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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
- Piano music playlist
- Peaceful piano Spotify playlist by @spotify
- Piano background music Spotify playlist
- Rainy sounds
- Burning fireplace sounds
- Wave sounds
Videos, movies, dramas
Food
Movies
- Free movies/tv
- Marvel movies masterpost by @girlintoomanyfandoms
- Classic chick flicks by @jamescookjr
- Cinemasins
Studytubes
Music
Video games
- Buzzfeed Multiplayer (eg. Until Dawn, Dead by daylight, Cooking Mama)
True crimes and supernatural
Comedies (old but gold)
- Friends
- Mind your language
- Bewitched
- Dr Ken suggested by @akydemics
Exercise
Sleep
- Guide to sleep by @educatier
- Tips for balancing sleep & education by @brbimstudying
- The perfect night sleep by @paintitbright
- How to go to bed early and actually fall asleep
- Night routine and sleeping tips
- Tips and tricks for getting enough sleep by @candydsgn
Meditation
Treat yourself
- Simple ways to treat yourself by @anitastudy
- Guide to treating yourself by @pennyfynotes
- 25 No/Low cost self care acts by @gaygirlhustle
Water
Breaks
- Use the pomodoro method where you study for 25 minutes and rest for 5 minutes to allow your brain to re-energise itself.
- Take a break
- Types of study breaks by @samsstudygram
- Tips for getting better rest by @overstudies
- 9 things to do on a study break by @studyzine
- Study break ideas by @gomedorgohome
- What to do during a study break by @emmastudies
- Things i do when taking a study break by @produitivity
Meals
- Study break snacks by @gentlysoft
- 15 food to ease your study life by @studybowie
- Easy recipes for students by @aestudier
- Broke college kid masterpost by @dumplinghead-usagi
Bullet journal
Apps
Positivity
Quizzes
Others
All you need for high school
- Math help and advice
- How to take notes
- Mental health masterpost
- Ace your essays
- Ace your exams
- How to be productive
- Free printables masterpost
- Stationery masterlist by @architstudy
Other masterposts
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:
- take notes during the lecture
- break them down
- ruminate to discover their meaning
- relate them to something you already know
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:
- to remember the direction to unscrew a screw: righty tighty lefty loosy
- to remember how many calories there are in carbohydrate: car-bo-hy-drate (4 syllables, 4 calories) or c a r, there are 4 wheels on a car
make it weird
this radio silence has been deafening 😌
setting up for april 🦋
you got this
“only i can change my life. no one can do it for me.” - carol burnett
ya girl is finally back ☺️🌟 i had a long start to my semester; i tore a tendon in my wrist (on my dominant hand, of course) [for all you medical studyblrs, i tore my ECU, the tendon that holds your ulna in place at the wrist] and was in a cast for a while, so my class notes just weren’t looking how i like them to. after that whole ordeal, followed by an arthritis flare up (shout out to the snow — you are my mortal enemy) things were just... lagging. however, i’m finally back on my bullshit and am looking forward to rewriting my notes and getting some good aesthetics up on here ✨ [this is a pic of me rewriting my science notes! my scratchy arm-in-a-cast notes are what’s in the background]
never stop dreaming!
you got this!
- sam
“to plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” -audrey hepburn
new year, new semester, new classes, new knowledge. let’s make this semester a positive one!
you got this! ✨🌱
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.
a reminder for finals 💖 take breaks and take care of yourselves! best of luck!
you got this!
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
- Piano music playlist
- Peaceful piano Spotify playlist by @spotify
- Piano background music Spotify playlist
- Rainy sounds
- Burning fireplace sounds
- Wave sounds
Videos, movies, dramas
Food
Movies
- Free movies/tv
- Marvel movies masterpost by @girlintoomanyfandoms
- Classic chick flicks by @jamescookjr
- Cinemasins
Studytubes
Music
Video games
- Buzzfeed Multiplayer (eg. Until Dawn, Dead by daylight, Cooking Mama)
True crimes and supernatural
Comedies (old but gold)
- Friends
- Mind your language
- Bewitched
- Dr Ken suggested by @akydemics
Exercise
Sleep
- Guide to sleep by @educatier
- Tips for balancing sleep & education by @brbimstudying
- The perfect night sleep by @paintitbright
- How to go to bed early and actually fall asleep
- Night routine and sleeping tips
- Tips and tricks for getting enough sleep by @candydsgn
Meditation
Treat yourself
- Simple ways to treat yourself by @anitastudy
- Guide to treating yourself by @pennyfynotes
- 25 No/Low cost self care acts by @gaygirlhustle
Water
Breaks
- Use the pomodoro method where you study for 25 minutes and rest for 5 minutes to allow your brain to re-energise itself.
