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You aren’t faking unless you decided to fake it. If you’re worried you might be faking, you aren’t.

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2017 Popsugar Ultimate Reading Challenge

1. A book recommended by a librarian 2. A book that’s been on your TBR list for way too long 3. A book of letters 4. An audiobook 5. A book by a person of color 6. A book with one of the four seasons in the title 7. A book that is a story within a story 8. A book with multiple authors 9. An espionage thriller 10. A book with a cat on the cover 11. A book by an author who uses a pseudonym 12. A bestseller from a genre you don’t normally read 13. A book by or about a person who has a disability 14. A book involving travel 15. A book with a subtitle 16. A book that’s published in 2017 17. A book involving a mythical creature 18. A book you’ve read before that never fails to make you smile 19. A book about food 20. A book with career advice 21. A book from a nonhuman perspective 22. A steampunk novel 23. A book with a red spine 24. A book set in the wilderness 25. A book you loved as a child 26. A book by an author from a country you’ve never visited 27. A book with a title that’s a character’s name 28. A novel set during wartime 29. A book with an unreliable narrator 30. A book with pictures 31. A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you 32. A book about an interesting woman 33. A book set in two different time periods 34. A book with a month or day of the week in the title 35. A book set in a hotel 36. A book written by someone you admire 37. A book that’s becoming a movie in 2017 38. A book set around a holiday other than Christmas 39. The first book in a series you haven’t read before 40. A book you bought on a trip

Advanced 41. A book recommended by an author you love 42. A bestseller from 2016 43. A book with a family member term in the title 44. A book that takes place over a character’s lifespan 45. A book about an immigrant or refugee 46. A book from a genre/subgenre you’ve never heard of 47. A book with an eccentric character 48. A book that’s more than 800 pages 49. A book you got from a used book sale 50. A book that’s been mentioned in another book 51. A book about a difficult topic 52. A book based on mythology

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January 2018 Challenge

 Welcome to 2018 everyone! I’m so excited for the things we will be doing this year- Starting with new challenges!

January’s challenge it all about resolutions. You will make a list of 31 things you WILL do this year. The idea is to come up with things you can realistically do. I have a prompt for each day to help you out a little. You can either just use the word as a prompt itself or answer the questions that follow. Here is mine for example:

(I know that most of them are hard to read, but I hope you get the gist.)

1. Positivity- What will you be positive about?

2. Reduce- What will you leave behind in 2017?

3. Helpful- In what ways will you be helpful this year?

4. Finances- What are you goals for your money?

5. Career- How will you improve your career path?

6.  Skills- What skills do you want? Which will you improve? How?

7.  Negativity- You view on negativity in 2018

8.  Acceptance- What will you learn to accept this year?

9.  Thankful- What are you thankful for right now?

10.  Education- How will you improve your education? Even if you’re graduated?  

11. Trust- What will you put your trust in this year? Will you improve your trust?

12. Work- Not necessarily job or school, but what will you work on this year?

13. Strive- What are your goals?

14. Hope- Will you have more or less hope? In what?

15. Creativity- How will you express yourself this year?

16. Health- How will you be healthier this year?

17. Family- In what ways will you be there for your family?

18. Future- How will you prepare for your future this year?

19. Cleanse- Which parts of your life need to be cleansed?

20. Friends- In what ways will you be there for your friends?

21. Relaxation- How will you relax?

22. Mental Health- How will you have better mental health this year?

23. Change- What will you change this year? Will you be accepting of change?

24. Appreciate- What things will you appreciate more?

25. Character- How are you going to improve yourself?

26. Mend- What things need to be mended this year?

27. Wonder- What do you think this year will bring? How will you achieve it?

28. Replenish- What aspect of your life needs to be filled? 

29. Plenty- What is something you will have plenty of this year?

30. Togetherness- How will you spread the love this year?

31. Adventure- What adventures will you embark on?

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OOO! This is a good method!!

The ABCDE Method: Accomplish Tasks more Efficiently

I recently came across the ABCDE method that’s similar to what I do to stay productive each day: instead of lumping up all your tasks, sort them into categories and tackle each of them differently. Here’s an outline of the method. Hope it helps :)

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This is so powerful and courageous. Police all over the country are pulling this despicable shit. They’re supposed to be protecting and serving. Monsters. 

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Who hurt you

My expectations

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@clyson1 you asked me about my hs journal… I can’t post the whole thing here since it has some private stuff I want to keep to myself (and it’s in spanish lol), but I‘ll share the first page anyway. I made this somewhere in my senior year I think, and it has ‘important’ facts of who I was in that moment for the future me to remember and cringe. Nothing fancy lol.

