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Academia is cool and sexy until I’m expected to do work

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spooky days of autumn

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Sometimes you're just an introverted loser who sits alone in your room with a cup of tea and a book, has fantasies about morally grey fictional characters, is severely touch starved with a completely fucked up sleep schedule and slowly declining mental health.

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The snow lasted for just a few but magical hours

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listen to me: you DO NOT always need to give it your 100%. you really do not. because let’s be honest, you’re human and you’re simply not always going to be able to. there are days when you can only give it your 80%. or your 50%, or heck, even your 10%. and THAT IS OKAY. only skimming one paragraph, only solving one equation, only memorizing 5 words is better than not doing anything because you have this idea in your head that things are only worth doing when you can give what you consider to be your 100%. 10% is better than 0% and some days that is all you can give. it will still add up, and you will still succeed, i promise.

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new posts on my instagram account: @thomreads

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The only time you are "truly ready" is when you decide to start. Not a moment sooner or later. If you wait until you feel 100% ready, you'll never start. The people that succeed aren't perfectly qualified, they're not even the best qualified most of the time according to statistics, but what they are is passionate, dedicated and most importantly they take action and show up.

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You are not a machine ❤️

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please redefine what productivity means within your own abilities and stop letting the internet shame you into feelings of embarrassment or worthlessness based on someone else's life and someone else's abilities!

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i’m a simple person; anything happens, i cry

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This is a big, giant list of Youtube tutorials that will teach you all the basic life skills you need to know in order to be a functional adult. There are a lot of important skills that aren’t included in this list, but this should be enough of a basic guide to get you started and prevent you from making a total mess of yourself. Happy adulting! Household Skills:

How to unclog a toilet without a plunger

How to fix a blown fuse

How to fix a leaky faucet 

How to clean soap scum from your tub and shower

How to escape from a house fire

How to make a budget and stick to it

How to sharpen a knife

How to clean a self-cleaning oven

How to clean red wine stains from carpet

How to clean blood stains from fabric

How to clean grease stains from fabric

How to do a load of laundry

How to iron your clothes

How to test your smoke detectors

Cooking Skills:

How to tell if produce is ripe

How to know if food is expired 

How to properly sanitize a kitchen

How to cook an egg

How to make rice

How to make pasta

How to put out a kitchen grease fire safely

How to use a gas stove

How to use a convection oven

How to cook meat safely

How to use a stand mixer

How to use kitchen knives properly

How to make mashed potatoes

How to make grilled cheese sandwiches 

Health Skills:

How to stop bleeding

How to treat a burn 

How to do CPR (on an adult)

How to do CPR (on a child)

How to do CPR (on a baby)

How to help someone who is choking

How to save yourself if you are choking alone

How to read a nutrition label

How to treat frostbite

How to recognize when someone is having a stroke

How to maintain a healthy sleep schedule

Mental Health Skills:

How to calm down during a panic attack

How to help someone who is suicidal 

How to meditate 

How to stop self-harming

How to recognize problem drinking

How to choose a therapist

How to deal with disappointment

How to cope with grief

How to raise your self-esteem

Relationship and Social Skills:

How to apologize

How to cope with a breakup 

How to accept criticism 

How to deal with bullying 

How to argue in a healthy way

How to ask someone out

How to break up with someone

How to recognize an abusive relationship

How to rekindle a damaged friendship

How to speak in public

Job Hunting Skills:

How to tie a tie

How to write a resume

How to write a cover letter

How to dress for a job interview (for women/femmes)

How to dress for a job interview (for men/masculines)

How to properly shake hands

How to nail a job interview

Other Skills:

How to sew on a button 

How to hammer a nail

How to change your oil

How to put gas in your car

How to jump-start a car

How to pick a good password

How to back up your files

How to write a cheque

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These tips should help you out with any kind of exams tbh. Multiple Choice Questions or MCQs, are the ones that have 4 or more possible answers and you have to choose one. Below are my tips for attempting these questions/papers:

Preparing for Exams: Solving Past Papers

Find out the pattern of previous papers.

Solve them in exact time like conditions. It is a redundant advice but most of us need a reminder now and then to go back to the basics: practice, practice, practice.

After you have solved the paper, before looking at the answers, put up a symbol next to every answer denoting your level of confidence in that answer. e.g. you could use the following system: ****  absolutely sure ***    almost sure/confused between two answers **      not so sure but the answer seems most likely *        blind guessing

Check the answers. Did the answers you were confident in correct?

