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English has alternating stress patterns that indicate whether related words are nouns (first syllable stressed) or verbs (second syllable stressed):

Noun: récord Verb: recórd

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My fucking god!! This is why English does the thing!!!!

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Oh me oh my, it seems that I am drowning in work, I must complete this homework and notes by Thursday! Not to mention an upcoming test I have not studies for. I'll be working extra hard this 2 weeks, I hope you look foreword to it as much as I do! 1/100

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hi I just found your blog and it's seriously a blessing. do you have any tips for high school juniors?? everyone says this is the most important year for getting into college and I'm more than a little stressed

Everyone will tell you that your Junior year of high school is the most important of your entire high school career. This is primarily due to the fact that this is the year you will be taking the ACT or SAT and this is also the last full year of grades that colleges will see when you apply to college next fall. Although this year is a big one, it doesn’t have to be as stressful as you think! Here is a checklist of everything you should be doing your Junior year of High School accompanied with some helpful guides written by us!

1. Prepare for and take the ACT or SAT

By taking the ACT/SAT this year, you will still have time to retake the test prior to applying to college if you choose to do so. I highly recommend signing up to take the test during spring semester of your Junior year, or even earlier, if you choose. 

How to get a 31+ on the ACT

Our ACT tag / Our SAT tag

Should you retake the ACT/SAT?

2. Maintain or improve your grades

If you’re a college-bound Junior, your grades are incredibly important. Your Junior year grades will be the most recent grades colleges will have when you apply next fall, so it is important that you make sure your grades are representative of what you are capable of as a student. 

How to make this your most successful semester yet

Avoiding burnout

Getting over a fear of studying

How to study like a straight A student

How to create a perfect study environment

3. Begin or continue searching for colleges 

If you’re going into your Junior year of High School, you’re going to be applying to college in almost exactly one year from now. It’s time- if you haven’t already- to start looking for colleges. 

Cappex.com is a great website to search for colleges

Consider visiting colleges that you are interested in

Here is a guide to applying to college so you know what to expect next fall

When compiling a list of colleges, most students have at least 2 safeties, 2 matches, and 1 reach school

4. Prepare for college applications

If you aren’t already involved in an extracurricular, now is the time to start

Get friendly with some teachers - you may need recommendation letters next fall

Volunteer! 

Consider taking a challenging class to show off your academic abilities 

Even if you aren’t applying this fall, you can still look around at college applications when they open in August just to see what to expect 

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21 Beautiful Words

Adoxography: Beautiful writing with a subject of little or no importance.

Nepenthe: Something that can make you forget grief or suffering.

Oneirataxia: The inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality.

Eunoia: Beautiful thinking; a well mind.

Psithurism: The sound of wind blowing through trees.

Alate: Having wings; lifted up in flight.

Commuovere: To stir, to touch, to move to tears.

Orphic: Mysterious and entrancing; beyond ordinary understanding.

Aeipathy: An enduring and consuming passion.

Nemophilist: A haunter of the woods; one who loves the fores and it’s beauty and solitude.

Dormiveglia: The space that stretches between sleeping and waking. 

Pluviophile; A love of rain.

Acatalepsy: The impossibility of comprehending the universe.

Matutine: Just before the dawn.

Nyctophilia: The love of darkness, or nighttime.

Eleutheromania: An intense and irresistible desire to be free.

Scripturient: Having a consuming passion to write.

Logolepsy: An obsession with words.

Sapiosexual: One who is attracted to the intelligence in others.

Solivagnant: Wandering alone.

Brood: To think alone. 

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eleven little self care tips for students

Get enough sleep. Your brain needs it. Set yourself a ‘bed time’ and fall into the routine of going to bed and waking up at the same times each day.

Drink water and lots of it. Aim for 2 litres a day. This one’s easy, you can do it. Ditch the juices and carbonated beverages, just add a slice of lemon to your water if you feel like something fancy.

Allow yourself to switch off. Don’t be afraid to read books that have nothing to do with your studies. Go to the cinema. Work out. Take your mind away from your workload.

