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^^^My newest form of note taking!!

Supplies: black pen, zebra mild liner

The mildliner is the key to this method. It has a bold tip and a fine tip. I use the bold side for names and vocabulary, and the fine tip to underline key ideas.

Pros to this method:

• It is the easiest and fastest way to code your notes because you only have one additional pen to use, instead of switching between multiple colored highlighters or pens.

• It makes your notes much simpler to read. Having only one color on the page is so much easier than having to memorize a color code.

• Less to carry around. All you need is paper, a pen, and a highlighter!

• If you’re in a lecture and don’t have time to highlight during it you can go back and highlight (I’ve also found that this actually helps me to memorize my notes because I’m rereading them and identifying the most important things by myself).

I know I’ve changed my note style at least 3 times already this year, but this one has worked the best for me by far. It’s so easy and fast, and I highly recommend this method (and these highlighters) to anyone that’s looking for the most efficient way of note taking without getting distracted by handfuls of pens! It’s definitely helped me start of the new semester right!

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This studyblr is ANTI all-nighter, ANTI overexertion, PRO mental wellness, PRO self care, PRO getting enough sleep

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how to study anything, really:

1. read up, learn more about this particular subject/topic/skill

2. practice, practice, practice !!!

3. scream

4. cry

5. repeat steps 2-4 until you’re good at said subject/topic/skill

6. congrats you’re now a smarty pants

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emergency teaching crammer! i have gotten a lot of very panicked asks about teaching in the past few weeks!! here are some very basic so-you’re-teaching-for-the-first-time-in-like-three-weeks tips :) and, as a reminder, i also have a real messy teaching tag.

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In class lecture

It is very important to pay attention to what your professor is saying, that’s not negotiable. Some people - like me - can write and pay attention at the very same time. I recommend trying this because it’s way useful because you have everything that you need already written. But you can also take short notes, but make sure you have everything there.

don’t hesitate in writing the information that your professor repeats, speaks loudly, or slowly, or with more emphasis

examples, exceptions, names, places: you must write all of them. they will be very useful while you study, saving you some time 

especially, most significant, most important, however, on the other hand, because, so, therefore, consequently: most of the time, these sort of points are where your professor will get exam questions

make it pretty later. forget about handwriting, colors, post-its and everything else. sadly, your professor won’t wait for you

the slides are also very important. if the professor makes them available online, copy that latter at home and focus on what is saying. if they are not, try to copy them as faster as you can

if you are going to highlight, do it after your professor is done or you will end up with everything highlighted

you can also record your lectures if you really think that’s useful. have in mind that it will take some time to listen. but if you do, keep that to yourself. in my country, it’s illegal to record lectures without permission. I strongly recommend you to ask before recording  

At home

Also very important. Now you are going to focus for real since you can take your home notes at your time. I like to full my notes with information, being very detailed, so I don’t have to look for information before studying for an exam. But everything related to study is completely personal. If you don’t know what works for you, try both ways and you will find out. You can also apply these tips if you are studying at a library, coffee shop or whatever. It’s totally up to you!

read your notes before taking a new one. there’s no sense starting them if you have no idea how to start. if you are not studying at the library or whatever, try to read at loud. it will go faster, make you pay real attention to the reading, and it will help with the memorization. make sure you have all understood before moving on

start writing topics - you can even just copy the slides - and after that, you can full it with your information

don’t be afraid to add more information. do some research and complement the notes that you have done at your lecture.

write what you know and try to not copy everything from your lectures notes or from your textbook. it will force your memory to remember, but it’s ok to look once or another to support

make your notes interactive and fun. use colors, post-its, and everything that you find it’s useful. it won’t just look pretty and make you want to use them later, but the colors will help your brain to fix the information even better

once you are done, read your new notes. if you have time, try to reduce it into a flash-card or repeat to yourself what you have learned

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By: Haley | mylittlebooktique

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note to self: glowing up doesn’t necessarily always mean looking cute as hell. glowing up also means becoming the best version of yourself. cut out the toxic people in your life, remember to study well, becoming more open minded, taking care of yourself physically and mentally (!!!), be nice. what benefit is there in bringing someone down when you can be one of the reasons why they smile?

