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Tagged by @smalleffortsrepeated Thank you :D With the next semester beginning I will take this chance to be more active on this account and have a good semester.

Last song: currently listening to Little Wolf from the musical EPIC but I should probably list all of the song since it is everything I listen to in the last month

Favourite colour: light pink

Currently reading: I started Little Woman but haven‘t gotten far but I want to start Dune, also I am reading The Keeper of Night

Last movie: Inside Out 2

Currently watching: Modern Family rewatch

Sweet/savoury/spice: definitely sweet!

Current obsession: thb right now I don‘t have an obsession but the semester is about to start so we‘ll see how long this will hold

Tea or coffee: tea, i don‘t drink any kind of coffee

Last thing i googled: Atomuhr because I needed to check if the time was correct

If anyone wants to answer these as feel, feel yourself tagged but also some accounts I like @ben-learns-smth @the---hermit @oneardentstudybuddy @veralernt

Personal productivity/self love tips

Fuck the clean girl influencers that just post their perfect life, choose to be inspired by influencers who show their difficulties and help you how to really improve

Don't put extreme goals for yourself to achieve, that girl aesthetic that does everything and never fails is impossible and unrealistic, you are human

Don't waste another morning watching other people's lives instead of getting up and doing something more useful

The first thing you will do when waking up its drink a glass of water, it takes oxygen to the brain and makes you wake up faster

Focus in one goal, wanting to achieve several goals at once will make you procrastinate more and not achieve anything

Set a timer for your apps, it makes your be more aware of how much time you're spending on each app

Make a list of gifts to give yourself when you achieve a goal, it gives you motivation to achieve it faster

If you can't improve for yourself, at least improve to be a healthier person and present in the lives of the people you care about

If u can sleep 8+ hours, do it, put your phone down and sleep

Apples! They'll boost your energy and immunity so much

Self care isn't selfishness

Uninstall any app that makes you compare yourself

Don't hear people that ashame you and call you a "pick me", they're just unhappy and jealous of you because you show who you really are, love the things you love and keep being like that, don't change because someone thinks ur being "embarrassing"

That's it for the day, don't be hard to yourselves, luv ya💐

Currently battling to get a simple translation from ChatGPT while it wants to tell me things about terrorism. Which I didn't ask about...

How to do Visual Supports/Aids for an Oral Presentation

A Power Point, a poster, a Canva presentation. It is so easy to get them wrong to the point they end up being more an annoyance than a helpful tool. There are a few things to keep in mind to avoid these:

1. They are VISUAL, not blocks of texts

When you are doing the presentation, your visual supports helps your audience connect the ideas you are explaining (with arrows, diagrams, etc) and help you remember what you should say next. If you forget what you have to say, the information needs to be easy to find in your visual support. This means:

NO blocks of text

NO small text

NO hard to read font

NO extra information

NO compressing of information

NO images as background

What you should do instead to make it easier to find and read:

Use a big and undertandable font

Use arrows, diagrams, concepts maps, etc. Anything that isnt a block of text

Separate ideas with font size. Title: gigantic. Primary ideas: Major big. Secondary ideas: big

Only write the nessesary information, dont overwrite (we'll revise this later)

Look at these. If you were in front of your professor and needed to quickly check for a number, a word or a concept you forgot, which one would you rather find when you turn your head to your visual aid?

It looks hard to make your aids look like that, but there are a lot of pre-made presentations you can use. I personally like Canva for that but if you know how to use (really use, the whole tricky trick thing) Power Point/Prezzi/LibreOffice are literally heaven.

2. Dont put unnesasary images

They dont help you. You ignore. Your audience ignores it. At most, it makes you waste seconds when you try to look up the info. Why is it there? Because there is an empty space and you want to fill it. Because the presentation is a block of text and you want to make it look more presentation-like. If you wont use it, dont put it. Save the space for graphs or symbols that help identify what you are saying (ex: you are talking statistics, put ten symbols of people and paint them in different colors according to your numbers). Negative space is better than a distracting image that turns away your focus of the important stuff

3. Only write important information

This is probably the hardest thing to do. In your presentation, time and space is limited; you cannot explain everything, you have to pick. And in your visual aid, specially so. My way of picking what to write is the next:

Divide your presentation in the big topics. Like, the titles of all you are covering.

For each title, think what are all the important concepts (or ideas) you have to explain in your presentation. Shortly, a few words each

Define those concepts. Not more than a line or two

Is there ant other information you cannot miss at all?