Don’t worry if you get much less than you expected. It was a practice session for a reason.

The reason is that now you can improve.

Start with the ones you were confident in (**** and *** category). Find out why you didn’t get the right answer.

It could be a) you made a silly mistake, or b) you read the question wrong, or c) you misunderstood the concept/formula/theory but you know it now, or d) you still think your answer is correct.

If it is (d), you have to take immediate action. Look for detailed solution if you can find it or ask your teacher/TA/classmates. If it is a textbook question, look for errata online. Most of the standard textbooks have a list of errata on their publisher’s website where all the published and reported mistakes are listed.

Maybe there is a simple explanation for why your answer was not the correct one or maybe you have not understood the theory/concept/law yet. If that is the case, go back and try to understand step by step with writing down each step.

Keep a record of the misconceptions/errors you made in the paper. You don’t need to include the ones you guessed blindly/were not sure but make sure to list the ones you were confident in and got wrong. You can dedicate a small notebook to it if you want.

Make flash cards out of that record of wrong answers. Put the question/concept/term/formula on one side and explanation/example/definition on the other side. These may turn out to be the most beneficial resource for your studies in the future.

Revise from the notebook/flash cards regularly.

Don’t do more than one paper a day. It just burns you out. You might be underprepared and taking two or more in a single day will give you a wrong judgement of your level. It won’t help “speed up” your preparation, trust me.

During Exam: My strategy

Start by reviewing each question quickly (20 seconds per question max.) to identify the ones that you feel you are most confident in. Don’t try to solve them right now, just read and identify if it is easy, intermediate, difficult or seems in an alien language. 

If the answer is jumping at you and you are sure, mark it. Otherwise write a difficulty level next to it and move on.I use the following system: **** no idea how to solve/seems too much time consuming/ ***   can be solved but will take some time/I can’t remember the exact thing **     can be solved in 3-6 steps/I just need to think a bit harder to recall/two of the answers appeal to me *       I know the answer/can get the answer by a simple 1-2 step calculation

Start by * and ** marked.

Go with your gut/first guess if you’re confused between two answers.

If there is no penalty/negative marking, solve ALL the questions.

If you can’t solve a ** marked question within 3-5 minutes, move on.

DO NOT spend much time on questions that are challenging but demand multi-step calculation which could go wrong at so many levels. Leave them for last.

Once you’ve done a first round of solving, start from the end again. This time include *** and the ** ones that you left. If you can’t solve a ** marked question even by allotting 2-3 more minutes, leave it. It is not worth it.

In the second round, you should aim for attempting all the questions except **** marked ones. You should aim for getting answers for at least half of these.

Once you are done with second round, go back to the beginning and check every question. Don’t solve them again, just look at the answer and if you think you are right, put the final answer in the OMR sheet/answer sheet (if you haven’t already). Make sure all of the solved questions are marked/ticked/written in the answer sheet.

Once you’ve done all the ticking/marking for the answers you feel confident in, start solving unanswered ones, attempt them one by one. DO NOT start this third round without putting/ticking answered questions.

Again, don’t spend too much time on a question that seems “just out of reach” and you think you can get the answer by a little more effort. If you have already spent 7-10 minutes on it, move on.

Tick the final answers as you go. You can’t take the risk of running out of time at the end and losing marks just because you couldn’t put/mark the final answer on the answer sheet/OMR/paper.

Once you are done with the third round, you should have attempted all the questions(not necessarily answered). Now all your easy and intermediate questions are done and final answers marked. Now is the time to catch the confusing/detailed/multi-step questions or the ones that you couldn’t solve at the first or second attempt.

If the question demands some extra data, look for the attached sheets. Most of the question papers in Science are provided with list of fundamental constants, periodic table of elements etc.Make intelligent guesses. e.g. if the question wants to calculate weight of a person, it should lie somewhere between 30-200 kg. If it asks you for energy input for a chemical reaction, the answer can’t be in MegaJoules or something!

Give yourself a minute or two to relax. Close your eyes(don’t sleep!) and focus on something else, like trees outside for example. A change of focus will help your brain connect the information better. Take deep breaths and repeat to yourself-“RELAX”.

