misandei studies

12.11 pm // i made some biochemistry flashcards for carbohydrate and nitrogen metabolism! they’re basically condensed notes but they’re much more convenient and organised this way as each side of the card is a different subtopic plus now i can study on the go ~~ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ 

This started out as a Google Doc for personal use, but I might as well share it with you since the internet is awesome and chances are there are other lit freaks like me out there! + Masterposts are the best

Beginners (old but gold tbh)

Sparknotes

Cliffnotes

ThugNotes

CrashCourse

Novel Guide

Shmoop

Grade Saver (I’ve found some rare XVIII century plays explained here!)

English 101 (English lit)

English 102 (American lit)

Tips to Analyze, Write, Interpret literature (College level):

English 103: Analyzing and Interpreting Lit.

Literary Analysis Guide - Goshen College

Literary Analysis: Using Elements of Literature

HOW TO WRITE A LITERARY ANALYSIS ESSAY

How to Write an Analysis of Theme — Teaching College English

Analyzing and Interpreting Literature | CLEP

How I Plan and Write Literature Papers by notaperfectstudent​

Very Useful (misc.)

CRITICAL THEORY: Introduction to Literature

Literary Theory Links

Voice of the Shuttle (great humanities research page)

Warwick English Page (bunch of links, exams, essays, etc…)

Consciousness, Literature and the Arts Archive: Articles and Essays

Online Lectures

Terry Eagleton: “The Death of Criticism?” - UC Berkeley Events

Modernism Undone: T.S. Eliot’s Literary Revolution

A Reader’s Guide to T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets” (Lecture by Thomas Howard, Professor Emeritus, Gordon College)

Arts One Open: on The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot (Lecture by Kevin McNeilly for the “Monster in the Mirror” theme)

Introduction to Literary Theory - Yale

Harold Bloom on Shakespeare - Yale

Harold Bloom on Walt Whitman

Noam Chomsky on Linguistics

Keio Linguistic Colloquium SYNTAX SESSION Professor Noam Chomsky (MIT)

Open Courses

ENGL 291: THE AMERICAN NOVEL SINCE 1945 - Yale

ENGL 220: MILTON - Yale

AMST 246: HEMINGWAY, FITZGERALD, FAULKNER - Yale

Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World - U- of Michigan (took this, it’s great! Course starts October 2015)

MODERN POETRY - Yale

The Fiction of Relationship - Brown (no open sessions rn but I took this and it is also great, so stay tune for when the course re-opens)

Victorian Era

Literary Genre, Mode, and Style during the Victorian Era (so many sources, essays and papers!! <3)

Nostalgia and the Victorian Novel

Getting On C.19th Lit

Landscape

Tess and Wuthering Heights

Female Relationships

Foreign Spaces

Romanticism

The Romanticism Blog (posts concerning scholars and students, here you will find great ideas for essays!)

The Romantics: Nature (bbc doc)

The Romantics: Eternity (bbc doc)

The Romantics: Liberty (bbc doc)

Lord Byron (bbc doc)

Romantic Circles

Romantic Chronology http://www.english.ucsb.edu:591/rchrono/ The Voice of the Shuttle, Romanticism pages  http://vos.ucsb.edu/  –> literature (in English)–> Romantics–>  a wealth of links to many resources

The XVIII Century

Skin as Surface in Swift and Pope

Public Opinion in Swift and Gay

The Female Body in Swift and Pope

Bawdiness in Cleland and Sterne

Voyeurism in Cleland

Narrative and Progress in Tristram Shandy

Shakespeare

Reading Shakespeare’s Play

Introduction to Shakespeare’s life and works

Featured Essays and Book Excerpts on Shakespeare’s Plays

Shakespeare Mag: Education and resources

Introduction to Shakespeare (so many links!):

Humanist Grammar School

Comedy

Problems with Shakespeare’s Texts

Shakespearean Verse and Prose

Dramatic Plot Structure

Figurative Language and Rhetorical Devices

The Histories

Tragedy

Revenge Tragedy

Establishing the Text of Hamlet

The Romances

Blackfriars Theater and Audience Expectations

Hamlet performed by BATHS (for me this is a great representation tbh!)

