• COffee.
• I love to draw and paint. my fav mediums are pencils, watercolor and digital.
• I also play the Ukulele and Keyboard and sing a little.
• im learning to skate at the moment with not much avail.
• I am a baby witch. That means i'm learning witchraft.
• I love making playlists. so you can expect fun playlists every now and then shared here.
• i love literally all aesthetics and i keep switching between them. so if i ever post with inconsistence editing/vibes, that's the reason

• Sapphic-Poets-Society is a variation of the name of the movie Dead poets society which is one of my all time favourite movies.
• i will post general study stuff
• life updates
• playlists
• calligraphy/art quotes
• wallpapers/templates etc
• Notion updates
• Updates about my Witchcraft
• lots of coffee posts
• and lots of follower interactions

• Read the textbook prior to taking notes - This helps give you a solid understanding of the material so you can summarise and shorten your notes. Have a good understanding is great to help shorten your notes, since you can avoid copying the menial information.
• Highlight some key points, terms and concepts before taking notes - Remember not to over-highlight, keep it brief and minimal; key words, facts, and statistics!
• Have a colour coding system - This helps to visualise your notes when trying to memorise information and also makes your notes more effective material to learn from. Making sure you’re using the same colours for highlighting your textbook and writing your notes. My colour coding system can be found here.
• Use the layout of the textbook to organise your notes - I found copying the headings and subheadings really helped simplify and ensure I was learning each section. It’s much easy to find information when you’re skimming through notes. This also ensures that you can remember what topic areas relate to others, meaning you can add more into your essays under exam conditions!
• Include different ways to show the information - Use mindmaps, bullet points, graphs, flow chats, and post-it notes to help visualise the content. Breaking up your notes with graphics is a good way to avoid full pages of writing and great for memorising statistics or key elements of a topic.
• Supplement your notes - Use other textbooks and your own research to expand the depth of your notes. This is highly important for subjects that can require evidence, statistics and evaluations. Making sure this information is embedded into your notes is great for writing essays.
• Add your own personal touch - Add doodles, acronyms, and abbreviations to help your study. Little things that make important information unique and standout will help you recall it later!
• Summarise each chapter - Make a final summary of each chapter using sticky notes or flash cards. Once you’ve read your textbook, you’ll have a collection of chapter summaries ready to study from.

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• i like to take quick/shorthand notes because i think learning to discriminate between what is and isn’t important material is a good skill to have so i’m not drowning in useless information when it’s time to study for a midterm or final.
• i like to bring my ipad and use the notability app. it’s easier for me to just carry an ipad mini and stylus than it is for me to lug around a heavy notebook/binder and several pens/pencils.
• if the professor makes lecture slides available to students online (via a class website), i like to download them onto notability and annotate them as the professor goes along. that way, i can focus more on what the professor is saying and less on merely writing everything down.

• if lecture slides aren’t available, i type out my notes as i find it faster than handwriting them.

• once i’m home, i take out my ipad and copy down my lecture notes into a specified notebook for that class, explain everything more thoroughly, make them neater, and organize them in a way that makes more sense to me (as opposed to copying them down exactly as how they were presented in lecture).
• i like to use lots of colors, highlighters, and etc. and make them as pretty as possible so i actually want to use them to study from in the future.

• normally, what professors will do is assign reading from a textbook and base their lectures around the reading (or have the reading be based on the lectures). usually exams/tests will rely mostly on what was said in lecture instead of in the reading and this is partly because they overlap so much. what the professor says in lecture, you should consider the “important points” in your reading. sometimes, though, there are things in the reading that seem important and weren’t mentioned in lecture.
• what i’ll do if this is the case is take post-its, write the piece of information down, and stick the post-it in my notebook in the corresponding section (i.e. where it fits best with my notes)

• i like this method as opposed to taking notes directly in my textbook or having a separate notebook for only reading notes because 1) i’ve consistently found that reading material is not as heavily focused on in tests as lecture material and 2) i like to have all of my information in one place

• when an exam is coming up, what i like to do is take all of the information in my notebook and condense it into a study guide that i can use to study from.
• the format of my study guide varies depending on the class and which type of study guide and method of studying i think will help me best. my study guides range from flash cards to mind maps to sheets of paper with a bunch of condensed information.

• if i come across a concept on my study guide that i can’t completely explain to myself/don’t fully understand, that’s when i’ll look back in my notebook for a better and fuller explanation of it.
• i also like to give myself some time before an exam to completely read through my notebook and look at all the notes i’ve taken (not just what i have on my study guide) because i think it’s a good refresher of all of the lecture and reading material and all of the information will be brought forward in my mind.

• Summer is probably my favourite season so autumn can be a bit bittersweet, but I love crocheting & knitting under a cosy blanket, baking pumpkin & apple spice treats, and going for walks when the air is crisp, the sun is shining, and the leaves are changing colours

25th July - Daytime or nighttime – what’s your favourite time during summer?

can i kinda cheat and say evening? (this is my challenge anyway so i’m going to allow it lol) i think that’s because in the evening it’s cooled right down from the heat of the day so i like that. but you don’t have to sleep which usually i don’t like in the summer because it’s always still too warm to comfortably sleep at night