#why starting a studyblr

[why-the-heck-not]

me, a responsible being, working on the coding project as I should vs. me, a dysfunctional shithead, getting distracted by reading about brains (once aGAIN damnit (it's my favorite "I need to study my field but bc I should do that it's an impossible unthinkable feat now, so I'm reading about something else to fool my brain I'm still being productive"-topic))

[hi-i-am-a-sock]

it's ironic that, for someone who is able to speak several languages, my ability to verbally communicate disappears really often

[notetaeker]

June 10, 2023 - Saturday

Honestly feel like a mess lol. The past few weeks/months I have managed to stay on track pretty well but this whole week was such a mess tbh everything is so disorganized in my head and in my room 🥲 It feels like I was untying a complex knot and making some progress and then stepped away for a few mins and now have no idea where to start to get back on track again 😔😭

pics: apocalyptic smoky sky, strawberries from my strawberry plant, red light from the smoky red sun

[studyblr-perhaps]

I really want to make a series of posts explaining in simple terms the different maths/physics concepts I struggled with when I first learnt them.

Would anyone be interested in it 👀👀?

[studycricket]

heres a little summary of my summer so far :) i took a weekend bookmaking workshop back in june that was actually taught by one of the admissions counselors i work with! i made a fun little book of smaller books where i mostly just played with materials and folding techniques. ive made friends with one of my coworkers and we've been hanging out going to arcades and yard sales (where i got the soup mugs!!) my partner and i got ice cream from salt & straw multiple times because we're obsessed with the blackberry flavors lol and ive been reading the southern reach trilogy and thoroughly enjoying them !! hope everyone is enjoying the season :3

[citrusstudies]

Love when I have a great idea for a new project which I find fun and mentally stimulating. Hate when I have the idea while I really need to wrap up another project I've lost a lot of passion for

Anyone have tips for staying motivated and on track when you just want a project to be OVER? I'm so close but loosing steam so fast 😭

[durchdenspiegel]

04.01.23

I don't tend to track my reading all that much, but I noticed that I was starting off the year with quite a bit of material. So, I wanted to organize them a little bit :D

The german titles are (in order):

Joe Abercrombie – Half the World

Mark Z. Danielewski – House of Leaves

Victor Hugo – The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Christelle Dabos – A Winter's Promise

[ronastudies]

eXCUSE YOU, why do I have to pay TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY FIVE U.S. DOLLARS to take a test that proves my ability to read, write and speak in the English language if I might even as much as CONSIDER applying to a university in the U.S.? Read my stupid little posts on all these stupid little websites like this one if you want to have your damn proof ffs

[why-the-heck-not]

it’s cold brew season again babyyy

[studykive]

i have reached that point of my studyblr era

[chemstudent-sherlock]

I have an exam tomorrow at 8.45 a.m. It's finally time to study.

Who needs sleep anyway?

[minsstem]

02/10/23 monday~

sorry for not posting for 4 days. it will happen again

anyways! everything has gone to shit (jk). i spent the weekend studying for my midterms, and today DOING said midterms. 4/9 complete (please release me from this hell that i live in)

biochem? i will be lucky if i get a 6. microbiologia? was pretty easy, but that's because i studied with my friends before. ethics? got an 8.1, so pretty good. liderazgo? I Don't Wanna Talk About It (there's some drama)

anyways! now i'm procrastinating studying for my 5th midterm tomorrow. i wanna go to sleep, but i cannot. why is my life like this

4/9 midterms done

i HAVE to study for tomorrow. if i don't i WILL fail

[antoniosos]

I would like to add something about routine. People ask how to discipline themselves so they can do 'The Thing' but the only answer they get is to do 'The Thing' and become disciplined by that. Which is not helpful at all. People don't understand one important thing about discipline.

Discipline is an emotion

and needs to be fueled. And what do you fuel it with? Resolve.

To become disciplined you need to cultivate resolve.

