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November 22, 2023 • Wednesday

5 hours of focus today! We're making progress with the syllabus :3 4 days until exams begin. I feel only a little prepared, hopefully I become more confident soon.

🎧 Forever Winter - Taylor Swift

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Notion Study Template

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27 Exam strategies from 'Cracking the GRE Premium Edition with 6 Practice Tests, 2020' which can also become life tips

As you become more familiar with the test, you will also develop a sense of “the ETS mentality.” This is a predictable kind of thinking that influences nearly every part of nearly every ETS exam. By learning to recognize the ETS mentality, you’ll earn points even when you aren’t sure why an answer is correct. You’ll inevitably do better on the test by learning to think like the people who wrote it.

You’ll do better on the GRE by putting aside your feelings about real education and surrendering yourself to the strange logic of the standardized test.

You might be surprised to learn that the GRE isn’t written by distinguished professors, renowned scholars, or graduate school admissions officers. For the most part, it’s written by ordinary ETS employees, sometimes with freelance help from local graduate students. You have no reason to be intimidated.

Our focus is on the basic concepts that will enable you to attack any problem, strip it down to its essential components, and solve it in as little time as possible.

In many ways, taking a standardized test is a skill and, as with any skill, you can become more proficient at it by both practicing and following the advice of a good teacher.

Think of your GRE preparation as if you were practicing for a piano recital or a track meet; you wouldn’t show up at the concert hall or track field without having put in hours of practice beforehand (at least we hope you wouldn’t!). If you want to get a good score on the GRE, you’ll have to put in the necessary preparation time.

After all, the GRE leaves you no room to make explanations or justifications for your responses.

However, the difficulty of an individual question plays no role in determining your score; that is, your score is calculated by your performance on the entirety of the scored sections, not just a handful of the hardest questions on a given section.

This strategy is called Take the Easy Test First. Skip early and skip often.

On your first pass through the questions, if you see a question you don’t like, a question that looks hard, or a question that looks time consuming, you’re going to walk on by and leave it for the end.

Sometimes, however, a question that looks easy turns out to be more troublesome than you thought. The question may be trickier than it first appeared, or you may have simply misread it, and it seems hard only because you’re working with the wrong information.

Over four hours, your brain is going to get tired.

Once you read a question wrong, however, it is almost impossible to un-read that and see it right. As long as you are still immersed in the question, you could read it 10 times in a row and you will read it the same wrong way each time.

Whether a question is harder than it first appeared, or made harder by the fact that you missed a key phrase or piece of information, the approach you’ve taken is not working.

Reset your brain by walking away from the problem, but mark the question before you do. Do two or three other questions, and then return to the marked problem. When you walk away, your brain doesn’t just forget the problem, it keeps on processing in the background. The distraction of the other questions helps your brain to consider the question from other angles. When you return to the problem, you may find that the part that gave you so much trouble the first time is now magically clear. If the problem continues to give you trouble, walk away again.

Staying with a problem when you’re stuck burns time but yields no points. You might spend two, three, five, or even six minutes on a problem but still be no closer to the answer.

In the five minutes you spend on a problem that you’ve misread, you could nail three or four easier questions. When you return to the question that gave you trouble, there is a good chance that you will spot your error, and the path to the correct answer will become clear. If it doesn’t become clear, walk away again. Any time you encounter resistance on the test, do not keep pushing; bend like a reed and walk away

You should take the easy test first and you should spend most of your time on questions that you know how to answer, or are reasonably certain you can answer.

As a result, it’s better to guess than it is to leave a question blank. At least by guessing, you stand a chance at getting lucky and guessing correctly.

In fact, sometimes it is easier to identify the wrong answers and eliminate them than it is to find the right ones,

Trap answers are specifically designed to appeal to test takers. Oftentimes, they’re the answers that seem to scream out “pick me!” as you work through a question. However, these attractive answers are often incorrect.

Get into the habit of double-checking all of your answers before you click on your answer choice

The only way to reliably avoid careless errors is to adopt habits that make them less likely to occur.

