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2018 Student Guide

With the start of 2018 well underway, I wanted to make a masterpost full of links on how to adjust your perspective with studying. Perhaps you want to become a better student overall, improve your focus or get into your dream college, there is always something we want to do better! Hopefully these tips will make 2018 your best academic year yet!

Organisation

2018 student planner

planner brand recommendations

planner vs bullet journal: pros and cons

how to set up a bullet journal

setting up a digital bullet journal

bullet journal spread ideas

bullet journal decoration hacks

bullet journal brand recommendations

whats in my bag

my favourite stationery

back to school basic supplies

how to improve your handwriting

handwriting font suggestions

balancing study and work

desk/workspace essentials

student finance tips

2018 monthly planner printables

Productivity

productivity and time management applications

how to remove distractions

types of procrastination and how to deal with them

google chrome new tab options for improved productivity

10 small ways to improve your productivity

applications to block websites

no distraction writing applications

100 days of productivity challenge

how to focus in class

how to stick to a schedule

how to stay alert

how to build self-discipline

how to organise for exams

my after school routine

how to reduce perfectionist ideas 

Motivation

what to do when you’ve tried everything

how to gain back motivation

motivational monday printables

how to stop avoiding studying

what to do when you feel exhausted before studying

how I stay motivated

tips on maintaining motivation

how to start a studyblr

how to utilise your studyblr for motivation

how to set up a studygram

dealing with competitive people

how to bounce back from ‘failure’

how to learn from a lower than expected grade

how to structure a weekly review

how to deal with a difficult class

things to do during holidays/study vacations

Studying

applications for students

how to take effective class or lecture notes

how to take notes from a textbook

how to prepare for exams

my note-taking method

my notebook system

how to write faster

how to study more effectively

how to summarise information

how I organise my binders

good habits to implement

how to study (my method)

how to revise from notes

how to organise a colour code

how to memorise information effectively

how to memorise quotes

how to use flashcards

how I reduce waffle and narration in essays

tips for essay writing

how to find out where you’re going wrong

how I prepare to study

different ways to study

how to study during the semester

how to annotate a book/novel/etc

how to get ahead in school

how to break up a large textbook

studying as a visual learner

how to practice and present a speech

mindmapping apps and extensions

how to deal with online classes

how to study a language

how to study maths

how to improve group assessments/projects

Self Care

how to improve your sleep schedule

how to wake up earlier

how to study when sick

over-coming self doubt

dealing with stress

how to balance studying and anxiety

how to balance studying and depression

apps that help with depression

ways to reward your productivity

my favourite tv shows

my favourite podcasts

ways to use empty notebooks

how to be more sociable

tips for getting a job

advice for the first day

things (personal, academic, etc) to do every week

Printables

2018 monthly planner printables

2018 student printables (includes 2018 overview + calendar, daily + weekly + monthly planner, 30 habit tracker, class overview and timed worklog)

weekly study schedule

weekly planner

weekend planner

daily planner

assessment planner

subject to do list planner

study session planner

exam revision printable pack (includes revision checklist, formulas + definitions sheet, essay + project planner, weekly schedule)

note-taking printables (includes dotted, grid, lined, cornell method)

organic chemistry printable

literary techniques and devices sheet

100 days of productivity tracker printable 

ultimate student organiser pack

study and revision pack

2018 student planner

2018 weekly planner

pomodoro tracker

grade and assessment planner pack

essay guide and planner pack

productivity planner

student reading journal printable

student finance planner

goal and habit planner

customisable weekly study planner

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The couple of weeks in notes

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If you think you’re doing as much as you can when you study and your grades don’t reflect the effort you’re putting in, these tips might be the key

keep your energy up: it’s no use studying if you’re too tired to process the information, after all so before you start studying make sure that you aren’t feeling sluggish or tired. To combat this, I recommend:

exercise: do 10 pushups, jumping jacks, or dance around for a few minutes before you start working or anytime you catch yourself drifting

eat something: one of the best things to do if you’re sluggish is to drink water. Keep water by you while you study and eat some healthy foods like apples, bananas, and almonds.

be smart about where you study: don’t study in bed!!!! Your brain associates your bed with sleep and you will feel tired if you study in bed. Find a quiet, well lit area with lots of room for the most effective studying. Make sure you have water (and food) on hand. The ambiance of where you study is also very important:

don’t listen to music: you might think that you study better when listening to music, but  you don’t. It’s been proven that listening to music while working is a form of multitasking, which slows down your efficiency. If you really want to listen to music, listen to instrumental music or songs you don’t know and a low volume. I personally like listening to ambiance noises when I’m studying.

lighting is important: a dark studying environment isn’t helpful for obvious reasons. Turn on a lamp to keep you awake and alert. (Make sure you turn the brightness down on your electronics, though. The strain put on your eyes by bright blue light does more harm than good).

draw up a plan: have 3 subjects to study for? It looks a lot less daunting if you break it up into manageable chunks. Maybe decide to study chemistry for 30 minutes then move on to math for an hour. Plan this out several days in advance so that you can have something of a weekly schedule. Beyond that, plan how you’re going to study for the subject. For example, plan to read your math notes then do a practice quiz instead of just giving an amount of time.

