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studyblr asks (feel free to add to the list)

What year are you?

What’s your major/what do you think you want to major in?

If applicable, what is your thesis about?

Do you think you picked the right major?

Ultimate educational goals?

Career goals?

Do you think your goals are realistic?

What classes are you taking right now?

Favorite class out of everything you’ve ever taken and why?

Least favorite class ever and why?

Current favorite class and why?

Current least favorite class and why?

Favorite STEM field?

Favorite humanities subject?

Class that you’ve always wanted to take but never had the chance?

Do you use caffeine and if so how much daily?

What’s your preferred method of taking in caffeine?

Have you ever tried study drugs?

Are you a homework-in-the-morning kind of person?

Do you listen to music while you study?

Crowded area or quiet place?

What’s your preferred writing implement?

Do you need to work out before you can study well?

Describe your perfect study environment.

Are you procrastinating right now?

What was the last thing you procrastinated?

Are you a perfectionist?

Do you like easy classes or do you feel bad if you’re not working hard?

Are you a good test taker?

What are you the proudest of out of all the assignments you’ve ever had?

Do you talk to your teachers/professors a lot?

Describe your favorite teacher/professor and why you like them.

Describe your least favorite teacher/professor and why you dislike them.

Have you ever thought about becoming a teacher/professor?

Most profound thing ever said to you by a teacher/professor?

Best feedback you’ve ever gotten on something academic?

Worst study habit and how are you working on it?

Are you an in-class fidgeter?

How’s your handwriting?

Write “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” and post a photo.

Neat or messy notes?

A lot of notes or the bare minimum?

Post a photo/scan of your notes from your favorite class.

Are you a doodler?

Post a photo of your doodles if you have any.

Do you have pre-test rituals and what are they?

Are you a tangent-question asker?

Do you make jokes in class?

How many hours do you spend on academics per day?

What’s something more important to you than school?

Working on a new bullet journal spread for the week. My weekly schedule is deceptively thin!

Hey everyone! We’ve seen a few studyblr directories lately and some awesome pages with a recompilation of the tracks some blog track, and we thought it would be a good idea to combine these concepts and create a page when you can find studyblrs from your same country, same studies or just find some tags to tag your posts!

How to be in the directory:

Fill THIS form with the info you want to be shown in the directory

Reblog this post to spread the word

Easy right? We’ll be doing the page in the next days and updating it at least once a week, so if we get more than 10 people interested we’ll publish the link soon! If you have any doubts feel free to send us a message!

UPDATE: Since we’ve already received a lot of requests, we’ve started making the page right now! You have the link HERE if you want to check it out!

Credits to @pennyfynotes for the amazing graphics of the banner, we love you Maria 💕

1/100 days of productivity: 10/13/17 It looks like I'm finally getting in on @emmastudies 100 days of productivity challenge! I deliberated it for a long time, but my desire to challenge myself and stay productive won out in the end! Today I got in a great yoga session and tackled some paperwork for my research professor. (Hopefully tomorrow I'll have better lighting for a picture)

2&3/100 Days of Productivity ~ 10/15/17 It's been a busy weekend! On Saturday I spent the day instructing the color guard before they performed at Yamaha Cup. (I didn't get home until 3am but I absolutely loved it) Sunday was spent preparing for the week ahead: setting up the weekly spread for my bullet journal, buying food, and reviewing my notes for Experimental Psychology. Good times!

4/100 Days of Productivity~ 10/16/17 I bought myself a 0.38 pen, and now somehow my writing is even less legible. At least I feel competent with the content we went through during Experimental Psychology today. I also got a good chunk of work done on my Sports Business paper and got my advising done for my last semester of undergrad.

5/100 Days of Productivity~ 10/17/17

No picture available today, but I got a large chunk of my psych research done today and cleaned my room. I've been struggling to get work done today, but I'm happy enough that I managed to eat two full meals and not fall asleep in bio.

6/100 Days of Productivity~ 10/18/17 My Coaching minor requires a sports business class. Fun fact: I know absolutely nothing about business. Today he brought up Maslow and I nearly squealed in delight; it was finally a concept I knew something about. Later tonight I have to present a speech for the incoming group of accepted women in the leadership development program. Wish me luck!

7/100 Days of Productivity~ 10/19/17 I learned how to make this watercolor effect for my notes and bullet journal! It’s been one of those ‘meh’ days. I made an effort to get my oil changed and found out that the nearest jiffy lube that has the oil filter I need is an hour and a half away. I consider it productive because I got out and made the effort, despite failing.

Every year I find that the mid-semester is when my personal productivity is at an all time low. Motivation plummets as the workload for classes increases and professors are starting to cram in assignments before the end of the semester. It is stressful and can make or break your semester.

Here are some tips to get you through this difficult time!

-Maintain any previous study schedules you have been using this semester. Mid-semester is when these plans start to fall apart; students get lax with their schedules and then suddenly you are two weeks behind on your readings. Fight through the desire to push your rigid schedule aside and power through. IF YOU HAVE ALREADY BEGUN TO IGNORE YOUR STUDY ROUTINE- don’t panic. My best advice is to make a revised schedule before you truly fall behind and recruit a friend to hold you to it. Friends are great at holding you accountable if you think you can’t keep on top of it.

