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[23.10.16] I've spent the last 3 weeks studying for midterms. 3 down, 2 more to go!

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studyblr gets real

when I found out about @universi-tea​ and @piratestudy​ bringing the #studyblrs get real thing, i was really happy. i found the whole stuydyblr community last winter when i was kinds lost and bored and also close to my university finals for the first term. it all seemed so pretty and so aesthetically pleasing with pretty pens from muji and midliners and fivestar notebooks and bullet journals and macbooks… i liked it so much an di thought if i got all those mentioned things i would actually be able to in a way, better my grades (that have never been bad but you can always do better).

so i went and spent 6 euros on 3 muji pens because of shipping costs, and i spent 8 euros on the midliners and i spent 30 euros in a bullet journal from molleskine and a planner, and i spent 1500 euros in a macbook. 

i didn’t need those things, i was okay with my old pilot pens, my blank papers and my stabilo highlighters that i had been using all my life but the studyblr community indirectly told me it wasn’t pretty.

it’s not all bad in the community though, i’ve learnt many study and organization methods, met people who study the same language as me, help those who’re trying to speak my language.

but the aesthetics pressure that the biggest studyblr accounts put on us is unnecessary because that’s not real life. real life in college at least is saying you’re gonna wake up at 9am to study and then sleep in until 1pm and feel bad the rest of the day as you try to rush through your messy notes. real life in college is going to class with your hair in a ponytail because you didn’t feel like showering. real life in college is staying up until 3am finishing up a group project that you worked the hardest on and your group mates did nothing for. real life in college is notes on juice stained papers, pizza at 1am, ramen for lunch 3 days straight, headaches every morning. 

i don’t want high school seniors who will become freshmen to think that college is gonna be all pretty notes and sororities and your best friends in life and as easy as it was in high school. 

studyblr at the end, is a community to inspire us to study more, and study smarter, to feel like we’re not the only ones making an effort to survive academic life. it shouldn’t make us feel bd because we don’t have a macbook or because we don’t have mildliners or muji pens or a hobonichi planner.

grab what you have the closest to you, what has always worked the best for you, your methods and your stationary, and work with it. because at the end of the day, no matter how pretty your notes look with aesthetically pleasing titles and colors, no one’s gonna grade those. you spent 5 hours making aesthetically pleasing notes and you could’ve studied or done laundry or gone grocery shopping, just to be able to have a pretty tumblr post that gets reblogged.

followers, notes, likes, messages. they don’t get you an a on that very difficult subject you have at school. muji, zebra, fivestar, moleskine. they don’t get you an a on that very difficult subject you have at school.

your hard work, dedication, self-care, motivation. that’s what gets you where you want to go.

we should stop depending so much on pretty stationery and start working more for ourselves. because at the end of the day, your midliners get dry and your muji pens run out, but your grades are gonna be with you forever, so you need to focus on that. always. 

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If I’m struggling with learning/understanding something,

DON’T say: “Oh but this is so easy!”

DO say: “Yeah, I had trouble with this at first too.”

DON’T say: “You’ll get it once I explain it to you.”

DO say: “I think I can break this down into easier terms.”

DON’T say: “But this foundational stuff! If you don’t get this, you won’t get anything!”

DO say: “You’re right that this is important to learn. It’s good you want to learn it well.”

DON’T say: “The test was way harder than this.”

DO say: “Once you understand the basics, you’ll be able to complicate the problems.”

DON’T say: “Why can’t you understand this?”

DO say: “Let’s pretend this is framed in relation to your favorite sport/ice cream flavor/tv plot.”

DON’T say: “What aren’t you getting?”

DO say: “Explain it back to me the way you understand it.”

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[06.10.16] You know intense studying is going to take place when you move from the desk in your room, to the dinning room table. Hehehe ignore the bag of Skittles :)

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I just tweeted it and I figure I should also post it here. 

This website literally GRADES YOUR ESSAYS. You can choose your grade level, if you’re using American or British english, what type of paper it is (essay, short story, biography…), and it even checks for plagiarism. THEN once it’s grading your essay, it shows you grammatical errors, suggestions for better sentence structure, and a lot of other things. Reblog to save a life. 

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[22.09.16]

Good Morning!

Here is a small how-to on how to write a basic paper. Obviously if it is a positions paper, research paper or augmentative paper, some changes will have to be made.

I am in my last semester of University, and it is surprising how often teachers need to explain this to students. So I decided to help out!

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Aww, U.S History was really fun today :)))

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Alternatives for Overused Words, inspired by this post from Ultrafacts

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Alternatives for Overused Words Part II, inspired by this post from Ultrafacts.