Ali

links to help keith lamar

information on rocky myers

petition for kenneth reams

petition for pervis payne / more information

links for black mental health support

As I have mentioned in my previous post, here is the continuation of the study notes series two of how I try to make notes and how I structured my notes the way I preferred.

As of lately, I had a go at doing my notes on the modules I took at whatever point I am in class or simply doing a rundown note of the week on my iPad. In spite of the fact that I currently can’t seem to discover the structure that accommodates my preference in improving the digital notes better. These formats that I have been using for my Business notes are my present most loved style that allows me to occupy in the spaces well overall.

According to the video, I have a different structure of notes for various modules. On the other hand, some of the modules that don’t necessarily require too much information I just take note of the assignments and my research of the whole project as well as the end result. This allows me to take note that I have completed my assignments and I can refer back to the notes if I were to need the information in the near future.

For my business management modules, I used the structure of a two column page in A3 size. The size and layout helps me to gather all the information into one page and make use of the space accordingly. However, for other modules shown in the video there are different structure used. Due to the fact that most of their information required full use of the page without any interruptions.

The application I used to make notes are concepts and goodnotes 5. The one shown on the video is goodnotes 5, this application helps me with making notes easier by topics and subjects. It allows me to create a folder based on the semester as well as creating an outline that makes the table content feature to be enabled. Which helps with identifying the topics of a certain subject more easily through outline or by searching.

Conquering the Why School? Essay

From a student who got into MIT & the Ivy League

I’ve read many Why School? essays. These often come across as generic, with no real indication of interest. I’m here to make sure you don’t make the same mistakes in your essays.

-Look up their course catalog. Don’t simply write, “I’m interested in your stellar economics program.” Great, so are hundreds of other applicants. Name-drop a couple of classes and explain why those specific courses appeal to you. It’ll show you’ve done your homework.

-Discuss a few clubs. Colleges want students who will contribute to their campus outside of the classroom. Are you interested in journalism? Talk about joining the school newspaper. Are you a violin virtuoso? Indicate your interest in the orchestra. Or are you into something that isn’t yet available? Say you’ll start a new group!

-Latch onto research opportunities. Schools love students who can contribute to their published papers. Look up ongoing research projects in whatever department you’re interested in (and no, research isn’t only for STEM fields!) and talk about how you’ll get involved.

-Talk about what makes a school unique. Columbia has a Core Curriculum; Princeton has a yearlong bridge program in Bolivia. Why do you want to attend this specific school?

-Touch upon your long-term goals. How will this university help you achieve your goals of becoming a lawyer? How do you want to make the world a better place? Colleges are looking for people who will contribute meaningfully to society.

-Don’t mention rankings or prestige. Harvard already knows it’s world-renowned, it doesn’t need you to stroke its ego. You should be choosing the best school for you, not the best school according to US World & News Report. 

✨ I am not my mistakes

✨ I believe in the person I dream of becoming

✨ I am allowed to say “no” to others and “yes” to myself

09.06.2020

An Overview of Note-Taking Styles

Draft plan:

1) Day of

Lecture notes

maybe annotate powerpoints or take notes next to it while the teacher is presenting?

if my teacher doesn’t give me a powerpoint, just write my own notes

Vocab and Questions

after school

make a separate column with vocab words and questions

add vocab and questions to a spaced repetition sheet?

2) Rewrite notes

Rewrite notes (maybe during the weekend?)

organize

add pictures

summarize

practice

3) Study

go over notes and practice

I’m not quite sure...

listen to the lecture and take notes

read the articles/readings accompanying the lecture without taking notes

read again and add notes on to the lecture notes (i do this by dividing the page into two and on one side it’s the lecture notes and on the other the book notes in my own words. making many headings helps. many studyblrs use this method, not sure what it’s called). in some things this isn’t possible so then i just take lecture and book notes separately.

write a summary

revise.

Hello, hope all of you are safe and doing well.

You may have heard of what happened in Lebanon today and if not, basically, there was a big explosion in Beirut that affected many cities, destroyed shops, homes, cars, caused many injuries and deaths. The cause is uncertain.

As a fellow lebanese myself (that also lives there), today was absolutely terrifying, probably the scariest moments of my life. We heard a deafening sound as the floors were shaking. Some of us thought it was an attack, others thought it was an earthquake. As soon as it ended many expected a second one, which luckily never happened.

Here’s a video of what happened that was sent to me, there are also many others that you can find online.

Windows were broken, doors wrecked, cars flipped over, buildings collapsed, people hit by flying or falling objects, and unfortunately, many didn’t make it out alive.

We were one of the lucky ones, our families and friends were all safe and our homes were fine.

Some people couldn’t even get out of the crumbling builings, so we saw corpses being pulled out, although some people survived the crash. But wherever we looked, there was blood, poeple were half covered in it, their shirts, pants, hair, everything. And that sight was traumatizing.

We watched the news with elders severely injured, children with blood-spattered shirts and people in pain that couldn’t get in the hospitals because they were full.

Some people are missing. Just try to imagine the pain and fear their families and friends are feeling.

Articles about what happened, there are a lot more

Not only are we in the middle of a pandemic, but Lebanon is also going through a very serious economical crisis. To give you an example, before, $1 equaled 1 500 lebanese pounds. Nowadays, $1 equals more than 7 000 lebanese pounds. Not to mention that we obviously don’t have any dollars at disposition, so yeah we’re fucked.

People are hungry, homeless, unemployed. And even if they are getting paid, it’ll be useless since the prices of everything went up because they were affected by the economical fiasco.

Important additional information

Today, I heard my 7 year old cousins scream in fear that they were going to die. I saw my aunt shaking, worried that her children won’t survive. I saw my dad freak out while trying to reassure us when we both knew that we were uncertain about the next minutes of our lives. I heard the panic in the trembling voices of my family and friends as they couldn’t believe what had just happened. I thought my loved ones and I were going to die in the next seconds.

I’m never forgetting those moments and feelings.

I don’t think signing petitions will help, i don’t even know if the following links will help either, I just know Lebanon and it’s people are desperate for anything because the future of this country is extremely uncertain.

https://helplebanonnow.carrd.co/

https://lebanoncrisis.carrd.co/

https://www.gofundme.com/f/lebanonneedsorg?utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link

https://helplebanon.carrd.co/

http://redcross.org.lb/SubPage.aspx?pageid=1370&PID=158

http://www.caritas.org.lb/get_involved/donate

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/lebanon-relief?utm_term=PYp7gXzyD

I think donating to the red cross would be the most helpful, so if you are considering it, it’d be great.

10.01.17 || 100 Days of Productivity (1/100) - New weekly spread (: Inspired by the colours of College Path

for the remainder of our term, we will be taking online classes; however, unlike others, our professors refrained from requiring us to have synchronous online meetings, so many of the things i have to do, i have to do on my own time. with this, i have been using notion to plan, organize, and manage my time, and i thought it would be nice to share how i do so!!