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[itsjustanne]

Occasionally, I get this random urge to be super productive and get all of my schoolwork done. Yet, when I sit at my desk with a pen in hand, I get this sort of writer's block that stops me from doing anything. Do you also get this, and if so, how do you get over it?

I totally understand that feeling and I get to far to often. I am both a chronic procrastinator and an over achiever so I often want to be productive but just can't do the thing. My ADHD may also be a factor in that but coping with that has helped me figure out ways to maneuver that writers block. Here's a few things I've found that help me!

To-Do lists! I live and thrive on to-do lists. I try to look at whatever syllabus I have for classes or outlines that I've made for myself of what needs to be done and what I want to get done. I prioritize things that I know need to be done sooner rather than later and estimate how long these things will each take. I always overshoot how long they will take so that I budget my time a bit more.

Outings- my friends and I call this "walkies." This is when I've been sitting at my desk for like an hour and I just keep getting distracted or I can't get started. I round up a list of things that need doing (like grocery shopping) and get out of the house for like an hour. Sometimes this looks more like getting coffee and wandering around a store for a while but there's only so many errands that need doing.

I always always always need to be dressed in order to get any work done. This kind of goes along with the "walkies," I have to get dressed and get shoes on (the shoes are very important) in order to be able too focus myself on getting tasks done. For me this looks like getting up, taking a shower, putting on jeans and a shirt, doing my make up, etc. But for someone else this might look like just putting on a different shirt.

The last thing that helps me get into a focused workspace is a change in location. When I was on campus for school this often meant leaving my dorm and going to the library or a common space or even driving a ways away to barnes and noble. Sometimes I need a bit of outside stimulus in order to get myself in to a more productive mindset.

These are just a few of the things that I've found are helpful to me! Remember to take breaks, drink water, and not to be too hard on yourself if you can't get into your tasks. Sometimes the best thing is just to take a nap and let your mind relax.

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[amultipotentialite]

what do you see yourself studying at a tertiary level?

I actually had to google what tertiary means xD You really do learn new words every day! I'm assuming this means like university, but please correct me if I misinterpreted that :D

There is currently a new university being built no more than 15 minutes from where I live and they specialise in technical subjects, so I really hope I can study there when I finish my current education. I'm in the graduating class of 2026, so we'll have to see whether it will actually be done by then. If it does manage to offer its first courses by the time I'm of university age, I wish to enrol in their Artificial Intelligence course!

Otherwise, I will most likely study at the university one city over which offers a wide range of courses: from Medicine to Computer Sciences and from Biology to Literature, they offer pretty much everything. If I should study there, I'm still keeping my options open for which subjects I want to choose, but I have been interested in potentially studying mathematics there.

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[studyblrspace]

Hi if you are tess than I have some questions to ask. So, I'm 15 y/o, French, and I want to ba an astrophicist. Could you tell me about hat degree you had or wich type of uni to go stuf like that. (I'm sorry if I didn't specify the terms cause I don't know how it works or you call these thisng in your country. 😓

Thanks in advance if you reply to me ☕️💻🎧😊

Hi!

I just graduated with a bachelor (of science) in astrophysics. (If you want to do research it's important to look at classes for a bachelor of science not bachelor of art.) You can also do a physics degree with an astronomy minor. At my university, the classes were very similar but at others, it could be helpful to look at a physics degree.

I plan on applying for graduate school this fall (again). I'm in the U.S. so I directly apply to Ph.D. programs after getting my bachelor's (you earn your masters during that program). I believe in Europe (and Australia) you'd have to get your masters before applying to Ph.D. programs.

You can find some research related jobs with just a bachelor's but usually many places look for some sort of graduate degree. Let me know if anything was unclear or if you have more questions :)

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[bujokookie]

Do you use transparent post it notes?

I have a pack of them somewhere but I’ve never used them before.

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[studyjournalblr]

Hiyaaaa

So I'm the anon who asked for study advice yesterday.. and thank you thank you thank you soooooo much for taking your time out and answering!!!! 🥺

I'd sure look up for your advice the next time I sit to study!!

(Wanna be mutuals?)

Heyy!!

💕💕 Thank you too! It was a bit of a wake up call for me to get back to working again <3

And yeah, I'll follow you from my main :)

(Btw I tried the dopamine thing with a spoonful of cake after each answer I completed in a sample paper, and it worked better than music!! I focused like I'd never done in days and idk if paying attention to my handwriting was also a factor in the focus, but this definitely did its thing. All I have to do is find a healthier alternative)

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[inkcipher]

cinnamon latte— would you ever want to dye your hair? if you have before, what color was it and why?

vanilla chai— do you have any hobbies that your followers don’t know about? or any hobbies that you once had, but stopped doing?

cinnamon latte— would you ever want to dye your hair? if you have before, what color was it and why?