Synopses of Shakespeare’s Plays

Shakespeare Resource Center

The Shakespeare Authorship Page

Internet Shakespeare Editions

Robert Teeter’s Shakespeare Links

Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Virtual Tour

Interactive Globe Theatre

Shakespeare Timeline

The Folger Shakespeare Library

Shakespeare Illustrated (Emory University)

Steven Marx’s “Triangulating Shakespeare”

“But I have that within that passes show”: Hamlet’s Soliloquies as an Expression of Shakespeare’s Loss and Transformation (essay)

Medieval

Medieval English Studies A GUIDE TO MIDDLE ENGLISH

Translatio studii et imperii

Medieval Attitudes toward Vernacular Literature

Courtly Love

Medieval Allegory

The Alliterative Revival

The Three Medieval Estates

Arthurian literature

Arthurian Studies Links & Essays

Arthurian Resources (Thomas Green)

Arthurian Links (Thomas Green)

Labyrinth Arthurian Links

The Camelot Project (Medieval to modern texts and images)

King Arthur links (Medieval History site)

Britannia Arthurian Links

Holy Grail  links (Mary Weidenhaft)

Women of the Arthurian Legend (Camelot Project–modern)

Arthuriana (International Arthurian Society journal)

Arthurnet (Listserve)

A scholarly discussion list for King Arthur

Arthuriana/Camelot Project Bibliographies

Princeton Charrette Project (Manuscript images of Chrétien de Troyes’s Lancelot romance)

Yale MS 229, Prose Lancelot (Illuminated manuscript images)

The Camelot Project Artists Menu (modern)

Poetry

Essay writing tips for poetry

Poetry Foundation: Lectures

Essays on Poetic Theory

British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions

The American Poetry Full-Text Database

English Verse Drama: the Full-Text Database

The English Poetry Full-Text Database

Online Exams

Romantics Exam

Eighteenth Century Literature Final here

Medieval to Renaissance English Literature Examen (Warwick)

friend: why…are you taking pictures…of pens…..

HAI GUYS! So, I am actually making my first masterpost on this blog and I am SO excited!!!11!!!!111!!! This will be in 2 parts with tips in this post and methods in another. ( to avoid making this a SUPER long post. )

Also, This is a collab with @studyruels so go check out his masterpost here and his blog here as he is super sweet and so motivated! 

Let’s go slay those revision sessions now, yeah? 

REVISION 

Before we get into the tips, let’s understand what revision means in the first place. 

According to Merriam Webster, revision is the study of information that was studied before. 

what I am trying to prove here? Unless you have looked through the notes, understood the concepts, and absorbed the information at least once, you are literally not in the place to revise. So, the most important tip to revise would be to STUDY THE INFORMATION FIRST. 

TIPS BEFORE YOU REVISE: 

As I said before, lay down a groundwork well in advance. You can’t build a building without having a base ready. STUDY AT LEAST A MONTH IN ADVANCE. 

Make a revision plan AND STICK TO THE DAMN THING! 

This is in continuation to the second tip- Set reasonable targets. You cannot possibly do 3 chapters of biology, 2 of chemistry, and 3 of history in a day. If you can though, gimme your secrets lol. 

Again, a continuation of the second point, Set an exact time, place, subject, and chapters to revise.That will give you a direction to head in. 

Set up a study space. By this, I am not asking you to even have a desk. All you need is your textbooks, pens, something to write on, and a quiet space where people won’t disturb/distract you. 

TIPS AS YOU REVISE

Take breaks. I know, everybody says this but there’s a reason why they do. IT WORKS. Imagine if your body was forced to run for, say, 5 hours straight, without stopping. Not the most ideal scenario, eh? It’s the same with your brain. So, basically, take 5/10 minutes of break after every 30/60 minutes ( depending on how long your brain can focus for )

During said breaks, move around/ stretch/ do a short meditation/ drink some water/ make yourself a snack. Do NOT check your phone. You and I both know that a 5 minute Tumblr scroll ends up being a 2-hour session. So yeah, not a good idea.

Listen to video game music. You remember how you got so lost in focusing on your video game that you lost track of time? Yeah, that is because that music is designed in such a way that it helps the players retain focus. This is, however, very subjective and might not necessarily work for you. If that’s the case, classical music can be your saviour. or even no music at all. 

Read actively. So what you want to do instead of highlighting the entire textbook is to engage yourself with the material. Make questions for the paragraphs, write small notes in the margins/on post its, focus on how the small parts relate to the big picture aka the theme of the lesson/subject and so on. This will help you be focused for longer and retain what you’ve read. 

