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I was talking to my parents about how many of my friends are already getting job offers, internships, and study abroad experiences as rising college juniors.

I said, “It feels like my life is buffering, like when you get that spinning pinwheel thing on your laptop.”

My dad responded, “Yeah, but when it finally loads, it’ll be HD quality.”

So I thought I’d share that bit with you all. If you’re feeling the same way, support your friends, but keep your head down, work hard, and wait for it–your time will come. :)

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I feel that this is very appropriate reading for a girl who has just been nominated to run for the position of Welfare and Diversity Officer at her university (!)

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Back in my favourite spot. I just finished Alaa Al Aswany’s The Yacoubian Building – it was enjoyable, but I felt like I missed so much in the translation. Looking forward to discussing it in classes : - )

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15.03.18 Afternoon study session and yet another cold day in Stockholm. But I moved my desk which gave me new motivation. 📋✏️❄️ Study hard lovers!

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[180307] Your innovations and creativity are unlimited, no one can limit.

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[8/100] Days of Productivity March 14, 2018

Today was spent working 8-6pm, doing more flashcards in educational science and than writing a Spanish analysis in school during my Spanish lesson. At home I spent my time doing maths and afterwards copying my Spanish lesson to give to another teacher. I honestly can’t remember the last time I worked day after day, hour after hour and had absolutely nothing on my mind other than school work.

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260218 [34/100 Days of Productivity]

First day back in uni after my mid-term break! (and I’m already breaking out, wow). I’ve been pretty productive today, already finished my marketing notes for the chapter covered in class today, and I’m upset I didn’t do as well as I planned for my tests for marketing, but well, I think I can still manage an A-, got to hustle hard!  (ง •̀_•́)ง

🎶: Bad Boy - Red Velvet (somebody help me this bop is stuck in my head)

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just studyblr things

scrolling through the reblogs of ur posts to see if anyone left cute comments in the tags (literally me every time bc i have no life lol)

studying at gorgeous libraries (hELLO SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY)

buying wAY too much expensive stationery (even if you can’t afford it like me lmao)

having the image of being organized on tumblr but being totally overwhelmed irl (cough me cough)

taking way too many extracurriculars and honors or ap classes but still making time to binge watch shows (heLLO me right there)

buying books but never reading them so the ‘to be read’ list just keeps getting longer 

spending too much time trying to find the right angles and lighting for studyspo pics

blushing and smiling profusely when one of the big studyblrs reblogs your post and the notes just,,,, explode

arranging your pens in just the right way so it looks like they spilled out of your pencil case aesthetically

making posts about positivity and anti procrastination when really,,, you’re just trying to use your own advice too 

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07.03.18 8:59 am // done with my exams! I actually have vacation now. Don’t really know what to do, haven’t had such a long vacation in over a year. 📓👩🏼‍💻 // studygram

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✿ January 30th 2018          ♫ Drake - God’s Plan

How to write a 3000 word law paper in three days on a topic you don’t understand: 1. read a million Supreme Court cases, 2. try to find the answers in the literature, 3. drink a ton of tea and 4. complain to your friends 24/7.

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I’M LIVIN

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March 2018 ☕️ Started the special study paper on Duress by Threats.

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Get your coffee, tie your hair back and get to work. You’ve got goals to achieve

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How I read

A book: Oh, only 180 pages left. I will finish this today. 

A textbook: Another 8 pages?! Are you kidding me?! I can’t do this. It’s really too much to handle. 

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 New notebook love + studying math. 

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12.05.2016 // caught the train from Amsterdam to Hamburg this morning. The journey was really comfortable and peaceful so I read some of the other papers being given at this conference. 🇳🇱 - 🇩🇪

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Common mistakes when studying for exams:

1.       Not starting early enough While many students intend to begin studying for final exams a couple of weeks beforehand, that timeline often slips as exams approach. After several days of convincing yourself, it will be OK to skip this one day and get started tomorrow, suddenly what was supposed to be a week of studying turns into one or two frantic nights of cramming. Studying for exams often takes more time than you might anticipate, so make sure you get started early! 

2.       Studying in chronological rather than priority order One common approach to studying for exams is to sit down and look through all of the notes from class in chronological order. In addition to being a very passive study strategy (more on this below), it also puts you at risk of running out of time to review the material you learned most recently, which is often emphasized more heavily on the final exam. Instead of studying in chronological order, try studying in priority order, spending the majority of your time on the information that will be most important for you to know for the test. 

3.    Practicing in the wrong format (not how you’ll be tested) I often find that students will study the same way for all of their exams, regardless of the format. For example, they might study for history by making flashcards for all the key terms in their notes. This might be a great strategy for a test that is mostly multiple choice and matching questions…but it could get you into trouble if your test is the mostly short answer and essay questions that require you to answer “why” and “how” questions about the bigger-picture concepts from the class. If you want to be prepared for your exams, you need to make sure that the way you are studying for your test is similar to the way you will actually be tested on the material. 

4.    Reviewing information you already know Even when students are testing themselves and using active study strategies, they often spend the majority of their time on topics they already know. Doing problems you are familiar with and know how to solve is more comfortable, and gives you a nice boost in your self-confidence. The problem with this approach is that you often end up running out of time to work through the challenging problems that you don’t know how to solve…and those are the ones that you end up missing on the test. Don’t waste your time studying things you already know! Once you’ve confirmed that you understand and can answer questions about a certain concept, check it off your list and move on to something more challenging.

5.    Memorizing, rather than understanding I frequently see students who have been studying by trying to memorize all of the facts from a class, rather than truly understanding the underlying concepts. Memorizing can work well in some classes, especially in elementary and middle school, but it often backfires in more advanced classes. If you’ve memorized a definition but don’t really understand what it means, then as soon as the information is presented in a slightly different format, or you’re asked to apply it to a new type of problem, you will have no idea how to proceed. Rather than memorizing the information from your classes, use study strategies that encourage you to understand it. Explaining ideas out loud in your own words, or teaching them to someone else, are great examples of study strategies that promote understanding.

6.    Calculating Your Final Grade A lot of students try to figure out what effect different final exam grades will have on their final grade in the course. (For example: “I have to get at least a 90 on the final to get an A in the class.”) Indeed, almost every e-mail I get asking for exam preparation tips seems to be prefaced with some range of scores the student has to hit in order to get some desired final grade.

Don’t do this! No good can possibly come from such a superficial focus on the numbers. It will add stress. This, in turn, will make it harder for you to execute a reasonable, specific, and efficient study plan. Also, it’s just plain crass. You don’t want to be that person…Forget about your G.P.A., and focus, instead, on how you can best prepare for the specific challenge in front of you. If you screw up, you screw up.

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