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FEB 24 / 21
trying to get things done but the list keeps getting longer and longer… we can do this!
"study tips" make me so mad because it's always about plan out your week! Don't procrastinate! Always have your goals in mind! and it's like "well really great katherine, but I have anxiety". Most of the time, those tips are unrealistic and don't tell you how we all struggle in school. Fake positivity makes more damage than it shows.
Whatever your circumstances are, my only study tip is that you should be gentle to yourself. Take your time. You'll always have another chance. Breathe.
Study tips for architecture school goes as following:
1. Learn when to cut your losses. You’re going to run out of time, you’re not going to finish the model if you spend 50 hours on the drawings.
2. Prioritize. Plan but be smart about it. Skip the “8 am - wake up, 9 am - draft” Nah, we run on big deadlines and the smaller deadlines before the big deadlines. Figure out what you NEED to do versus what you WANT to do. What’s more important a flawless model or a diagram that will explain your concept?
This is the same as setting boundaries for your personal life, learn to say no to plans. Don’t get FOMO and put yourself in situations that aren’t beneficial to you, it’s never worth it. Don’t want to do something? No. Need an excuse? Sorry, I’ve got studio.
3. Break your week up into chunks, list out EVERYTHING you need to do(draft, outline, render, model, diagram, revise) Everything. Monday to Tuesday : Draft + outline (and on and on)
4. Learn how to troubleshoot. You’re going to send in submissions for revisions at 2 am and think you’re done. Now you can move on to the next item on that long to do list. Wrong, you’re going to wake up to an email from your professor with a million revisions. This will throw off your planned timeline, figure what can be skipped and what can’t. Go cry, make some tea and keep working.
5. Learn how to talk to yourself. Literally out loud, talk to yourself like you’re working in a group. “What do we need to get done today?” “How long do you think that’ll take?” It boosts productivity when you’re not just wallowing in deadline anxieties.
6. Take breaks. Walk around your block, go cry in the shower, make some tea and snack on something, call a friend for 5 mins, do a face mask, and for God’s sake take a shower. Taking routine breaks have been proven to reduce anxiety and boost productivity and quality of work.
I would love to be those Studyblrs with calm and minimal desk, planning out their week every Sunday night but the reality is I can’t. We have supplies everywhere, half my bed is books and tracing paper. School will always be hectic and if I can’t keep up because I’m so busy beat myself up for not being perfect, I’m going to drown.
14/100 days of productivity | the perfect setting for your real life coffee shop au
🎶 i am listening to: fever, gfriend
I have a stats assignment due at midnight. Why am I on tumblr and not doing work. Somebody yell at me.
I want to chill but I also want to learn 5 languages
100619 // journaling station! i would have been outside if it wasn’t raining this morning D:
also, healthy yeeting day 15: there’s a rowing machine in this house and half an hour of rowing later my whole body can perish ;w;
the shore
Good wood - um, ok then, yeah I’ll hang out in a house with it’s OWN PRIVATE GIANT ROCKPOOL…. POOL. The delectable ‘SJA III’ (technical name I hope…) in Mexico by the smart folk at CDM architects.
Illustration of S T U D Y B L R S 📚😉
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15/8/2018 | Wednesday | 7/250
-biology summary -working on new art -later on: french practice and code and gym
woke up to gloomy weather and rain. so i had to have some pumpkin spice chai and coffee cake! 🎃🍂
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I had trouble studying next to these big windows. Getting lost in my thoughts while staring out was too easy.
I know it sounds fake but you really do have a lot of silent lovers on this planet who look at you and wish they had your smile or your hair color or your humor or your intellect or your intentions or your heart, your manners, your eyes, your ease, even just you. People who are too shy to tell you what they admire about you or what they wish for you or who they see themselves becoming bc of you & they’re too shy to tell you. even tho it isn’t verbalized, the universe has still heard and the universe has loved you for helping out on its creations. You’re that person. You’re you.
ok universe, i’m ready to feel good things. make me feel good things.
whenever i post this it works reblog if u want to feel good things & the universe will bring u something sweet