me, trying to spell something in french: uhhhhhh i think that’s enough vowels the french language: youe fooule…. youe insouelente cowèurde

stop giving white people poc roles

stop giving white people poc roles

stop giving white people poc roles

stop giving white people poc roles

stop giving white people poc roles

stop giving white people poc roles

stop giving white people poc roles

by Wennie Guo

epistemophilic - (adj.) a love of knowledge

Sometimes I’m overwhelmed with the insatiable desire to learn. To know astronomy and geography and language and architecture; to recognize each constellation, planet, and star; to speak and understand all languages, be able to decipher ancient Greek and Latin text; to grow my understanding of how the human body works; study the differences and similarities of each religion; recognize the use for each herb and seed and sapling.

I want to better myself, not for fame or recognition or power. I just want to understand. 

hey guys! i’ve been seeing a lot of master posts going around so I thought I’d compile some together for college students :^)

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How to Annotate Literature

Many times language and literature classes require students to annotate the books that are given to them, but in many cases tips and advice on how to do so is lacking. I will be sharing my personal strategy for efficient and successful annotating that will not only help your understanding of the text but also gain the love of your teachers! The tips have been divided into 5 components, each with their own explanation. Sticky Tabs are Your Best Friend

Create a key for your tabs, personally I use five colors each having a few specific purposes based on where I place them in the book. Most stickies are accompanied by a specific note that will remind me of what I wanted to point out, these stick out of the right margin. 

These are the things teachers usually look out for and it is certainly useful in any kind of further task! 

The top and bottom margins can be used to divide the book in to sections, such as chapters or scenes, mark the most important pages and to also highlight text to text connections. These colors you can pick yourself! I do not recommend having more than 5 sticky tabs per page, otherwise it gets too crowded and they lose their purpose! (but you will still need to buy aaa lloootttt)

This is my key for the book I am currently annotating, Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. 

Don’t Overdo it With the Highlighter

Find one color highlighter that you like the most and use it to mark explicit words or phrases that catch your attention, you can also use them in correlation with you sticky tabs!  I prefer to use a yellow highlighter because it seems to bleed the least, and I usually use it in relation to the the yellow and blue tabs because those are the ones that relate to the most detailed and minute parts of the text. Once again you can find your own preference! But don’t overdo it, otherwise, like the tabs, the highlighter will lose its function to highlight important points. 

This is an example of how much highlighting I usually do. For non-fictional texts or parts of a book (like in the introduction you see here) I reserved highlighter for dates and names. 

Have a Conversation With the Author

Whether the text is fiction of non fiction, anything in between, you can always do these few things

What i’m trying to say is write down anything that comes to mind, your first response is your true response, and it is a valuable addition to your notes! And if you want to write a whole essay in between the lines… Actually, i’ll come back to that later! 

Pens, not Pencils 

The good thing about pen is that you can’t erase it and let’s say you started writing down a note, scan down the page and realize what you are taking a note of is completely wrong. That’s ok! That’s actually really good! Don’t scribble out what you just wrote down, but instead continue and explain why you may have thought a certain way and what your understanding is now. That relates really closely to the previous note.  Evidently pen also appears darker on the page, then there’s no possibility of it ever disappearing. It also won’t smudge or bleed as long as it’s ballpoint! That’s a good thing when drawing arrows between lines, underlining in addition to your highlights and circling/boxing whatever you deem necessary.

Time, Effort and Commitment

That’s all I have for now! If you have any further questions for advice or explanation please message me and I will be more than happy to help! And I hope that this helps some people out too! (I’m counting this as 21/100 days of productivity as all I did today was related to annotating.)

some french phrases ♥︎

1. À LA DÉBANDADE

À la basically means “in the style of” or “according to.” À la débandade—literally “like a stampede”— used figuratively in English to describe a disorderly or chaotic mess.

2. AMOUR FOU

an obsessive passion for someone, and in particular one that is not reciprocated. It literally means “insane love.”

3. L’APPEL DU VIDE

It literally means “the call of the void,” but in practice it’s usually explained asthe bizarre inclination some people have for doing something dangerous or deadly, no matter how foolish they know it is. So when you’re standing on a beach, l’appel du vide is the voice that tells you to swim away and never come back. When standing on a clifftop, l’appel du vide tells you to throw yourself off.

4. APRÈS MOI, LE DÉLUGE

Après moi, le déluge means “after me, the flood,” and is used to refer to a person’s irresponsible or selfish lack of concern in what will happen after they have gone or moved on.

5. CHERCHEZ LA FEMME

Literally meaning “look for the woman,” cherchez la femme is used in English to imply that if a man is seen acting out of character, then a woman will likely be the cause of it—find her, and the issue will be resolved. Although the origins of the phrase are a mystery, it’s often credited to the French author Alexandre Dumas, whose crime drama Les Mohicans de Paris (1854) contains its first written record: “There is a woman in all cases; as soon as a report is brought to me I say, ‘Cherchez la femme!’”

6. COUP DE FOUDRE

Coup de foudre is the French term for a thunderbolt or strike of lightning, but it’s been used figuratively in English since the late 1700s to mean love at first sight.

7. L’ESPRIT DE L’ESCALIER

Known less romantically as “staircase wit” in English, l’esprit de l’escalier is the frustrating phenomenon of coming up with the perfect observation or comeback after the opportunity to use it has passed.

8. HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE

“Shame on him who thinks badly of it,” warns the old Norman French saying honi soit qui mal y pense, which has been used in English to discourage preemptively or unjustly talking something down since the early Middle Ages.

9. MAUVAIS QUART D’HEURE

As well as having your fifteen minutes of fame, you can also have your mauvais quart d’heure(or your “bad quarter of an hour”)—a brief but embarrassing, upsetting, or demoralizing experience.