TIPS AFTER YOU REVISE: 

Now, you’re done with your revision at this point, so there are only a couple of things to do now. They include-

Stretch.

Hydrate.

Eat a snack.

Close your eyes and lie down for some time. 

Go for a walk in the park if you’re feeling like it. 

Sleep. 

This completes Part 1 of my masterpost. Part 2 will be coming out soon so look out for that! I actually enjoyed writing this so much that I am actually considering making more masterposts in the future! I had to read around so much for this and hence, came across so many interesting facts and ideas! It was FUNN! 

I hope this helped you. I KNOW you can revise/study well and be rewarded in your exams! Remember to have a positive attitude and know that marks are important but they’re not the only defining factor. You got this! 

Send me masterpost requests here. 

Much Love,

hey pals!! i haven’t done one of these in a whiiiiile, but i start my spring semester in about two weeks so i figured i would make one about how to prepare for a new semester!

my original posts | studygram | my 8tracks

making your schedule

so, hopefully you’ve already decided what classes you’re going to take, and even if you haven’t, i find that there are a few things i like to do before the semester starts so that i’ll be able to make sure i can handle it!!

one thing i learned recently to do is to rate all of my responsibilities (classes, extra-curricular activities, job, etc) out of 5 based on difficulty. so, for instance, my physics class, which has two lectures a week and a lab once a week (a 4-credit course) would, most likely, be a smack-in-the-face 5/5. on the other hand, my PE class (fricken exercise and toning) would be a 0/5 (no out of class assignments, a 50-minute class twice a week).

make sure you’re not taking back to back classes!! please!! it is so stressful feeling like you’re going to be late to a class because another went over by even a few minutes. my school does scheduling so that there’s a ten-minute break between all time slots and that’s still really strenuous for me. 

make sure you have enough time to eat, pal. i don’t know how other (read: bigger) schools do it, but my tiny school doesn’t let you take anything out of the dining hall. plus, it’s so much more fun to have time to sit down and talk with your friends – it’s also a really great way to destress in the middle of the day!

don’t overload. seriously. overload at my school is 19 credits and honestly the only reason you should be taking 19 credits a semester is if you’re graduating early (but you should have brought credits in so there would be no need) or you’re at a credit deficit (don’t….do that). so like. don’t overload. it’s really bad for you omg

textbooks!!!

don’t make the same mistake i did my first year and buy every textbook brand new!! here are some resources for free textbooks online + by the way, slader.com has answers to pretty much every textbook on the planet!

free textbooks

more free textbooks

medical textbooks

science + math books

business textbooks

classic lit + references/study guides

planning/bullet journaling

using a planner and/or bullet journal is honestly the best thing you can do for yourself. i only use a planner (which works for me enormously because i like to plan according to due dates and the calendars already set up for me work better than anything i could come up with!) but i’ve heard that bullet journals are a great way to keep lists and everything you have to do in one place!

i am currently using a 17-month ban.do planner and i love it to pieces; it’s an easy way to keep all of my assignments in one place. i also keep a separate journals for to-do lists!

intro to bullet journaling (this is the official website!)

studyign’s bullet journal tag and masterpost

another masterpost on bullet journals

free printable planner

jammin’ on your planner (read: organization tips)

setting goals

setting goals for yourself is really, really important if you want to make sure you don’t end up the typical college student: in the library at 3am the day something is due, chugging coffee like your life depends on it and typing so frantically you think your fingers might fall off.

long-term goals may seem scary at first, but if you set short-term goals in order to help you accomplish those long-term goals, it’s easy as pie!

set due dates for yourself, i.e. if you have a big essay due in two weeks, maybe have a first draft done in a week so you have the rest of the time to edit it (and maybe you’ll even finish early?)

setting goals is also important for when you hit that inevitable middle-of-the-semester slump. it happens, and sometimes you can’t get out of bed for your 8 am class, and that’s fine, whatever; but don’t make it a habit. maybe make it a goal to only miss one meeting of each of your courses?? (wink wink)

make a to do + doing + done board (i made one of these last semester and although as the semester went on i had a tough time keeping up with it i found it really helpful!!)

use your bullet journal/planner to help you with these goalsss!

forget how do study?

i know i always forget how to do anything related to school over the month-long break between semesters because i essentially become a couch potato, so here are a few posts with study techniques/resources/etc to help you readjust!!

general study masterpost (includes such resources as help for essays, ways to get motivated, and tips on how to study when you suffer from a mental illness)

how to take notes in your lecture when your professor speaks so fast and you can’t keep up

creating your own study guide!

please, for the love of the powers that be, learn time management (you’ll thank me and yourself) + pomodoro technique!!

taking a language this semester?

no fear shakespeare (this is mostly for me tbh)

apps to help you study!