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Hey guys! As a writer myself, it’s hard to have a lot of resources for writing in one place. That’s why I decided to create this masterpost, and maybe make more if I find future resources. I hope you like it, and expect to see more masterposts like this in the future!

Generators

Character

Appearance Generator

Archetypes Generator

Character Generator

Character Traits Generator

Family Generator

Job/Occupation Generator, (II)

Love Interest Generator

Motive Generator

Name Generator

Personality Generator, (II)

Quick Character Generator

Super Powers Generator

Names

Brand Name Generator

Medicine Title Generator

Name Generator

Quick Name Generator

Vehicle Generator

Town Name Generator

Plot

First Encounter Generator

First Line Generator, (II)

Plot Generator, (II), (III)

Plot Device Generator

Plot Twist Generator

Quick Plot Generator

Setting/World-Building

City Generator

Fantasy Race Generator

Laws Generator

Pet Generator

Setting Generator

Species Generator

Terrain Generator

Prompts

Subject Generator

”Take Three Nouns” Generator

Word Prompt Generator

Misc

Color Generator

Decision Generator

Dialogue Generator

Journey Generator

Title Generator, (II), (III)

Some Tips

Just a few I found from the writing tips tag!

Writing action / @berrybird

How to create a strong voice in your writing / @collegerefs

How to plot a complex novel in one day! / @lizard-is-writing

8 ways to get past writer’s block / @kiramartinauthor

psa for writers / @dasakuryo

”Write Using Your 5 Senses” / @ambientwriting

How People Watching Improves Your Writing / @wherethetransthingsare

Writing Science Fiction: Tips for Beginners / @fictionwritingtips

Creating Likeable Characters / @authors-haven

Vocabulary

Descriptive words / @somekindofstudent

Words to replace “Said” / @msocasey

Obscure color words / @mintsteelpeachlilac

Words to spice up your stories / @busyibee

Words to describe someone’s voice

Words to Use Instead of Very / @gaybybirth

Touchy Feely Words / @gaybybirth

Some Advice

Stephen King’s Top 20 Rules for Writers

”But my plot isn’t UNIQUE or BIG enough!” / @youreallwrite

8 Things Every Creative Should Know / @adamjk

(How To) Get Over Comparing Yourself to Other Creatives / @adamjk

How to Get Over Common Creative Fears (Maybe) / @adamjk

14 Tips From Stephen King On Writing / @i-can-give-you-prompts

Playlists

Electronic Thoughts / @eruditekid

“Mix About Writing” An Instrumental Mix / @shadowofemirates

Shut Up, I’m Writing! / @ninadropdead

Chill / @endlessreveries

Breathtaking Film Scores / @tweedskirts

Music to Write to Vol. 1: Starlight / @crestadeen

Music for Written Words / @ghoulpatch

Dead Men Tell No Tales / @scamandersnewt

Fatale / @dolcegf

All These Things that I’ve Done / @referenceforwriters

Feeling Soaking into Your Bones / @verylondon

I Can Feel Your Pulse in the Pages / @rphelper

Morally Ambiguous / @scamandersnewt

Wonderwall / @wheelerwrites

Pythia / @mazikeene

Ballet: To Dance / @tanaquil

Websites and Apps

For Writing

ZenPen: A minimalist writing website to keep you free of distractions and in the flow.

The Most Dangerous Writing App: A website where you have to keep typing or all of your writing will be lost. It helps you keep writing…kind of. You can choose between a time or word count limit!

Evernote: An online website where you can take notes and save the product to your laptop and/or smartphone!

Writer, the Internet Typewriter: It’s just you and your writing, and you can save your product on the website if you create an account.

Wordcounter: A website to help check your word and character count, and shows words you’re using frequently.

Monospace: An Android app for writing on the go when you feel the inspiration, but you don’t have your laptop on you!

For Productivity

Tide: An app that combines a pomodoro-esque timer with nature sounds and other noises! (Google Play / Apple Store)

ClearFocus: An Android app with a pomodoro-type time counter to let you concentrate easier and stay productive.

