I was feeling better yesterday but today.. so I’m sick again but I was productive. I went to study for a while in my garden to have a little natural vitamin d and telling myself that it was going to motivate me despite the fatigue and the feeling of being sick. No Mardi Gras for me.
• Mails
• Administrative stuff
• Epistemology humans sciences and social, research, definitions and plan of the assignment, with rerun of « Who’s The Boss? » in the background.
1. make timelapses on your phone of u doing your work. this helps so much i cant even BEGIN to explain. it feels like im a little youtube with my life together, and i love the idea/aesthetic of people having video diaries so. it also helps me stay on task because ik that id hate to rewatch my videos and see that i was super unproductive, so it’s almost like performance anxiety but in a good way and it’s satisfying to see !! if u want i will post some of them
2. SEPERATE YOUR BROWSERS! i use opera for my fun stuff (it’s basically just google marketed “for gamers” and it kinda slaps ngl) and ive got a rule that when im on chrome, im not allowed to use any of my time-sucking things (pinterest, tumblr, quora).’
3. when writing an essay, change the font and line spacing consistently. helps my brain by adding variety and avoiding the thing where u gotta reread the sentence 8 times only to forget it and read it again only to forget it and rea
4. when you have a writing assignment (can u tell im doing my english final rn) START IT ON PAPER. u gotta sit down with your notebook and the intent to write the draft of the essay on paper. ive found that pretty quickly, my hyperfocus will kick in and my brain will catch the drift of what we’re doing, which ends up prompting me to switch over to my computer. ive got so many pages in my book rn that are just the first paragraph of a paper that end abruptly as i get into the flow of things
5. when typing, wear fingerless gloves. it helps man, trust me. it feels like all of my typing and writing energy is stored in my hands and the fingerless gloves kinda contain that energy. does that make sense. do you guys get that. i feel like u get it
6. templates. something i struggle with is not really knowing how or where to start things, which templates have seemed to help with. for example if im writing a biography about someone, ill google biography templates and there will be an outline that works as the perfect guide. this tip is pretty universal and can benefit everyone, but it took me a while to figure out pls. outline = good
7. work in the dark/at night- though im sure a lot of us do this regardless, working in a situation that imitates/is nighttime is genuinely helpful for us. for me, working at night feels like a choice that i made on my own and without instruction from superiors, which is motivating for some reason. people with adhd (i think this might apply to other forms of nuerodiversity but im only certain about adhd) have circadian rhythms that naturally skew later, so working later instead of in the daytime might be the most productive time for u.
also, i get that it’s good to avoid doing work in bed because associating a place of comfort with an activity of strain is probably Not the best, but sometimes, working in my bed is just what works best for me. it’s important to know yourself and trust what you need!!
Those who know me know I love to watch streams, (longer) videos, movies and listen to music in the background while at school.
In particular I love watching streams, hermits (besides Grian as he's my main) videos and vids from G's second channel (like GIGGS Phasmo).
Today's been so cool though as I've watched Joe and Cleo stream together and Iskalls (on silent mostly) for a bit, watched a few GIGGS, some Jacksfilms, and hour of Pearl's stream, a little Martyns and now Impulse's stream.
Wednesday is normally a weekend for me however I'm behind on some work and we're moving in a few days so I need to do some extra work. So I've been able to watch stuff while working and now take a proper break to pay attention to the streams for a while which is great!!
Break-down and simplify some tasks (simplifying tasks literally helps a lot if you have too many things going on)
what I did for self-care:
Listened to music
did some journalling
looked for some study motivation
tried to plan for tomorrow
read a book i like
Binge-watched some anime (also Zoro got shut down 😭😭😭 how can I keep track of my anime now)
"I'm sighing in my dreams"
how are you guys?!?
I forgot to check my school messages lmao (I do online school), I woke up late opened my laptop and sat there waiting for the teachers to reply to my messages. Guess who forgot yesterday and today are holidays? I DID! Honestly, I was so stressed out but I started by reading some bio, then did my chemistry homework. After that, I met up with my tutor and studied Enzymes with her. Then I sat down again to do some speed running, looked into a webinar for my French learning and self-care and gosh it's tiring to be a student!
apparently i’m the top student in my entire grade at my school and i literally spent 3/4 quarters in a depressive episode, didn’t cheat at all (i fucking should’ve), and waited until the last few days to turn in months of work because of my executive dysfunction—how the fuck did this happen??
just unfollowed 382 inactive studyblrs (ie had not posted in over a year) so if you are an active studyblr please like this post and I will check you out!
especially if you are a new or returning studybr!
if your main is not ur studyblr please drop the name in the comments and I will check it out!
EDIT: I am no longer going to be coming back to this post but I’m leaving it up to help other people find active blogs!
Hi everyone, I kind of abandoned this account but I'm coming back because I am mad ♡
So here's my thoughts about about art competitions, AI art, and the Stride K12 schools.
Every year, the Stride online school company hosts a national art competition for students. This is the 18th annual competition, and the total prize pool adds up to $20,000. And this year, they've included AI-generated images into a category, with these prizes totaling $2,000.
(By the way, to clear up any confusion: There are four grade bands, and each group gets $500, totaling in $2,000. $2,000 for AI generated stuff that doesn't have an ounce of creativity is WILD.)
I can't even begin to express how disappointed I am right now. If you're a part of the Stride school system, PLEASE contact them and pressure them to get rid of this category. The competition deadline is March 25.
There are over 2 million students enrolled in Stride schools. If even a fraction of us band together, I think we can make a difference.
And I do want to say: I don't have any problem with these art competitions. I think they're amazing, I've entered them before, and I've even won once. But the fact that they're including AI just makes me so uncomfortable. I think you SHOULD enter these if you want to gain recognition for your art, but AI receiving hundreds of dollars worth of competition prizes is just so extremely immoral in my opinion.
Started off with watching some of Pearl's vids (am I the only one who noticed how similar the 'salmon bros' theme is to the 'dragon bros' one XDD). I also listened to Elybeatmakers 'Bop' on loop for a while cuz it was stuck in my head. Then I started watching the Imp and Skizz Podcast which is exciting. Watched a little of IronMouse's stream and Critical Role. I then watched a bunch more of Pearl's vids until she went live and then I watched her (entire) stream. Then I started watching Impulse, Ren and Xisuma's streams. Grian just posted (10mins ago when writing this line) so I'm now watching G's ep9.
I just realised I didn't make one of these yesterday and although Ik I watched lots of Hermit-stuff and streams I only remember watching Pix and Joe so I'm just gonna add that here cuz I can.