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I'm proposing myself a new challenge

☆ 100 days of no nail biting ☆

Whenever the exams are coming, the essays are piling, or the bus isn't coming, ANYTHING, I'm biting them without even realizing. It's disgusting, and my hands get ugly.

It's not the first time I try to stop, but this time I'm willing to get serious about it. 

Feel free to join me in this challenge!  °☆.。.:*・

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September Study Challenge

Rules:

- There are none! Have Fun!

Suggestion:

- Tag @studying-chan via the @ or the #

What you are going to be doing:

1. What are your goals for the month of September?

2. Introduce yourself/Reintroduce yourself.

3. How many notebooks do you have for this semester?

4. What is in your pencil case?

5. Do you have a favorite stationary brand?

6. What gets you hyped about Fall?

7. What does your semester look like?

8. How do you take notes?

9. What is your favorite subject and why?

10. What is your least favorite subject and why?

11. Do you have a study music playlist?

12. Do you like working in groups or alone?

13. What is your preferred stimulant? (G- Rated, like Coffee)

14. What do you want to be when you grow up?

15. Do you journal?

16. What does a typical school day look like?

17. Whats in your backpack?

18. What do you typically wear to school?

19. Are you messy or organized?

20. What is your favorite study snack?

21. What do you love about studying?

22. What do you hate about studying?

23. What does your study space look like?

24. What would you consider your signature, what makes you unique?

25. Do you have any educators who have inspired you?

26. What do you need to study?

27. How do you break while studying?

28. What kind of technology do you use?

29. Be honest, are you a distracted studier? why?

30. Did you meet your goals?

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Do yourself a favor. Learn to code. Here's how.

I’ve said this to my non-techie friends countless times. It’s no secret that being able to code makes you a better job applicant, and a better entrepreneur. Hell, one techie taught a homeless man to code and now that man is making his first mobile application.

Learning to code elevates your professional life, and makes you more knowledgeable about the massive changes taking place in the technology sector that are poised to have an immense influence on human life.

(note: yes I realize that 3/5 of those links were Google projects)

But most folks are intimidated by coding. And it does seem intimidating at first. But peel away the obscurity and the difficulty, and you start to learn that coding, at least at its basic level, is a very manageable, learnable skill.

There are a lot of resources out there to teach you. I’ve found a couple to be particularly successful. Here’s my list of resources for learning to code, sorted by difficulty:

Novice

Never written a line of code before? No worries. Just visit one of these fine resources and follow their high-level tutorials. You won’t get into the nitty-gritty, but don’t worry about it for now:

Dash - by General Assembly

CodeAcademy

w3 Tutorials (start at HTML on the left sidebar and work your way down)

Intermediate

Now that you’ve gone through a handful of basic tutorials, it’s time to learn the fundamentals of actual, real-life coding problems. I’ve found these resources to be solid:

Khan Academy

CodeAcademy - Ruby, Python, PHP

Difficult

If you’re here, you’re capable of building things. You know the primitives. You know the logic control statements. You’re ready to start making real stuff take shape. Here are some different types of resources to turn you from someone who knows how to code, into a full-fledged programmer.

Programming problems

Sometimes, the challenges in programming aren’t how to make a language do a task, but just how to do the task in general. Like how to find an item in a very large, sorted list, without checking each element. Here are some resources for those types of problems

Talentbuddy

TopCoder

Web Applications

If you learned Python, Django is an amazing platform for creating quick-and-easy web applications. I’d highly suggest the tutorial - it’s one of the best I’ve ever used, and you have a web app up and running in less than an hour.

Django Tutorial

I’ve never used Rails, but it’s a very popular and powerful framework for creating web applications using Ruby. I’d suggest going through their guide to start getting down-and-dirty with Rails development.

Rails Guide

If you know PHP, there’s an ocean of good stuff out there for you to learn how to make a full-fledged web application. Frameworks do a lot of work for you, and provide quick and easy guides to get up and running. I’d suggest the following:

Cake PHP Book

Symfony 2 - Get Started

Yii PHP - The Comprehensive Guide

Conclusion

If there’s one point I wanted to get across, it’s that it is easier than ever to learn to code. There are resources on every corner of the internet for potential programmers, and the benefits of learning even just the basics are monumental.