Every time you begin a new section, focus on that section and put the last section you completed behind you. Don’t think about that pesky synonym from an earlier section while a geometry question is on your screen. You can’t go back, and besides, your impression of how you did on a section is probably much worse than reality.

The week before the test is not the time for any major life changes. This is NOT the week to quit smoking, start smoking, quit drinking coffee, start drinking coffee, start a relationship, end a relationship, or quit a job. Business as usual, okay?

Before you dive in, you might wish to take one of the practice tests in this book or online to get a sense of where you are starting from.

Accuracy is better than speed. Slow down and focus on accumulating as many points as possible. Forcing yourself to work faster results in careless errors and lower scores.

[passingmyged]

Memorizing vs Deep Knowledge

I had an interesting discussion with a colleague yesterday, about what and how much to memorize, especially in preparation for essay and practical tests. Both of us got bad advice as teens in school, to just memorize everything. During college and in our careers, we discovered how absurd and WRONG that advice was. LOL we each nearly got busted out of training by examiners who thought we memorized too much and didn't understand things in depth.

Memorize the things you do not have time to look up in books or online. Such things you need to know and apply promptly. For other things, you should know where to where to find the information. In my career, there are a lot of rules and machine limitations we must know dead cold. Examiners would ask a lot of "scenario" questions, where you must talk at length and juggle a lot of different concepts. They wanted rules and numbers memorized, but "how and why" to be understood.

That said, delivering a 20 minute talk or 4000 word essay requires you to deeply understand the topic. LOL I don't mean at the level of a PhD, but as a competent person who knows the field and won't get lost or try to bullshit out of a question. It is different from having things memorized. To sit or stand before an audience and show mastery requires you to cover multiple concepts, explain how they relate to one another, and apply what you know.

Study, but then practice by writing out brief essays on the smaller topics. Work out the awkward wordings or funky logic. Learn the limits of what you know and have a sense of when you are weak in some area, so you can focus you studies there. It is an iterative, "do then do again" process.

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Any note-taking apps (such as Goodnotes or Noteshelf)

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Cover

Don't you just love the terracotta colors and the little details on the cover of the planner?

Extra Templates

There are 50 different templates to play with. You can replace, add, or duplicate each to your liking.

Index

The Index or Table of Contents is very helpful to navigate easily between pages. Click the upper ring binder to access the Index page.

Stickers

Free stickers too! Although it's not included in the main PDF. However, these are located in a separate Google Drive folder, this is to avoid any performance issues on the PDF.

Journals

There are 5 journal notebooks you can totally customize. Use any 50+ extra templates or from the 15 paper layouts to create your own journal notebook inside the planner.

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2021

The 2021 tab or the Year in a Glance lets you add the important holidays and other occasions on the page for easy tracking.

To Do

Make a list of everything!

Project

Perfect if you have projects in school or just at home. For example, I have a project called #getplannerfeatured, and I use this to track my progress and timeline.

Organizer

Include a lot of photos in this page for inspiration. You don't have to follow each format, you can remove the lines by using Pen tool in white to remove the lines and create your own boxes or layouts.

Meeting

Include each agenda discussed in your meeting. This is perfect for those who are working or studying. You can also put important words mentioned in the meeting. For the Location, you can put "Zoom" if it's an online meeting.

Goals

The Goals tab on the top redirects you to the Daily Goals page, but if you want to access the Weekly and Monthly, then you can click on the lower binder to see the Extra Templates.

Tutorials

You will find lots of tutorials and tips & tricks from Tess not just about the planner but on Goodnotes too.

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Finances

This is where you put your overall finances - savings, expenses, revenue or difference

Budget

Monthly Budget helps you track all your unexpected expenses and identify the things you don't or won't really need.

Expenses

I'm not really fond of tracking my expenses because I know it'll always be too much or over the budget but I don't have a choice - I just have to track it so I won't go into debt. 😂

Savings

Track your earnings and your cash flow. You can also track your savings for when you want to buy the new iPad Pro or Macbook Pro.

Shopping

Track your shopping list here so you won't have to go over the budget.

Package

Tracking happy mails? Then this is the perfect page! Although since I shifted to digital planning, I don't really have happy mails anymore - maybe happy emails or downloads?

