Vincent van Gogh, Wheat Fields after the Rain, 1890, oil on canvas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

Konstantin Andreevich Ukhtomsky, The Small Winter Garden in the Apartments of Alexandra Fyodorovna from Types of Rooms in the Winter Palace, c 1870s, watercolor.

“An artist obsessed with perfection is bound to dim the light of his art.”

Michael Bassey Johnson

I’m always getting stressed out by things happening so here are some resources I find helpful

Music

I don’t know about you but I find piano music are really relaxing and soothing

Videos, movies, dramas

Food

Movies

Studytubes

Music

Video games

True crimes and supernatural

Comedies (old but gold)

Exercise

Sleep

Meditation

Treat yourself

Water

Breaks

Meals

Bullet journal

Apps

Positivity

Quizzes

Others

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Happy almost mid terms! Love you guys, you got this ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Year Of The Rabbit 🐰

types of study breaks for every situation

if you realize you’ve been studying for hours: grab a snack to refuel your body and watch a sitcom to refuel your brain. then back to the books.

if you’re feeling stressed out: take some deep breaths, text your friends, maybe stare at a wall for a few minutes. gather yourself.

if you can’t seem to focus: get moving and get outside. take out the garbage, check your mail box, maybe walk your dog. just get moving and get fresh air. it’ll help bring you back.

if there’s something else going on in your life and you can’t get it off your mind: write down what’s going through your head, sort of like a diary entry. it’ll help you work things out.

if you’re just mentally and physically exhausted: set a timer for 25-30 minutes and take a nap. any longer and you’ll hit REM and you’ll wake up feeling just as tired. once you wake up, get some caffeine in you.

if the material is boring as hell: find another way to study. see if there’s a crash course video online about it or draw out what you’re trying to learn in diagrams and pictures to make it fun.

if people around you won’t shut up: listen to some music. soundtrack and classical music is always good because they won’t absorb you as much as music with lyrics. white noise (like ocean waves, rain sounds, etc.) also works.

if you only half understand a concept: call/message a friend who’s not in the class and try to teach the material to them. this will help you mentally work through the material and will help you remember it as well.

Still wack to me that this is still circulating around and helping people.  I hope everyone has been taking care of themselves and finishing their semester/year strong.  I’m working on finishing my degree’s capstone currently and will be hopefully back with more when I begin my Masters in Special Education and Behavioral Analysis in August :) Love you all!

summary notes #1 - study less study smart

a summary of this video by marty lobdell

1. keep track of your attention span, plan your study session and study breaks accordingly

everyone has a different attention span. it can range from 25 minutes to 4 hours. to study effectively, time yourself. take note of when you start to feel tired or bored. mark that time to take a break (for about 5 minutes)

5 thirty-minute study chunks with breaks are more effective than 1 three-hour long session without breaks.

suggestion for types of study breaks by @samsstudygram: x

2. reward yourself after a completed study session

plan your day so that you have time for a reward once you’ve finished studying. choose something that you genuinely love and look forward to.

reinforcing your study sessions with something fun makes you more excited about your studying materials, and the activity in general. eventually, you will be able to extend your attention span, going from 30 minutes to 60, 75, and more.

3. have a separate study space

have a designated space for studying, away from possible distraction.

if you can’t have a separate room for it, have a cue. for example, get a lamp only used when studying. once you turn it on, it’s a cue for you to study. you turn it off, and it’s either break time or you’ve finished for the day. leave your desk as well.

train yourself to use the area for studying only.

4. separate facts from concepts

facts are what you can use rote memorization for. you can look it up using google or reference books.

concepts are what stay with you for a long time. you need to understand them.

how to learn a concept:

5. form a study group 

an instructor probably can’t understand why you’re struggling with a concept, because they’ve been spending a lot of time studying and researching it. but your peers are just as new to the whole thing as you are, you can figure it out together, show one another your thought process. also, you can share the same reference points, making analogies easier to understand and remember.

6. avoid confusing recognition with recollection

when you highlight, you highlight the most important parts. but during revision, you confuse your visual recognition with recollection. you recognize the highlighted parts, because it stood out to you visually, but you don’t really remember it enough to take a test.

if you can recite the content in your own words, when looking up at the sky, then you’ve got it.

7. sleep

your brain can store information better thanks to rapid eye movement sleep (rem).

telling people to sleep doesn’t make anyone money, so you don’t hear this advice in the media often, but it’s the simplest thing to do when you want to learn effectively and efficiently.

8. take notes

everyone knows how to take notes, but it is what you do with them that matters.

you should invest about 5 minutes to flesh out your notes right after the class. you can give it more details, write down your own interpretation. if you leave it for too long, you may forget the meaning of what you wrote, then it’s a wasted note.

if you have questions, you can reach out to a classmate immediately, or ask your instructor. it doesn’t always look like that sometimes, but instructors want you to succeed. you asking them questions also makes them feel important, so it’s win-win.

9. recite

80% of your study time should be spent reciting, 20% reading

recapitulate your lectures to someone else. or have a dialogue with an empty chair. try to think out loud so you know for sure whether or not you’ve got it.

you can also write things down in your own words, whatever suits you.

10. SQ3R

how to use your textbooks effectively:

S: survey the entire chapter, looking through things and pose

Q: questions. if you intend to find something, you’ll find it. have purpose while you

R: read. follow this with

R: recite. follow the advice above so that when the test comes close, you’ll only need a quick

R: review

11. mnemonics

use acronyms, coined phrase, or interacting images

example:

make it weird