If you know of any additional, great resources that aren’t listed here, please feel free to tweet them to me @boomeyer.

Best of luck!

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Olá! This is my new studyblr. It's a bit clumsy yet, but I'll improve it as it goes! I hope I can be friends with this amazing community!

Soon I'll be doing an intro post, I hope!

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attention all studyblrs ‪✧

reblog/like this because I’m looking for more people to follow and I want to see all your cute lil posts! let’s build a friendly community together ‪♡‬

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my first attempt at following one of @sealemondiy bookbinding tutorials! I’m thinking about doing the yellow one my new bullet journal.

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Motivation & Discipline

anonymous asked: been studying the whole of june because my exams are after the holidays and i think I’ve lost motivation? what should i do? there’s no time for me to take a break :-(

The most difficult part of studying is definitely starting to study and sticking to it. Having motivation is helpful at first and will help you get started on your goals, but after this point it really comes down to your discipline to continue doing things!

What’s the difference?

Motivation is only going to encourage you to do something, whether it’s from looking at pictures or rewarding yourself after tasks.

Discipline is habit that forms out of the motivation you have given yourself previously. Eventually this task becomes normal to you and motivation won’t be necessary for you to do it. The task is just a regular part of your routine, like eating lunch.

Example: We all want to rest a few extra minutes (or hours) when our alarm rings in the morning. When this happens, you start having a mental talk with yourself. “Should I even go?” “Is sleeping in worth it?” You may even start motivating yourself to get out bed. “There’s a test today and I can’t miss it!” If you have discipline, you get out bed without this mental talk.

A lot of Studyblrs study based on motivation by reminding themselves about the rewards of studying, such as where they will be in the future if they study now. A lot even read quotes and look at photos & blogs. This is a good start if you are new to studying, but it’s definitely not efficient. A lot of people who study this way end up procrastinating because they give themselves breaks as a reward. Everything you have to do will build up, and that obviously isn’t fun! All you will want to do is crawl into bed.

Studying based on discipline means that you study out of habit — or that it has become a regular part of your routine. Like how you know when to eat, you know when to study. This is a lot more efficient than motivational studying because tasks won’t build up as bad. Instead of avoiding tasks and crawling into bed, you just do them.

How do you develop discipline?

The first step is understanding that sometimes you just have to do the task. Even if the task at hand isn’t fun, it has to be done! It’s now or later, and choosing later only leads to procrastination and task build-up.

Doing something sooner than later is a huge key in developing discipline. When you make the decision to put off work that needs to be done and to rely on your future self, your future self is going to be in a lot more stress and exhaustion! Things will continue to build up and won’t get done, either not on-time or not complete at all.

This can lead to you not getting the grades or qualifications you could have gotten, which may stop you from achieving your goals.

Comes to terms with the fact that some tasks are more important than others! You shouldn’t put scrolling through your dashboard, reblogging posts, watching Youtube, and even reading fan-fiction above more important tasks.

Learn to rely on yourself and yourself only. Like the first bullet, you simply have to do the task; you can’t say no or your future won’t be the way you want it to be! Disregarding the meme, keep telling yourself to just do it.

Know the difference between a break and simply stopping. If your break consists of you saying “I’ll do the rest later” or “I’ll continue tomorrow,” that’s not a break! Breaks should:

be no longer than an hour,

should be used to help you recharge, and

should have a task themselves.

Instead, say: “I’ll set a timer for 30 minutes so I can get a snack and relax.”

Remember: the point of a Studyblr is to help you study. Don’t just reblog aesthetic photos; reblog masterposts, resources, and things that will actually help you!

Other Posts on Motivation & Discipline: 1 | 2 | 3

We wish you luck on your exams! :)

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Serenity ✨ 

Taken from my studygram: @equaticnss