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Sometimes people think that I study as hard as I do because Iâm being forced to. Theyâre wrong.
I study because I have to succeed. I study because I have a goal and I will not rest until it has been achieved. I study because thereâs so much to learn.
The only person forcing me to work hard is myself.
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I know Iâve been a little inactive, but I just started Spring semester two weeks ago, and itâs a little crazy! Iâve got two classes (Macroecon and Bio). Bio is online and Macro meets twice a week for FOUR hours. Itâs hell.
The good news is that Iâm doing very well so far! Last semester ended poorly, and Iâll have to retake 2 classes (the first classes Iâve failed in 2 years oy vey) but I did really well in Pre-Calc, so that was a win. Straight Aâs so far in Bio and high Bâs in Econ which Iâm happy with.
So hereâs my new BuJo spread. This is how Iâm keeping track of my assignments and the like. Iâve found myself with more spoons than normal, partially, I think, because Iâve started taking CBD Oil. I made a post about it here (https://fortunatelyburningenthusiast.tumblr.com/post/173649469771/48-hours-of-cbd-oil) on my main blog.
study hacks for college/uni
So youâre struggling to study efficiently away from home? Finding yourself getting distracted easily? Having difficulty creating a study schedule in this new environment? I know finals season is coming soon for university students, so I thought Iâd share my personal study hacks that helped me during college!Â
Find the least popular library: while the fancy main libraries have great appeal, the truth is sometimes you really only need a desk, a comfy chair, an outlet, and some peace and quiet
Go higher up for quieter floors: usually the higher you go, the quieter and more serious the floor
Always pack the essentials: during finals week, finding a good study spot is a commodity, so make sure you can stay as long as humanly possible and bring supplies: laptop, chargers (phone and laptop), water bottle, snacks, layers (including a huge comfy sweater that can double as a pillow), headphones, notes, pens and highlighters, and blank paper
Donât be afraid of caffeine pills: caffeine pills can sound scary, but that venti coffee at Starbucks also has a shit ton of caffeine. Opt to finding caffeine pills that are each 100 mg (the amount in 1 cup of coffee), and save ~$50-100 on buying coffee all the time
Find (only) 1-2 good friends and make a regular study group: even if you guys donât share classes, itâs nice to have people who are reliable, quiet, and fun to be around when studying. Also, libraries allow small groups to rent private study rooms which are clutch af
Use the Pomodoro method with a timer or app: this is wonderful for people who have difficulty focusing. Set an alarm for 25 minutes, and block all forms of electronic distraction from that time. The idea is to have 25 minutes of pure work with a 5 minute break to do whatever you want afterwards, and this helps train you to maximize your ability to focus and minimize brain fatigue
Empty classrooms and lecture halls on weekends = substitute library: on the weekends, college campuses are super dead. Iâve found that lecture halls and classrooms are deserted (and usually unlocked) during these times, which make for great quiet places to study
Listen to music WITHOUT lyrics while you study: youâll be less likely to be sucked in to the music and distracted
Wear pajama or workout clothes:Â just trust me on this one
Have a few achievable goals for the day and know when to stop: college burnout is real, so remember that college is a marathon, not a race
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call for change: studyblrs
I have had this blog for about a year now, and Iâve come to realise the unattainable perfection of studyblrs. I created this account to motivate and educate myself and I feel as though these âperfect study notesâ hold unrealistic expectations. This is why I have decided to post things that are more realistic, educational and have a positive impact on the community. Please reblog this to spread the message: You do not need perfect notes, every stationary item, a macbook, top grades or an aesthetic study space to be a studyblr. All you need to do is do the best you can.
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College professor type 1: any email you send them on Friday or after 4pm on a weekday is lost to the void. Gone. A whisper in the wind. Office hours? 7:00-7:15 on alternate tuesdays. My office is in Montana good fucking luck
College professor type 2: responds within 2 minutes at 3am on a weekend but only in single sentences with no punctuation
College professor type 3: responds in a reasonable amount of time but only answers half your email. May or may not make sense.