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Life Cleanse - What I Did

Deep clean your room - I’m talking about stripping the bed, going through clothes, papers, and belongings and having no mercy. Sweeping and damp mopping the floors. Dusting surfaces. Finding new homes for those miscellaneous items that just sit there in the way.

Delete old contacts - I went from having maybe 30-40 contacts to 14. In other words, delete contacts you haven’t messaged or called in the last two weeks to a month (if so long). If they text you don’t be afraid or feel guilty for asking who it is.

Go through your music library - Play all your songs and if you skip a song delete it without hesitation. The next time you hit shuffle on your playlist you won’t even notice it’s gone. What if you get in the mood for the song? That’s what YouTube is for my friend… or just add the song back onto your phone.

Go through clothes - That dress you haven’t worn once in the past year- toss it. The shirt you swear fits if you don’t raise your arms- get rid of it. Those worn out clothes- dump them. *Of course there can be exceptions but within reason.

Journal - Write down any thoughts to cleanse your mind. Any ideas you might have. Good things that happened that day. Bad things that happened. Things you’re grateful for. It helps so much. Try it for at least three days straight and you’ll notice how much better you feel. Problems might not disappear completely but it’ll give you the strength to get through another day.

Don’t try to force things to work out - It’s so hard and it can be upsetting when things don’t, but sometimes the best thing you can do for you is accept the way (some)things are.

Don’t be hard on yourself for messing up -  It can be easy to physically or mentally punish yourself for making a mistake no matter how big or small, but I’ve learned that doing things like starving yourself, beating yourself  up (literally), or just scolding yourself repeatedly doesn’t improve the situation and it doesn’t improve yourself.

Cut toxic people off - Remove them from your life physically (which sometimes takes time). Unfriend them from social media. Remove prominent traces of them from your life. It’s like suddenly a weight comes off of your shoulders.

Practice self love -  I write/say this so often and sometimes I feel like it’s so hard to do sometimes but it’s not. I’m talking about taking a break when you need to. Drinking water. Moisturising your skin. Getting enough sleep. It’s the little things like that that count as self love.

Don’t runaway from your problems - It’s tempting and hard but it’s important to face any problems you’re facing. No one is saying you have to be strong 24/7, only that you should try.

Delete old files - Go through you computer, tablet, phone, USB drive etc. Delete old unimportant documents, old photos, music, apps and more.

Promo: Like or interested in my tips and want to contribute yourself? Check out my new project Illuminate! Even if you don’t apply, please pass it along to those you think would be interested. Thank you!

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Me: hi Student athlete: THE GRIND 💪😤🏈 is the only 💯 thing ☝️ that’s flying 👼🏼 “high” 🙌😈 D1 bound 🏀🔥 rip grandma 🙏 AP student: hi? more like a GPA of 4.9📚👓 because that class rank 📝 📈is why an Ivy League 👀🎓 accepted me 🙋 Band student: Beethoven 👴🏼🎶 motivates me to 🙌 practice everyday 🎹😩🎼   from sun up ⬆️ ☀️to sun down ⬇️ 😤 just in time 🕗 for sectionals 🎶 🎷

Business major: statistics show 📉📈  that  ur looking at a future CEO 🏢💵 and that my money 💵💸 will be greater will be greater than yours 💪 Econ forever 😩🙌 Law student: FOLLOW THE LAW 😤🚓 or  so justice will be served  ⚖️🔨 once I pass the bar exam 📃📄 for Liberty ✊ and justice for all 🌎🇺🇸 STEM Major: while you 😒 are busying doing nothing 🚫🚫 with your easy major 😴😴I🙋 will be in the lab🔬📂 saving the environment 🌿🌲🌎 and lives 🙏🏥🚨 Student actor: the stage is my home 🏠🎤soprano is where it’s at 😈🎼 Shakespeare is my inspiration 🙌 and lin-manuel miranda is my daddy ✊🎬 Art student: no one beats me 🙅 like I beat the canvas📜 but at the end of the day 🌅 the world is our canvas 🌎🌈 because earth 🌏 without “art” 🎨 is just “eh” 😒😴 also I’m broke

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“young adult dystopian novels are so unrealistic lmao like they always have some random teenage girl rising up to inspire the world to make change.”

a hero emerges 

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How to Handle Having TOO MUCH To Do

So let’s say you’re in the same boat I am (this is a running theme, have you noticed?) and you’ve just got, like, SO MUCH STUFF that HAS to get done YESTERDAY or you will DIE (or fail/get fired/mope). Everything needs to be done yesterday, you’re sick, and for whatever reason you are focusing on the least important stuff first. What to do!