Take care of your skin. Wash your face every morning and night. Moisturise after every shower and bath. Don’t go to bed with your make-up on, no matter how tired you are.

Talk to your friends and family about something other than school. Don’t let your studies detach you from the things going on around you.

Work out. Even just once a week, or whenever you can. Go for a walk or a run, maybe just for 15 minutes. Follow along with a YouTube exercise video from the comfort of your own home or try out some yoga moves.

Make time for your hobbies. Studying is your full time job, but there’s plenty of hours left in the day. Don’t neglect the things you love.

Cook. Sometimes all we have time for is microwave noodles, but don’t fall into the habit of relying on the basics. You’ll feel the difference.

Don’t forget to laugh. Watch a hilarious film. See a comedian at a local venue. Watch funny videos on YouTube. Reminisce with friends. It’ll do you good.

Ditch the caffeine. Don’t rely on Starbucks. It’s delicious but you don’t need it. Save up all the money you’d usually spend on coffee and treat yourself to something instead.

Make your bed every morning. You’ll be grateful at the end of a long day when you can get into a cosy bed that doesn’t look like you just rolled out of it.

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24 Invaluable Skills To Learn For Free Online This Year

Here’s an easy resolution: This stuff is all free as long as you have access to a computer, and the skills you learn will be invaluable in your career, and/or life in general. 

1. Become awesome at Excel.

Chandoo is one of many gracious Excel experts who wants to share their knowledge with the world. Excel excellence is one of those skills that will improve your chances of getting a good job instantly, and it will continue to prove invaluable over the course of your career. What are you waiting for?

2. Learn how to code.

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Perhaps no other skill you can learn for free online has as much potential to lead to a lucrative career. Want to build a site for your startup? Want to build the next big app? Want to get hired at a place like BuzzFeed? You should learn to code. There are a lot of places that offer free or cheap online coding tutorials, but I recommend Code Academy for their breadth and innovative program. If you want to try a more traditional route, Harvard offers its excellent Introduction to Computer Science course online for free.

3. Make a dynamic website.

You could use a pre-existing template or blogging service, or you could learn Ruby on Rails and probably change your life forever. Here’s an extremely helpful long list of free Ruby learning tools that includes everything from Rails for Zombies to Learn Ruby The Hard Way. Go! Ruby! Some basic programming experience, like one of the courses above, might be helpful (but not necessarily required if you’re patient with yourself).

4. Learn to make a mobile game.

If you’re not interested in coding anything other than fun game apps, you could trythis course from the University of Reading. It promises to teach you how to build a game in Java, even if you don’t have programming experience! If you want to make a truly great game, you might want to read/listen up on Game Theory first.

5. Start reading faster.

Spreeder is a free online program that will improve your reading skill and comprehension no matter how old you are. With enough practice, you could learn to double, triple, or even quadruple the speed at which you read passages currently, which is basically like adding years to your life.

6. Learn a language!

With Duolingo, you can learn Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, or English (from any of the above or more). There’s a mobile app and a website, and the extensive courses are completely free.

Full disclosure: BuzzFeed and other websites are in a partnership with DuoLingo, but they did not pay or ask for this placement.

7. Pickle your own vegetables.

Tired of your farmer’s market haul going bad before you use it all? Or do you just love tangy pickled veggies? You too can pickle like a pro thanks to SkillShare and Travis Grillo.

8. Improve your public speaking skills.

You can take the University of Washington’s Intro to Public Speaking for free online. Once you learn a few tricks of the trade, you’ll be able to go into situations like being asked to present at a company meeting or giving a presentation in class without nearly as much fear and loathing.

9. Get a basic handle of statistics.

UC Berkeley put a stats intro class on iTunes. Once you know how to understand the numbers yourself, you’ll never read a biased “news” article the same way again — 100% of authors of this post agree!

10. Understand basic psychology.

Knowing the basics of psych will bring context to your understanding of yourself, the dynamics of your family and friendships, what’s really going on with your coworkers, and the woes and wonders of society in general. Yale University has its Intro to Psychology lectures online for free.

