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Nish Kumar, NZ International Comedy Gala 2016

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Common mistakes when studying for exams:

1.       Not starting early enough While many students intend to begin studying for final exams a couple of weeks beforehand, that timeline often slips as exams approach. After several days of convincing yourself, it will be OK to skip this one day and get started tomorrow, suddenly what was supposed to be a week of studying turns into one or two frantic nights of cramming. Studying for exams often takes more time than you might anticipate, so make sure you get started early! 

2.       Studying in chronological rather than priority order One common approach to studying for exams is to sit down and look through all of the notes from class in chronological order. In addition to being a very passive study strategy (more on this below), it also puts you at risk of running out of time to review the material you learned most recently, which is often emphasized more heavily on the final exam. Instead of studying in chronological order, try studying in priority order, spending the majority of your time on the information that will be most important for you to know for the test. 

3.    Practicing in the wrong format (not how you’ll be tested) I often find that students will study the same way for all of their exams, regardless of the format. For example, they might study for history by making flashcards for all the key terms in their notes. This might be a great strategy for a test that is mostly multiple choice and matching questions…but it could get you into trouble if your test is the mostly short answer and essay questions that require you to answer “why” and “how” questions about the bigger-picture concepts from the class. If you want to be prepared for your exams, you need to make sure that the way you are studying for your test is similar to the way you will actually be tested on the material. 

4.    Reviewing information you already know Even when students are testing themselves and using active study strategies, they often spend the majority of their time on topics they already know. Doing problems you are familiar with and know how to solve is more comfortable, and gives you a nice boost in your self-confidence. The problem with this approach is that you often end up running out of time to work through the challenging problems that you don’t know how to solve…and those are the ones that you end up missing on the test. Don’t waste your time studying things you already know! Once you’ve confirmed that you understand and can answer questions about a certain concept, check it off your list and move on to something more challenging.

5.    Memorizing, rather than understanding I frequently see students who have been studying by trying to memorize all of the facts from a class, rather than truly understanding the underlying concepts. Memorizing can work well in some classes, especially in elementary and middle school, but it often backfires in more advanced classes. If you’ve memorized a definition but don’t really understand what it means, then as soon as the information is presented in a slightly different format, or you’re asked to apply it to a new type of problem, you will have no idea how to proceed. Rather than memorizing the information from your classes, use study strategies that encourage you to understand it. Explaining ideas out loud in your own words, or teaching them to someone else, are great examples of study strategies that promote understanding.

6.    Calculating Your Final Grade A lot of students try to figure out what effect different final exam grades will have on their final grade in the course. (For example: “I have to get at least a 90 on the final to get an A in the class.”) Indeed, almost every e-mail I get asking for exam preparation tips seems to be prefaced with some range of scores the student has to hit in order to get some desired final grade.

Don’t do this! No good can possibly come from such a superficial focus on the numbers. It will add stress. This, in turn, will make it harder for you to execute a reasonable, specific, and efficient study plan. Also, it’s just plain crass. You don’t want to be that person…Forget about your G.P.A., and focus, instead, on how you can best prepare for the specific challenge in front of you. If you screw up, you screw up.

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Nothing makes me want to kill myself more than my mom. She makes me feel so small and worthless and she kills any self esteem I can get. She claims she wants me to get better and that she's doing everything she can to help me. But when I tell her I don't want to live all she can tell me is how selfish I am because that would just give her another problem to deal with. She was yelling at me for not cleaning my room yet and she kept yelling at me for all these things to the point where I got so upset and felt so bad and guilty that not only was I hysterically crying but I starting banging my head on the wall and I did it so hard that I made a hole in the wall. She just continued to yell at me though "You're not a victim." She told me "I'm the victim here! You do nothing to help me. I'm spending hundreds of dollars trying to make you better yet all you do is disrespect me." I do all the chores she asks me to do plus whatever else I can see that needs done. I don't even ask to go see anyone anymore. I go to work and to therapy and to wherever else she wants me to go with her. I sit with her when she comes home so she can tell me how awful everything in her life is. I try not to ask for too much food when she buys it. She gets so angry when she sees me on my phone texting... so I try to only do it in my room but now she thinks I spend too much time in there. But I can't stop talking to people. I need it. I need to know someone actually cares about what I have to say. Even if they don't really... that they at least pretend to care for a little while. I'm so afraid all the time. Idk what else I can do to not make her mad at me. I really just want to kill myself because I just feel like nothing and nothing I am doing helps her not be mad at me there's always something else that I'm doing wrong.

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I needed this.

Go outside, look at the moon. The moons so pretty isn’t it. Yeah. Take a picture of the moon. Oh no bad picture it looks like a weird dumb speck. But the moons so pretty???? U know ur real pretty to. cameras arnt very nice sometimes. But your still pretty. Just like moon

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90% of the time when I go through my tinder matches I'm convinced that there is no way I could have possibly swiped right for this person.

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I just wanna be good enough friends with someone to be able to tell them that their snap story is annoying and they be able to take it as constructive criticism

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Honestly, I don't know how I use to survive. I can't hardly make it the 20 minute drive to work without switching playlists. When I was 11 I made it an entire drive to Florida (about 16 hours) listening to one cd. This particular cd was just the same song... remixed 10 different ways. Destiny's Child - Jumpin' Jumpin'

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What grinds my gears

I did such a good fucking job shaving my legs and nobody is here to see!!!

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Nothing makes me feel smaller or more insignificant than my mother. I just really don't want to live anymore..

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fool me once, shame on u; fool me twice, shame on u again for taking advantage of my compassionate & forgiving nature!!!!!! how dare u

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I need to be gay with someone NOW!