Update on my week: Iâm trying to shift the bulk of schoolwork to the beginning of the week. My end goal is to save Saturdays and Sundays for rest and revision. Currently, the bulk of my schoolwork falls on weekends which is just absolute hell. So today - Monday - is pretty full, but if I can get it finished in little bursts throughout the evening, I should be okay. Yesterday was end of last week, and I got almost everything done! The only thing that is rolling over to this week is my Accounting Assignment and Quiz (compared to the last few weeks, this is great progress!). Iâll be stuck in my school library all evening because the accounting software we use in my online class isnât compatible with an iPad which is the only computer I have atm. Iâll be picking up a new MacBook in two weeks when my student loans come through, and that should make finals so much easier! One month until the end of the semester!
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This isnât inspiring I just need to share this with someone bc Iâm literally going to cry. I have -7372615 spoons today and this assignment is due in like three hours and someone must be fucking with me.
Update - I found the report content button.
This isnât inspiring I just need to share this with someone bc Iâm literally going to cry. I have -7372615 spoons today and this assignment is due in like three hours and someone must be fucking with me.
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New bullet journal! I usually donât have enough spoons to make it pretty, so this is my version of low-maintenance bujo-ing. WHAT DO I USE? The journal itself is a dot grid Artistâs Loft notebook I got from Michaels. Itâs brand new, but itâs super similar to my last one. It was $5.00 and I had a 20% off entire purchase coupon, so I got it for $4.00. With the same purchase I got a pack of stickers (you can see two of the little sheets off on the right) that I use as the headings for each day. The stickers were $3.99. I donât have the time or patience to be using all those fancy pens or whatever (although you can see I briefly tried on Monday and Tuesday lol). I use a Micron 03 pen that Iâve had forever and a paper mate mechanical pencil that I do all my homework and note taking with to write in the days and my tasks. HOW DO I PLAN? Planning tasks is difficult in and of itself. Planning when you arenât sure how many spoons youâll have that day is basically hell. That being said, I give myself a lot of leeway when Iâm planning and crossing off tasks (or not crossing them off as the case may be). You can see from the second picture that my first task on Tuesday (today) is to finish my leftover Monday tasks. So thatâs the first rule of thumb: be gentle with yourself and donât beat yourself up if you donât finish what you had planned. Second rule of thumb: I donât micromanage my life. I know that there are people who have their day planned out to the minute. They make cute little study plans and time themselves on their second computer or whatever. I donât have the time or energy for that shit. There are things that HAVE to be finished by the end of the week so I donât fail my classes; those are the things that get written down. I get to them when I get to them. My other post about how to study when youâre a spoonie explains how I break my time up. I try to do small tasks at lunch, after work, etc etc. One task at a time. Last rule of thumb: make it short and sweet. Those stickers are as fancy as it gets for me and I only use them because they make my life easier (I use them to designate divides between rather than having to make my own). I donât do habit trackers because tracking my habits is a spoon I canât afford to waste. I donât do fancy layouts for the same reason. This is a quick and dirty kind of bujo that I use because itâs a sustainable system. Iâve tried the super fancy layouts with 1000 stickers on every page. Iâve tried scheduling down to the minute and including every tiny task I wanted to accomplish that day. I can do it for a day, maybe two, but I get wiped out after that (this is also a bit of my executive dysfunction coming in, too). It isnât sustainable for me, so I stick to simple and functional.
How to Handle Having TOO MUCH To Do
So letâs say youâre in the same boat I am (this is a running theme, have you noticed?) and youâve just got, like, SO MUCH STUFF that HAS to get done YESTERDAY or you will DIE (or fail/get fired/mope). Everything needs to be done yesterday, youâre sick, and for whatever reason you are focusing on the least important stuff first. What to do!
Take a deep breath, because this is a boot camp in prioritization.
Make a 3 by 4 grid. Make it pretty big. The line above your top row goes like this: Due YESTERDAY - due TOMORROW - due LATER. Along the side, write: Takes 5 min - Takes 30 min - Takes hours - Takes DAYS.
