Note-taking is one of the most essential skills a student should master. It allows you to record and review information to be used in the future. But what’s the best way to do so? Here’s an overview of note-taking styles that can help you maximize your learning!
Hey everyone! I know I haven’t been active on here for a while but I’m doing an instagram takeover for the Indonesian student union of the US, so if you have any questions about Cornell, head on over to @/permias.nasional on insta!!
Darkly academic research ideas for your time indoors (because you're not a heathen):
Just a few research rabbit holes to throw yourself into if you're bored. :)
nothing is too small or insignificant to have as your reason to live. live because you just found a song that you really like and you want to listen to it one more time. live because you want to see your friend’s next birthday. live because tomorrow is supposed to be warm. live because sunday is supposed to be rainy. live because you want to see your pets face light up when you give them a treat. you will find big reasons to live, but you don’t have to find them right now. you don’t have to know your purpose, but live anyways.
Sort of calm, sort of terrified right now
I Have No Better Plan.
8.26.21 - summer has been busy with school & work. i currently work at urban outfitters part time & have been taking two summer school classes! my last final is due tomorrow tho, & then i get a 3 week break until fall quarter starts sept. 23rd! i’m looking forward to moving into my new residence in a few weeks as well.
[ the top photo is the outside of my residence hall for fall quarter & the bottom photo is my study setup at the library the other day. ]
• late august, last days of summer, new semester looming in the distance…. I can feel the autumn in the air.
“Language cannot be reduced to a dictionary or stock of words and phrases. Nor can it be reduced to a warehouse of the works written in it. A spoken language is a body, a living creature, who’s physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. And this creature’s home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate.”
— John Berger, from ‘Self-Portrait’, Confabulations
work on who you want to be, but don’t forget to enjoy who you are
kurdish: “my story went to other homes, god bless the mothers and fathers of its listeners” (Çîroka min çû diyaran, rehmet li dê û bavê guhdaran.)
greek: “and they lived well, and we lived better” (και ζήσανε αυτοί καλά και εμείς καλύτερα)
afrikaans: “whistle whistle, the story is done” (fluit fluit, die storie is uit)
goemai: “my tale has finished, (it) has returned to go (and) come home.” (tamtis noe lat / dok ba muaan yi wa)
amharic: “return my story and feed me bread” (ተረቴን መልሱ አፌን በዳቦ አብሱ::)
bengali: “my story ends and the spinach is eaten by the goat” (aamaar kothati furolo; Notey gaachhti murolo) *means something is irreversibly ended because goats eats herbs from the root
norwegian: “snip snap snout, the tale is finished” (snipp snapp snute, så er eventyret ute”
polish: “and i was there [at the wedding] too, and drank mead and wine.” (a ja tam byłem, miód i wino piłem.)
georgian: “disaster there, feast here… bran there, flour here…” (ჭირი – იქა, ლხინი – აქა, ქატო – იქა, ფქვილი – აქა)
hungarian: “this is the end, run away with it” (itt a vége, fuss el véle)
turkish: “lastly, three apples fell from the sky; one for our story’s heroes, one for the person who told their tale, and one for those who listened and promise to share. And with that, they all achieved their hearts’ desires. Let us now step up and settle into their thrones.” (Gökten üç elma düşmüş; biri onların, biri anlatanın, diğeri de dinleyenlerin başına. Onlar ermiş muradına, biz çıkalım kerevetine.)
spanish: and they lived happily and ate partridges (y vivieron felices y comieron perdices)
also: red goldfinch, this story has finished (colorín colorado, este cuento se ha acabado)
german: and if they haven’t died yet, then they’re still alive today (und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, dann leben sie noch heute)
Ukrainian: And lived they happily. And still do, if such is their fate. (І жили вони щасливо. І нині живуть, коли їм судилося)
russian: and so they kept on living and building wealth. that’s the end of the tale and who has listened has done well! (и стали они жить-поживать да добра наживать. вот и сказочке конец, а кто слушал молодец)
also, if there’s a wedding in the end: and i was there, i drank mead and beer, they dripped down my moustaches and nothing got into my mouth (и я там был, мед-пиво пил, по усам текло, а в рот не попало)
thinking of resurrecting my pre internet hobbies like “walking with friends in different places” anyone want to join me
I have this nebulous idea that the Marie Kondo method actually applies really well to editing the first complete draft of a story and I just...could write a whole essay about it but that might be all there is to it? Going through part by part and asking if this sparks joy and dropping it mercilessly into the discard doc if it doesn't???
I’ve been trying the same thing with my to-do list