- Take a break
- Types of study breaks by @samsstudygram
- Tips for getting better rest by @overstudies
- 9 things to do on a study break by @studyzine
- Study break ideas by @gomedorgohome
- What to do during a study break by @emmastudies
- Things i do when taking a study break by @produitivity
Meals
- Study break snacks by @gentlysoft
- 15 food to ease your study life by @studybowie
- Easy recipes for students by @aestudier
- Broke college kid masterpost by @dumplinghead-usagi
Bullet journal
Apps
Positivity
Quizzes
Others
All you need for high school
- Math help and advice
- How to take notes
- Mental health masterpost
- Ace your essays
- Ace your exams
- How to be productive
- Free printables masterpost
- Stationery masterlist by @architstudy
Other masterposts
Hey so, I decided to do another masterpost. This time on exams. Some tips for studying at the very last minute if you are like me, disclaimer: I am not in any way supporting cramming but this is just to help you through if you are left with no choice other than cramming.
Cramming
The night before the exam
- What to do the night before an exam by @beautifullearning
- The night before your exam by @tiny-personal-university-thing
- The night before exam and I didn’t study guide by @renaistudying
- The night before test and I haven’t started studying by @getstudyblr
Revision methods
Study tips
- More unconventional study tips by @minimaliststudy
- A stash of tiny study tips by @justestjarchives
- College study tips that actually help by @samsstudygram
- Five tips for study marathons by @booksavolonte
- General study tips by @plantednotes
- More study tips
- My study tips by @anatomyandcappuccini
- My study tips
- Personal study tips
- Quickfire study tips by @annabaestudying
- Quick study tip by @studyspiratiom-coffee
- Rare study tips by @studybllog
- Scientifically proven study tips by @swankiegrades
- Secret study tips I wish someone would have told me by @fearlessroadtomd
- Some rare study tips by @organisedorgana
- Top 5 study tips by @studyign
- Weird study tip by @artemissstudies
- 101 study tips by @study-early
- Study tips by @howtohighschool
- Study tips from someone who has already been there by @haylstudies
- Study tips straight from my professor by @just-refuse-to-be-stopped
- Study tips that helped me get back on my feet by @sillydaisies
- Study tips that aren’t bullshit by @thebitchwhomadeit
- Tips for effective study by @kimtented
- How I write revision summaries by @athenastudying
- Ways to study for exams that are actually productive
- 10 mistakes when studying by @howtostudyquick
Memorising information
- How to memorise information by @monetstudy
- How to memorise information faster by @qxzu
- Memorization tips by @aescademic
- Memorization tips by @determinationandcaffeine
- Memorization tips by @studyquill
Exam tips
- How to cope with exams by @uk-studying
- How to revise for exams by @a-pro-s-studyblr
- Studying for exams by @orangeblossomstudies
- Tips for doing well on your exams by @aboysstudyblr
- Tips for doing well on your exams by @thepeachystudies
- Exam tips by @studywithmaggie
Exam guides
- Finals: study guide for the brave by @educatier
- Pennyfynotes guide to exam season by @pennyfynotes
- Quick guide to doing the finals by @inkskinned
Test taking tips
- How I revise for exams + tests
- How to study for a test by @tbhstudying
- My test taking tips by @55studies
- Test taking tips
Exam preparation
- How to make a stress free exam plan by @marias-studyblr
- How to mentally prep yourself for a test by @eruditicn
Procrastination
- How to beat procrastination by @eintsein
- Types of procrastination and how to deal with them by @emmastudies
Time management
Motivation
Other masterposts by me
Icon credits to @rhubarbstudies