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Hello! First post on here. This is me trying to use my day off as productively as possible. I have ADHD, so… gonna need all the external kickers I can get and what’s worse than an incomplete studyblr post?

Agenda

Clean my room (for psychological purposes)

Fix up my history infographic project

Start and finish the longer history presentation

Really sit down and do some math- hopefully continuous random variables and trigonometry

Finally finish this article I’ve left as a WIP for like, two months.

Notes for business studies, economics

Super optional!!!

Finish the next chapter of the fic I’m writing

Work on the SJCC application, hopefully submit it

Call someone about RV college

Wish me luck!!!

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They should let u take stuffed animals into exams. Let me bring a meter long Blahaj into my AS Further Maths exams, cowards!!!

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7 Reasons you might be procrastinating and how to solve them:

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ADHD study tip

One of the hardest things about studying, or just being productive in general, with ADHD is getting started. It's so hard to just sit down and get something done. I was talking to my brother, who also has ADHD, and we realised we both do the same thing before studying. I always thought it was a bad thing, but after talking to my brother I realised it motivates me to continue being productive.

What we do is something we like to call "productive procrastination". It sounds bad, and yes, to an extent, it can be. Basically you do something not related to your task at hand that is still productive. It gives you that activation energy you need to just start what you need to do.

For example, yesterday I put on an audiobook and for half an hour I did a deep clean of my desk and bookshelves before starting my day of studying. Yes, this was procrastination, but it helped give me motivation. Doing something small makes what you need to do less daunting, because you get that bit of dopamine that keeps you going.

I also find that cleaning up my room really helps. I'm normally a really messy person, but when I study I need a clean space. I used to think it wasn't true, but I now really agree with the saying "messy room, messy mind".

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choosing where you want to go to uni is great until you remember you also have to get in

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Emotional support coaster and bottle I fill with coffee <3

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Fuck you: pinks your imperialism

Unit: Empire and the Emergence of World Powers (1870-1919)

I’m literally Indian this is so funny to study like bestie I KNOW

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igcses are over, i'm at the AS level now. finished igcses with BBBBBA*AD (the D is art i literally do not care) and now im doing internals. sorry for disappearing it turns out the allure of tumblr is not good for studying!

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whaddup motherfuckers i’m not sleeping tonight! got an english essay and some sketches to do, all hopefully before 5:50 AM (its 2:22)

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

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The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri

5/5

Newlyweds Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli are leaving their home in Calcutta to move to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Their son, nicknamed Gogol after the Russian writer, will grow up never fully belonging to either world.

I mostly read sci-fi, and I’ve got a childish bias against literary fiction: something about how characters are rarely perfectly happy at the end, how it’s a mundane sort of unhappiness that could happen to anyone, has always bothered me a little bit. This book has the same sort of ending: not so much bittersweet as it is mundane. Gogol and Ashima live ordinary lives, which we follow, and then we don’t anymore.

Regardless of this, I did love this book. It’s half because of Lahiri’s careful, specific prose, and half from the depth of character she gives her mains, extraordinary in so short a book.

My mother loves her South Asian immigrant stories, so I’ve read several and I’ll probably read several more. This one doesn’t leave the formula much, but it’s one of the finest examples of it I’ve ever read.

Plot: winding. Like life, Lahiri doesn’t bother much with foreshadowing or three-act structure: it progresses steadily and the twists are unexpected in the same way they are in life. The only thing tying it together is that theme of Nikolai Gogol, whose works changed Ashoke’s life and whose name haunts Gogol his whole life. I loved seeing that theme weave its way in and out of the story, to come full circle at the end.

Characters: excellent. They’re carefully realized people, flawed and loveable. Lahiri’s narrators are charismatic, and even when I didn’t like them I wanted to hear more about them. She’s got a gift for specific little gestures and turns of phrase that bring people to life, and I love how we see characters though various eyes and perspectives.

Setting: beautiful and detailed. So much of this book is summary: paragraphs of the ordinary parts of living, of journeys and schoolwork and the places we live. Lahiri pays more attention to them than perhaps any other author I’ve read, until Cambridge and Calcutta and their house in the suburbs are as much members of the story as Gogol’s love interests.

Prose: specific and unique. There’s an interesting narrative voice going on here: it’s removed a certain amount from the characters, and doubles back on itself to explain some things, never addressing the audience directly but sort of halfway-aware of them anyways. Here’s an example from page 2: “When she calls out to Ashoke, she doesn’t say his name. Ashima never thinks of her husband’s name when she things of her husband, even though she knows perfectly well what it is. She has adopted his surname but refuses, for propriety’s sake, to utter his first. It’s not the type of thing that Bengali wives do. Like a kiss or caress in a Hindi movie, a husband’s name is something intimate and therefore unspoken, cleverly patched over. And so, instead of saying Ashoke’s name she utters the interrogative that has come to replace it, which translates roughly as, “Are you listening to me?”” I read this and was hooked - my grandmother does the exact same thing, down to the ‘me kya ji’ Ashima uses instead. 

Diversity rating: most prominent characters are Bengali. Well-written women. 

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AAAAAALSO if you ever want to study together (even w/out talking and not doing the same classes) if we're already friends DM me!! i'll share a fiveable room w/you that you can use discord to log into instead of like. email jhsgfsjhd

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Okay so there's this YT channel. Yk how sometimes its hard to focus on like 15-30 min lectures?? so this guy (spiffing) does these lectures in batches of 3-4 minutes at a time???? genuinely enjoying physics rn and i HATE this class.

anyways so freesciencevideos ftw !!!!

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Welcome to this clusterfuck

Basics: I'm Dave, main is at @dykeology-201

he/him - preparing for A Levels (May-June 2024 series) - India Grade 12 - Maths/Business/History/Economics/English lang (AS level only) + MUNner - Music enjoyer (if you ask me for playlists i Will link them)

This is an attempt to want to be productive and hence do well in my exams, mostly because I’m internet poisoned and that means if I didn’t see it on a blog/blog it, it didn’t happen lmao

Anyways, let’s all be chill.