For us students, Sunday is universally hated day. Full of last minute homework assignments, cramming for tests and existential crises, Sundays are almost always awful. Nothing is worse than having a stressful start to your week so in an effort to make things easier for all us, I made a Sunday Checklist for you get your life in order on Sundays so that you don’t get swept away by your mountain of responsibilities.
Pull out your planner: Enter in all test dates and due dates that haven't already been inputed. Check to see what you have going on that week.
Make a to-do list: Include all assignments due Monday/Tuesday and anything else you need to get done. Highlight or mark high priority items and get them done first.
Start working: Finish high priority assignments first and then move on to the less pressing tasks. Use the Pomodoro technique to keep yourself productive.
Review material: After finishing your assignments, spend some time reviewing last week’s material for each class to refresh yourself. It’s easy to forget what you’re studying if you don’t touch your textbooks at all during the weekends.
Clean out your bag: Empty your backpack and reorganize everything for the week. You’ll be amazed at how much trash and stray papers you’ll find.
Make food for the week: If you’re like me and hate cafeteria food, make a few dishes and refrigerate them for the week. Pasta is an ideal choice for me because its not only fairly easy to make but it packs lots of calories for long school days.
Pick out your outfits for the week: Doing this will make your morning so much easier because literally all you have to do is get yourself dressed.
Laundry: Getting laundry done during the week usually never happens with a busy schedule so get it done on Sunday night so you’re not scrambling for clothes mid-week.
Clean your room: Keep your sanity during week by tidying your room up during weekends so you’re not left wondering where that homework assignment disappeared to.
If you find yourself having really busy weekdays, try your best to keep Sundays free of any commitments so you have a full day to get all your homework and studying for the week done! I usually get everything done on Sundays and do minimal studying during the week. Also push yourself to get up early on Sundays; I know its tempting to sleep in but you will be surprised at how much more time you have in your day when you wake up early.
Here’s to a happy school year free of stress!
-Ramya // futurecristinayang
Something a little different to answer the question of ‘How should I study?’ I’ve done some research on the main three learning types- visual, auditory and kinesthetic, so just see which one fits you best (you might be more than one), and try out the six most popular methods I’ve found for each. For reference, I’m a visual learner, can you tell? Haha!
New post on the blog! I haven’t posted this kind in a while, but they seem to be so popular I think I’ll start doing it again :)
5 Habits of Organized Students | Study-Hack
Read the post for more details and helpful links!
Made my desk study-ready!
hello pals!! this is a masterpost of half (or so) of the reference posts i reblogged/made. i tried uploading this masterpost as just one big masterpost but i had over 250 links so that failed and here i am again. here is part one, encapsulating studying + certain subjects which will be followed by part two (slightly more general) here! enjoy ✨
studying, school, + learning
what i’ve learnt throughout my years of being a student
notes, studying, and self-study resources
self-study resources
starting a studyblr
college + uni
how to get studying
online study guides
good habits
exams!
study management
school is starting soon
back to school (1)
back to school (2)
back to school (3)
back to school reminders
50 things to know for back to school
get prepared for a new school year
school resources
final grade calculator
writing emails to professors
cheap textbooks etc!!
save money on textbooks
school
first week of school stuff
testing effect
make studying fun
high school tips
101 study tips
types of learners
lazy kid’s guide to good grades
catching up on missed work
university tag
igcse resources
sat tag
act tag
ap tag
ib tag
a-level revision tips
diy school supplies
test taking tips
a complete guide to studying (well)
time to study!
groupwork (1)
groupwork (2)
tips tag
study effectively from textbooks
studying better
surviving your least favourite class
studying a subject you hate
success
doing research
understanding the question
pomodoro
study tips
tactile learning
how to concentrate
concentration
exam day
ultimate study masterpost
study tips for exams
school survival
studying on the go
how to read academic journal articles
how to study smart
how to remember anything in 3 steps
distraction-free studying
motivation
my study instagram + study blog
+ motivation links
motivation masterpost
stay motivated
get that homework done!
