post-pandemic actually also livestream all proceedings, sometimes right on youtube. Look at what's going on in some of your local courts, and just go watch it happen. You are welcome to sit and watch court proceedings, just don't be disruptive and be prepared to go through a security check. Get a sense for what goes on!

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Saturn and its moons l Andrew McCarthy

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god the number of stolen images (w/o their proper sources) posted by prominent studyblr accounts is despicable! You are students/academics for gods sake! You cannot steal others' work and passively claim it as your own?!?!?!

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source: pinterest

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Visual Comparison Of Bird Beaks And Their Uses

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On the Inselbrücke (Island Bridge) in Berlin, 1895 by Franz Skarbina (German, 1849–1910)

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Study Strategies

For everyone asking "What does 'playing' with the material even mean when it comes to studying??"

Well, basically when you think about the material in a way that applies to your real life or interests, or that entertains you.

Writing a tumblr post about it (my blog started out as a study tool when I was in nursing school, because I re-wrote what I was learning in fandom/fic terms)

Talking about it or explaining it to a friend that is NOT in your field of study

Trapping your blorbos in a weird situation they can only get out of by learning the material (I once went through a whole scenario in my head about my blorbo getting injected with insulin and his friend having to figure out how long they had to give him sugar before they died to learn insulin onset-peak-duration)

Flash card "war" where 2 or more of your friends bring their flashcards and every time you or a friend puts down a card, the one that gets the answer the closest first wins the cards (google allowed)

Make a comedy routine about the material using only jokes that would be funny if someone understood it

Order a list of facts from least to most interesting- bonus points if you do it with a friend and you both have to agree, bringing your own arguments to the table as to why a particular fact deserves a certain rank

Finding an old textbook on the material at your school's library and figuring out what still holds up to today's knowledge

Find a group of people on the internet that are really interested in what you're studying and get the latest in DiscourseTM

Make the most misleading fact sheet you can make on the subject, with everything you say being technically true

Make a fact sheet that holds up to the reading comprehension of tumblr dot com

Basically anything that reframes studying from "I hate this and it takes up so much time" to "something I was probably going to do anyway for fun, but this time with more [subject]".

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study tips for when it is late at night

i am one of the first people to tell you to go to sleep- I myself prefer to be a 7:30 pm bedtime kinda guy, but sometimes I need more time to study, so here are some tips to have a less painful late night study sesh:

lights on at full brightness- as much as I love watching the sunset through my window and lighting my desk via a dim yellow lamp and candles, the sunset + low yellow light is screaming at your brain that it is bedtime, so keep as many lights on as you can

have a super cold drink- i'm talking 95% ice. I love warm drinks, but when I start getting really tired because it's late, it only makes me sleepier, so ice water/iced tea will be your friend

have a very clear to-do list. when it's late and you want to sleep, your brain gets floaty and you might drift onto topics/things you don't need to be doing, so make sure you have a good list

get rid of any distractions- your goal right now is to get your shit done and go to bed- if you spend half an hour scrolling through tumblr, that's half an hour later you now need to stay up to finish.

NO CAFFINE please do future you a favor; you won't be able to sleep and (at least for me) you can start getting really anxious

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Now that we’re about a month into the new year, I find myself losing steam on my resolutions around this time. I thought I’d start a little challenge that is open to anyone to join to help us stay on track and have some fun together! This is the 30-Day New Year Momentum Challenge (#30nym)

What you need to know (but none of this is mandatory to be clear!!):

Open to absolutely anyone, and you can start whenever and post at your own pace

So you can post as often or as little as you want - this is by no means designed to be a 30-days-in-a-row thing (I actually expect this challenge to take up most of my year)

Answer each prompt as a caption to a photo post OR as a standalone prompt (or you can answer a batch of questions as one caption/post, whatever!)

The ultimate goal here is to learn about others’ goals and methods of achieving them + create a teeny little community for our goals

TAG YOUR CHALLENGE POSTS WITH #30NYM and reblog this so more can join/so you can share with the community! Not required at all but this way we can all follow along with each other!!

psst you can also tag em #heyshef if you want me to see them

If this sounds like something you’d be into, prompts are below the cut ↓

please feel free to DM me with any questions/etc about this challenge! and remember to tag your posts with #30nym! im really looking forward to doing some of these challenges over time together ^^

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Ok I'll bite

What is your special interest and do you have any fun facts about it?

ok there's this thing in the sahara desert called the Richat Structure. It's 30 miles wide, it can only really be seen from space. it just looks like this giant fucking EYE in the middle of the desert. i came across it by accident while just scrolling around on google earth like a decade ago and went HUH???? cause it's so creepy and weird so then I got obsessed.

basically scientists think it's a highly eroded dome and not an impact site or man-made or anything. a bunch of different kinds of rock are exposed in concentric rings. however, it is an archeological site and they've found a bunch of Archeulean tools and artifacts in great condition there (like stone axes and stuff from homo erectus). archeologists think this area was used in tool manufacturing.

im just totally fascinated i think it's cool as hell

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30/01/24 || Tuesday

What do you mean January is about to end? I feel like my semester just started and here I am, four weeks into class. At least that means it finishes quicker. I decided to try @/birdbrainstudies's 30-day new year momentum which I clearly need because I am losing track of both my academics and sanity.

What are your goals for this challenge?

To keep myself accountable and actually put effort into studying instead of doomscrolling for hours on end, and hopefully I'll get back the momentum and enthusiasm I had for studying like when I was younger.