put away distractions: all the studying advice in the world can’t help you if you’re getting distracted every few minutes by your phone. Put it in another room or with your parents or use an app to block procrastination. Close extra tabs, clear clutter from your study space, and turn off your notifications. Be ruthless in clearing away distractions.

study smart: I’ve talked about this before, but being an active studyer is way more helpful than being passive. Passive studying is reading your textbook or notes without engaging in any other way. A way to actively study a textbook could be to highlight as you go through or to take notes. The best ways to actively study are to teach someone else and to do practice tests (some more examples are making study guides and working out problems out loud).

understanding is key: understanding the material goes a long way in preparing you because pure memorization without understanding is how people study for hours and still fail. A good rule of thumb to see if you understand a topic is if you can teach it, you know it. However, with things you need to memorize like formulas and vocabulary, study those (my favorite way is to create acrostics) a little every day.

use different methods for one topic: even if you’re actively studying, using one method can become horribly monotonous. Plus, if you attack from all angles you have a much better chance at understanding. Make flashcards to go along with notes, draw charts and diagrams, and make mind maps.

watch videos and get outside help: there are a lot of credible websites out there like Khan Academy and Crash Course if you need an extra lesson on a topic you haven’t quite mastered.

take breaks: space out your studying! Maybe later I’ll make a post on how to cram, but a big reason cramming isn’t as advantageous is that you can’t break up your studying. 15 minutes every day is a lot of cumulative studying and way better than studying 3 hours in a panic the day before. Taking breaks during a longer studying session is also helpful. I like to utilize the pomodoro method, which is longer study sessions broken up by short breaks. 

join a study group: study groups or study buddies can be super helpful in understanding material, as the other people are learning with you. Then might explain it in a way that makes more sense to you, or you might test your understanding by explaining something to them. Make sure you actually study though, it’s all to easy to lose a few hours to messing around on your phones together. Keep each other in check, don’t be enablers 

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05.14.18 - some old physics notes ✨

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31.01.2018 // january in pages ☁︎☁︎

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books I have out at my school library:

8/31/17

the poetics of enclosure, lesley wheeler

sleeping with one eye open, ed. marilyn kallet

gay and lesbian american plays, ken furtado

stealing the language, alicia ostriker

writing like a woman, alicia ostriker

h.d. between image and epic, gary burnett

hippolytus temporizes, h.d.

red roses for bronze, h.d.

h.d., janice robinson

helen in egypt, h.d.

9/6/17

politicizing magic: an anthology of russian and soviet fairy tales, ed. mark lipovetsky

the female hero in folklore and legend, tristram coffin

fearless girls, wise women and beloved sisters, ed. kathleen ragan

night and day, tom stoppard

rock n roll, tom stoppard

pirandello’s henry iv, tom stoppard

plays 4, tom stoppard

albert’s bridge and other plays, tom stoppard

in the native state, tom stoppard

lord malquist and mr. moon, tom stoppard

enter a free man, tom stoppard

dirty linen and new-found-land, tom stoppard

9/7/17

gender and immortality, deborah lyon

citizen bacchae, barbara goff

the women and the lyre, jane snyder

dangerous voices, gail holst-warhaft

the trojan women and other plays, euripides

the phoenician women, euripides

alcestis, euripides

orestes, euripides

iphigeneia at aulis, euripides

iphigeneia in tauris, euripides

ion, trans. h.d.

female acts in greek tragedy, helene foley

catastrophe survived, anne burnett

cosmos and tragedy, e. christian kopff

language, sexuality, narrative: the oresteia, simon goldhill

anxiety veiled, nancy rabinowitz

the woman and the lyre, jane snyder

aspects of human sacrifice in the tragedies of euripides, e. o’connor-visser

euripides and the full circle of myth, cedric whitman

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when you clean out your elderly school library’s stoppard section

plays I’ve already read: 

every good boy deserves favour 

professional foul

travesties

rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead

the real inspector hound 

after magritte

jumpers

the real thing

the invention of love

his screenplay of anna karenina

plays I’ve now checked out: 

night and day

albert’s bridge

if you’re glad i’ll be frank

artist descending a staircase

where are they now?

a separate peace

dalliance

undiscovered country

rough crossing

on the razzle

the seagull

rock n roll

in the native state 

pirandello’s henry iv

and his novel lord malquist & mr. moon

plays the local library has on shelf: 

the dissolution of dominic boot

m is for moon amongst other things

the dog it was that died

dogg’s hamlet, cahoot’s macbeth

indian ink

hapgood

teeth

another moon called earth

neutral ground

squaring the circle

the hard problem

dirty linen and new-found-land

the coast of utopia

the 15-minute hamlet (in british short plays)

dogg’s our pet (in british short plays)

largo desolato

enter a free man

plays left to obtain + read: 

a walk on the water

the gamblers 

tango

on dover beach

darkside

I would love to get my hands on the libretto for love for three oranges and the laws of war but I suspect neither is likely