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Dividers used are by @firefly-graphics and their IDs are in the alt text! | Pt 2 | pt 3

Tips for school in general

General school tips, dealing with online class, strategies for school in general, etc

Attention and Concentration

How to pay better attention in online classes | another

Strategies to improve concentration

How to stick to your plans

Schoolwork and Tasks

Review Tips and Presentation Advice

Dealing with executive dysfunction masterpost

How to use google search like a unicorn

How to annotate a text

General Tips

For the lazy night owl (masterpost)

University tips and advice

Avoiding burnout (tips + resources)

Dealing with impostor syndrome

Good emotional skills to know for college but also for life in general

Grad school advice

Studying

Study Strategies and other study advice things

Studying general

For neurodiverse students (masterpost)

Studying with ADHD (the actual post is a joke about but check the notes - they have actual advice there)

How to study for an exam in a really short time (masterpost)

Scheduling studying + other productivity tips (masterpost)

Studying effectively

Lazy Study Tips

Study tips from a Psychology Prof

Studying with a study buddy

Study Breaks

On productive breaks

Types of study breaks

How to deal with mental fatigue

Note taking

Hybrid note taking nethod

Note taking guide

Upgrade your notes resources masterpost

Using google docs to take notes

Resources

Resources that could be useful for school and academics

Self study

Self study resources (masterpost)

Learn things for free (masterpost)

Textbooks | more textbooks

Sites to download literature masterpost

Free online courses

Technology and Apps

Asmr ambiences (masterpost)

Productivity apps and extensions (masterpost)

Wallpapers screensavers and apps

Productivity apps masterpost

Specific Subjects

Resources and Tips on specific subjects

Language Related

Languages and linguistics of africa

75 free language learning resources

American Sign Language

Mandarin learning resources

Classical language learning

Arts

Course on reading poetry

Cultural quarantine masterpost

Sewing resources

Misc

Video essays | Essays/Food for thought

Computer science and engineering masterpost

IB Psychology Study Tips

How to study for mathematics

Study tips for accounting students

Black History Library

Other Studyblr and Academic Stuff

Not much school related but I included because they could be useful

Journaling/Bujo

Journal prompts

How to fill your empty notebooks (masterpost)

Studyblr

Dividers graphics for posts

How to start a studyblr | another post

Misc

Master the art of napping

Job interview tips + masterpost

Use firefox instead of chrome

Meet Heidy Cruz, polymer chemist and chemical engineer

1) What do you do?

​I develop polymer-based materials tailored for nutrient recovery from domestic wastewater. Climate change, energy issues, limits in resource availability, and end of life of current infrastructures are driving a shift in societal production systems from linear to circular economy. Recovery of nutrients from used water has gained significant interest in the academic world, the water industry, and policy makers. 

The goal of my research is to develop new technology for a more sustainable nitrogen recovery process from domestic wastewater– cutting back greenhouse gas emissions and providing a platform for a circular economy in the field of wastewater treatment. 

2) Where do you work?

I’m in the 2nd year of my PhD at The University of Queensland in Australia. I work in two centers:

   Center for Solid Waste Bioprocessing, Civil Engineering

   Polymer Translational Research Group​, Chemical Engineering

3) Tell us about the photos!

[Top:] At work at our laboratory at the Center for Solid Waste Bioprocessing

[Bottom:] By the lake inside campus– I always come here to relax my mind when research gets tough

4) Tell us about your academic career path so far. 

HS: Statefields School Inc, Philippines (2007)

BS: University of Santo Tomas, Philippines (2012) 

MS: Kongju University, South Korea (2016)

PhD: The University of Queensland, Australia (ongoing)

I’ve always wanted to pursue a research degree in another country to test my capabilities and expand my horizon. Luckily, I received a full scholarship from Kongju National University in South Korea where I did my Masters of Science in Advanced Materials Engineering. In July 2016, six months after graduation, I started my PhD. God-willing, I’ll be a doctor before I turn 30!

5) Anything else you’d like to share?

