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28.01.2022

I took my first exam and took 28/30 as a grade

28.01.22

my masterpost | my studygram | ask me anything

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Other advice posts that may be of interest:

How To Study When You Really Don’t Want To

Active Revision Techniques

How To Do Uni Readings

How to Revise BIG Subjects

tuesday, nov 17 • stills from an october diary

As someone who spends a *lot* of time online, especially with the current half-online schooling system my school uses, I thought it would be helpful to share some apps, websites and extensions that make my learning experience a lot easier! I’ve seen a lot of master posts like this by other studyblrs, but I often get overwhelmed by the many options they recommend for each function; so I thought I’d share the ones that I find work the best for me :)

desktop apps

Spotify - for music & podcasts

Drawboard PDF - helpful for annotating and reading PDFs!

Grammarly - great for correcting English grammar!

Virtual Cottage - very cute lil productivity tracker; plays lofi & rain sounds, kind of like forest but cuter! Has a full-screen option.

Discord - ok this isn’t a study app, but given that we’re at home a lot of clubs at my school use servers on Discord to organize & hold meetings!

websites

sleep calculator - helps you figure out when you should go to bed

CBC Gem - has a ton of free Shakespeare performances in full HD

duolingo - free language-learning website! 

conjugemos - Literal life-saver for learning Spanish grammar

wordreference - Great language dictionary/conjugation resource

unsplash - free HD pictures

free harvard courses - what it says on the tin!

chrome extensions

coffeelings - basically a “pixel a day” bujo page that you don’t have to draw out by hand!

smallPDF - file conversion & compression

Forest - productivity

Reading List - helps you bookmark webpages & articles to read later

LanguageTool - grammar and language correction in multiple languages

Grammarly - grammar and language correction

MyBib - citation generator

PrintWhatYouLike - print the content of a webpage w/o ads

SleepMode - set your webpage to close at a certain time

Outliner -  simplified, clean outlines & annotation features

wednesday 2:59 pm

november 12, 2020

533 | So I spent my bar trip one part in Niagara Falls, one part walking around outside little towns in the Finger Lakes. It was a beautiful fall week there in western New York and the absolutely cutest little socially distant trip | Skaneatles, New York

/ september 2020 / 

First month of uni almost done and my god I have never ever been so busy in my entire life. The fact that there isn’t a clear schedule because of everything that’s going on definitely doesn’t help. Hopefully I’ll get used to it soon and will figure out some things like how long doing certain types of assignments take me to do nd stuff like that.

However, the autumnal stormy season that I longed for is finally here so it will get better.

September 18th 2020 // Fall mood creeping in // 🎧 The Guardian (Ellie’s Song) - Shawn James

27.09.2020

I really don’t feel like studying today, especially since my professor assigned around 200 pages for us to read for tomorrow… why u bully me, professor? I find it really difficult to both engross myself in the material but also take notes at the same time when I have so much to read. Alas, nothing to do about it other than get to work. luckily, I happen to be accompanied by my kitty, some cold brew ice coffee and chill lo-fi tunes. it’ll be alright, i’ll do just fine! 

I hope everyone has a great sunday!