Take a deep breath, because this is a boot camp in prioritization.

Make a 3 by 4 grid. Make it pretty big. The line above your top row goes like this: Due YESTERDAY - due TOMORROW - due LATER. Along the side, write: Takes 5 min - Takes 30 min - Takes hours - Takes DAYS.

Divide ALL your tasks into one of these squares, based on how much work you still have to do. A thank you note for a present you received two weeks ago? That takes 5 minutes and was due YESTERDAY. Put it in that square. A five page paper that’s due tomorrow? That takes an hour/hours, place it appropriately. Tomorrow’s speech you just need to rehearse? Half an hour, due TOMORROW. Do the same for ALL of your tasks

Your priority goes like this:

5 minutes due YESTERDAY

5 minutes due TOMORROW

Half-hour due YESTERDAY

Half-hour due TOMORROW

Hours due YESTERDAY

Hours due TOMORROW

5 minutes due LATER

Half-hour due LATER

Hours due LATER

DAYS due YESTERDAY

DAYS due TOMORROW

DAYS due LATER

At this point you just go down the list in each section. If something feels especially urgent, for whatever reason - a certain professor is hounding you, you’re especially worried about that speech, whatever - you can bump that up to the top of the entire list. However, going through the list like this is what I find most efficient.

Some people do like to save the 5 minute tasks for kind of a break between longer-running tasks. If that’s what you want to try, go for it! You’re the one studying here.

So that’s how to prioritize. Now, how to actually do shit? That’s where the 20/10 method comes in. It’s simple: do stuff like a stuff-doing FIEND for 20 minutes, then take a ten minute break and do whatever you want. Repeat ad infinitum. It’s how I’ve gotten through my to do list, concussed and everything.

You’ve got this. Get a drink and start - we can do our stuff together!

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going thru phone pics and found this thing that was tacked up next to the toaster at my old job, if anyone needs some light toast eating reading material

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Hey guys, so I’m nearing the end of my senior year, and it’s been great so far! I accomplished my academic tasks efficiently and didn’t burn myself out, and I think the main contributor to my success as a student is my organization system. This system has been refined throughout my high school years, but I think now I’ve finally found the most effective methods.

Please remember that this isn’t the only organization system you can adopt; this is just the one that works the best for me, and I hope that by sharing it with you, you’ll gain a new perspective on how to stay organized as a high school student.

The first thing I wanna talk about is my notebook system, which I briefly mentioned in my Guide to Note-Taking.

My notebook system comprises three types of notebooks: the Everything Notebook, the subject notebook, and the revision notebook.

The Everything Notebook

The first stage is in-class notes. I only bring one notebook to school every day. I call it my Everything Notebook, and this is where I write down all of the notes I take in class. This way, I don’t have to lug around six notebooks where I’m only going to use a few pages in each of them that day.

Subject Notebooks

At the end of the day, I would revise my notes and compare them to the syllabus so I know where we are in the learning process. I would then transfer my class notes from my Everything Notebook to my different subject notebooks. This is stage two. I also start to jazz up my notes because I use the notes in my subject notebooks to study for tests.

In addition to my class notes, I include material from my teachers’ notes that they might not have elaborated on, as well as points in the syllabus (I’m currently taking A2) that were only glazed over briefly, or not at all, in some cases. (Note: this does not mean they completely skip a chapter or topic; it’s more like they missed a few bullet points that should be in my notes but aren’t. An example would be if we’re learning about phenol reactions and the teacher forgot to mention the use of FeCl3 as a test for phenol.)

Revision Notebooks

Stage three comes a little later, when exam week is just around the corner. Essentially, I rewrite and improve my notes from my five different subject notebooks into a single revision notebook or binder. (Recently, I’ve opted for a revision notebook because they’re lighter and easier to carry around.)

Because my teachers don’t always teach in the order of the syllabus, the first thing I do is organize my notes according to the syllabus. I would then fill in any other missing gaps in the material that hadn’t been filled in stage two.

When compiling material for my revision notebook, I use as many sources as possible: my own notes, my teachers’ notes, youtube videos, online sites, and my favorite, the mark scheme! I add in some answers from past papers (explanations only, so no calculations) mainly to secure marks. It’s safer to memorize definitions straight from the mark scheme than from the textbook or from handouts. I also do this to ease my memorization, especially for topics that require lengthy explanations. It’s a lot easier to remember the 6 points I need to explain the principles of NMRI than to remember everything in the four-page handout my teacher gave me.