I have dyed my hair! I have actually only dyed it twice before. One time I had a purple color and the other time it was red (it was an attempt to dye it purple again). I think I would like to dye my hair again at some point, but I am not sure what color I would do it. I did think about a lilac purple or a pastel pink though.

vanilla chai— do you have any hobbies that your followers don’t know about? or any hobbies that you once had, but stopped doing?

I think one hobby I have that my followers do not know about is actually phone wallpaper creation! I love making little picture edits and making phone wallpapers and like little character aesthetics.

My hobby that I have that I have put a pause on is actually cosplaying! College has definitely been really busy for me and I leave my cosplays at home, but it is still a hobby I am extremely passionate about. Some of my favorite cosplay have been Shigaraki Tomura and Ceasar Zeppeli. I hope one day to do more cosplays with my partner! (which is you).

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[smallfrenchstudyblr]

"The biggest issue is students using it, me spotting it and having no recourse whatsoever to do anything about it." can you elaborate a bit further

Hello !

So to explain a bit more: we [aka your lecturers, teachers, teaching assistants, etc...] know that some students will use ChatGPT.

And there is a discussion to be had about how to work with this, how to design assessment which allow students to leverage something which may simply become a fixture of writing in a workplace environment, but that is not the discussion we are having here. Because that is not what we are worried about.

The defensible, problematic situation is: a student straight up entering the essay prompt on ChatGPT, and using the grand skills of Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V, submits it as their own paper.

And our main worry, I think, was for a long time that we would not be able to catch it. That students would, actually, be able to fool us and that we would actually think this was a student who understood the course, who put in the work, and who deserve to be rewarded for their grade. That was the main fear.

But here is the thing.

And listen up, students :

Essays written by ChatGPT :

Suck

Are spotted from a mile away from the person reading it

For real. They suck.

I cannot stress enough how easy they are to spot. You are NOT fooling anyone. I do not need the platform's AI-detecting tool to know when an essay was written by Chat GPT. It is so, very painfully obvious when that's the case.

But the problem then becomes : ok, I have spotted a student who cheated.

What am I even supposed to do with it.

It is one thing to KNOW that an essay was AI-generated, it is another to defend it to a plagiarism committee. First of all, does it actually count as plagiarism ? Second, how do prove, with certainty, that the student did not write it ? How to I convince the plagiarism committee that this is worth looking into ? I am in the role of a police officer, who needs to convince the DA that this is a winnable case, that prosecuting will not be a waste of their time. But I don't have a Similarity Percentage to rely on. I don't have an original source to say "look, this is the exact same wording!" like in a classic plagiarism case.

Best case scenario, I can make my case for thee student to actually be called to the plagiarism committee, where we probe into how, exactly, they wrote their essay, until they fold. Unlikely, morally questionable, and in all likelihood, ineffective on students already so confident in their bullshit that they have the audacity to submit a fully AI-generated work for their finals.

Now, students, gather up, especially if you have considered using Chat GPT this way. Because right now, you might think it means you can get away with it.

But let me tell you something. First, that essay is getting the shittiest grade we can give you. Because you know what is more difficult than a lecturer proving that a student used AI to generate their essay ? A student proving that they deserve a better grade. Once we give you a grade, burden of evidence is on you to prove that you have not been graded properly. And we can come up with 15 reasons why an essay is a shit essay. We put on kids' gloves, when we lecture and give feedback. We give the simplified version of most theories, we give the basics of how to structure an essay, the bar we set is spectacularly low, because students come in good faith, they are learning, they will not be held at the same standard as academics. But if you try to argue that you need a higher grade, when you had the audacity to not write a single word of your work, the kids gloves are going to come off real quick, and your lecturer will be able to very convincingly explain why, actually, giving you a passing grade was a mercy in the first place.

Second. Academics, especially angry academics, are a gossip machine.

You may get a passing grade, and there may be no official note of it in your file whatsoever. But I can guarantee you that your lecturer will chat with their colleagues. That every single one of your essay that year, and the years to come, will be looked at with so much scrutiny I hope your referencing for every single work reaches perfection. Every single paragraph will be looked at with the knowledge that you are likely to have had it AI-generated. Lecturers will tell their TA to look at for That One Student when they grade you .You will not be getting any flexibility from us, no extension without full documentation to support it, no letter of recommendation from any member of the faculty, no word in your favor if you are bordering a grade bracket. If we are feeling especially petty, we might even forget to answer your emails or answer any question you have with such warmth and kindness you really still never feel like asking a question again in our class. And I know that, because that's already happening. I have the name of three undergrads that we know, for a fact, did not write their own essay. Two are not even in my modules at all.

