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Some late night chemistry

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Grade 12 has been running for 4 months by now, i've been studying well but not well enough for what i want so im trying to get back on track

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Trying to set myself back on track with studying 📚

Note: I love calculus ❤️

🎧: Ambience mixer, Gryffindor common room

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I mean it when I say that my reading list is longer than my life expectancy.

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〚 how to stay motivated through your studying session? 〛

11 tips to help you get it together and get that A

❥ study in intervals. don't underestimate the power of good breaks to keep you motivated to push forward. a 5-10 minuets break gives you enough energy to go on.

❥ make studying fun. this is very self-explanatory, but try to make your studying more pleasing to do. for example, you can buy a cute set of highlighters or pens or take notes in a notebook that looks nice to you.

of course, be mindful of your money and your budget. you don't have to buy expensive stationary to study well.

❥ break it down. divide your task into smaller goals. a general goal such as 'study biology' can seem daunting. However, if you break it down to 'study chapter one' and 'study chpater two' and so on makes it appears to be more achievable.

❥ find your studying style. everyone has a unique way of studying. some are visual learners or auditory learners. some learn by rewriting what they studied in their own words. try different techniques and see which makes you more efficient and stick with it.

❥ reward yourself for reaching a goal. the reward doesn't have to be anything big. maybe a piece of chocolate for completing a chapter or a cup of your favorite tea after finishing a page of your essay. make sure the reward matches the goal's size. the bigger of a goal you managed to achieve, the bigger the reward.

❥ have a specific place for studying. study in a place that puts your attention and mood on your assignments. try to keep that place clean and neat to improve your focus. remember to keep your phone away from that space.

❥ avoid distractions in your study space. your phone, your rubik cube, your unrelated notes, etc. anything that's considered irrelevant to your task at hand shouldn't stay in your space.

❥ identify your cause of distraction. is it a family member? a friend? your phone? it's better to solve it at the root. if it's a friend or a relative, politely explain that you are studying and you'd get back to them the moment you have a break. get rid of the cause.

❥ create a limit. as much as it sounds nice, don't overstudy. make a minimum and maximum amount of time you can spend studying and try to keep within that bound to help you build habit.

❥ make a study schedule. personally, I find routines to be really helpful, so if you also like creating a schedule and a routine, then by all means do it. However, some also like spontaneity. just remember to write down what you want to do and go through with them.

❥ stop comparing your results. don't compare yourself to your past and to others, especially if you are coming out of a slump. creating false expectation and unreal goals will only dampen your mood and stop you from seeing the results. a step forward is still a step. be proud of it.

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

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New Term study plan !!!!

pic source: pinterest

The new term is starting tomorrow so i need to do the next:

1- motivate myself 2- start planning the term 3- clean my mind from the dopamine swamp i fell in during the vacation

for motivation, i have YouTube and pinterest and my own text-books, so it doesn't need much

for the plan, now thats something, because this term is 3 months long which is too short, and the curriculum is too long for this period of time, also Ramadan is coming in one month -which is the holy month for us Muslims- so i'll need time for extra prayers and for the extra acts of worship we do in this month, so i'm working on it and i'll post updates

for the dopamine, i think a week or two off social media would do the trick

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pro-AI in the sense of "they taught a bread scanning computer to recognize cancer cells" etc etc

against AI in the sense of "we stole artwork from hundreds to thousands of artists, didn't credit them and didn't financially compensate them"

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I wanted to post alot during exams but i was busy ‘examing’ (freaking out over things that i’m going to be tested on in a few hours and i didnt even study it yet) but now the results are here so here are some of the pics i took during the exams

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Took me until about halfway through college before I realized “study” means “play with the material in a variety of ways until you understand it” and not just “read the assigned chapters and do the homework” and I think that probably should have been discussed at some point prior to that.

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The secret history update

🚨 spoiler alert 🚨

I just finished book 1, the last chapter was so good that if i was sitting while reading it i’d slip of my seat, Henry’s mushrooms idea is so good, and i love how everything effortlessly developed to this point, i thought mid-reading that the whole idea of killing bunny would be so forced just for the sake of the plot but by the time it came, i wanted to get rid of him myself as soon as possible, and i love how it ended with bunny’s character and the way he kinda is losing his sanity, i really wanted to go on but i knew that if went into the next chapter I won’t sleep till i finish the whole book

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Reading The secret History, just finished the chapter where Henry tells Richard all about the bacchanal, everything before this chapter was pretty interesting even tho i didn’t get a lot of the greek references, but a chapter takes too long so usually i wouldn’t read a chapter in one sitting, except this one, i just kept reading and i got into the next one without even noticing.

Overall the book is great, i love it🤎

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The human heart 🫀

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I have a biology exam coming up on Monday, haven’t posted about the last three exams since they were absolute mind rape incidents, i can declare that we got intellectually molested, the maths was so hard that I believe more than 1/2 our class is failing it, the physics came very challenging but i found it beautiful tho, and now biology, the subject that i studied the least, so pray for me to cram well, even tho I don’t usually cram.

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14.1.2024

My preparation for the pure mathematics exam.

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12.1.2024

I have a final exam tomorrow, applied math, i studied a bit in the morning and i went to sleep after the Friday prayer, i’ll continue studying now till the exam, and oh boy do we have one long night ahead of us

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Me missing the Gryffindor common room:

Good books can make you homesick for places you have never been.