everyone wants to talk about how nice academic validation is until you’re begging that one specific teacher to give you that one ounce of recognition you need because your career, future, and motivation to continue depends on it.
heyy! with school starting again, I decided to combine a lot of helpful post, so you can rock the new school year! I’ve spent quite some time going through different masterposts and the ones i included here are very helpful resources. good luck for the new school year! <3
STUDYING
study effectively
revise method
take a break
study journal
planning the perfect study schedule
all the things that got me studying after one year of living through tv-show characters and wasting time on youtube (be honest, we all need this)
how to memorize
flashcards
preparing for exams
how to pull an all-nighter (but pls only do this in extreme situations)
how i study
SCHOOL
how to wear what you want to school
first day of class
emergency kit
list of tips (this is super helpful)
test taking tips
help! i hate my teacher
how to annotate
NOTE TAKING
how to take notes from a textbook
tips
what to do when you ruined your notes
upgrade your notes
ESSAYS
five paragraph essay
how to write 20 pages
battling essays
STATIONERY
essentials
backpack buying guide
cute and cheap stationery
LANGUAGES
tips + resources
different ways to learn a language
how to learn a language by doing nothing
SELF CARE / PERSONAL
self care
some advice
back to school glow up
morning routine
night routine
skin care
stress route
mental health tips
school and heartbreak
tests for when you don’t know what to do with your life
burnout - a guide for students
FOOD
study foods
ideas
easy recipes for students
ORGANIZATION
organize & refresh your phone and laptop https://youtu.be/3b00aqUqoZI
staying organized
guide to bullet journals
bujo for students
PRODUCTIVITY
beat procrastination
how to increase productivity
sort out tasks
self-discipline
MOTIVATION
study moods
motivation
gentle reminder
how to motivate yourself to start studying
MUSIC
mildliner inspired study playlists
best spotify playlists and albums for your study session
playlists for different moods
study music
PRINTABLES
binder covers
grade tracker
study pack (task tracker, formula list, habit tracker, task tracker)
go to sleep
back to school kit (class data, study group sheet, supplies list)
APPS
google chrome extensions
my favorite study apps
apps for students
•Van Gogh's flowers•
oh my god there are so many books to read and instruments to learn and languages to speak and poems to write and oranges to eat and ideologies to study and songs to sing and films to watch and people to kiss and
‘Opiniated History of Mathematics’ is a Spotify podcast that I listened to at the beginning of the year because I was intrigued by how opinionated one could really be about tHe HisTORy oF mATheMATics. I was pleasantly surprised because not only was this guy OPINIONATED AS FUCK, he was OBSESSED with slandering Galileo and every single opinion of his was a super hard hit or a massive miss.
Highly recommend playing some video games and listening to a few episodes. Unfortunately, I stopped because he started insulting teachers and I think he even quoted “those who can, do. those who can’t, teach”. And by that point he just kept repeating the same opinions over and over and it was getting stale.
Overall, a solid 7/10 experience.
i'm a slut for smart people who can teach me stuff without making me feel dumb.
They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.
Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.
-Philip Larkin
You know what. I’m starting a new aesthetic, population me.
Romantic Science, AKA Dark Academia for STEM people.
Thrifting a lab coat and embroidering it with your initials and a little insignia, whose significance is known to you and your lab partner only
Watching The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game and Hidden Figures and basically every movie about historical scientists and mathematicians you can find
Decorating your desk with old slide rules and vintage lab equipment. Your prize possession is a set of vintage lenses you found at a thrift store
Wanting an articulated human skeleton far, far too much
Getting a set of (brand new, NOT thrifted, be safe ppl) beakers to drink from, and putting them directly onto your stovetop to boil water for tea or coffee, because borosilicate glass can survive anything.
Secretly relating far too much to Henry Jekyll and Victor Frankenstein, because you too want to do a gay little science experiment that challenges god.
Thunderstorms and late nights in the lab, the light of the Bunsen burner glistening off of your flasks and scribbled chalkboard equations
Papering your walls with vintage scientific diagrams; even if you know that our understanding of the world has evolved since they were made, looking back at scientific history is amazing
Writing code late at night and feeling, in some metaphysical way, as though Ada Lovelace herself is with you in spirit
Being far, FAR too obsessed with the concept of emergent ai sentience and how it has the potential to be Frankenstein irl
Looking through a telescope on clear nights, whispering the names of the constellations and stars, painting a star chart on your ceiling in a burst of creative inspiration
Collecting and mounting samples from everywhere you can think of to pore over in an antique microscope
Bringing a field journal wherever you go, learning how to draw and label botanical samples, preserving plants and flowers for study later
Dreaming of what undiscovered mysteries lie in the deepest depths of the sea, feeling the thrill of discovery whenever you learn about a new species and one day hoping to discover one yourself
Just. Romanticise STEM.
finale time babey