-Go to the library. Seriously, the library is a wonderful place that will make you feel productive if you are feeling lethargic. When everyone around you is working hard it kick-starts your motivation.

-Maximize your work during periods of motivation. Sometimes you just get short bursts of motivation where you can sit and do work for hours- make sure you jump on these whims and accomplish whatever you can. Similar to these motivated moments, there are also times where you can’t get yourself to sit down and work no matter how hard you try. By maximizing your productivity when you’re motivated, you can balance out these periods of inactivity.

-Have an emergency plan in case everything goes down the drain. It’s always best to be prepared for the worst case scenario. If your mental health takes a significant and rapid blow, have a plan of what you will do to keep yourself semi-functional. Maybe you have to alter your work schedule to working for five minutes with a thirty minute coloring break. Maybe you have a brand new set of highlighters to open if you cannot force yourself to read that twenty page articles.It is always important to have an emergency plan because little spurts of work is better than not working at all.

-Get some fresh air. Getting away from your desk is a good way to refresh for a few minutes, and getting outside gets your blood flowing and can help energize you. Sometimes I like to just walk around the block and look at the beautiful sights of nature around me (it sounds cheesy, but it gets me out of my head to appreciate the world for a moment).

-Work Hard/Break Hard. When you are working, do not let yourself lose momentum and and stray over to social media. When you take your scheduled breaks, do not let your mind linger on your schoolwork. You worked hard for that break and need to fully enjoy it. If you continue to think about work, you will not feel as refreshed when your return from your break.

-Stay off Netflix. Please, just trust me.

-Join a network of motivators (i.e. the amazing studyblr community). Sometimes the best motivation comes through the support of others. Everyone here in the studyblr community is/has gone through this mid-semester slump, and they are the best people to talk to if looking for advice (or even just a friend to relate to).

I hope at least one of these can help you get through this difficult point of the semester!!

Every year I find that the mid-semester is when my personal productivity is at an all time low. Motivation plummets as the workload for classes increases and professors are starting to cram in assignments before the end of the semester. It is stressful and can make or break your semester.

Here are some tips to get you through this difficult time!

-Maintain any previous study schedules you have been using this semester. Mid-semester is when these plans start to fall apart; students get lax with their schedules and then suddenly you are two weeks behind on your readings. Fight through the desire to push your rigid schedule aside and power through. IF YOU HAVE ALREADY BEGUN TO IGNORE YOUR STUDY ROUTINE- don’t panic. My best advice is to make a revised schedule before you truly fall behind and recruit a friend to hold you to it. Friends are great at holding you accountable if you think you can’t keep on top of it.

-Go to the library. Seriously, the library is a wonderful place that will make you feel productive if you are feeling lethargic. When everyone around you is working hard it kick-starts your motivation.

-Maximize your work during periods of motivation. Sometimes you just get short bursts of motivation where you can sit and do work for hours- make sure you jump on these whims and accomplish whatever you can. Similar to these motivated moments, there are also times where you can’t get yourself to sit down and work no matter how hard you try. By maximizing your productivity when you’re motivated, you can balance out these periods of inactivity.

-Have an emergency plan in case everything goes down the drain. It’s always best to be prepared for the worst case scenario. If your mental health takes a significant and rapid blow, have a plan of what you will do to keep yourself semi-functional. Maybe you have to alter your work schedule to working for five minutes with a thirty minute coloring break. Maybe you have a brand new set of highlighters to open if you cannot force yourself to read that twenty page articles.It is always important to have an emergency plan because little spurts of work is better than not working at all.

-Get some fresh air. Getting away from your desk is a good way to refresh for a few minutes, and getting outside gets your blood flowing and can help energize you. Sometimes I like to just walk around the block and look at the beautiful sights of nature around me (it sounds cheesy, but it gets me out of my head to appreciate the world for a moment).

-Work Hard/Break Hard. When you are working, do not let yourself lose momentum and and stray over to social media. When you take your scheduled breaks, do not let your mind linger on your schoolwork. You worked hard for that break and need to fully enjoy it. If you continue to think about work, you will not feel as refreshed when your return from your break.

-Stay off Netflix. Please, just trust me.

-Join a network of motivators (i.e. the amazing studyblr community). Sometimes the best motivation comes through the support of others. Everyone here in the studyblr community is/has gone through this mid-semester slump, and they are the best people to talk to if looking for advice (or even just a friend to relate to).

I hope at least one of these can help you get through this difficult point of the semester!!

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Just come to my ask box and tell me stuff about yourself. Your pets. Your favorite music. What you had for breakfast this morning. Literally anything you want, I love making new friends

Book Recommendations for 2018

Hello friends, I would like some book recommendations for next year! I really like books related to psychology, yoga, or critical essays! I love Henry David Thoreau and Caleb Carr if this helps define what kind of writers I like.

Please help me learn!!! I really want to spend more time thinking critically and see the world from the eyes of strong writers.

Things to do while waiting for responses from grad schools...