There are only a handful of us in the global arena, or at least here in Australia, but I believe that Filipino scientists are truly talented and globally competitive. I hope more Filipinos will be encouraged to pursue research and contribute the knowledge to the advancement of science and technology in the Philippines.

virgo sun + cancer moon + cancer rising

Can we all just agree to stop feeding other people’s animals?

I know it seems harmless and fun but often it’s not.

If you wanna interact with horses, as lockdown eases I strongly recommend getting involved with your local RDA, or look for other horsey charities looking for volunteers.

Tuesday, 9:52 am

Hope everyone enjoyed their summer break! Hard to believe that it’s September already.

I’m moving on from neurology to psychiatry this module. Still haven’t finished those neurology notes though 😅 But I did rearrange my desk (somewhat). Hopefully this notice board and calender will help me stay a bit more on top of things.

so happy that march is here! i’ve got so many things to look forward to and here are my plans for the entire month:

brush up on my italian lessons

review for upcoming compre exam

write more articles for part-time job

read more short stories and plays

One day, I get ALL As except an A- in English. I had worked hard for that A-, English was my worst class, and I had been getting consistent Bs and B-s for the past few semesters. He sees my report card, points at the A-, and says “what happened there? Maybe we should start working on that next semester.”

Seriously guys, this is fucked up.

My little brother? He got at least 2 B’s last year and it’s totally fine. I got an 89% in Psych 2 last year that I didn’t know about and I was torn a new one. Why? “Because you are smart and you can get an A.”

It took until 9th grade for 90-95% to be more acceptable. I took an AP class and the moment I dipped below an A I was banned from interactions with friends outside of school. 

All because I was “gifted” as a child. Because I was told I was smarter by default. And where am I now? Every failed answer I berate myself and then spiral, and spiral further because “I’m too smart to not control myself”. With every test that I get less than an A on I want to cry.

And the best part is that my parents are teachers and refuse to listen to me tell them that all of this screws with my head. How can I love myself when my standards are tests and grades?

And then classmates constantly asking you what your grade was because they want to compare their grades to what “the smart kid” got.

My parents don’t give a shit what my grades are, one barely got through highschool and the other was good in a few areas but struggled in many others. I got my first C in the eighth grade and I sobbed for hours. And you know what? My classmates were the ones who hassled me.

I remember another class where I raised my hand to give the answer, and got it wrong, by one number. Everybody in the classroom broke down in laughter and that was the joke of the day. I will still hesitate to answer questions in class 4 years later, because it wasn’t just the once.

When kahoot became a thing right at the end of my high school career I would win without breaking a sweat. It got to the point where if I slipped up and came second, the whole class would cheer, burst into applause, treat whoever scored higher than me like a hero. So I started losing on purpose. I calculated how long I’d have to wait to select an answer, how many answers I needed to get wrong to stay in the top 5 but stay out of the top 3 because it was easier that way. Eventually, the cheering whenever I didn’t come first stopped. I didn’t have my classmates celebrating my failure anymore, but it would still leave me feeling sick to my stomach for having to play dumb, to feel like nothing because all I was good for was my smarts and that was what made my peers hate me the most.

Fast forward to 2 years ago. I’m a student at uni and suddenly being smart is a good thing. Finally I can go from being nothing to being smart again! My first ever uni essay got an A+ and I was so excited because I had missed feeling like I was worth something. Except then almost every essay or project I got assigned after that ended in tears because I was so terrified of not getting an A or an A+ because, in my mind, if I did then I’d be back there, back when I was nothing, no one, worthless.

This term was about two months, and I was sick at home for half of it. I had 26 absences on my report card. Oftentimes I will get sick for long periods of time during the school year, but this is by far the longest. What I don’t think people realize is that me getting sick is almost definitely tied to my stress levels. Every single “gifted kid” I know cycles in and out of burnout or is constantly on the edge of it. The hassling and the rude comments are not a one off thing, they feed the fire of stress and anxiety about school that we have. And eventually that does accumulate and leads to a damaged psyche and sometimes physical illness.