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June 12th 2018, 03:20 My exam is at 08:30, this is tiring, I’m going to try to get some sleep now

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Friday, June 8th 2018, 23:55 I haven’t done shit for 3-4 days now and the exams start in 4 days. I don’t have the motivation anymore, but I’ll try to force myself to do something tomorrow. I’m just so tired of everything.

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what i had to do today: lots of stuff

what i did today: nothing

how i feel: guilty

does this feeling make me wanna do something: no

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I haven’t posted stuff for a while now. My exams start the 12th June and end the 28th. I’m probably going to fail quiet a few of them, because this year just has been rough. But I guess I’ll try my best anyway. I’ll also try to post about stuff I’ve studied so far and stuff I will study 😬

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simple ass tricks to studying more efficiently

by franstudiously

1. listen to instrumental music. i highly recommend scores from your favourite films. not only is it less distracting (because you can’t sing along), wouldn’t it be cool to revise your notes while pretending to be in the middle of the battle at hogwarts? totally cool.

2. declutter your environment. let’s face it. if you’re surrounded by disorganization, your brain will be disorganized. so clean those desks, peeps! if that’s gonna take too much time, at least take everything off your desk and put it somewhere you can’t see.

3. find a safe haven. my favourite place to study is the library at my university because of the amazing lighting. find that special place where you can count on having a peace of mind. maybe that’s in your favourite cafe or under a tree at the park. peaceful brain, peaceful studying!

4. snack attack. yes, you heard me. i bet your mouth is watering from hunger. although a gummy bear per paragraph is a little excessive, having a snack to look forward to while studying can definitely keep your brain from wandering around. have a piece of cracker or m&ms at the end of each page. if that’s jumping the gun, have it at every half of the page. and if you’re feeling crazy, try it after every section.

5. take a break. there’s no use in studying if your brain is begging you to stop. breathe for a second and bring peace to your world. trust me, skimping out on breaks so you can have an extra few minutes to study will harm you more than it can help you. to help you out on your time management, use a pomodoro timer or make a playlist beforehand that plays for a certain amount of time. take a short break for about 5-10 minutes and then study away!

6. drink more water. i’m not your mom but someone’s gotta do it. long study sessions without water breaks is like going down a water slide without the water. your body and your brain needs hydration to work properly. it’s literally the key to survival so drink up, kiddos (it’ll make your headache go away). try drinking 8 oz of water every hour.

7. invite a study buddy. having a friend to study with can help a bunch. personally, externalizing my thoughts not only increases my brain retention, it also does it in less time. there’s a saying that if you can’t teach it, you don’t know it. so take turns explaining stuff to each other and if one of you is feeling discouraged, help one another. also, it helps out your social skills.

of course, everyone is different so some of these might not work for you but there’s no harm in trying them out. except drinking water (that always helps).

happy studying!

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Haven't posted a thing here since my last exams. So, this year I procrastinated a lot. And I'm *really* starting to study a week before my exam. I'm studying my "Interview and Observation Skills" course.

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“The end of my serendipity”

I had to redo 2 exams I failed this year and I failed one of them again. So I have to redo that one again this year. I made this because I was so upset. I try to calm myself down with art instead of letting my anger and sadness control me. This is a pretty new coping mechanism for me.

“Here I tried to summarize my feelings and thoughts into one sentence. I am someone who never had to worry about my studies. I always somehow managed to succeed in what I did. But for the first time, that’s not the case. The luck I had in everything that’s related to studies has left me. It’s the luck I always had without hoping for it… I guess that’s one more thing I have to worry about now.” Those were my thoughts when I first learned I failed one of my exams. But I’m over it now :p .. Btw, now that I look at this again, this is soo over-dramatic. I love it! 😂

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17/08/2017 - 23:30 Studying for Cognitive Psychology. I already studied two chapters (Introduction to Cognitive Psychology and History of Cognitive Psychology) yesterday. Now I'm studying the chapter about Perception. I also already revised my assignment for Cognitive Psychology and turned it in, but forgot to take a picture of it and post it because I was so indulged into finishing it. Six more chapters to go after this one.

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Long time I didn't post anything. So, I have to redo one exam from the 2nd semester. And that one exam is Cognitive Psychology. I also have to revise my assignment for Cognitive Psychology because that apparently was also shit. I also have another exam from the 1st semester I have to redo, which is Psychiatry. All in all, I 'm pretty glad. 9 out of 11 exams was a succes this year. Hopefully I'll be able to pass those two too. Oh and I won't post anything until August, because I work. See you all in August then hopefully!

