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4.15.2019. Monday.

I enroll in my Fall classes later today! I'm taking cell biology and introduction to personalities, which personally sound 1000x more interesting than physics. And as an extra bonus, I get to keep my amazing Latin professor for another semester!

Hi guys! welcome back! sorry for not being very active at Tumblr but now that I am back due to this start of our vacations, I am bringing to you this post. this post, I hope, is especially applicable right now because no one is really in a study-mood. but on the second thought, well, you are back to the grim reality

study repellant causes and how to deal with them:

you might be tired- it is pretty natural that school might have whacked the life out of you. here serves the main purpose of our good old long-awaited ‘hols’. now you can take your time to take some decent rest. maybe school has tired you out not just because of studies but perhaps some other causes too. so take your time and breath

burn out- of course, studying for a long time has consumed all our energy. to revive it:

take a shower to loosen your nerves. it also helps you focus, especially a cold one as it wakes you up as well

journalling helps you passively to let your emotions or pent up feelings out

cry out or talk to someone. crying out deliberately doesn’t work always because sometimes situations,might be so bad that you don’t even feel like crying (i dont know if that’s just me or if it makes any sense at all).

 talking always helps beacsue you are letting the pressure out of you. at that moment, you will feel like a shook coke bottle ready to explode on opening the cap.

spend some time on youtube. (watch lily singh’s vids. those cheer me up. you can find others as well, but this is the best i guess. recommend any similar youtubers down below please haha). or you may also watch those cute puppy videos?

spend sometime with your pet if you have any...(those cuties)

spend sometime outside. dress comfortably and stroll around with lofi or a happy song on. no sad beats or those songs which remind you of someone you miss are permitted

you may have exhausted your productivity fuel, aka it’s the time when your brain can’t handle any more of studying or any hardcore work at that time. so take a break for that day (internally feeling sorry for people like me who, even though they want to take brek can’t help but work on due to last moment project/assignment completion and stuff. happens)

you might as well be ill. but if you desperately need to study for that test or work on that due assignment, make yourself cofortable. curl up in a blanket with a cup of herbal tea, a bax of tissue paper, all your necessary supplies and emergrncy pills and stuff

your motivation level is down to zero. i personally believe (man, this statement makes me feel like some superstar giving an interview hehe) that celebrating little victories and watching studytubers’ videos can always keep up the motivarion level so that it doesn’t run out..

you might be on your periods (if you’re a girl or transgender). you need some serious drinking to do. (not that one,doh). some hot chocolate, even any non-caffeinated chocolates will work. you can use a warm press if cramps hit you. basically, the same steps as mentioned in the “you being sick” part can be effectively repeated.

how to deal with these repellant causes:

if you have been dealing with one or some of these repellant causes, a reset day, which preferably has to after those stressful days. here is an example of reset day. on such days, you should take it easy, or basically do nothing at all, except for pampering yourself. here’s how I once did it:

(story time??)I came back from school, had a light lunch and cleaned my desk and all of my room in general. I took a nice and warm shower in the dark while listening to R&B songs on Spotify, read a book while I drifted off to a light afternoon nap. soon after I woke up, I changed into my PJs and started to get some work done, I mean the stuff that I genuinely enjoyed. and so it rolled for about a couple of hours or so. I really wasn't forcing myself to study which was why I was in PJs. eventually, i had a dinner, another warm shower, got some digital stuff done, read the book and sank into a deep sleep (and as for my night routine, uh no, my skincare routine is concerned, I don’t have any because for now, my skin is okayish hehe..so don’t come at me).

hi everyone! it's been a while since I posted something, for various reasons.

my phone was destroyed and I had no possible way to take photos, I also was quite bummed these last months .

anyway! here i come with my first 2019 post, happy new year everyone, don't be hard on yourselves and let this year be a time of self-love, sharing and moving forward.

30/11/2018

[ 05.15.18 ] 

Chem test and math quiz today, Spanish test tomorrow, another math quiz on Thursday, AP Test for Euro on Friday… the study grind is real 😩