Types Of Study Breaks For Every Situation

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rules: answer the questions and tag some people you want to get to know better/catch up with.

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three ships: 1. Wanda Maximoff + Vision 🥰

2. pricefield (yes i am stuck in 2015)

3. Eleanor + Chidi from The Good Place :)

last song: The Man with the Axe - Lorde

last movie: The Suicide Squad

currently watching: rewatching Parks and rec + The Good Place, watching Free!

currently reading: just finished Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse & about to start Armada by Ernest Cline

currently craving: some really good watermelon

i’m tagging @mymessystudyblr @cafeconlleche @marsoundsbetter @alexis-hrt and @study-for-your-dream

currently reading this! i’m enjoying it but it’s not a very quick read.

January Study Challenge ft. the sunrise

day 8 - opinion on snow??

i LOVE snow 🥺 i live in the desert so i don’t get to see much, but i’m v excited to move north so i can :)

you can find me on campus committing social blunders

here is my lil yoga corner! i took up yoga during quarantine and i acquired enough stuff to want a box to keep it all in :)

august 31st: what is your favorite thing about school?

definitely the actual learning. i love the feeling when i’ve realized i’ve learned something new and i can now share that with other people! with online school tho, i really like the fact that i now have the time to exercise, do yoga, meditate, and otherwise take care of myself

January Study Challenge

day 6 - are you an early bird or a night owl?

this is a difficult question, because i have to get up at 5:40 am for school but like,, i’m miserable. during breaks, i go to sleep at like 1 am and wake up at 10 🤙🏻 soooo at my core i’m a night owl

don’t have a picture today but! today was productive. made a family recipe for my class tmrw and went to track practice. hope everyone had a good day! :) 💞

What is going on with the world??

How I Annotate Non-Fiction Books:

Step one gathering supplies. The supplies you need will be based on your needs and the text you are annotating so feel free to fit this to your need or habits.

For physical books: highlighters, pens, sticky notes, page flags, index cards, the book/document

For digital books: your device or choice (might do an in depth post of digital texts later)

step two- creating your key

For small documents, I tend to stick to one color (each of my classes are assigned a single color).

For Longer documents, with lots of information, I will create a key for example:

keys should be based on what information is most important. In my history classes dates and names are more important whereas in a science class terms and chemical formulas may be most important.

You should also keep in mind why you are reading the book/document. For example: Are you reading to write a book report? Then it would be best to highlight the thesis and any points you wish to bring up in your review.

some parts of your key will most likely not need writing down after they become habit, for example after highlighting an important term, I will underline the definition of the term. (I personally tend to under highlight)

very important highlighted text will also get a page flag so that it is easier to find when reviewing, write a review, etc.

step three- your first read through

break the reading into smaller segments, for example. if you are reading a textbook or information-dense book you may wish to use headings or subheadings as your guide for this. if your text is not already broken into smaller section resign yourself to summarizing after every few paragraphs

You can write your summaries in whatever way suits you, your habits, or the book you are working with.

For this book I am writing my summaries in index cards, but I could have written them in sticky notes, or in a notebook (physical or digital.) I have tried all of these techniques and I like them all and tend to switch between them.

On the back of my summary cards, I write the page numbers the information was pulled from so that I can more quickly find the information if I need to quote it.

Feel free to ask questions in the replies or in my asks!

september 3rd: how do you take your tea?

umm i drink chamomile tea w/honey when i’m sick/have a sore throat :) but other than that, i’m not a huge tea person (although i do want to try more tea - i’ve rly only had chamomile & iced tea sooo)

i went to pick up textbooks today and got to meet some of my teachers ! it was awkward but nice to see them in person

p.s. this is a coconut cake my brother made - it was v good in case you’re wondering 😌🤤