See if you can make out the answer from other questions. Sometimes the answer to one question is hidden somewhere in the question paper itself. It is not intentional, just a matter of coincidence.

When you’ve got 10-15 minutes left, wrap up. Make sure all calculated answers are written/marked as final. Correct any mistakes that you find.

Go with your first answer(if you end up doing the question again and get a different answer). Change your answer if and only if you can convince yourself why the second answer is the correct one.

Pat yourself in the back. You did your best.

After the exam

Relax. Hang out with your friends(don’t discuss the paper). Go watch a movie or something.

Don’t analyze the paper at least until you get the answer key. If you got the answer key right away, don’t analyze it the same day.

Once the time comes to analyze, make sure you’ve got your notes, textbook, question paper and the answer key. It is time to repeat what you did before: checking your answers in a way that tells you what you need to work upon.

Check the questions in one go as right or wrong. Don’t start analyzing till you checked all questions.

Start with the ones you kind of know why you did wrong. Maybe it was a confusing concept or maybe you were stuck with two answers but ended up selecting the wrong one? Maybe it was a silly calculation mistake.

Again, take out the notebook you used to note down concepts while doing practice questions. Repeat what you did: make a record of the “concepts” you got wrong. Make sure to understand them well this time. 

Go through them one by one and try to guess how the right answer was achieved.

Leave out the ones you didn’t have much clue about for the last. You need to study them first before analyzing what went wrong.

Once you are done analyzing, make a list of topics you need to study in detail/study again.

Make a study schedule and try to stick to it.

Take all the help you can get: study guides, textbooks, practice sheets/questions, help from teachers/TAs, online resources/videos/websites etc.

Make sure you taking a good care of yourself. You need the sleep and nutrition to perform at your best level. Eat well, laugh a lot and take it easy. You’ve got this!

I hope these strategies/tips help you perform better in your exam. Good Luck! 

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A to do list for everyone who has zero energy left after this week

get some fresh air - go for a walk, a bicycle ride; it doesn’t really matter, just give yourself some time in the sun 

make a new, healthy meal - there’s not always time to cook during the working days, so use your weekend to treat your body

call a friend - you’ll be surprised how much energy you’ll gain after talking to someone you haven’t seen in a long time

clean your space - it’s been a tough week, but now it’s time to clean up 

take care of your skin - just take five extra minutes and make your skin happy again 

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Note to self: it’s okay to take things slow. I should move at my own pace.

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Hello everyone!

My name is Anuta, I’m a 25 years old CS student from Israel. I’m currently in my second year of my bachelor’s degree (started late because of the mandatory military service), and I’m hoping to be done in a year, maybe a year and a half.

A little bit about my background and why am I starting (or rather re-starting) this studyblr - 

I have always been fascinated by the idea of learning and studying, ever since I was little. Later in life I lost interest in studying (or so I thought) and still, I really missed it. Recently I realized (with some help from therapy) that the reason studying stresses me out so much is because I keep chasing the “ideal” study experience, which sadly will not happen for me (if anyone’s interested I can make a post about that, but right now it’s too long a story for an introduction). 

And so, I’m embarking on the journey of creating my ~alternative study experience~ that will allow me to enjoy my courses without getting all upset about them not being some movie dream school life.

I’m studying from home (like all of us right now, but I did it even before COVID-19 hit us like a hurricane), not watching lectures because they bore me and I can’t focus, studying from books and practice and some help from the internet :)

I’m also in the process of setting up a website, but this will take some time…

Some of my hobbies - 

video games

sewing

inline skating

cooking

gardening

programming

reading

journaling

Some of my favorite studyblrs - 

@phoebe-does @ar-ithmancy @cs-blr @why-the-heck-not @criminologystudies @yukkuristudies @coffeeaddictionforlife @studyblrmasterposts @sirius-studying @sprouht-studies​ @duvarvinden​ @catstudyblr​ @lawyerd​ @gloomstudy​ @athenastudying​ Thanks for stopping by! See you around!

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food and rest isn’t earned. please stop beating yourself up and overworking yourself so that you feel you ‘deserve’ to eat or rest. it’s a basic necessity, you don’t need an excuse to do it. if you wake up late, or don’t do anything, guess what ? you still deserve to rest. if you slip up on your healthy eating and eat something unhealthy, guess what? you still deserve to eat. please take care of your basic needs.