Where Do You Get All That Energy From? Like You Do So Much A Day?! Its Really Fascinating And I Try To

here’s a little school update which to be frank is more for me to look back on lasted this year than for tumblr, but anyway

did my lab work and handed in my assignment reports for 20% of my grade in physics and chem! really happy with both of them.

got into the uni space programme for this summer that i applied for in january! really really happy making :D

things are getting lowkey stressful, with four weeks until the easter holiday and the threat of schools closing due to covid19. really hoping we don’t have to though.

did my coursing for next year and i am officially taking advanced higher maths, ah chem and ah physics. v excited to not do english next year but i will miss french.

i’ve been reading a lot this year and am currently on my 16th of 2020 (for reference in 2019 i read 18 total) which i’m really loving.

i got straight As in my prelims which i’m over the moon about, and got top of my year for physics chem and french (somehow) so i’ve got a sweep at the awards ceremony ;) i also have my fingers crossed for junior dux but i guess we’ll see in june.

in conclusion i’m a nerd and happy about it. s5 has been My Year so far.

06/08/20

hello! i took a short break from social media bc of life stuff, but i’m back bc i start school in a week! today i:

completed lists & dictionaries in python

finished my maths review cards from pre summer content

cycled to my friend’s house to drop off a paper

& i’m going to do a violin practice session this evening

summer studying challenge 6th aug: what book are you currently reading?

i just finished this is how you lose the time war, which i 100% recommend! now onto inferior by angela saini.

[5/50 days of productivity] 21 april

more revision outside in the sun (although today it’s awfully windy so i have an intricate system of weighing everything down)

🎶 — dear evan hansen obc

wakes up on time, showers, gets dressed, eats breakfast, and drinks coffee, then calmly lays back down in bed and goes back to sleep

22.06.20

i’m now in the last week of term, so compared to last week’s business of zoom calls it’s feeling very chilled out. here’s to the end of the school year! 🥳

[ one hundred days of productivity : 4/100 ]

mon 19 august

some english annotations on carol ann duffy’s poems, which i’m enjoying much more than last years set :D

hello !! this is a list of tips for those going to university (as opposed to college). personally, i live at home (off campus) so a lot of these tips are things that i’ve learnt in my first year of uni

you might not have class everyday but that doesn’t mean you should sleep in on the days you don’t

plan time for your friends as well as when you study

you don’t have to join a club but they’re a good way for making friends if you don’t live on campus

follow all the main social media for students - make an effort to find out all the tricks and when the cheap food days are on

try to make at least one friend in your tutorials/labs - a simple “hi, how are you doing?” on the first day can become notes for when you’re sick

when you have early classes, it seems easy to just buy food from uni - try to prep it the night before

have some “set” outfits that you can rely on when you can’t decide on what to wear

you don’t have to hit the gym everyday, getting off a stop early and walking the last part can be an alternative

if you do walk for part of your commute, taking the shortest path might not be the most fun. you can live somewhere yet not know the neighbourhood

if you’re going to nap on your commute, set an alarm for 5 minutes before your stop

in your first weeks of uni, make it your goal to find out where the best bathrooms and drinking fountains are

know the layout of your uni’s library

find a place to study in your university’s library - now find 3 more study spaces around the school

if you have readings, you can do them in cafes with a cup of coffee - reading doesn’t have to be a chore

always carry a pen and a piece of paper in your pocket

be realistic about how much work you can do - pack accordingly

if you have a hard time remembering your timetable, set it as your phone lock screen

always carry a water bottle

your university email will probably give you discounts to services - learn which, know that you don’t need all of them

if you’re a first year, it doesn’t mean you’re inferior to upperclassmen - you are the future so say your opinion, voice what you need, attend faculty meetings, apply for leadership roles

you can go to a lecture and not pay attention but that doesn’t mean you can go to a lecture and distract

you don’t have to be friends with everyone. you won’t be friends with everyone. 

you don’t have to be friends with your tutors, you just have to talk to them if you go through things

writing an apology email for missing studio sessions/tutorials/labs is basic courtesy and could save your grade

i think those are some of the general points i can think of but if anyone has anymore then feel free to add them on !!!

happy learning everyone xx

14/07/20

summer studying challenge 2: have your plans changed at all because of the pandemic?

YUP. i was meant to be at a space program at a university in june which got cancelled, me and my friends were going to go on a cycling holiday on a west coast island, and all in all i didn’t plan on feeling so down lmao!

last night i stayed up until 4am to watch for comet NEOWISE which i saw [first picture, faint smudge just above the tree in the centre] and was completely amazed by :D unfortunately i waited for three hours after seeing it to get a second look, but the clouds were very stubborn :( i am so tired today though lol

reblog and put in the tags something that you were looking forward to and can’t do it because of coronavirus