reaching goals
getting motivated
motivation through anime
writing
writing tag
recover an unsaved draft
uni writing resources
add citations!
annotating (1)
annotating (2)
advice for writing papers
writing helps
essay writing tips
how to write an essay
writing term research papers
active vs passive voice
writing masterpost
academic writing resources
essay checklist
reduce your word count
essay writing links
how to write and execute a huge piece of work
summary writing
the discursive/argumentative essay
the narrative essay + the descriptive essay
note-taking
note-taking in class
cornell note-taking
cornell (2)
lecture notes
illustrating notes
banners
maintaining good notes
note-taking
sticky notes
flashcards
colour-code + highlight effectively
colour-coding
studying from textbooks
study guides
upgrade your notes
illustrate your notes
mind maps
note-taking for different lecture types
ribbon drawing
smart highlighting
lettering ideas
how i take notes
note-taking tips
aesthetically pleasing notes
fake cursive notes
languages + literature
the ultimate english masterpost
shakespeare
literature masterpost
annotating
studying a foreign language
100+ legal sites to download literature
approaching poetry analysis
write a killer unprepared text essay
literary analysis research papers
classics
how to ace lit
reading lit
write a rhetorical analysis essay
practice oral comprehension!!
how i study for english lit
poetry analysis (1)
poetry analysis (2)
how i learn languages
self-studying languages
languages tag
how to open a new book
literary devices
literaty devices w/ printables
literature masterpost
grow your vocab
a guide to vocab
language learning tips + resources
SUPER IMPORTANT FOR POLYGLOTS
tips + tricks for learning a language
chinese
english
french
german
greek
italian
japanese
korean
latin
maltese
polish
russian
spanish
swedish
humanities + other subjects
studying humanities subjects
gathering materials for a humanities research paper
philosophy
philosophy tag
psychology tag
politics + government
women of wwi
ap world history
coding
design resources
sciences + math
how to memorise diagrams
biology (1)
biology (2)
studying biology
biology help
biology note-taking
anatomy + physiology
physiology
physics
ap physics
chemistry (1)
chemistry (2)
chemistry note-taking
studying chemistry
maths tag
how to study for math
how to study math (1)
how to study math (2)
math (1)
math (2)
math (3)
10 tips to excel in maths
avoid carelessness in calculations
succeed in math without really trying
math resources and links
algebra (1)
algebra (2)
precalculus
geometry
space + astronomy (1)
space + astronomy (2)
hope this helps + please check out part 2 as well!! ilysm 💗
ps here is a list of all my masterposts just in case 🐝
- helena xx
Hello, On september 2nd, i got the news that my mom had passed away, because of that, i missed almost 2 and half weeks of class, i take 4 college classes and was wondering if you have any tips on getting back on track. I could really use motivation
I’m so sorry for your loss, sweetheart.
Here are some things you should do first:
Ask your teachers for advice: You can ask them for any hand outs you might have missed, ask them for practice tests, ask them what you can do to catch up, ask them to explain difficult bits after school,…
Ask friends/ classmates for their notes or help: If they don’t want to give your their notes, just ask them to explain things if your teachers don’t have time!
Read through your textbooks and start making summaries: If you’re pretty much alone on this one, start by annotating and summarising your textbooks. You’ll be able to study and learn on your own.
some links:
a guide to motivation
v nice printables
the studyspo tag
how to start studying right after school
some good study playlists
buy some cute stationary
self care masterpost
self discipline
motivational quotes
motivational wallpapers
Hello! I just wanted to thank everyone for welcoming me so kindly into the studyblr community :) To give back, I decided to share this list of powerful verbs for essays and papers with you all. Hope it helps!
