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stay warm, stay healthy (✿◠‿◠)

ig: @studyingg

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Midterm exams are over, and I got all A’s! Feeling good about second semester :)

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math and geog notes :)

day 6 of @wilstudies March studyblr challenge: do something to help the environment

Today I finally recycled the stack of newspapers that’s been piling up day by day ! everything counts, I’d better do so more frequently :/

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19.02.18 8.26pm Today marked my very first day of med lectures! Just finished a long day of readings, here’s a photo of my pharmacology readings I did this evening.

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dec. 26, 2017: highlights from this first semester of my third year in biochem: meeting a friendly (retired) lab rat, my secondary metabolism notes on alkaloids and nonribosomal peptides, and the first compound i synthesized for my internship!

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reblog to join the

i like reading books but i never have time to read books

club

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december 30, 2017 - studyblr gif aesthetics

“when you’re in university or college, nobody is gonna babysit you. there’s no bell that goes off when it’s class time. there’s no attendance. you can skip all the classes if you want to. you really just have to take everything into your own hands and make the most of your experience…everything you need to succeed is right in front of you.” —kassie isabelle

featuring clips from jordan clark, lavendaire, krist & yu, rowena tsai, and tbhstudying!

currently listening to: “love & kindness” - meltycanon

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15 Dec 2017 || ig 

My best friend sent me my favourite chocolate all the way to England! It’s quite cold these days, so there are worse things than tea and some linguistics homework. 

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[12/12/2017] finals are almost over and I’ve never been more relieved

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sweet ap stats notes !!!

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this morning was so dreamy! I love getting up before everyone else is awake and the town is still silent :’) 

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                                     ~ updated picture of my desk ~

 I am happy to report that I now live in a forrest of plant babies. I am officialy back at university so I’ve been spending lots of time here. 

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college note taking 101: how i take notes and use them to study for exams

in lecture:

i like to take quick/shorthand notes because i think learning to discriminate between what is and isn’t important material is a good skill to have so i’m not drowning in useless information when it’s time to study for a midterm or final.

i like to bring my ipad and use the notability app. it’s easier for me to just carry an ipad mini and stylus than it is for me to lug around a heavy notebook/binder and several pens/pencils.

if the professor makes lecture slides available to students online (via a class website), i like to download them onto notability and annotate them as the professor goes along. that way, i can focus more on what the professor is saying and less on merely writing everything down.

if lecture slides aren’t available, i type out my notes as i find it faster than handwriting them.

at home:

once i’m home, i take out my ipad and copy down my lecture notes into a specified notebook for that class, explain everything more thoroughly, make them neater, and organize them in a way that makes more sense to me (as opposed to copying them down exactly as how they were presented in lecture).

i like to use lots of colors, highlighters, and etc. and make them as pretty as possible so i actually want to use them to study from in the future.

integrating reading notes:

normally, what professors will do is assign reading from a textbook and base their lectures around the reading (or have the reading be based on the lectures). usually exams/tests will rely mostly on what was said in lecture instead of in the reading and this is partly because they overlap so much. what the professor says in lecture, you should consider the “important points” in your reading. sometimes, though, there are things in the reading that seem important and weren’t mentioned in lecture.

what i’ll do if this is the case is take post-its, write the piece of information down, and stick the post-it in my notebook in the corresponding section (i.e. where it fits best with my notes)

i like this method as opposed to taking notes directly in my textbook or having a separate notebook for only reading notes because 1) i’ve consistently found that reading material is not as heavily focused on in tests as lecture material and 2) i like to have all of my information in one place

using my notes to study:

when an exam is coming up, what i like to do is take all of the information in my notebook and condense it into a study guide that i can use to study from.

the format of my study guide varies depending on the class and which type of study guide and method of studying i think will help me best. my study guides range from flash cards to mind maps to sheets of paper with a bunch of condensed information.

if i come across a concept on my study guide that i can’t completely explain to myself/don’t fully understand, that’s when i’ll look back in my notebook for a better and fuller explanation of it.

i also like to give myself some time before an exam to completely read through my notebook and look at all the notes i’ve taken (not just what i have on my study guide) because i think it’s a good refresher of all of the lecture and reading material and all of the information will be brought forward in my mind.

[* a few of you have asked me for a advice on note taking: how i take notes, methods i use, how i study from them, and etc. i hope this post was helpful to you! feel free to message me if you have any other questions. happy studying! ^_^]

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You can achieve greatness! Don’t let anyone else tell you otherwise.

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I like to put together fall outfits and pretend it’s actually somewhat cold outside, but it’s actually 80 degrees 😅 ig: peggy.jpg

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summer homework 😤

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