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08/06/2017 - 8:15 p.m. I finished these tuesday 06/06/2017, but didn't post them yet cuz I didn't feel like doing anything and yesterday 07/06/2017 was procrastination day.. Anyway, I finished the chapters: Reasoning, Short-term memory and Long-term memory and additionally also took notes for the chapters: Language and Conceptualization & categorization. Now I have to learn: Simon effect, Prototypes, Mental rotation and Memory scan.. and then I can finally start with my Methodology course.

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04/06/2017 - 6:20 p.m. And I'm done with the first three chapters of cognitive psychology: History of Cognitive Psychology, Perception and Attention. It took me longer than expected, I didn't really plan on taking notes but I did it anyway. I wrote 17 pages, that's a lot.. I think? I need to take a long break now though. I'll continue with the next chapters afterwards. What I plan on studying next: Reasoning, Short-Term Memory and Long-Term Memory.

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03/06/2017 - 7:20 p.m. I'm done with biological psychology and I'm so happy, I finished at like 4:30 a.m. though ^_^" The chapters I studied were: Learning & Memory and Music. The chapter about music is not that important, but our professor made that chapter because she is passionate about music. It's so motivating to have a professor that's so enthousiastic. Now I'll start with cognitive psychology. I'm planning on reading the first three chapters and maybe taking notes on what's most important. The chapters are: History of Cognitive Psychology, Perception and Attention

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attention friends of the studyblr community

you do not need mildliners to be a studyblr

you do not need stabilos or staedtlers to be a studyblr

you do not need a macbook to be a studyblr

you do not need a bullet journal to be a studyblr

you do not need muji pens to be a studyblr

you do not have to have all a’s or all a’s and b’s to be a studyblr

you do not have to have pretty handwriting to be a studyblr

you do not have to be taking ap courses to be a studyblr

the only thing you need to be a studyblr is the love or want to study and learn

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note: This masterpost is mostly made for new studyblrs, but anyone can grab ideas from this post if you are having trouble. 

The most common thing studyblr’s think when summer starts is that their tumblr or instagram will get really inactive because well um there’s no school. But don’t worry! Here I have a few things that you can post during summer that will keep your account active, and help motivate yourself during summer.  

It’s not for the followers or anything, it’s mostly because of what my school calls the “ Summer Slide,” It’s important that you keep on reading and studying during summer so you can be prepared for what is to come next year, which I think is rlly important!  

Khan Academy  

If you don’t already know about this, Khan is a website where it teaches you through videos not only math, but some science, history, and even music! A super great website and this goes from elementary to high school math, so in my case, I will be finishing the 8th-grade math course, and finish algebra I and algebra II. If you are a college student, try mathtv (ap math teacher recommended this website!)

Post ideas:  

Tumblr / instagram: You will have extra time to make your notes nice, so with whatever material you learn, make notes about it !!  

Youtube: you can do study with me’s! I love love watching these videos bc they help me motivate myself, and others! Spend those extra minutes making everything look aesthetic

        2.  Reading  

This is what my literature teacher was talking about!! Make sure to read read read!! My goal is to read 8 novels this summer! ( create a realistic goal for yourself as well! And remember! Make a short term goal because surpassing this small goal feels better than not surpassing a larger goal )

For elementary – high school students, use this website to find books!  You can filter the results to find something that suits you!  

Post ideas:  

Tumblr: you can write a mini book report about a book you’ve read, and use the #bookblr and #book so people from the books community can find your report! Make sure to add in for what grade level, your rating, overall thoughts, etc. !! Yo make sure to tag me if you got some 9-12th-grade book recs  

Instagram / tumblr: take some nice looking aesthetic photos of the books you read each couple of weeks!  

Youtube: If you already have book recs, share them with everyone in a video! Label for what grade levels you are recommending these books to!  

         3.  Bullet Journal  

I feel like this is the most obvious one aha, but share your bujo!! With summer now here, you can have that extra 30 minutes to make your bujo look so extra. (actually me all the time aha) but srsly, here are some ideas for your bujo instead of the regular spreads because there is a 99.9% chance that you will end up posting bujo pics anyway!

Make a kpop idol about spread! Choose your fave band, and each week print out some pictures of each member and make a spread that explains why you stan them, or just things that make them special! Find inspo from Queen here!  

If you aren’t into kpop, choose book characters from your fave book and write about a different character each week, or however long your summer break is!  