Now. That's pretty mean. But if you have the absolute audacity and lack of ethics required to submit an essay for which you have not written a single word, and thought it would actually work, when your lecturer spent probably more that 80 hours working in this module this term, gave you the opportunity to meet for office hours, to ask any question in person or in email, to have extensions, accommodations, additional time ? When you decided that putting exactly zero second of your time, considered that you were above that - and above other students- and yet we were not able to officially sanction you for it, we had to give you a passing grade, the same passing grade as students who actually made an effort?

Yeah, sorry, you are not getting any sympathy from your lecturers anymore.

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[learnelle]

In ✨language learning✨ there is nothing more fun than revisiting a video you once couldn’t understand. I discovered this channel ( @booksfromtheunderground) when I had just started learning French, and I loved the vibes but couldn’t understand anything lol. It’s so fun to rewatch the videos now and finally be able to follow along ⭐️✨

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[itsjustanne]

I'm packing up and getting ready to move to Wales for my masters program!

Send me asks to keep me busy in the airport!

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[amultipotentialite]

what’s your favourite favourite subject and why? is your favourite subject something you actually study in school or some other random thing?

I really love Computer Sciences when it comes to programming and the likes, but I don't enjoy it nearly as much at school. Unfortunately, Computer Sciences is a subject that doesn't require a university degree to teach, so a lot of my teachers are just incompetent in that subject.

Purely school subjects, I enjoy Ethics a lot! I feel like the subject becomes a lot more interesting in high school when you're no longer only discussing world religions. Now, we're also learning about Philosophy (which will become its own subject for me soon), war ethics, medicine ethics, etc. Talking about how the human mind thinks has been incredibly eye-opening and I wish this were a mandatory course for everyone and not just for those who don't affiliate with the two most popular versions of Christianity

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[studyblrspace]

Notion vs Evernote? :)

I don't really use either regularly, I think both are good but I don't recommend trying to pay for either one unless you know you'll use the features? notion might take a bit to get set up and understand, thats why I haven't used it as much. but compared to evernote, it is getting constantly updated which evernote has slowed down on.

personally I get distracted by aesthetics and it becomes counterproductive 😅 I tend to use sticky notes, google calendar, and keep (notes), maybe one day I'll move to notion

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[bujokookie]

kpop really keeps us from going insane with studying doesn't it ^^

Omg so real. I’ve been studying for my IELTS exam and I usually have a weverse live play in the background. Studying English is unnecessarily difficult but it’s not so bad when I look up and Jungkook is folding his laundry or something 🫣

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[oldshrewsburyian]

Dear college students,

I really hope that I, your spinster aunt of Tumblr, am not the first person to tell you this, but: please use your university library services. You are paying for them. They are there for you. Moreover, your professors are operating on the assumption that you will use them as necessary.

When I say "library services" I mean not only physical books that will help you with research, but the usually more extensive eBook collections ditto. Novels you've been meaning to get around to and can't afford to buy. Even (quaintly?) DVDs for your entertainment. And perhaps most significantly of all, interlibrary loan.

I'm going to reiterate interlibrary loan in its own paragraph because a student complained to me recently that publishers were "literally incentivizing piracy" by not pricing academic monographs for purchase by college students and my reaction is best summed up as: ????? Publishers typically price scholarly monographs in the pious hope of not losing money on them. Everyone complains about the ones priced at $300, and a lot of them are priced around $30-50. They are priced for purchase by libraries and specialists. And they are priced for purchase by libraries precisely so that libraries can make them accessible to college students. Anyway, use interlibrary loan, good grief.

TL;DR: the library is there for you, that is what it is for, please behave accordingly.

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[why-the-heck-not]

it’s cold brew season again babyyy

#and did I start it off strong with spilling half of the cold brew & coffee grounds all over my kitchen counter bc of a shitty system of 2 #mason jars?? no no i did not why are u even asking me that that's a weirdly specific scenario to be asking about r u okay #studyblr #study #studyspo #booklr #bookblr #books #book #reading #read #dark academia #studying #aesthetic #may 2023 #2023

[studyjournalblr]

just wanted to say, your blog is a delight for study motivation! keep going <3

-an icse grade 10 student

Thank you!!!! 🥺

Also sorry for not answering this ask😅 I wasn't on Tumblr for a while.

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