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(10/21/17) First time checking out the Muji near campus!! I think I like it more then the one in New York. Muji Haul!!! 1 Mechanical Pencil 12 Colorful .5 Gel Pens 1 Eraser 3 Essential Oils & 2 clickable pens!

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Check this out!! @hufflepuffwannabe

109/ ∞ studyblr icons: hogwarts series, uniforms please reblog/like this post or/and give credit if you use them for your studyblrs/studygram/any other social media, thank you :)

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literally adore how cozy my dorm room is

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[9.18.17]

15/100 of Days of Productivity // Agh I’m sorry I’ve been so inactive lately, but school is hard. 3 out of my 7 classes are AP, and the rest are honors, and on top of that, I have SAT Prep going on. *nervous breakdown* Anyways, I’ll try to post more often, but enjoy this old spread from August :)

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we all have days where we just c a n n o t make our brains cooperate. (i’m having one today, which is why i’m writing this post instead of doing my medical history readings!) here are some tips to help manage your workload when that happens.

do a warm up

start with your smallest, easiest assignment and work your way up to that dense 200 page reading. it might seem tempting to try to get the hard stuff out of the way first, but you will end up just blankly staring at the first page forever. instead, get yourself in a working mood by getting all your quick reading responses and problem sets out of the way first. i find that it helps to start with something interactive/less boring so that you can jumpstart yourself a little bit.

public shame yourself

go work in a public place where other people can see your computer screen. keep yourself accountable by letting other people’s judgement motivate you! (is this healthy? probably not. does it work? definitely.) you’re much less likely to hop on tumblr if you know that people walking by can see you scrolling.

change your routine

sometimes this is the easiest way to snap yourself out of a rut. if you usually work somewhere quiet, try moving to a lively coffee shop (or vice versa!) try working at a different time of day. even something as small as changing your playlist or switching tables at the library can help. sometimes you just need a different energy.

throw your phone out the window

cute anti-procrastination apps really don’t work when you’re determined to fuck around (as someone who once literally installed a whole new browser just to get around a site blocker that i downloaded, i know this for a fact) so sometimes if you have an urgent project you have to take the nuclear option. try to go completely off-line if you can and leave your phone/computer at home. if you can’t do that, delete any apps or programs that might be distracting. download your readings and look at them in a pdf viewer separate from the internet. turn your phone all the way off. if you really, really need to get something done, don’t give yourself the option to slack off.

give yourself breaks

i know this contradicts the last point, but take breaks if you need to take breaks. if you push yourself too hard you really won’t be any more productive. think of it as a modified pomodoro method - 25 minutes of straight focus is wayyyyy too long for me when i’m in an i-forgot-how-to-read mood, but doing 10 minutes of work followed by a 10 minute break is much more manageable. just plowing through when you lose focus doesn’t get you anywhere.

don’t be too hard on yourself

this is easier said than done of course, but remember that it’s not the end of the world if you have an unproductive day. there’s nothing less productive than beating yourself up about how much harder you could be working. reading one page/doing one problem/writing one paragraph is still something. treat these accomplishments like the little victories they are and you’ll have a much better mindset.

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I expected the rest of the books to be as big as Hamlet, but oh well, they’re still really cute. And side note, I love buying used books! Sometimes there are notes in them from previous readers and it’s like you have a friend reading along with you!

…That sounded really lame…

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— bts lyrics are my favorite thing to letter tbh

ig: merakinotes

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100 Days of Productivity

23/100 SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

24/100 SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

I had a bunch typed out for this post but then it wouldn’t post so to see what I did just look at my bujo for this week. I’m tired and stressing trying to help my friend with her stats homework that’s due in 35 minutes.

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french homework while listening to old school taylor swift is a mood ft a pun-derful magnet my sister got me ;)

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i’m so bad at being active hi bubs! i was in London on Friday and i visited one of the 9 muji stores there 🌻 i’ve never been to muji (and got excited) so i brought quite a lot?? also this to do-list notebook is super cute so i hAD to buy it (tries to pretend she didn’t buy half of this stuff without an actual reason)

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08.02.17 Posting some of my first studyblr photos on my Instagram @etudiaire ~

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Cozy study corner.

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This week is the halfway point of the semester so it’s time to grind

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ig: educatier

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week 2 of august in my bullet journal!

notebook ⋅ yellow marker ⋅ white pen ⋅ black marker ⋅ black pen

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9.9.17  ♡  38/100 days of productivity

I miss the good lighting in my old room ;; Also I somehow killed a succulent so I’m only dealing with fake plants from now on  💀