Forest: An app with a time counter to keep you focused and off your phone, and when you complete the time limit, a tree grows in your garden! (Google Play / Apple Store)

SelfControl: A Mac downloadable app that blocks you from distracting mail servers, websites, and other things!

Prompt Blogs

@writeworld

@dialouge-prompts

@oopsprompts

@prompts-for-the-otp

@creativepromptsforwriting

@the-modern-typewriter

@theprofessionalpromptmaker

@writers-are-writers

@otp-imagines-cult

@witterprompts

@havetobememes

@auideas

@putthepromptsonpaper

@promptsonpaper

@fyotpprompts

@otpisms

@soprompt

@otpprompts

@ablockforwritersblock

@awritersnook

Writing Tips Blogs

@writeworld

@anomalously-written

@awritersnook

@clevergirlhelps

@referenceforwriters

@whataboutwriting

@thewritershelpers

@nimblesnotebook

@slitheringink

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I’ve started using flashcards more often (and I’m seeing a lot more of them on studyblrs and studygrams), so I decided to look up tips on how to use them. Here are some important ones I’ve found that I wanted to share with you guys! Hope this helps :)

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1. Familiarize yourself Really get to know the work that you will be analyzing. Whether it‘s a poem, short story, or play, make sure you read it over a number of times. It also doesn’t hurt to do some background research into the author and his/her writing styles. 

2. Annotate While reading, annotate the work and jot down some of the formal language you noticed. For example, the use of literary and formal features, themes, characters, tone etc.  Here is a link to some of the basic and most well-known literary devices:  https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/575/01/

3. Theme/Topic  Choose the theme that you want to focus on (this may be a general, universal theme or specific literary features). The theme/topic may also have been assigned by your teachers. 

Essay topics can range widely in specificity:

Romantic and familial love in Shakespeare sonnet #   

John Milton’s use of paradoxes and juxtaposition to create a stark contrast between Satan and God in Book one of “Paradise Lost”

4. Find supportive evidence Once you know your theme/topic, make sure you have enough supporting evidence to write a good essay. If not, you either want to go back and find more, or change to a more easily supported topic. 

For example, you don’t want to write an essay on a poem’s use of metaphors, when all you can find are examples of the use of imagery.

5. Outline Writing an outline really helps when writing any essay. I like to use a certain layout that I find is really effective in helping me structure my ideas:

Topic sentence: Evidence #: Literary Feature: Importance (of the literary feature):

6. Putting it all together Really take advantage of your outline when writing your essay! With all your ideas laid out, it’s really about putting your thoughts into coherent and fluent sentences. 

Tip: Make use of transition words, as well as complex, compound, and simple sentences, in order to make your essay really flow

7. Revise, revise, revise.  Nobody can write a perfect essay on the first try. Editing may include asking you friends to peer edit, or even your teacher/professor for suggestions.

8. Take a step back If you have the extra time, it helps to leave your essay for a while (a day), before coming back to it. Sometimes taking a step back can really go a long way.

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I’m now entering my third semester of my second year college, and I think I’ve gathered enough experience in college to give relevant tips to incoming freshmen or just regular old college students. I’m not an expert in getting all As, not getting those 4.0s in every subject, but I have maintained my place as a Dean’s Lister since my first sem freshmen year, so I think I do have an idea on what I’m talking about. Feel free to take my advice! (or not).

homework/projects 1. seriously, once you get information on your homework/project, start them immediately. DO NOT wait till last minute to complete them because you will regret it. Do them as soon as the professor assigns it to you so you won’t spend the next few weeks stressing out on the amount of homework you have.

2. start creative projects first. unless you can pull creativity out of your hat whenever you need it, I highly suggest you start creative projects as soon as  you get them because trust me when I say you do not want to be decorating/designing shit when the due date is tomorrow.

3. do your best in every assignment; trust me, the points will count at the end of the semester.

4. do extra credit work and treat it as priority work; excess points are cushion points. 