10. MAUVAISE HONTE

Mauvaise honte literally means “bad shame.” In English it’s often used simply to mean bashfulness or extreme shyness.

11. MISE EN ABYME

the phrase mise en abyme (“put into the abyss”) is used to refer to the mind-boggling visual effect of a recurring image containing itself into infinity—like a mirror reflected in a mirror.

12. NOSTALGIE DE LA BOUE

The phrase nostalgie de la boue was coined by the French dramatist Émile Augier in 1855, who used it to refer to a person’s fondness for cruel, crude, depraved, or humiliating things. Its meaning has extended over time however, so that today a nostalgie de la boue is often used more loosely to refer to adesire to live a simpler, downsized, or less indulgent life—it literally means “a yearning for the mud.”

13. PLUS ÇA CHANGE

a world-weary acceptance of the current state of affairs—although things might appear to change or improve, beneath it all they remain just as bad as before.

14. POUR ENCOURAGER LES AUTRES

The ironic expression pour encourager les autres—meaning “so as to encourage the others”—refers to an action carried out to discourage any future unrest or rebellion.

15. RECULER POUR MIEUX SAUTER

If you reculer pour mieux sauter, then you literally “draw back in order to leap better.” a temporary withdrawal or pause in action that allows for time to regroup or reassess a situation, and therefore make a better attempt at it in the future.

16. REVENONS À NOS MOUTONS

“let us return to the matter at hand.”

17. ROI FAINÉANT

Literally a “do-nothing king.” leader who has no real power and instead acts merely as a figurehead, or as a symbol of power or authority.

18. TANT BIEN QUE MAL

Anything that is only partly or moderately successful. It literally means “as well as badly.”

19. VENTRE À TERRE

Ventre à terre literally means “belly to the ground” in French, and so taken literally it can be used simply to describe someone or something lying face down. Doing something ventre à terre, ultimately, means doing it at full speed.

20. VIOLON D’INGRES

A hidden talent or pastime, far outside of what you are best known for, and in which you are just as knowledgeable or adept.

As part of my new years resolutions I decided to dedicate more time to planning out my daily, weekly and monthly events. For the past month I have been using a planner sent from Mossery Co in biscuit blue and have decided to note down my thoughts incase you were wondering!

I’ve found this planner to be just what I need in terms of organisation! Whilst I still use my bullet journal for daily tasks, I have being using this one for longer-term planning. Since I use it with the monthly spreads, I’ve been making the effort to note down anything important that is coming up and reviewing it regularly!

I’ll start my review from the outside! One of my favourite parts of the planner is the ability to customise it to fit your needs and to have your name on the front! When picking out your planner you can decide the inside and out. 

On the front you can decide whether you’d like to have it personalised with your name, a quote or anything. However even without the customisation, the Mossery Logo is super cute. By personalising the planner it makes a great gift to a friend (or yourself!). I chose to have ‘emmastudies’ on the front in the brush script and absolutely love it! 

Then inside you can customise even more! In each planner you get a monthly overview for the entire year and some inspiration/feature illustration pages. I’ve found the monthly spreads great for writing in important set dates or events - for example semester start dates, birthdays or due dates! The space for notes on each month spread is great for those reminders that don’t have a set date. For me this is for things like decluttering my email inbox, archive any files that have been thrown on my desk, etc! You can see me using it here!

Next you can decide the rest of the planner. For example you can chose between having a weekly layout or lined, dotted or graph paper! 

This gives you the opportunity to customise the planner for your exact needs! I chose to go with lined paper since I am using the planner alongside my bullet journal. If you’re using the planner for school, then I’d suggest a weekly layout. I also love the way Mossery gives you option between a horizontal or vertical weekly layout. The vertical layout sets out a daily schedule with space for hourly planning. This is great if you’re really busy or find making a plan the best way to be productive. For me I prefer horizontal layouts since I don’t schedule my daily activities to often and find the larger boxes better for my workload.

Below I’m going to note a few of my favourite things and some answers to a few questions I received on my Instagram about the planner:

This is a swatch test using a few different types of pens to give you an indication on how the pens work on the paper and the level of ghosting it has. I think it’s held up pretty well! I think the Pilot G2 works best on the paper and doesn’t ghost much. Muji gel pens also proved to work well and not leave much on the other side. The fineliners (Staedtler, Unipin and Kikki K) seem to absorb into the paper so I personally wouldn’t recommend using them with this planner. Have a look below!

Starting from $23 (AUD) I think this is a fantastic planner for anyone looking to get a bit more organisation into their lives! You can purchase your own Mossery planner at their website. 

I hope you’ve found this review helpful! I’m looking forward to continuing to use my Mossery planner throughout the year! x 

Notetaking

Flash Cards

Planner 

To Do List

Time Management

Productivity

Free Learning

Ambient Noise

Health

Reference

Miscellaneous 

Hm, are they?

anyways, this is just a lil’ reminder! Have a happy weekend everyone, remember to be productive! don’t procrastinate

do you ever get mad at yourself because youre not even good at the things you thought you were good at

YOU PUT THE THING INTO WORDS

a small reminder if you’re always comparing your progress and abilities to the people around you. don’t be discouraged by someone else’s achievements, yours will come around soon enough! :-)

my new Leuchtturm1917 journal came today! here’s my monthly spread + a few more 🌱

Making deals with myself to stay up late, forego sleep, and study longer goes like this

OKAY GUYS

I’m gonna play a game tonight. 

It’s called: FINISH A SIX PAGE FINAL RESEARCH PAPER COMPLETE WITH BIBLIOGRAPHY IN CHICAGO STYLE FORMATTING BY 6 A.M. TOMORROW. 

EXPERT LEVEL: NO PRIOR RESEARCH. PAPER IS WORTH 275 POINTS

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