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[oshistudy]

introduction - oshistudy

✧˖*°࿐ hi, i'm oshi/luka !! teen, he/him, JPN learner for 5yrs

*. * · this is a sideblog for blogs mainly about learning japanese. i may change in the future to also include general studies, but for now that is the focus. i plan to document my daily study sessions, and also provide recourses for fellow learners on the way! if you like that sorta stuff, please follow.

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[sahelstudies]

-> about me:

- I’m 20 years-old, brazilian 🇧🇷, they/them

- learning french and trying to improve my english

- studying history in university, with an emphasis on African studies

- interests (academic related): African history, economic history, political economy, Latin American history, Asian history

- favorite author: Buchi Emecheta & Clarice Lispector

- side interests (non-academic): science fiction and dystopian novels, movies, comics, anything music-related.

-> goals for this semester (5th):

- pass all my classes: 7/7

- obtaining an undergraduate research grant ✅

- go to a party and have fun with friends ✅

- complete my student teaching on time (30/06): 44/40h ✅

-> non-academic goals

- health check-up ✅

- start therapy

- spend more time with family ✅

[unnonexistence]

Unnonexistence's Notecard Method for Learning Mathematics

Hello! This is the study method I developed after flunking out of first-year university algebra and having to retake it! It may or may not be particularly innovative and it may or may not help you, but I did (eventually) graduate with a Bachelor's degree in math despite having unmedicated ADHD, so, y'know, there's that. I owe it mostly to the notecards.

DISCLAIMER that any example cards are my actual real notes & I am not fact-checking them. They lean towards intuitive rather than strictly correct & were only ever intended to be for personal reference. I did pass these courses, and I think most of the cards are pretty good, but like... use at your own risk.

You Will Need:

A pack of index cards. I like the 3" x 5" ones that are lined on the front and blank on the back.

Some pens you like. I use fine-tip markers in about 4 colours, plus a white gel pen for fixing mistakes. Pencil can get smudgy over time, so it's not ideal.

Any course materials you have (notes, textbook, etc.)

Optionally, a nice box for your index cards. (You can also just use a rubber band or something. Whatever).

General Approach

We're making reference cards. One concept per card. You probably have an intuitive sense of how big A Concept is for you - it should be an amount of information that can comfortably fit in your brain at one time. If it doesn't fit on one or maaaybe two cards, it's probably too big.

Here's a topic I broke up into two cards - Chain Rule and Extension of Chain Rule. One IS an extension of the other, but the information is a lot easier to remember in two chunks. (3 pictures, here, because the first card is double-sided).

You are NOT trying to cram as much information as you can onto each card. You are trying to create an easy reference for yourself, which means making the cards as clear and legible as you can. When it's 5 minutes before your calculus exam and you're having a panic attack because you forgot how the chain rule works, you want to be able to flip through, find that Chain Rule card, and be able to absorb the information on there.

For math courses, A Concept is often a definition, a theorem, a formula, or a problem-solving approach. As much as possible, you want to write it down in a way that makes sense to you. Add any helpful tips or intuitive explanations or things you keep forgetting. If your cards are blank on the back, that's a great place to draw diagrams.

(On the back of this card you can see where I wrote "Rho" in pencil and never bothered to replace it with the symbol, lol. My prof had bad handwriting & I wasn't sure how it was supposed to look.)

Proofs are often too long to fit on a card, but if you have a theorem where the proof is important, it's a good idea to write out a little summary of how the proof works/how to do it.

Ideally, you do the work of Understanding The Concept when you're making the card, and then you can just refer back to it in future. I forget definitions a lot, and this saved me so much time that I would have spent reading one confusing page of the textbook over and over or trying to find stuff in my notes.

I try to keep my formatting mostly consistent. Clear title. Card numbers in the top right corner so I know if anything's missing. Definitions in black ink with important words underlined in colour. I tend to use coloured ink for things like examples and personal commentary. I also use it to create a visual distinction when I do need to cram something on there (not ideal, but sometimes necessary).

The Method

Sit down with your class notes or your textbook. Your goal is to get all the important concepts you're supposed to have learned in this course so far onto notecards. (Probably not all in one go.)

The ideal time to do this is right after each lecture (most math lectures are around 2-5 cards worth of material), but that's easier said than done. I always had a hard time keeping up & all my card decks, as a result, get spottier towards the end of the term. It's fine. Do your best.

I mostly went through the course material in order. I kept checklists of which lectures I had already made cards for, and which ones still needed doing.

If you don't really get something, but you know you need a card for it, at least put the definition down. You can make a better version or add more notes later. I sometimes make placeholder cards with just a title so I'll remember to come back to something.