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Charts

Charts page is another paper template that you can use for expenses or lists.

Monthly

The Monthly page is clickable to Weekly and Daily. You can easily access each month by clicking on the Right side tabs. Use this page to easily track your appointments and occasions for the whole month. You can also track your bills and subscriptions here so you'd know when to pay or add your project deadlines and meetings.

Monthly Overview Goals

The Monthly Overview page is right after the Monthly spread or just before the Weekly page. You can put your ideas and priorities for the whole month on this page. Remember to add a lot of visuals - photos and stickers so you won't have to fill every box in case you can't.

Weekly

You can use Weekly Planner to track your meals or menu for the week. Write the ingredients or recipe in the bigger boxes. The top 3 boxes can be used for your top 3 priorities this week.

Daily

The Daily page contains a calendar that is clickable to Weekly and Daily. You can use color blocks to track your schedule. Add stickers or photos for your Mood and Activity.

Braindump

You can access the Braindump page every after the last day of the week. Make your braindump page beautiful by adding visuals such as photos and stickers. Focus on what you want to achieve for next week or what you can improve on.

Health

The Health section focus solely on the activities that make you feel good physically without feeling any guilt. Track your workouts, runs, dance class, yoga, stretching, water intake, sleep, meals and add memoji to the Notes boxes.

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Intentions

Weekly Intentions page serves as a guided-journal page where you can put which habits that make you feel good, what you like to see manifest this week, what limits you the most right now and how you can change it, write your mantra, describe the person you want to be this week and positive affirmation.

Gratitude

This is super helpful for your personal growth. You have to be appreciative even with the little things - like how your food has been properly prepared by chefs or crew in fast food, how people you don't normally notice makes your life easier and so much more.

2021 Goals

Track your most important goals monthly and add the things that hinder you to accomplish it so it'll be easier for you to focus on each goal. For example, you have 3 goals but you are having difficulties finishing them because of a low budget or maybe time constraint - these are what you call roadblocks that prevent you from achieving your top goals. Identifying your roadblocks will help you focus more on what needs to be done.

Vision Board

Add a lot of photos here. Your vision board should look engaging and encouraging!

Reflection

Reflect on the things that made you happy or cry for this week and use that to improve yourself and be prepared for the next week.

Affirmations

Add your daily mantras or powerful and positive quotes that will help you turn a bad day into a great one!

Recipes

Be your own chef by utilizing this Recipe page. Browse the internet for recipes or ask your mom's special recipe and put it here.

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Cleaning

Cleaning doesn't only apply to tangible items, you can clean your cloud storage, your debts, your To Be Read shelves, your unused planners, or just try to clear out your mind.

Habits

Create and maintain a good and healthy habit. You can track your water intake, stretching, exercise, or a minimum of 8 hours of sleep and reward yourself when you complete your goal.

Mood Tracker

Mood tracker can be really vague but you can make it fun by putting your own legends or mood colors.

Birthday

I enjoy writing down my family and friends' birthdays. This reminds me to greet them on their special day when life gets busy!

Undated

Use these Undated pages - available in Daily, Weekly, Monthly for extra entry.

Lined Paper Templates

Different Lined paper templates to choose from to help you write anything under the sun.

Grid Paper Templates

Graph or Grid paper template to help you track anything!

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Dotted Paper Templates

Dot paper to help you with your journaling

Party Planner

Who says party planning isn't a thing or only for occasions with guests more than 50? You can host your own intimate party with family and friends. Host a dinner night or game night - make it fun!

Menu

This page makes me crave for yummy food! Track your menu for the week, your ingredients, and maybe write some adjustments to the recipe.

Hex Color Codes

Definitely one of my favorite pages, the Hex Color Codes provided by Tess to match the planner. You can use this to add colors to your handwriting, shapes, texts, color blocks, lines and so much more! I intended to hide the code to protect the seller's rights.

Milestones

There are a lot of things you should celebrate and this Milestone page is perfect for it. You can track your social media follower count, your online course progress, how many referrals you made, how many sales you made on your side hustle and so much more!

2021 Health & Fitness

It's time to get fit and stay healthy! Track your weight improvement and challenge yourself by tracking your work out days vs cheat days.

