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To all the high school students out there with mental illnesses

The thought of your future, especially when you struggle with mental illness, can be a scary thing. I remember feeling like I’d never make it to college, that I’d never make it out of high school, and if I did, I’d certainly never be able to survive college.

Let me tell you, I not only survived high school, but I got into the college of my dreams, and I am surviving here too. College can actually be so much better than high school in terms of accommodations for mental illness. I’ve got an adviser that helps me by getting me extended time on tests or excused absences or things as simple as letting me pet his therapy dog.

College isn’t necessarily for everyone, but don’t let your mental illness deter you from following your dreams, and don’t assume that college will be as unforgiving to your illness as high school can be sometimes. And if I can survive high school, then you certainly can! I believe in you! YOU CAN DO THIS! :D

Excited to finally be using the #bulletjournal system again in 2018! This is my study plan for the upcoming week, well, at least part of it. . As anyone has been saying: how are we so close to 2018? Or should I say to some people in different timezones than me: happy 2018!!! ✨ . Do you have any resolutions for 2018?? I do!! And I will be sharing them with you on my new blog in a post very very soon! Also, look out for a video about my planning system this upcoming week 😊

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

Here we go again 2018 ready or not here I come :)

STUDYBLR COMMUNITY

please like or reblog this if you’re a studyblr because I desperately want to follow more blogs, so I want to check out a bunch of blogs!! I’m especially looking for English lit/language and Italian language oriented blogs because I’m an English major and I’m planning on continuing my Italian studies soon. But I love quality content so even if you’re not English/Italian blog, I’ll still follow you!!

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Can’t believe school starts in about ten days (O∆O). I hope everyone has had a wonderful and relaxing summer (*´ｪ`*) !! You don’t have to worry about being productive because the point of holidays is to relax and I hope you feel fulfilled and full of energy for the school year!!

One of my close friends on Tumblr offered to give me information on Art/design universities and today she sent me a list of US ones and I’m so so so grateful and amazed at her kindness!! Also, I finally took a look at the SAT practice questions.

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My notes aren’t as nice as other people on here, but whatever they’re good and very extensive. Next week, I might be starting the 100 days of productivity!!

If you struggle with anxiety, overwhelm, or just plain feeling like a failure, I have a mantra for you that’s been really helping me out lately:

Just show up.

I used to skip class because the whole thing was so overwhelming: I had to get dressed in something clean even though I never had the energy to do laundry, walk to school, sit in class for up to three hours, plus pay attention, take notes, and participate in discussion. In reality, I was being a perfectionist, and life would have been a lot easier for me if I had Just Shown Up. By staying home because of my depression and anxiety, I wasn’t giving myself the chance to do any of that. I was such a perfectionist that being a “bad” or average student was unthinkable, so I stopped being a student at all.

If you’re having trouble getting something done, Just Show Up. You don’t have to be employee of the month. You don’t have to be valedictorian. Just Show Up.

Physics time!

I was gonna do my laundry but when I turned the corner and saw this on the ground I stopped what I was doing and decided to make a snapchat story of science (I’m @thescalex on snapchat, if you want my username)

*cue Charlie Brown soundtrack of kids cheering*

There’s your science for the day. Go try it out for yourself!

*UPDATED* in the final picture of the original post, I made the mistake of saying “light as a particle” - I should have repeated the initial description (which is now fixed): the effect is from light passing through a single slit and diffracting, which is more accurate to what is being observed, because each bulb is a “point-source of light.” While the general scientific consensus is that light does indeed have particle properties, this single slit experiment is not a true depictor of those properties. While fewer photons do indeed get through, diffraction still (faintly) occurs between the lines. It’s the double slit experiment where things get REALLY weird, though.

When to use flash cards: memorizing words/vocab, numbers, equations, names, dates, and verbatim facts or lines.

When to use mnemonic devices: memorizing steps of a process or sets of facts/information/people, especially in an order.

When to use concept maps or drawings: learning (rather than memorizing) relationships, processes, concepts, systems, etc.

When to use tables or charts: learning or memorizing systems (eg. conjugation in a foreign language), sets of sets of information (eg. people and when they lived and what they did), and other large/complex groups of information.

When to use songs: for learning or memorizing anything.

Disclaimer: this is a general guideline. If something else works for you, do it!