If you write down a definition, and you're like "this refers to another thing, and idk what it is but it's come up a few times now," you probably need to make a notecard for that other thing.

How I Use The Cards

When you're doing assignments, it's really useful to have your stack of cards there to refer to. If something comes up that you don't remember the definition for, you can look it up. If you're doing proofs, having all the theorems from the course handy is a great way of getting ideas for where to start. If you're doing calculations, it's helpful to have the techniques you need written out step by step.

I spent a lot of my exam prep time making cards and going through the ones I'd made. It gave me a sense of what I already knew and what I needed to spend more time on. Having things broken up into small chunks also made it a lot easier for my brain to hang onto them.

After making cards like this for a few terms, I also found them really helpful for reviewing concepts from previous courses. Sometimes you just need to refresh your memory on something from the prereq so you're not totally lost. I've graduated now & I still refer back to my cards sometimes.

Conclusion

Well, that's my (somewhat rambly) explanation of my main study method! I hope it's helpful for at least a few people out there. I wish you the best of luck learning math & whatever else you might be studying. You've got this!!

[firewalkwithmme]

hello lovelies!

♤ a little bit about me

my name is brooke, i'm 20, i go by she/her

i'm from canada

i'm really interested in film, music, art, literature, and fashion

i'm a sucker for dark academia and any related aesthetics

♧ my hobbies

reading, writing, drawing, painting, journaling/scrapbooking, photography, bracelet making

travelling -> i want to live in england some day. or maybe france.

♢ my studies

i am currently working towards a bachelor of arts!

right now i am studying film and media, art history, psychology and economics

i am also trying to teach myself several different languages on the side, including russian, polish, dutch, and french. i also want to learn italian, spanish, and german. be friends with me on duolingo !

♡ my favourites

my fav shows right now are twin peaks, the x-files, and m*a*s*h

some of my fav movies are possession (1981), blue velvet, donnie darko, it happened one night, and notting hill, but this changes almost daily! check out my letterboxd

my fav books are the secret history by donna tartt, the idiot by elif batuman, and normal people by sally rooney. i also have a soft spot for the perks of being a wallflower

i listen to a lot of rock and alternative music, and its hard to choose a favourite decade, i love them all! right now, i have been listening to a lot of 90s music. my fav band of all time though is arctic monkeys

just for fun: my fav season is autumn and my fav colour is either burgundy or emerald green

♤ about the blog

i will be logging my study journey on here, since i am trying to become more productive and motivated. if anyone needs a studyblr mutual to help motivate each other, i'm here! everything i post will be under the tag #my studies

i'll also post aesthetic content/moodboards, some of it my own photos, and stuff about film, literature, and art

i may post some of my journal/scrapbook spreads!

my dms and asks are always open! please reach out to me if you want to talk about common interests, or ask me any questions you like, i love answering asks!

this is a safe space for everybody and no hate will be tolerated!

thanks for reading, have a lovely day! xx

dividers by @anitalenia , photos from pinterest

[stxrwons]

about

fem | minor

academic fuckup, trying to be an academic weapon

trying to get my life together and be the best version of myself

august goals

workout 3x a week

do math courses

likes

kpop, anime, music, y2k, cats

note

i am in vacation rn so i won’t be doing any actual studies but ill start once im back

masterlists

coming soon

[bobastudy]

psychblr/therapists of tumblr!!

any tips on facilitating psychoeducational groups?🫶

[whozkay]

welcome to my page

i'm kay, 23yo gemini girl, passionate about all the things related to the environment!

english isn't my first language (i'm brazilian) so some mistakes can happen.

my ♡'s

books, books, books!

nature

green witchcraft

handcraft

lorde (the singer)

summer

my cat (miwa 😺)

writing

my X's

NSFW (SUPER NO)

discussions

politics*

fan wars

any kind of p3d0, g0re, v1ol3nce or anything related

* about politics: i know it's super important! i don't ignore it, but i had psychological problems because of watching too much political content, so I want to keep my mind a little away, for my psychological health (but offline, definitely a communist 👀)

that's it! feel free and comfortable at my place 🪻🌿

[littlestudyhelper]

𝕊𝕥𝕦𝕕𝕪 ℍ𝕖𝕝𝕡 𝔹𝕝𝕠𝕘 :)

─ ✰ℙ𝕚𝕟𝕟𝕖𝕕 ℙ𝕠𝕤𝕥/𝔽𝔸ℚ

This Blog is dedicated for helping people study and learn new concepts in various different subjects. Send in an request in for anything you need such as study tips, wanting me to explain concepts you don't understand to you and how to do them, sharing study tips and stories, motivation or any silly things that are in your mind.