Now you have all the parts. Write only these and not even that. Sometimes, you dont need to write Point 3. When you are speaking, you can should expand the concepts, add examples, etc but in your visual aid, a few words/sentece is all you need

4. Keep it topic-appropiate

When you are preparing you aid/support, of course you are going to use different colors and add some shapes to keep it dynamic. But! if you are presenting consequences of child abuse for your psych class, adding the rainbow of colors and flowers may be a little bit insensible. Keep in mind what you are presenting, use appropiate colors/colors that fit (scale of greys for sensible topics, greens for nature, blue for corporate/bussiness and like that).

5. Have a secuence

Both your presentation and your visual aid have to be organized. There needs to be a logical order and no repetition. For your presentation you should have a draft/guide and that order should be the same for you aid. If you are presenting a problematic, you start talking about the causes and your first slide has to be the causes. Next what it involves so your slide has to have the topic and like that. The order in which you speak and the order in your aid have to be the same and they have to be organized

Now that we covered the basics, go luck with your presentation!

Get away, run away, fly away

Lead me astray to dreamer's hideaway

I cannot cry cause the shoulder cries more

I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world

Forgive me

I have but two faces

One for the world

And one for God

Save me

Nightwish - The Poet and the pendulum

Finished reading Red White and Royal Blue and Henry and Alex are still in my mind. Heard the song and had to think about them. But they have a face for the world and one for themselves.

29.01.2025🐙

I‘m back. I hope. For days I thought about posting again on Tumblr but somehow I didn‘t. But as exam season is now and I need to apply for an internship and start working and working a little bit on my bachelor thesis and writing two term papers and learn for my exam (not necessarily in this order). So I try to hold myself accountable and looking at other posts gives me motivation.

Things to do in general (until end of march) for university:

Learn for exam (make flash cards)✅

Term paper AI (think about prompt, write exposé, get feedback, write paper)✅

Term paper temple (?)✅

Bachelor thesis (formulate research question, look at R for data analysis, get more data✅, clarify supervisor)

Apply for internship (write applications)

So now I need to time manage well and prioritize my tasks.

Let‘s go and I hope I keep updating you guys. I try to post some pics as well. But today I don‘t have any.

Planning for this semester and especially october is really stressful and complex. More than the last semesters. There are so many things I need to get together but november will be less stressful thank you very much (I think but then I have uni work to do so we will see)

I love kids they’re all like.. “when i grow up i’m gonna be an astronaut and a chef and a doctor and an olympic swimmer” like that self confidence! That drive! That optimism! Where does it go

Hello all.

I‘m sorry I haven’t posted in some time. First I didn’t work my usual shift at work and was very busy during my shift so I forgot and then I kept forgetting. And if I remembered I didn‘t know what to write. But I give it a shot.

I‘m currently at the library and reading some text for my lecture later but am taking a short break. Until now I read all the texts for which I‘m very proud of myself. The presence of the studyblr community motivates me to do it. Thank you💕

This semester I have only on seminar I dont quite like but it isnt every week, so it‘s fine and we have some group work there and this makes it easier.

My plans to go to the gym of the university after my courses where crushed because it is closed in the timeframe I wanted to go. So I did a workout at home instead. I hope to keep it up.

Other than university I really want to continue reading my book series but I only took the first part with me when I visited my family and the library has three (!) ebooks but a waitlist with an estimated wait time of 17 weeks! My family thankfully is sending me the remaining parts and I read the beginning because it was free online but now I can wait even less. But some more days and tomorrow I will be gone the whole day so its fine(ish).

TO DO

🍄 finish the second reading for my lecture

🍄 do another workout this week

🍄 make a presentation about my research progress for a seminar

🍄 some more reading

Have a nice day and stay motivated! 🍄

Maybe I should add pictures to my posts. But I need to take some first. Next time.

My essay is coming along. I got some feedback and now need to edit it one final time before submitting it. Which would be one and a half week before the deadline.

The last days I kind of finalized my survey for my term paper and today while at work I started writing the term paper. Luckily we only need to create a survey and not carry it out. I already have around 1/10th but this will go a lot faster than my essay because I can write it in german and it is mainly about my survey. I try to finish it before before the weekend which is very ambitious but the next I planned on spending time with my sister for which I'm really excited.

Also the sun is coming out and I keep forgetting my sunglasses. This morning I was too tired I even took the train in the wrong direction. I'm looking forward to the end of all my deadlines so I can play the new Stardew Valley Update in peace. My for you page is full of people that are excited. I love to see it.

Anyways have a nice an productive day 😊