- shows
- verifies
- explains
- suggests
- reveals
- exposes
- represents
- divulges
- discloses
- renders
- provides
- presents
- offers
- demonstrates
- illustrates
- exemplifies
- proves
- attests
- hints
- intimates
- indicates
- signifies
- specifies
- displays
- communicates
- signals
- depicts
- portrays
- describes
- illuminates
- elucidates
- exhibits
- creates
- evokes
- expresses
- transmits
- confirms
- verifies
- states
- articulates
- illustrates
- pictures
- proves
- mirrors
- reflects
- depicts
- portrays
- establishes
- confirms
- verifies
- elucidates
- expounds
- enlightens
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much love and happy studying! - Em
I’ve seen a lot of curious people wanting to dive into classical music but don’t know where to start, so I have written out a list of pieces to listen to depending on mood. I’ve only put out a few, but please add more if you want to. hope this helps y’all out. :)
stereotypical delightful classical music:
battalia a 10 in d major (biber)
brandenburg concerto no. 5
brandenburg concerto no. 3
symphony no. 45 - “farewell” (haydn)
if you need to chill:
rondo alla turca
fur elise
anitra’s dance
in the steppes of central asia (borodin) (added by viola-ology)
if you need to sleep:
moonlight sonata
swan lake
corral nocturne
if you need to wake up:
morning mood
summer (from the four seasons)
buckaroo holiday (if you’ve played this in orch you might end up screaming instead of waking up joyfully)
if you are feeling very proud:
pomp and circumstance
symphony no. 9 (beethoven; this is where ode to joy came from)
1812 overture
symphony no. 5, finale (tchaikovsky) (added by viola-ology)
american (dvořák)
if you feel really excited:
hoedown (copland)
bacchanale
spring (from the four seasons) (be careful, if you listen to this too much you’ll start hating it)
la gazza ladra
death and the maiden (schubert)
if you are angry and you want to take a baseball bat and start hitting a bush:
dance of the knights (from the romeo and juliet suite by prokofiev)
winter, mvt. 1 (from the four seasons)
symphony no. 10 mvt. 2 (shostakovich)
symphony no. 5 (beethoven)
totentanz (liszt)
quartet no. 8, mvt. 2 (shostakovich) (added by viola-ology)
young person’s guide to the orchestra, fugue (britten) (added by iwillsavemyworld)
if you want to cry for a really long time:
fantasia based on russian themes (rimsky-korsakov)
adagio for strings (barber)
violin concerto in e minor (mendelssohn)
aase’s death
andante festivo
if you want to feel like you’re on an adventure:
an american in paris (gershwin)
if you want chills:
danse macabre
russian easter overture
if you want to study:
eine kleine nachtmusik
bolero (ravel)
serenade for strings (elgar)
scheherazade (rimsky-korsakov) (added by viola-ology)
pines of rome, mvt. 4 (resphigi) (added by viola-ology)
if you really want to dance:
capriccio espagnol (rimsky-korsakov)
blue danube
le cid (massenet) (added by viola-ology)
radetzky march
if you want to start bouncing in your chair:
hopak (mussorgsky)
les toreadors (from carmen suite no.1)
if you’re about to pass out and you need energy:
hungarian dance no. 1
hungarian dance no. 5
if you want to hear suspense within music:
firebird
in the hall of the mountain king
ride of the valkyries
night on bald mountain (mussorgsky) (added by viola-ology)
if you want a jazzy/classical feel:
rhapsody in blue
if you want to feel emotional with no explanation:
introduction and rondo capriccioso
unfinished symphony (schubert)
symphony no. 7, allegretto (beethoven) (added by viola-ology)
canon in d (pachelbel)
if you want to sit back and have a nice cup of tea:
st. paul’s suite
concerto for two violins (vivaldi)
l’arlésienne suite
pieces that don’t really have a valid explanation:
symphony no. 40 (mozart)
cello suite no. 1 (bach)
polovtsian dances
enigma variations (elgar) (added by viola-ology)
perpetuum mobile
pieces that just sound really cool:
scherzo tarantelle
dance of the goblins
caprice no. 24 (paganini)
new world symphony, allegro con fuoco (dvorak) (added by viola-ology)
if you feel like listening to concertos all day (I do not recommend doing that):
concerto for two violins (bach)
concerto for two violins (vivaldi)
violin concerto in a minor (vivaldi)
violin concerto (tchaikovsky) (added by iwillsavemyworld)
cello concerto in c (haydn)
piano concerto, mvt. 1 (pierne) (added by iwillsavemyworld)
harp concerto in E-flat major, mvt. 1 (added by iwillsavemyworld)
and if you really just hate classical music in general:
4′33″ (cage)
a lot of these pieces apply in multiple categories, but I sorted them by which I think they match the most. have fun exploring classical music!