Divide ALL your tasks into one of these squares, based on how much work you still have to do. A thank you note for a present you received two weeks ago? That takes 5 minutes and was due YESTERDAY. Put it in that square. A five page paper thatâs due tomorrow? That takes an hour/hours, place it appropriately. Tomorrowâs speech you just need to rehearse? Half an hour, due TOMORROW. Do the same for ALL of your tasks
Your priority goes like this:
5 minutes due YESTERDAY
5 minutes due TOMORROW
Half-hour due YESTERDAY
Half-hour due TOMORROW
Hours due YESTERDAY
Hours due TOMORROW
5 minutes due LATER
Half-hour due LATER
Hours due LATER
DAYS due YESTERDAY
DAYS due TOMORROW
DAYS due LATER
At this point you just go down the list in each section. If something feels especially urgent, for whatever reason - a certain professor is hounding you, youâre especially worried about that speech, whatever - you can bump that up to the top of the entire list. However, going through the list like this is what I find most efficient.
Some people do like to save the 5 minute tasks for kind of a break between longer-running tasks. If thatâs what you want to try, go for it! Youâre the one studying here.
So thatâs how to prioritize. Now, how to actually do shit? Thatâs where the 20/10 method comes in. Itâs simple: do stuff like a stuff-doing FIEND for 20 minutes, then take a ten minute break and do whatever you want. Repeat ad infinitum. Itâs how Iâve gotten through my to do list, concussed and everything.
Youâve got this. Get a drink and start - we can do our stuff together!
WOAH THIS SOUNDS HELPFUL. IâM GOING TO TRY THIS IMMEDIATELY. Also, I made a chart for myself, but if anyone else wants it for reference (or if this is wrong and I misread you can tell me) here it is:
If you struggle with how to organize your work and prioritize your tasks, check this post out! đ¤
Things to remember
HOW TO STUDY WHEN YOU HAVE, LIKE, ZERO SPOONS LEFT
Iâve gotten dressed, driven to work, worked for 8 hours, attended class (twice a week), and driven myself home. With drive time and class time included, my typical day is 10-12+ hours. I donât know about you, but at this point in my day I have maybe one or two spoons left (one spoon equaling one completed task).
I have an autoimmune disease that leaves me exhausted and has basically destroyed my immune system. Iâve been sick six times (for more than a week each time) over the last six months. I work full time and I go to school full time.Â
How do I function and still get Aâs?
1. get the sleep you need
I need 9+ hours a night to fully function. That means Iâm in bed by 10:30 latest. My fitbit app reminds me to start winding down around 10:00 PM - which I donât always appreciate, but alas. I have to wake up by 8 AM at the latest, and I typically take about 20 minutes to fall asleep, so 10:30 is my sweet spot.Â
2. throw away the caffeinated drinks - choose water
Soda, coffee, caffeinated drinks, and energy drinks might give you a tiny boost in the short run, but in the long run youâre ruining your sleep schedule and throwing your body way out of whack. Our bodies arenât meant to consume caffeine (especially not in the quantities contained in the aforementioned beverages). Choose water instead. Your body is about 80% water, and it is essential to be properly hydrated. The more hydrated you are, the more you can maximize your spoons.Â
The average human needs between 35-70 ounces of water. Thatâs roughly four 16 oz water bottles a day. Space them out. Drink one in the morning, one with lunch, one in the afternoon, and one in the evening. Before you know it, youâve got your water in. If youâre going through caffeine withdrawal, try nibbling on some dark chocolate. Chocolate is a natural source of caffeine and itâs delicious - just donât eat too much :)
3. baby steps
I donât recommend trying to do all of your homework at once. Iâve found I can trick my body into doing homework at lunch if I switch straight from working to studying. I turn on some relaxing music and do one assignment every day at lunch. This might not work if you have found you canât get through the rest of your day without a break between your working hours. It also may be impractical depending on where you work.