11. Make your own music.

Step one: Learn how to play guitar: Justin Guitar is a fine and free place to start learning chords and the basic skills you’ll need to be able to play guitar — from there, it’s up to you, but once you know the basics, just looking up tabs for your favorite songs and learning them on your own is how many young guitar players get their start (plus it’s an excellent party trick).

Step two: A delightful free voice lesson from Berklee College Of Music.

Step three: Have you always thought you had an inner TSwift? Berklee College of Music offers an Introduction to Songwriting course completely for free online. The course is six weeks long, and by the end of the lesson you’ll have at least one completed song.

Step four: Lifehacker’s basics of music production will help you put it all together once you have the skills down! You’ll be recording your own music, ready to share with your valentine or the entire world, in no time!

12. Learn to negotiate.

Let Stanford’s Stan Christensen explain how to negotiate in business and your personal life, managing relationships for your personal gain and not letting yourself be steamrolled. There are a lot of football metaphors and it’s great.

13. Stop hating math.

If you struggled with math throughout school and now have trouble applying it in real-world situations when it crops up, try Saylor.org’s Real World Math course. It will reteach you basic math skills as they apply IRL. Very helpful!

14. Start drawing!

All kids draw — so why do we become so afraid of it as adults? Everyone should feel comfortable with a sketchbook and pencil, and sketching is a wonderful way to express your creativity. DrawSpace is a great place to start. (I also highly recommend the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain if you can drop a few dollars for a used copy.)

15. Make your own animated GIF.

BuzzFeed’s own Katie Notopoulos has a great, simple guide to making an animated GIF without Photoshop. This is all you need to be the king or queen of Tumblr or your favorite email chains.

16. Appreciate jazz.

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Have you never really “gotten” jazz? If you want to be able to participate in conversations at fancy parties and/or just add some context to your appreciation of all music, try this free online course from UT Austin.

17. Write well.

Macalester College’s lecture series is excellent. If you’re more interested in journalism, try Wikiversity’s course selection.

18. Get better at using Photoshop.

Another invaluable skill that will get you places in your career, learning Photoshop can be as fun as watching the hilarious videos on You Suck At Photoshop or as serious as this extensive Udemy training course (focused on photo retouching).

19. Take decent pictures.

Lifehacker’s basics of photography might be a good place to start. Learn how your camera works, the basic of composition, and editing images in post-production. If you finish that and you’re not sure what to do next, here’s a short course on displaying and sharing your digital photographs.

20. Learn to knit.

Instructables has a great course by a woman who is herself an online-taught knitter. You’ll be making baby hats and cute scarves before this winter’s over!

21. Get started with investing in stocks.

If you are lucky enough to have a regular income, you should start learning about savings and investment now. Investopedia has a ton of online resources, including this free stocks basics course. Invest away!

22. Clean your house in a short amount of time.

Unf$#k Your Habitat has a great emergency cleaning guide for when your mother-in-law springs a surprise visit on you. While you’re over there, the entire blog is good for getting organized and clean in the long term, not just in “emergencies.” You’ll be happier for it.

23. Start practicing yoga.

Most cities have free community classes (try just searching Google or inquiring at your local yoga studio), or if you’re more comfortable trying yoga at home, YogaGlohas a great 15-day trial and Yome is a compendium of 100% free yoga videos. If you’re already familiar with basic yoga positions but you need an easy way to practice at home, I recommend YogaTailor’s free trial as well.

24. Tie your shoelaces more efficiently.

It’s simple and just imagine the minutes of your life you’ll save!

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I like my coffee how I like myself: Dark, bitter, and too hot for you

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A clean house is a sign of wasted life ! 

but in case you need help visit http://www.designsponge.com/2015/01/home-ec-how-to-keep-a-clean-home.html 

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REBLOG IF YOU'RE A STUDYBLR SCHOOLING IN SINGAPORE????

Singaporean studyblrs have been rapidly increasing in the studyblr community (yay!!), so I am kinda curious to find out how many there are ❤️😊 maybe we can form a whatsapp group of sorts and know each other better and complain about our education system and motivate each other whoops!!! ☺️💖