also, thank you to viola-ology and iwillsavemyworld for adding on! if you would like to add on your own suggestions, please reblog and add on or message me so I can give you credit for the suggestion!
“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee
“Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen
“The Diary of Anne Frank” by Anne Frank
“1984” by George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone" by J.K. Rowling
“The Lord of the Rings” (1-3) by J.R.R. Tolkien
“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Charlotte’s Web” by E.B. White
“The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien
“Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott
“Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury
“Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte
“Animal Farm” by George Orwell
“Gone with the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell
“The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger
“The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak
“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain
“The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins
“The Help” by Kathryn Stockett
“The Lion, the Witch, and the Wadrobe” by C.S. Lewis
“The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck
“The Lord of the Flies” by William Golding
“The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini
“Night” by Elie Wiesel
“Hamlet” by William Shakespeare
“A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeleine L'Engle
“Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck
“A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens
“Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare
“The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams
“The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett
“A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens
“The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” by J.K. Rowling
“The Giver” by Lois Lowry
“The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood
“Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein
“Wuthering Heights” Emily Bronte
“The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green
“Anne of Green Gables” by L.M. Montgomery
“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain
“Macbeth” by William Shakespeare
“The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larrson
“Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley
“The Holy Bible: King James Version”
“The Color Purple” by Alice Walker
“The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas
“A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith
“East of Eden” by John Steinbeck
“Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll
“In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote
“Catch-22” by Joseph Heller
“The Stand” by Stephen King
“Outlander” by Diana Gabaldon
“Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” by J.K. Rowling
“Enders Game” by Orson Scott Card
“Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy
“Watership Down” by Richard Adams
“Memoirs of a Geisha” by Arthur Golden
“Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier
“A Game of Thrones” by George R.R. Martin
“Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens
“The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway
“The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” (#3) by Arthur Conan Doyle
“Les Misérables” by Victor Hugo
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” by J.K. Rowling
“Life of Pi” by Yann Martel
“The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge” by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
“The Chronicles of Narnia” by C.S. Lewis
“The Pillars of the Earth” by Ken Follett
“Catching Fire” by Suzanne Collins
“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by Roald Dahl
“Dracula” by Bram Stoker
“The Princess Bride” by William Goldman
“Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen
“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
“The Secret Life of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd
“The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel” by Barbara Kingsolver
“One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel García Márquez
“The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger
“The Odyssey” by Homer
“The Good Earth (House of Earth #1)” by Pearl S. Buck
“Mockingjay (Hunger Games #3)” by Suzanne Collins
“And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie
“The Thorn Birds” by Colleen McCullough
“A Prayer for Owen Meany” by John Irving
“The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls
“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot
“Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“The Road” by Cormac McCarthy
“The Things They Carried” by Tim O'Brien
“Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse
“Beloved” by Toni Morrison
“Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut
“Cutting For Stone” by Abraham Verghese
“The Phantom Tollbooth” by Norton Juster
“The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“The Story of My Life” by Helen Keller
Setting up my first bullet journal! I want to test it out as a planning method this summer. Please let me know if you have any tips!
23/08/15 2:52 PM // reviewing this week’s tasks and adding some embellishments to the previous pages of my bullet journal. and yes, I do hold a pen like that ✒️