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At this point I am just impressed. and those freaking #’s took me wayyyy to long.

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Little help? ↳ requested by @spidergirl7

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Okay, you need to make sure you play this game at some point. Maybe not today or anything, because you’ll need about thirty minutes and a serious willingness to understand how it works, but - it’s so worth it. It’s basically an answer to our occasional frustration - why do assholes always come out on top? - and the beautiful thing about it is that not only does it explain how that happens, but also how we can change it.

“In the short run, the game defines the players. But in the long run, it’s us players who define the game.”

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Some tips for surviving University from your Local Depressed College Kid

Go to class on the first day, some professors only give out the semester outline and due dates in person on the first day.

Try and make a friend in each class. Tbh I struggle with this but they can be lifesavers. 

**Better tip** make friends with a person who took the class last year, they know what’s up. Plus they’re more likely to help you bc they’re not in direct competition with you.

Wear comfortable clothes. Wear what you want, be who you want. Be yourself, even if yourself is weird. It’s college, no one gives a fuck.

Buy a diary. use it in every class. Sometimes that means pages and pages of notes, sometimes it’s a doodle. It’s all good.

Record every lecture on your phone. This will come in handy around exams especially if you weren’t really listening and only doodled.

Buy a big ass calendar. Write in due dates of all your assignments and stick it somewhere where you have to acknowledge it.

Put reminders for assignments on your phone but set it a day early. You’ll probably ignore the big ass calendar but most assignments can be done in 24 hours if they need to be.

Always sit in the middle of the lecture hall. The professor will remember your face but not enough to notice if you miss a class here or there

Engage with the professor, but email is better than office hours. You want them to remember your name, not your face. Ties into the point above. A professor remembering your name can be the difference between an A and a B in assignments and exams.

Bring a water bottle. Trust me.

No one ever reads all the recommended reading. Read as much as you can. Learn how to skim read. Peer reviews are a life saver, they talk around the new ideas presented in the original piece and cut out all the bullshit bc they assume their readers already know.

Backup everything!! Google Drive offers 15GB of free storage. Get it.

Join one club or society for fun, and join one that you can use on your resume. Actually, get involved in both. College is about having fun too.

Pack your bag the night before. Getting up will seem like less of a chore. This is especially important if you’ve had a good day, pack your bag for the following day as soon as you get home, before you even take off your shoes or pants or sit down. When you’re on a roll, run with it.

Make your bed as soon as you get out of it. It’s annoying I know, but you’ll feel more productive for some reason?!? 

Try to keep one area in your room or apartment clean. I mean spotless. It can be your bed, your desk, a chair. Just so that when everything is falling apart you can sit in your clean area and pretend you have your life together.

Try and eat at least three meals per day. Have a big breakfast, and when you’re cooking yourself dinner double up so that you’ll have enough left over for lunch tomorrow

Try and eat one piece of fruit or veg with each meal. For some reason it also gives the illusion you have your shit together and you can't feel entirely like crap bc at least you ate an apple yesterday, right?

Set up a standing order with a local supermarket to deliver your groceries if you can. I did this and delivery can be cheap too. It meant that even if I was in a super bad depressive episode at least I had fresh food being delivered weekly.

Get professional help. Meet your doctor regularly, discuss medication and therapy.

Set a reminder on your phone for your medication. Tbh I’m awful for taking my medication and ignored this daily so a friend and I would send each other a video on snapchat taking our medication and call out the other if we didn’t get one back. Do whatever works.

If you can, arrange to walk to Uni with a friend. When I’m depressed I don’t give a shit about anything relating to myself but I have this loophole where I don’t like letting others down so this worked for me.

This works with studying too. Form study groups and divide up the work. This way I would do it because I didn’t want to let my friends down. Use your anxiety to your advantage. 

Use ‘The Ivy Lee Method’ for Peak Productivity

Write down what topics you covered daily. This way when you freak out around finals week about not having done enough there’s a physical list of all the shit you’ve covered during the semester. 

Shower daily even if you’re just gonna get back into bed. Wanting to die when you’re clean is slightly better.

Brush your teeth in the shower. Two birds, one stone. Personal hygiene can go out the window when you’re in an episode.

Have nice clothes that you only wear on your low days. When you look good, you’ll feel a little bit better. Also, adds to the illusion that you’re a fully functioning member of society.

Exercise. I would make myself do 10 minutes of HIIT on my worst days. Idk those endorphins helped with not wanting to be alive. Tbh I think this saved my life but that sounds so dramatic  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Spend more time outside when I’m dissociating feeling the wind through my hair or the sun on my skin can ground me again.

Try and correct your sleep pattern nothing will fuck you up more than a messed up sleeping pattern. I’ve no tips to help with this bc it’s entirely individual and I suck. I’m currently trying to stop using technology after 9 pm.