5. group projects suck but here’s a good rule to keep in mind: if you’re the leader, delegate those tasks (read up on division of labor). if you’re a group member, do the delegated task as best as you can. know your goal as a group; are you guys in it to get to know each other and build rapport? then the output won’t matter as much and focus on helping and getting to know each other. Is the output the most important part? Then be real with each other; if you can’t do this task, then don’t do it & instead give it to someone else. Some may not even get any work at all, because what matters is the output. 

friends/other people/professors 1.  keep your circle small. your friends are there to guide you, support you and tell you when you’re wrong. find the crowd you vibe with the most because trust me, the right friends are medicine to all college problems

2. those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. keep that in mind, my dear.

3. love the professor? do your best in their class. hate the professor? do your best in their class. it doesn’t matter whether you hate the prof or not; they still hold your grade at the end of the semester. if you really can’t stand them, just think of it as training your ability to be humble (and not punch someone).

4. talk to your professors. they’re not as bad as you think they are.

5. seriously, go to their consultation hours when you think you’re failing. 

class/notes 1. TAKE NOTES. cannot emphasize this enough. don’t rely on anyone to take your notes for you; it’s your education, it’s time you take responsibility for it.

2. sit in front of class if you believe you’ll get distracted if you sit in the back. 

3. talk to your seatmate! you’ll need them when you get sick and can’t come to class.

4. again, TAKE NOTES. don’t photograph the slide. write that shit down, or type it if you don’t want to write. bottom line, don’t picture it. 

5. revise, revise, revise. if you want to understand the material, a good way to go about it is to revise your notes in a way YOU can understand.

having fun/relationships 1. have fun! i was too stressed when I was a freshman all because I focused too much on getting 4.0s. It’s possible to get 4.0s and still have fun! having fun doesn’t need to be about drinking (although if it is, then stay safe doing it!) it could be reading a book or hanging out with your friends, whatever works for you and keeps your mind off school for awhile.

2. it’s okay to have crushes! they could be your inspiration (but don’t let them be your distraction)

3. talk to that cute guy you’ve been classmates with ever since February who you can’t stop looking at. you’ve got nothing to lose.

4. relationships are a good source of support, love and care but pls don’t forget your friends.

5. learn how to have fun, and college will be easier. 

Reminder: having fun does not equal to slacking off.

I guess that’s it! If you guys want more tips/advice/academic or college realted, I can write more or you can just hit up my ask! 

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Since I’m not studying at the moment, I thought I’d take the time to make this mindmap to give you guys some suggestions for how to study. Let me know if anything here is particularly helpful! Have a wonderful weekend everyone! 😘

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this is a step-by-step process that i have used for literally all of my papers in high school and college, including my ib extended essay and ia’s! it’s a way to help ensure you a good grade and to help you finish the paper without spending a whole lot of time on it.

if you have any questions or a suggestion for a post you want to see, you can message me, submit a question anonymously, or comment on any of my posts! i love helping you guys in any way that i can, school or life or anything in between, so don’t be shy!

- sam xx

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Hello! Thank you @avidlove for sending in a request for this masterpost! I honestly had so much fun making it (and the icons) ahaha. This is basically just a quick guide on my school essentials. Hopefully it’ll be useful for you guys!

PS: I made all icons except the first 2 paper clips, the whistle, and the 2 water bottles. Those were taken from Google Images. All credit goes to respective owners.

(my stationery guide)

other masterposts

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I’ve had this idea for a while, and I finally made it! If you have any more extensions that you use, feel free to add them to this post!

Momentum

Night Mode Pro

Readism

Honey

Palette Creator

Whatfont

Chrome IG Story

Pocket

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Exam revision printable pack

Exams are one of the toughest parts of life so why not make it just that tiny bit easier with some printables! I picked out some of the things that seem most necessary for studying including a definitions and formula sheet, topics for revision checklist, essay and project planner, and a weekly schedule!

All the six pages come in a single download in six colours: pink, blue, peach, grey, green and purple. You can download the file in a colour of your choice from the Google Drive link below:

Folder of printable pack download

I hope you enjoy using these and if so, I’d love to see them in action! Feel free to tag me on Tumblr with #emmastudies or on Instagram with my username @emmastudiess in any photos you upload. If there are any problems or errors, please let me know via my inbox.

Disclaimer: This printable is for personal use only. You may edit it yourself if you like, but please do not redistribute without my permission. Thank you!