Here's the source :3

https://youtu.be/0N0LV0mqTYQ?si=pqqz4egK2We1Gwfy

long term study tips

a lot of study tip posts that exist have a weird mix of short term and long term tips and that weirds me out, so here are some long term study tips (aka pavlov-ing yourself):

light the same scent of candle every day when you study- eventually the smell of the candle will put you in a study mood

drink the same kind of drink (I always drink green tea) and you will start to associate the process of getting the drink/the smell/the taste with studying

get into a habit of studying for a few minutes every night. Even if you are not doing much, it's something.

play the same playlist whenever you study- hearing "reflections" by Toshifumi Hinata instantly puts me into the study mood

Routines routines routines: the only reason I passed some of my classes last year was because I had routines in place for doing my work (they are falling apart this year, and I'm struggling.)

[why-the-heck-not]

02.10.23, thursday

I feel like taking whole weekends off doesn’t work for me. Like if I take the days off, I’ll get stuck in that mood and I’m just now getting back to the groove of things, and it’s friday again tmrw. I think the ideal for me would be like 2 weeks on and then couple days off. Something I could actually do sometimes if I just schedule it. But couple last weekends I’ve had set plans so had to have actual weekends and my productivity has taken the hit

[helenstudies]

I've seen a lot of "gifted kid burnout" posts and also a few "where do we go to post studyblr stuff when we're bad students and don't get good grades" so I'm here to talk about my own experience of "I've never been a gifted kid and I've never been a good student".

I'm not a gifted kid. In fact, there was no "gifted kid" system in my country at all. And instead of multiple choice questions or true or false questions, we had to memorize pages and pages of our textbook and write them down during three hour exams. You can't get "a" and "the" wrong or you lose points, that's how much memorization we had to do. We didn't get electives until our last two years of high school and the electives were "biology or economics?" Yeah, those were the only two. Even at my university, I didn't get to choose my own electives. Everything came in a neat little box that you can never escape. And we never, EVER get full marks in Burmese or English. 80 out of 100 is considered phenomenal and no one's ever gotten more than 82 in either subject. So our matriculation exam's full mark is 600 but the most you can get is 550.

Suffice to say, the education system sucked and I don't like memorization so my grades were 50% at most. I failed my math and physic classes with 28 marks out of 100 for a whole two years, only barely passing on midterms and end of year exams. For my matriculation exam I got 340 out of 600, which is SUBPAR. That's 2.0 GPA btw. I never thought of myself as educated or a good student and I still don't.

But I love languages and I realize that while languages seem hard to learn and have strict rules, they actually don't. You can move them around and learn them however you like. So as an avid reader, I started learning languages so that I will be able to read books in those languages and I found studying liberating. Why not? I'm no longer memorizing 600 pages of text book and writing them down.

I realize that I love learning and studying when I get to choose what I learn. So I stopped caring about grades and started learning things that I love. Hey, do you know what's the biggest side effect of learning things that you love and not caring about grades? It's that you actually start to learn and your grades start to come up. I realize I perform badly when I am stressing out about my grades. This is why you're seeing all my 100% grade and 80% grade all over my walls. It's not because I'm a good student. It's because I've let go of the notion that I HAVE to be a good student.

I can talk about my bad grades as freely as I can talk about my good grades. I can tell you that I've been learning Japanese for ten seven years and I'm only JLPT N3 level. Honestly, you know what? As a generation, we're due to appreciate our process and progress instead of our achievements. It's fine if you're a bad student. It's fine if you are a gifted kid who fell off the wagon. It's fine if you've never been a gifted kid or a bad student. What matters is you're here studying and learning and appreciating yourself for doing all that.

So post your good grades, post your bad grades. Post your good stuff and bad stuff and messy notes. Post about your good days and your bad days. Talk about your productive days and talk about your rest days. Keep going and keep learning!

[studyyoubitch]

i am not going to study.

i am in so much pain, literally crying and cannot take anything because i have to wait at least 8 hours from the last pain meds i took.

i desperately want to not hurt

OKAY

so

i got two (2) teeth removed on Tuesday.

felt like dying afterwars bc it hurted so fucking bad so i did nothing. same thing on Wednesday.

today, Thursday, i started to work at a matcha shop, which I'm really happy about, but I've not studied yet, so I'll probably do something after dinner.

wish me luck