Passwords

Well, there's nothing wrong with putting your passwords here as long as it's not your bank pin code or social security ID! Maybe, you can add your social media accounts' password or even the password to every freehub or resource on your fave planner website.

Activities

Track your activities here and your schedule for the week.

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To Read / Watch

Add your favorite shows, movies, new series to watch, books to read, currently reading, to be reviewed. You can also write the names of the books on your wishlist!

Daily Intentions

The Daily Reflection will help you focus on the things that you either want to improve or change. This page will help you identify how you handle difficult things.

2021 Self Reflection

Write your reflection before you say goodbye to 2021. Write your struggles and victories for the year and how you were able to overcome the challenges. You can also include all the things that made you cry or smile! Things you've learned, people you've loved, everything that made you feel proud of yourself.

2022 Vision Board

Decorate your 2022 Vision Board ahead of time!

Other Pages

2022 Monthly List Page

Blank Vision Board

Monthly Goals

Weekly Goals

Blank Spread White & Colored

2020 Self Reflection

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There are people – some in my own Party – who think that if you just give Donald Trump everything he wants, he’ll make an exception and spare you some of the harm. I’ll ignore the moral abdication of that position for just a second to say — almost none of those people have the experience with this President that I do. I once swallowed my pride to offer him what he values most — public praise on the Sunday news shows — in return for ventilators and N95 masks during the worst of the pandemic. We made a deal. And it turns out his promises were as broken as the BIPAP machines he sent us instead of ventilators. Going along to get along does not work – just ask the Trump-fearing red state Governors who are dealing with the same cuts that we are. I won’t be fooled twice.

I’ve been reflecting, these past four weeks, on two important parts of my life: my work helping to build the Illinois Holocaust Museum and the two times I’ve had the privilege of reciting the oath of office for Illinois Governor.

As some of you know, Skokie, Illinois once had one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors anywhere in the world. In 1978, Nazis decided they wanted to march there.

The leaders of that march knew that the images of Swastika clad young men goose stepping down a peaceful suburban street would terrorize the local Jewish population – so many of whom had never recovered from their time in German concentration camps.

The prospect of that march sparked a legal fight that went all the way to the Supreme Court. It was a Jewish lawyer from the ACLU who argued the case for the Nazis – contending that even the most hateful of speech was protected under the first amendment.

As an American and a Jew, I find it difficult to resolve my feelings around that Supreme Court case – but I am grateful that the prospect of Nazis marching in their streets spurred the survivors and other Skokie residents to act. They joined together to form the Holocaust Memorial Foundation and built the first Illinois Holocaust Museum in a storefront in 1981 – a small but important forerunner to the one I helped build thirty years later.

I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly. But I know the history intimately — and have spent more time than probably anyone in this room with people who survived the Holocaust. Here’s what I’ve learned – the root that tears apart your house’s foundation begins as a seed – a seed of distrust and hate and blame.

The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

I’m watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now. A president who watches a plane go down in the Potomac – and suggests — without facts or findings — that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who just sued Starbucks – arguing that consumers pay higher prices for their coffee because the baristas are too “female” and “nonwhite.” The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here: They point to a group of people who don’t look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems.

I just have one question: What comes next? After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities – once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends – After that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face – what comes next.

All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.

I swore the following oath on Abraham Lincoln’s Bible: “I do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Governor .... according to the best of my ability.

My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.

If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this:

It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.

Those Illinois Nazis did end up holding their march in 1978 – just not in Skokie. After all the blowback from the case, they decided to march in Chicago instead. Only twenty of them showed up. But 2000 people came to counter protest. The Chicago Tribune reported that day that the “rally sputtered to an unspectacular end after ten minutes.” It was Illinoisans who smothered those embers before they could burn into a flame.

Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let the “tragic spirit of despair” overcome us when our country needs us the most.