See friends that you haven’t seen in months because you’ve been working on your application.

Read a book. Or ten.

Sleep more than two hours a night.

Cry.

Drink water!!!

Keep refreshing the online application submission page to check for updates.

Drink some tea.

Go outside. Engage with the world.

CRY.

Pet a dog.

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Someone please help me I can’t wait another two months for admission decisions....

I was tagged by @idiosyncraticstudyblr!! Thanks for including me!

rules: put your music library on shuffle, list the first 10 songs and tag 20 people

Freak Show, Set It Off

Believer, Imagine Dragons

Goodnight Moon, Go Radio

Spaceship, Comet Blue

Take My Hand, Picture This

Time Bomb, All Time Low

Do I Wanna Know, Arctic Monkeys

I’m Born To Run, American Authors

Devil’s Backbone, The Civil Wars

The Room Where it Happens, Hamilton Original Broadway Cast

I am tagging: @stvdies, @emaleibronte, @studiees, @architstudy, @phdstudygirl, @breathelovepsych, @macchiato-study, @psychblr, @prefrontalcortx, @estudiear, @undergradnerd, @starlight-student, @studybab, @studypsyche, @fundergrad, @studiousgrace, @fit-and-studious, @shayystudies, @study-acorn, and @nebulodic!! I love you all and I hope you have a great day!!

When you start a new goal/activity/program, make a list of reasons why you’re doing it. Make sure it is filled with:

-Reasons why you chose to start this path of action.

-Positive thoughts.

-Personal goals.

-How it can benefit you.

-Where you hope the activity will lead you in life.

-Happy memories surrounding the activity/program.

Open the list and read through it whenever you feel like giving up. It works.

I used this when I marched drum corps because the demanding schedule was exhausting both physically and mentally. When I wanted to quit I opened to the page and reminded myself why I was there, and it always helped me feel better.

[1.18.18] I recently found myself hitting a wall with my Korean studies, so I'm going back to refresh on the basics using a different textbook (My Korean 1) to spice things up! I'm also using this to keep myself busy while I wait to hear from graduate schools....

[1. 2. 2018]

I love that I was able to find my sports psychology textbook cheap online. I love to highlight but I always feel bad highlighting a rental book. Overall great study session: I finished two discussion boards and began looking for review articles for my senior seminar paper.

studyblr asks (feel free to add to the list)

What year are you?

What’s your major/what do you think you want to major in?

If applicable, what is your thesis about?

Do you think you picked the right major?

Ultimate educational goals?

Career goals?

Do you think your goals are realistic?

What classes are you taking right now?

Favorite class out of everything you’ve ever taken and why?

Least favorite class ever and why?

Current favorite class and why?

Current least favorite class and why?

Favorite STEM field?

Favorite humanities subject?

Class that you’ve always wanted to take but never had the chance?

Do you use caffeine and if so how much daily?

What’s your preferred method of taking in caffeine?

Have you ever tried study drugs?

Are you a homework-in-the-morning kind of person?

Do you listen to music while you study?

Crowded area or quiet place?

What’s your preferred writing implement?

Do you need to work out before you can study well?

Describe your perfect study environment.

Are you procrastinating right now?

What was the last thing you procrastinated?

Are you a perfectionist?

Do you like easy classes or do you feel bad if you’re not working hard?

Are you a good test taker?

What are you the proudest of out of all the assignments you’ve ever had?

Do you talk to your teachers/professors a lot?

Describe your favorite teacher/professor and why you like them.

Describe your least favorite teacher/professor and why you dislike them.

Have you ever thought about becoming a teacher/professor?

Most profound thing ever said to you by a teacher/professor?

Best feedback you’ve ever gotten on something academic?

Worst study habit and how are you working on it?

Are you an in-class fidgeter?

How’s your handwriting?

Write “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” and post a photo.

Neat or messy notes?

A lot of notes or the bare minimum?

Post a photo/scan of your notes from your favorite class.

Are you a doodler?

Post a photo of your doodles if you have any.

Do you have pre-test rituals and what are they?

Are you a tangent-question asker?

Do you make jokes in class?

How many hours do you spend on academics per day?

What’s something more important to you than school?

Graduation and Graduate School Update

Hello again friends! I am not the best at posting original content regularly, but I am extremely excited to tell you about my recent graduation and upcoming plans for graduate school!

Graduation: I graduated with my Bachelor of the Arts last month from Georgian Court University. The last two months have been a whirlwind of events ceremonies, and I feel like I’ve made my mark on the University in these past two years. I was blessed to receive the Peer Mentor Award of Excellence, an academic honorable mention for Psychology, and one of ten nominations among the Senior Class for Kappa Gamma Pi. I ended up graduating Summa Cum Laude and I am ready to move on to Grad School.

Grad School: I will officially be attending Montclair State University in the Fall! I am going for my M.A. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology with a culminating thesis. On top of this, I also will be starting a Graduate Assistantship at the Center for Writing Excellence. I absolutely love academic, creative, and professional writing; the fact that I got this assistantship is an absolute dream come true. 

I plan on posting and giving study tips as I utilize them in the future, and I hope to be more active on this studyblr soon!