(I know French, spanish and english)

─ ✰𝕒𝕟𝕪 𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕔𝕖𝕡𝕥𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕒𝕟𝕪 𝕝𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕝 𝕠𝕣 𝕘𝕣𝕒𝕕𝕖 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕨𝕖𝕝𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕖 :) {𝔼𝕤𝕡𝕖𝕔𝕚𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕪 𝕄𝕒𝕥𝕙}

[catboybrain]

studying tips

ok so i keep seeing posts saying do a shit ton of work but let's be real, you're an engineering major and you have 5 classes and a lab, you don't have time to read through every little thing before an exam.

the main idea is studying is not confined to a specific time period, like before an exam. to properly study, you passively do it when you work on things for the class! the bulk of the studying i do is NOT in the week before the exam, it's in the downtime i have between exams. i also normally don't call it studying, to me it's just work on a subject. the fun thing about this method is it means you get to generally be lazier over a longer period (my executive dysfunction is very happy @ that) since the work is spread out but more thorough!

your goal should be to fully understand and apply the concepts! to do this most efficiently and seamlessly, you want to master them (or at least be able to wield them) as they come up in lecture. doing problem sets is studying. doing prereading for lectures to give yourself an initial footing on a topic, if that helps you, is studying! if you're trying to put the scaffolding in place some set time before a test, you're eventually going to get into a situation where you can't put it up, and then you're going to be in trouble.

here are some things i do to "study"/ master topics as they come up in class.

go to class. this seems silly but yk I should put it in here. if you need to skip, try and skip on a day where you think you already know what's going on (and it's ok to skip if you need to! just don't let it stop you from mastering the concepts)

do the assigned homework. if a class assigns work but it's not due, do the FUCK outta that work. my basic rule is do 75% of the work that's assigned (100% of work due obvs) if you already feel like you have a type of problem down. but don't stop doing problems until you feel like you completely understand how to do the problem!

rubber duck debug your own learning. talk to people, explain how to do a problem. if you don't know why you're doing a step, you probably don't have a strong enough understanding of the concept yet! talking out loud will help you see much easier.

ask for help. sometimes textbooks legitimately suck. sometimes professors suck! if you're struggling to understand a topic, seek out a bunch of different sources of explanation. normally it just takes one good perspective to click, but it's hard to find that perspective sometimes.

when a test is coming up, be realistic with yourself. oftentimes in this period there will be topics where i'm like "oh, i don't have a great success rate for these problems." that'll be what's important to review. don't spend your time studying for everything if you already know most of it.

if you're right before a test and you haven't been doing the above, pray. no, i'm just kidding. there's a concept in the pikmin games called dandori, the art of organizing your time. become a dandori master. think about which topics (and or ask around! always feel free to ask a prof what will be on the exam, i find they always give you at least some useful information if you're not like "uhhh what problems are on the test" LOL) are most important, and prioritize learning those. cover as much ground as you can, instead of just starting at the beginning.

this one might be controversial but. study to learn, not for the grade. if you're in college, this information will directly help you in your field. obviously if you're in a GE or something this doesn't apply as much but if your only motivation is an A, you aren't going to go as far. if you can nurture your inner curiousity and connect with the content you're learning, it'll be way more fun and it won't seem as much like a slog <3

ok that's all i got. knock 'em dead, kid. and always remember: C's get degrees <3

[caffeinatedkylie]

about me 📝

(updated 14th march 2024)

Kylie, 34, she/her, Tennessee. Cat lady, college student, theatre nerd, sports fan. Personal blog/studyblr, with a sprinkle of sitcoms/Taylor Swift/theatre/other things that make me happy. Tracking #kyliekyliekylie!

Currently on break from classes until May! Using this time to consciously fine tune my routines and habits, and doing a 60-day challenge around that for accountability. Also going to try to do a lot of reading during this downtime, in addition to keeping semi-consistent with diary entries and photos of my cat.

I reblog a lot of music, theatre, tv, movies, books/poetry, art, and more— full index coming. There’s also the inspiration tag: posts that keep me focused on my goals, mostly studyblr reblogs!

This blog is a safe space, and my askbox is always open 💌

[a-study-in-dante]

Me: I've spent the first six months of 2023 in England, spent 10 days in Italy in September, 12 in October... Not leaving again before a long time!

My codicology instructor from 2022: hey guys here's a list of lectures in Paris would be neat to see you there!

Me: ... Let's go to Paris once a month!!!