Folders and binders are essential to organizing your papers. Some people keep a single accordion folder for all their papers, but for me it’s just too heavy to carry around all the time. The same goes for subject folders that are brought to school every day.

Instead, my binder/folder system comprises my Everything Folder and my subject binders.

The Everything Folder

The folder I carry with me to school every day is this A4 folder I got from Tokyu Hands. It has 5 pockets, one for each day of the week, so all the papers I receive on Monday will go behind the first divider, and so on.

Some people also keep blank papers in their folders; I don’t because my school has its own lined paper and graphing pads that I keep under my desk that I use if a teacher asks us to do an assignment on those papers. If I do work at home, I prefer to just use a plain A4 paper or a legal pad.

Subject Binders

At the end of the week, I’ll sort my papers into my subject binders. Sometimes I’ll keep some papers in the folder if I think I’ll be needing it the next week. This usually only applies to worksheets because all my teachers’ notes are available on Google Classroom, so I can access them even if I don’t physically have them.

Each of these binders have sections inside them:

Physics: 1 for handouts, notes, and tests, 1 for Paper 4 (Theory), 1 for Paper 5 (Practical Planning). I included extra tabs to mark the different topics in the handouts section.

Chemistry: same as Physics.

Economics: 1 for Paper 3 (MCQ), 1 for Paper 4 (Case Study and Essay). A lot of my Economics material is online, though.

English: 1 for Paper 3 (Text and Discourse analysis), and 2 for Paper 4 (Language Topics, which includes 1 for Child Language Acquisition, 1 for World Englishes). Past papers, handouts, and notes all go under their respective topics.

Mathematics: I just keep everything together because I never revise math and just constantly do past papers.

This makes it easier for me to revise each subject because I can just take one binder with me instead of a messy folder with everything just shoved in there.

I keep a magazine file for each of my A-Level subjects (English and Mathematics are combined). All my textbooks, revision guides, and subject notebooks are kept here, so if I need to revise one subject, that’s the magazine file I’ll take out.

These magazine files prevent any small things (like my book of flashcards) from being shoved to the back of my bookshelf, or materials from different subjects from getting mixed up.

In my senior year, I mostly plan using this app called Edo Agenda. It syncs across all my devices for free and has all the features I need: a to do list to organize tasks, monthly and weekly calendars to organize events, a journal to organize notes and memos.

I used to bullet journal regularly, but it takes too much time during weekdays, so now I just bullet journal for the therapeutic effects it gives me, and I use an app for organizing tasks and events. Sometimes at the end of each week, I’ll transfer my tasks to my bullet journal and then decorate the page, but again, this is just for its therapy.

Organizing your school supplies is just as important as organizing your papers and notes. With a more organized backpack and pencil case, you won’t waste time looking for your things at the bottom of an abyss.

Pencil Case

I don’t find it necessary to bring so much stationery to school unless I plan on making notes at school (usually during revision week).

Backpack

Because we’re already in the revision term, I don’t really carry a lot of things in my everyday backpack, just the following:

Pencil case

Everything Notebook

Everything Folder

Revision notebook

Kindle

Phone

Wallet

Earphones

Calculator

Speaker

Drinking bottle

A pouch with things like a hairbrush, pads, and lip balm

And that’s all for now! I hope this post will help you organize your school life (if you haven’t already) or at least provide some useful insights on some ways to stay organized as a high school student.

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Adulting Posts

Adulting 101: The post that started it all! Discount cards, xmas lights, and general food advice.

Adulting 102: Cacti, electric bills, and some inexpensive cleaning advice.

Adulting 103: Peeing after sex, chalkboard paint, and why you need scented trash bags in your life.

Adulting 104: Electric bill budgets, lint drawers, and why mixed greens are more trouble than they’re worth.

Adulting 105: Paper bills, Yankee Candles, and where to purchase postage stamps.

Adulting 106: Scented tampons, dishwasher pods, and why you should live next to a fire department.

Adulting 107: Command hooks, inexpensive bathroom decor, and why organic cucumbers are overrated. 

Adulting 108: An Adulting post dedicated entirely to apartment hunting!

Adulting 109: Cleaning your shower head, condiments, and why you should never buy Dollar Store paper towels.

Adulting 110: Food hygiene, Airborne, and automatic payment advice.

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*cries in academic language*