#studyblr struggles

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If I don’t get this homework done by April 1 I will be the April Fool

[classycoffeesublime]

Book collections

[chainsawh]

I guess Cesar doesn’t like geology…

[nihilistem]

adhd study affirmations + tips to stray from discouragement by a stem student with adhd.

you’re not always going to be consistent. you’re not always going to be motivated. you’re not always going to be efficient. and that is okay.

edit : thank you so much to whoever blazed this post. It means the world to me.

and the fact that you even got this far is an accomplishment in and of itself. In this line of work, people aren’t always the kindest to neurodivergent people especially since our symptoms can often hinder our performance academically.

if you’re good to go after reading the above, I’ve also made a post regarding adhd study tips that I haven’t seen anywhere else. (Part 2 is here!) But, if you’re burned out like me, feel free to keep reading.

honestly, these might serve a bit more as reminders because they’re kinda simple but even I needed this, so, here we go.

do not seek advice from anyone neurotypical unless it genuinely helps you. I cannot tell you the amount of time and tears I could have saved if I just considered the fact that just because popular self-improvement tips or study techniques didn’t work for me, it doesn’t mean I’m stupid or useless. It simply means our brains isn’t motivated by the same things neurotypical ones are, and therefore a lot of popular self-improvement videos or study tips aren’t going to work for you because 90% of the time, they’re not designed to work for neurodivergent people. So if you’d like to seek help in this area, look for tips and videos that ARE for neurodivergent people.

you might experience burnout a lot more than others. again, that is fine. if this doesn’t apply to you, great! Feel free to skip to the next tip/affirmation. If this does apply to you, read this carefully; if you’ve had any sort of streak in studying right now, chances are you know at least a portion of your studies were led purely on interest, curiosity or even novelty, as these are what keep us engaged in our studies. Knowing this, it is natural for you to experience burnout more frequently than others due to the possible hyperfixations that have been forming around your work. If you get burned out, please remember to take a break for a day and make sure it is efficient. Like your studies, your breaks are the key to having efficient study sessions in the future. So please treat yourself, especially if you’ve been working extra hard!

do not admire studious fictional characters unless it genuinely helps you or they too are neurodivergent. I know this technically could have been thrown in with tip number 1 but I felt like this tip alone is so important, because nowadays I see a lot of study tips with the title, ‘how to study like (insert studious fictional character here)’ and when I look at the post it kinda repeats the same few study tips I see all the time like ‘stay organized’ or ‘time block your day’ and I feel like admiring fictional characters who do things that don’t work for you can be damaging for your mental health, because we’re already told by neurotypical people all around us that we’re slow or lazy just because we don’t do things the way they do, and I think idolizing neurotypical people that make us feel bad at the end of the day just further promotes that kind of toxic thinking.

expect that a routine/schedule/technique that has been working for a while now may not continue to work in the future. things will always have to be new for us to be interested or engaged, that being said, if you expect this in the future you won’t be frustrated with yourself because you already had this in mind. It doesn’t mean you’re not smart. It doesn’t mean you’re lazy. It doesn’t mean you’re useless. It just means that you’ve done what you could, and now it’s time to move on to another routine/schedule/technique.

keep doing the things you love alongside work. I find that because our symptoms may cause us to fall behind on our studies, we tend to neglect our other needs as human beings just to make up for the fact that we simply do not learn or pick things up the same way neurotypical people do. Your hobbies and interests need to be part of your day, just as your studies do, even if you may take longer to learn things or remember important concepts in your studies. Neglecting your hobbies or interests can lead to even more frequent burn outs and even a relapse in depression and anxiety, so please take care of yourself and recognize that you need and deserve these things just as much as anyone else.

regularly discover what works for you on your own. here’s the thing; neurodivergent or not, no two brains work the same. Of course it is good to try out advice or tips you find online because they’re backed up by experience, but they’re backed up by that person’s experience with working with their own brain. So naturally, you need to find what works with your brain. Be open to trying everything, even the tips that are discouraged like listening to lyrical music while studying. That was the only way I learnt that this tip actually does help me at times, even when many people have said that it negatively affects your focus.

that’s all I have right now guys, I think I’m experiencing burn out or probably falling back into depression again so more than anything this also served as a reminder for me, but I really hope it also helped you guys nonetheless.