When I get home, I typically take some time to relax and then I do one more assignment before the evening is up.
Crunch time is reserved for the weekends. I space out my study sessions into one hour of studying and then two hours of free time. My free time might be used to throw in a load of laundry and then nap for a bit or I might just mess around online depending on the day.Â
4. donât beat yourself up
Didnât drink all your water? Thatâs okay, just try again tomorrow. Didnât get enough sleep? Try to get a nap in or go to sleep extra early to compensate. Gave into sugar cravings? We all need a little sweet stuff every now and then. Didnât study at all today? Donât panic. You can probably try to make it up in bits and pieces over the rest of the week. Didnât do any of your assignments at all this week? Email your professor and explain your situation. Professors can be more understanding than youâd think especially if you have a medically documented illness or disability (I failed my first year of college because of my autoimmune disease and wasnât going to be able to get financial aid because I hadnât met my Satisfactory Academic Progress GPA. I reached out to the school and asked if there was anything that could be done. I spoke to someone who was able to help me get a medical waiver and I got financial aid. I turned it around my second year and every year since because I was given that second chance). Failed your first year? Or second year? Or multiple years? It sucks that that time and money is gone, but it isnât the end of the world. Some schools donât take your previous GPA into account when computing your GPA for the degree you receive at their school. Look into transferring. Try taking one class a semester. Ask for extra help. Emails are your best friend - I know that making trips to campus and getting dressed up to go to a special appointment takes up a lot of spoons for me because I also deal with anxiety, so I stick to emails as much as possible and only attempt trips on campus when Iâm having a higher-spoon day.Â
I failed senior year of high school. I failed my first year of college at a University across the country and moved home to attend community college. I thought it was the end of the world. I thought I had disappointed my mother and everyone else. I knew I had disappointed myself.Â
I took two classes my first semester in community college (as opposed to taking five classes my first semester at University). At the end of the semester, I had a 4.0 GPA. Iâve taken one or two classes each semester ever since and three years later, I have a 3.6 GPA and Iâm set to obtain my Associates in Business Administration AND my Associates in Science by the end of 2018. Itâs still hard and some days (weeks - heck, semesters) still suck, but Iâm gentle with my body. I work with my disease instead of trying to pretend it doesnât exist (which is what I did my first year at Uni and which is exactly why I failed every single class).Â
Good luck, and donât be afraid to message me if you need anything :)
Why not just buid a solar panel around the sun to solve all energy problemss?
Behold the Dyson Sphere
Dyson sphere is a hypothetical mega-structure that completely encompasses a star and captures most or all of its power output.
Over the years many variants have been explored:
The simplest such arrangement is the Dyson ring, in which all âenergy harvesting structuresâ share the same orbit.
Add multiple Dyson ring structures and you will get a Dyson swarm.
Now what if you didnât like a consistent orbit for your structures, you could employ a solar sail to continuously modify its orbit( called a statite ).
Such an arrangement would be known as a Dyson Bubble
Then there is the fictionally popular version - The Dyson Shell, where a uniform solid shell of matter just encapsulates the entire star.
And many many more. But you get the gist.
Could there be Dyson Spheres out there?
When scientists were monitoring the brightness from some stars, they found that it fluctuated in some odd ways like so:
                   Brightness v/s time for KIC 8462852
It is common for such dips to occur since when a planet eclipses a star, there would a drop in the brightness observed from the star.
                      Brightness v/s time for a binary star system
But what was baffling was the duration and period of occurrence of these dips.
Although the main line of rationale remains as asteroid impact remnants or interstellar collisions causing these aberrations in data.
But to say that these could the signs of an alien civilization does remain to be the more entertaining interpretation.
Great Question. Thanks for asking !
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Same notes. First version (scribbled during class) on left. Second version (edited and reformatted from first version) on right. You canât tell because I only took a picture of the first page, but the original version was two pages which I condensed into one page for my edited version. This method is one way I study for math (along with lots and lots of practice). It also makes me happy to see clean, pretty notes âşď¸
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