…don’t stress! take care of yourselves!

everyone gets so stressed out they can’t breathe every once in a while, so here are some things that could help 

color mandalas

study playlists

my yoga masterpost

meditation exercises

how to eat healthy this semester amid all the stress

understanding anxiety (this one was really, really helpful for me!)

ok free rice is my L I F E (feed ppl and improve your vocab?? what else could u want)

studyign’s “little happy things” post – take a step back from whatever’s stressing you out; maybe even take a break entirely from it!

guided relaxation (i literally love this website so much)

all in all, just take deep breaths. i know school is important, but it’s not everything. one D does not mean you’re a failure. heck, one F does not mean you’re a failure. it’ll be okay.

printables

one thing that the studyblr community is just chock full of is printables to help you plan and to help you study. here are a few that i like to use!

daily planner, essay planner, assignment planner

revision pack!!!

for my literary friends, poetry terms

so! many! free! printables!!!

sticker printables ooo (these require sticker paper - or just regular paper and tape?)

your very own habit in 21 days!

bujo spread detailing the clubs i attend 

i’m definitely feeling the pressure of school work but i’m trying my best not to lose sight of what matters! thank you for 800 followers

09.23.17 // wow i luv to suffer by going to fencing tournaments when im sick :’) yknow what’s also fun?? crying over iwaoi at 2am ;-; 

【 amphibians/reptiles 】

le caméléon (m) | chameleon

la grenouille (f) | frog

le lézard (m) | lizard

le serpent (m) | snake

la tortue (f) | turtle

le têtard (m) | tadpole

【 aquatic 】

l’anguille (f) | eel

la baleine (f) | whale

le calmar (m) | squid

la crevette (f) | prawn

la méduse (f) | jellyfish

le dauphin (m) | dolphin

l’hippocampe (m) | seahorse

l’homard (m) | lobster

la morue (f) | cod

le pastenague (m) | stingray

le phoque (m) | seal

la pieuvre (m) | octopus

le requin (m) | shark

le saumon (m) | salmon

le thon (m) | tuna

la truite (f) | trout

【 birds 】

l’aigle (m) | eagle

l’autruche (f) | ostrich

le canard (m) | duck

le caneton (m) | duckling

le colibri (m) | hummingbird

la colombe (f) | dove

le corbeau (m) | raven

le cygne (m) | swan

le flamant (m) | flamingo

l’hibou (m) | owl

l’hirondelle (f) | swallow

le merle (m) | blackbird

l’oison (m) | gosling

le paon (m) | peacock

le perroquet (m) | parrot

le piaf (m) | sparrow

le rossignol (m) | nightingale

【 mammals 】

l’âne (m) | donkey

le cerf (m) | deer

le chat (m) | cat

la chauve-souris (f) | bat

le cheval (m) | horse

la chèvre (f) | goat

le chien (m) | dog

le cochon (m) | pig

l’écureuil (m) | squirrel

le faon (m) | fawn

le fourmilier (m) | ant-eater

la girafe (f) | giraffe

l’hérisson (m) | hedgehog

le lapin (m) | rabbit

le loup (m) | wolf

la loutre (f) | otter

le manchot (m) | penguin

le morse (m) | walrus

l’ours (m) | bear

le paresseux (m) | sloth

le renard (m) | fox

le singe (m) | monkey

la souris (f) | mouse

le taureau (m) | bull

le tigre (m) | tiger

la vache (f) | cow

【 insects/anthropods 】

l’abeille (f) | bee

l’araignée (f) | spider

le cafard (m) | cockroach

la chenille (f) | caterpillar

la coccinelle (f) | ladybug

la fourmi (f) | ant

la libellule (f) | dragonfly

la mouche (f) | fly

le papillon (m) | butterfly

la puce (f) | flea

la sauterelle (f) | grasshopper