If you are going on vacation, make a travel spread that includes maps, receipts, or aesthetic things you find, and make it look nice! Include reviews about restaurants you have gone to, or things you liked about the country/city and stuff you didn’t etc. ( I have so many ideas I can blab forever )  

If you want to do the book review thing, but making entire posts would be difficult on you, you can make short paragraph reviews about it as a spread in your bujo, or if you read manga, ( !! ) you can make a review every 3-5 chapters you read!  

Create mood boards !!! Get some super artsy pics from we heart it or art blogs on tumblr (but always give credits), and create your aesthetic and something that will motivate you to study, or clean, etc!!  

For Instagram and tumblr, you can just post these as pictures, and add a nice filter, but with youtube, you can create bujo inspo ideas or the regular “monthly bujo spread”  

        4.  Food  

Okay, sooooo food is life guys. Share some healthy but yummy foods that will get people who see your posts be super super motivated to eat healthy.  

Check out some fun quick recipes here from my fave, that will motivate you to cook! (take advantage of the time you have now!) Make sure to make your pictures/content look nice!  

Post Ideas:  

Instagram and tumblr you can just post some nice aesthetic pictures, along with maybe your weekly bujo spread or something because it’s important to post relevant things since you are a studyblr.  

Youtube: you can post your weekly meal plan or maybe even teach/show foods you eat while studying, or what you recommend some healthy ( maybe even vegan?) alternatives to your regular junk food.  

        5. Queue  

It’s understandable that the stuff I mentioned might be almost impossible for some people because you either have sports, music lessons, etc. So posting original content might be difficult. If you don’t already know about this, meet your best friend queue !!  

Take 5 minutes out of your day, follow blogs that are going to be active in the summer (maybe even ask?) and queue their posts. In your tumblr setting, you can set up how many posts you want to post from your queue every day, and the time. Since I’m posting original content and stuff every week, I limit my queue for 2 posts every day. During the summer, I’m increasing it to 5 posts every day.  

This will help keep your account pretty active, and you can occasionally post your original content! This is totally a solution if you are limited in time  

For Instagram, try to at least post once a week so that your followers know that you have not abandoned the account.  

For youtube, let your subscribers know ahead of time that you won’t upload in let’s say, 2 weeks. This is important because when new people find your channel, they will be able to know that “Oh this person hasn’t uploaded in a month because of blah blah” Or you can always let them know to follow your tumblr, since you will be more “active” on there.  

Things to keep in mind:

Always always always compliment people! In their bujo, notes, or anything they post! That makes everyone happy (:

Don’t have your studyblr for the followers. It’s annoying sometimes when people do shout out for shout out on their insta stories.  

It’s totally okay for your pictures to not be aesthetic. It’s the content that counts.  

Appreciate the time you have now bc when its school, its crunch time  

I hope everyone who read this got something from this and gave you some good ideas on what to post during summer because I see a lot of people just having no idea, so I hope I helped!  

Also, if you do any of these ideas or you post videos of reviews or book reports, or make character bujo spreads please please please let me know!! I would love to see inspo on stuff like that, and it would really help me!  

Ps: If you want to follow an active account for the summer, I’m all open!  

Make sure summer vacation isn’t a barrier from you to keep on motivating others on your account!  

-graphics creds here

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01/06/2017 - 04:20 a.m. (my Circadian rhythm is all over the place) Biological Psychology, Chapter Learning and Memory: done But my fingers are also done from all that writing T_T Next chapter: Stress and Regulation But only gonna read that chapter though, don't got the time to write stuff anymore for this course o3o

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Late night studying. Biological Psychology, this thing is not a joke. It'll consume a lot of time and energy to learn all of this (well that's what you get for not being organized this semester). Now I'm learning the materialized version of classical (well actually any kind of) conditioning and hey at least it's interesting ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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New studyblr

Hi, my name is Alper. I’m a 20 y/o psychology student in Brussels at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. I made this blog to kinda motivate myself (inner monologue: ‘cause exams start in 2 weeks and I haven’t done a lot and I’m starting to stress out but also don’t stress very much which causes me to think about what’s wrong with my nervous system, like is something wrong with my cortisol levels? *gasp*… I need to calm down.. (^0^“))

Jokes aside, follow me if you are curious about my journey and I’m also looking for other studyblr’s to follow (preference for, but not limited to other people who also study psychology). I also don’t really know how to use tumblr since I’m new.

Voilà, that’s all for now \(^-^)/