Sources:

• NBC Chicago & J.B. Pritzker, Democratic governor of Illinois, State of the State address 2025: Watch speech here | Full text

• Betches News on Instagram (screencaps)

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"tiktok has massive problems that even if you don't agree with a complete ban have to be addressed for all social media platforms" and "the Chinese government is doing pretty awful things" and "there is a lot of sinophobic fearmongering and double standards in the conversation about tiktok" and "people should exercise basic caution signing up to foreign or domestic social media" and "most Chinese citizens like US citizens are just people living their life and cultural exchange between them can be beneficial for both sides" and "some people being on the same social media site isn't going to solve everything " and "I want to study the linguistics happening there under a microscope" are opinions that can coexist

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One of the highlights of PLAUD is its long battery life, which means I can rely on it throughout the day without worrying about recharging. This feature is especially beneficial during long events or conferences. Additionally, the device is compact and lightweight, making it easy to carry around.

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If you're considering upgrading your note-taking experience, I highly recommend exploring what PLAUD has to offer. It's a game-changer for anyone looking to enhance their productivity and organization skills!

[a-fox-studies]

February 12th, 2023 • Friday

As the end of semester nears, it's important to take care of yourself and not hyperfixate on studying to the point where you overexert yourself.

🎧 Marandhitiyo — Khareshma Ravichandran, Paul B Sailus

[drjackabbots]

the thing about the mummy movies is that you really spend most of the time thinking "wow brendan fraser's character is so cool" or "man oded fehr is so mysterious and heroic" when the fact of the matter is that these two

are the absolute most batshit insane heroes in the entire franchise

these two are intellectual loner siblings with archeology backgrounds who read and speak ancient egyptian, hire a dude directly out of prison to take them to a lost city of gold, and fight mummies literally with their bare hands. twice.

no one in these movies stands a chance against the carnahans. frankly they're lethal in how willing they are to make the absolute and most undeniably deranged decisions. jonathan pickpockets a dude on fire. evy's resurrected from the dead and immediately remembers how to use sai. they're racking shotguns from a cliff in this scene and then proceed to blow away half the antagonists.

rick and ardeth should be so lucky

[karthickpandi]

Quick Voice Notes Review - Voice Memos App

Introduction Voice Memos is a user-friendly app that helps you quickly record voice notes with ease, ideal for anyone looking to capture their thoughts on the go.

App Overview This app is designed for simple, effective voice recording and organizing, offering an intuitive interface suitable for both beginners and casual users.

Interface and Ease of Use The design is straightforward, with minimal setup required. You can start recording almost immediately after launching the app.

Recording Quality Voice Memos provides clear, high-quality audio recordings, making it suitable for a variety of uses from personal reminders to professional notes.

File Organization The app allows easy management of recordings, enabling users to organize, delete, and rename files for better clarity and access.

Sharing Options It offers seamless sharing capabilities, letting you send your recordings via email, messaging, or social media platforms.

Custom Features While primarily simple, the app offers customization options such as trimming and naming recordings, helping you maintain organized files.

Platform Compatibility Voice Memos works across various platforms, ensuring broad accessibility whether you're using it on mobile or desktop devices.

Limitations of the App For more advanced recording needs, such as professional audio editing or multi-track recording, users may find the app limited in functionality.

Conclusion Voice Memos is a great tool for quick and easy voice recordings, but users looking for more advanced features may need to explore other options.

[hannibal-is-my-comfort-show]

Headcannon that Jason got the headstone from his grave and put it above his bed because it says 'Here lies Jason Todd' (he broke off the good soldier bit ofc) and thinks it's the funniest thing ever, some of the family, of course, are horrified.

Dick, at Jason's before they go out on patrol: Hey Jaybird, make sure to bring a spare respir--WHAT THE HELL?!?

Dick, looking frantically between Jason and the headstone: this is clearly a threat. Somebody knows your identity. I swear to GOD when I find who did this--

Jason, looking up from his phone comepletely unbothered: oh yeah, about that

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Bonus:

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Tim, climbing through Jasons bedroom window: Hey, its me, dont shoot. Do you have a first aid kit here right?

Jason, getting up from where he was reading in bed: ugh yeah sure, one sec

Jason, proceeds to grab a sticky note saying 'DOES NOT' and jabs it onto the headstone so it reads 'Here DOES NOT lie Jason Todd':

Tim:

Tim: okay that's funny