When you move from room to room in your house bring one thing with you. If you’re going to the kitchen bring the glass from your desk. If you’re going to your room, bring your shoes from the hallway. It slowly makes things cleaner

[Disclaimer!!: I’m not saying these will magically cure your depression or that they’re universal. It’s different for everyone but these helped me and even then I would struggle some. But it’s the trying that counts.] 

I hope these help someone and also feel free to add your own tips! :)

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shoutout to whoever made the one understandable go tutorial on webassign for ap physics c mechanics 

#you are loved and appreciated i s2g

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september 7 ☼ school started for me and a) i’m already dying with the amount of work i have and b) i forgot just how bad i am at math which is g r e a t!

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got a test coming up?

how to cram for a test

fastest way to memorize

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how to get motivated

25 study tips nice

time management advice

how to stop procrastination

7 tips for studying math

how to study in groups

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Habesha parents be like

stem or die

#ethiopia #ethiopians #ethiopian parents #stem #college #my future #i'm so sick of this bullshit

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fam: ur cousin got a higher ACT score than an SAT score w/o trying, the ACT is a piece of cake easy waste of time take the SAT

cousin: *has a mf 2300 on the SAT*

me: ok, u know what,

#i bet my ass she got a perfect score on the ACT

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🎈 Celebrating Collaborations 🎈

Collaborations is a day at Smith where students get to present their own projects, research, and work to the campus. The morning starts with a poster session and then presentations follow throughout the day. In order above:

Emmie: trying to get parent yeast to have baby yeast with a certain color (very simplified science here folks)

Chase: something very cool that has to do with voles

Lynnie: perfectionism in children

Silvana: something very cool that has to do with genealogy

Anastasia: using photos to research seals

Bev and crew: why Smith could save money by having an on campus thrift store (this one I understood!)

Bev and Veronica’s presentation: Food justice work in Holyoke

Maggie’s presentation: feminism and Futurism in the home

Bev and Veronica post presentation

The jazz band playing at the luncheon afterwards - including another Tylerite, Alma.

All of these projects require a lot of time and hard work and it was cool to see so many people in so many disciplines getting involved. I’m proud of all my pals!

Anna

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4/22/17 - Spring Break

My spring break was spent visiting colleges I’m planning to apply to next year and, consequently, contemplating what I’m going to do with my life. There are a lot of big decisions headed my way! All I can do now is work hard so that I’ll get into as many of these schools as I can. If anyone currently attends or is thinking about applying to any of the schools I visited, please message me! I also went to the cutest stationery shop to get some colorful pens and a gorgeous sculpture garden with peacocks. Overall a very successful trip!

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Hello! I’m Anu and I’m a campus tour guide for my university.  Funnily enough, one of the questions I get asked the most is “What questions should I be asking?” so here’s a fairly lengthy list of questions that you can ask the next time you go on a college visit.  I’ve split them up into different sections for easier viewing; hope this helps!

Keep reading

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ten tips on making applying to schools a little easier

1. pick no more than 15 colleges that you like fifteen colleges is already a lot to sort through, but more than this makes the college application process a lot more difficult, remember don’t apply to all 15 of these, I say apply to no more than 3-6 colleges  

2. now it’s time to do research, literally compile a list of everything important when deciding a college for you from distance from home, ease of transportation, cost, etc.

3. do not ask your friends where they are applying to college do not allow others who’s decisions are irrelevant to your future education influence your dreams unless they are giving genuine advice that you solicited 

4. find a school that will build upon your potential, not ruin it do not go to an extremely difficult school just for the name, especially if you worry that you will struggle, go to a school where you will think and learn, and build upon your knowledge 

5. remember that the colleges you like do not have to necessarily be based upon academic or athletic prestige your dream school is allowed to be the one that is the furthest from home or the one that has the best dorm rooms 

7. consider the finances make sure you are okay with being in student loan debt if you go to a certain college, or if your parents are supporting you that they will be able to help 

8. look at their list of majors make sure that the colleges you are interested in have many majors that you are interested in 

9. visit the college campuses that you can the vibe of a college campus can totally change how you feel about going there, if you can’t do an actual tour, try to see if they offer virtual ones 

10. discuss your top choices with the people that are most important to you this can be anyone whose opinions you value, they typically help to guide you to make a decision that will ultimately benefit you 

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College Visit Information Sheet

For those of you who read my Guide to Visiting Colleges, and would like my information sheet that I used here it is! I personally used the condensed version but you want to take more notes the extended version might benefit you. Let me know if you have any problems!

Condensed Version: here 

Extended Version: here 

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inspired by thecollegesearch‘s post, and everyone’s suggestions in the tags/reblogs. fill this out everytime you go on a college visit. :)

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The Debt of An Immigrant Child

The Debt of An Immigrant Child

Two immigrants, one simple goal: make a better future for our children. Upon this foundation, my family, like many other PoC, was built. Coming from a family of immigrants is an interesting experience to say the least. Bilingual and multicultural, we are individuals who represent a new dawn of globalization. Traversing this journey as a first generation Americans brings many connotations but…

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