[norimorii]

About This Blog!

Sammi

17

They/Them

Anxiety Prone

Procrastinator

Favourites

Book: "Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde

Piece of Art: "Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette" By: Vincent Van Gogh

Artist: Vincent Van Gogh

Thing to Study: Literature

Food: Sunny-side-up Eggs

Main Studies:

Criminal Psychology

English Literature

Hobbies:

Drawing, Crochet, Reading, Writing, Cooking, and Gardening

I am working on a novel in my free time.

A lot of things at once, Hoping to post study tips that helped me, and things I've been learning in my studies. Taking a few College in High School classes so that should give you guys some interesting posts.

Here to make friends so my dms and ask boxes are open!

[zoueriemandzijnopmars]

I wrote 4 pages of my thesis so far and I already made 2 footnotes (and they are not references)

[rubyred1187]

I actually love green and black tea but this person makes some excellent points that they deliver with enthusiasm.

A Small Discourse on Tea

Growing up in a culture which really respects its tea, some of us have strong opinions on what constitutes as tea.

In this essay I will…

Tea originated from southwest China, and from there was spread throughout the world through the help of traders, both from land (through the silk road) and by the sea. 

The Chinese term for tea is cha (茶), and made its way through Central Asia. In modern day, the term developed into “chay” (چای) in Persian and Urdu, shay in Arabic and even chai in Swahili, when the tea leaves made their way into Sub-Saharan Africa. The same term (茶) is pronounced differently by the coastal regions of China, pronouncing it as “te”. The East India company’s tea importation gave European languages “thé” (French), “Tee” (German) and o of course, “tea” (England). 

Source: Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea

I had never understood, while watching British media, why they added the milk after the tea had been cooked. That’s blasphemy. Here, especially in Karachi (a coastal city of Pakistan, if you did not know), tea is drunk all the time and the default way to cook it is in milk. The milk is added along with cardamom, then loose tea leaves and sugar, and its brought to a boil after which it is sieved and served. The boil brings out flavours of all ingredients. 

The chai even fits in all aesthetics.

See, I would have talked about making tea from tea bags but then I realized, I would have lost it. Loose tea leaves for the win. 

Why would anyone, I mean ANYONE willingly drink black or green tea. It’s horrendous and wakes you up as if Genghis himself arrived to slap you awake. Tea is supposed to be calming and relaxing, energizing you in a motivational way (like the cleanse you feel after watching Studio Ghibli films). The flavour is absolutely wonderful. 

Adding cinnamon (or any other masalas) make for a more tangy-esque tea which is still good but who ever adds pumpkin spice, chocolate, maple syrup or any abomination of an ingredient to tea, I will personally hunt you down and make you a good cup of chai. You all are missing out on this wonderful tradition. And to those who will like to bring a more modern touch to it, DON’T DARE TOUCH CHAI YOU COLONIALIST FREAKS.

I conclude my essay by stating that I aspire to show everyone the wonder that is chai. Thank you.

Do tell me your thoughts.

[the---hermit]

since i am gathering a lot of infos on my personal experience in writing my thesis last year, with a focus on were i struggled and how i made it out in the end for the lecture i'll have at the end of this month i thought i could also make a post sharing that on here?

i had posted daily entries while working on my thesis and a few tips posts (both turned out to be amazing sources to get my material), but i never did a proper post with my whole experience and maybe that could be useful?

[burgeoning-ambition]

Alright! This poll finished up as my midterms were ending, so I wasn't able to push it during the last couple days it was up, but! We have a completed poll!

Nothing has too big of a lead on anything else, but our top two were grammar posts and vocabulary lists, followed closely by resource suggestions. This is super helpful info! The slump of nothing happening in my classes post-midterms gives me a solid amount of free time to make some original content, so this gives me an idea of what I should look at making ^-^

I hope everybody else finds the results useful too! Even if it was a pretty tight race the whole time, haha.

What Kinds of Content Do People Want?

Since I'm trying to get back into posting more regularly, I thought I'd go directly to the people who'd be seeing my posts and ask: What sorts of things are you looking for?

I know having to pick a top choice is kinda difficult, so if people want to rank several of them or add further comments in the notes please do! I just want to see what people are looking for more of, I (and I'm sure others!) want to make posts that people feel like they aren't seeing enough of

Also, I'm not including challenges on the poll (I feel like even the number of options on it now is a little bit too many, haha) but I know those are always fun as well!

Tagging a few people I chatted with about this! (Aka tagging the people I couldn't find tracked tags for, lol)

@tokidokitokyo @chouhatsumimi @kanpeki-bekki @languagesandfrens