As always, tell me if you guys would like more posts like these and I’ll be happy to make more <33 please take care of yourself guys, and remember that your studies is just one aspect of your life. There are other aspects that need your care and attention too.

[jackxo]

𝖂𝖊𝖊𝖐𝖘 14-15 𝖔𝖋 𝖚𝖓𝖎 𝖎𝖘 𝖒𝖞 𝖍𝖊𝖑𝖑

[notetaeker]

Jan 27, 2023 - Friday | Winter 38/80

Rearranged my wall!! All the precious art that I’m proud of all ends up hidden away in a sketchbook or folder so the art on my wall ends up being my more mediocre pieces lol so I categorized some more stuff as ‘mediocre’ and cut them out to display 😅 second pic is my ‘speed test grading’ method lmao in which I check 10 tests at the same time so I’m not biased when checking specific students tests 😌

[arctic-bandar]

Born to be an academic weapon

Forced to become academic victim...

[learnelle]

During my mini hiatus I fulfilled my dream of visiting Norway! The most surprising thing was hearing Lithuanian being spoken literally everywhere. My mum and I always speak Lithuanian to each other, so it was incredibly bizarre for people to overhear us and then come speak with us, or to have waiters/shopkeepers switch from English to Lithuanian. I’ve never experienced anything like it before, and I had no idea so many Lithuanians live in Norway! I absolutely ADORED this, it made all the places we visited instantly feel like home. Despite all that, I learned a bit of Norwegian and discovered that it’s literally the cutest language. Language learning is absolutely wonderful

[why-the-heck-not]

me proofreading anything I've ever written (in chronological order)

[jadecitrusmint]

February 2024🌿📚

This is a late post, I got some readings done in a coffee shop on campus~ we covered nō plays in my comparative literature class.

Got slammed with a few major projects so now I’m playing catch up (ｰ ｰ;)

[camelliawitch]

18.03.24

I’m baaack from my spring break and I’m already exhausted. The spring break itself was good and restful but the amount of homework that is due various days this week drives me crazy 🫠

• Financial management homework done ✔️ (it was long as damn hell and consisted of pure calculations)

• Physics pre-class module viewed and pre class assignment done ✔️

• Physics pre-lab done. ✔️ We have one of this “design your own experiment” labs tomorrow, and it is the first time I look at the requirements and have no idea where even to start. But that is a tomorrow problem.

I also had a meeting with my advisor today to revise my schedule for the next semester and wrote several emails to figure out an issue with one of my courses.

And I had a 30 minutes exercise time. (I’m kinda trying to establish a fitness routine and do some exercising every day).

That’s all for today. I can’t say that I anticipate tomorrow but not like I have a choice.

[classycoffeesublime]

Empty Coffee cup

[punkfrenchtoast]

anyone who knows me knows one of my greatest passions in life is astrophysics and my greatest weakness is a lack of comprehension of even the most basic maths

[pollyannaskiosk]

my major is translation&interpreting, which implies i must have a perfect command of foreign languages. and also, we have several subjects dedicated to different aspects. now, for instance, i’m studying the U.S. security system 💁🏼‍♀️

[notetaeker]

March 23, 2024 - Saturday  | Ramadan Challenge 13/30

Day 12: Most challenging thing about Ramadan and how do you try to overcome it?

Nowadays it’s actually fasting that’s the challenge. Subhanallah in the past it used to be trying to do all the stuff on my list lol I try to overcome it by keeping myself on a schedule and taking it easy when I’m not feeling well.

Day 13: What aspects of the qur'anic science have you explored:

I absolutely love tafsir. As a writing/literature teacher, analyzing meaning in between the lines is literally the funnest thing for me and that’s what tafsir is. Honestly when I first introduce literary analysis to my students, I tell them we are basically doing tafsir of the books lol

I love qur’an memorization too and I definitely want to focus more on memorization these days. It’s actually so much fun for me and my silly little productivity obsessed self I soooo looove trackable progress and improving and increasing and it’s the best feeling to encounter memorized ayahs in recitation/ a lecture etc

[lostlibrariangirl]

April 23, 2024

114/366 Days of Growth

Reviewing my notes for the upcoming ISC2 CC Exam last weekend.

It is tomorrow (24.04) ... I am so nervous 🥹