The Weather Is Great But I Spent The Whole Day Inside Studying For Tomorrow’s Propulsion Exam (ok I

Motivation for "Harvard students" or all students basically

1. If you fall asleep now, you will dream. If you study now, you will live your dream.

2. When you think it’s too late, the truth is, it’s still early.

3. The pain of studying is only temporary. But the pain of not knowing—ignorance—is forever.

4. Studying is not about time. It’s about effort.

5. Life is not all about studying. But if you can’t even conquer this little part of life, then what else can you possibly do?

6. Enjoy the inexorable pain.

7. It’s those who are earlier than the others, those who put in more effort, who can enjoy the feelings of success.

8. Not everyone can truly succeed in everything. But success only comes with self-management and determination.

9. Time is flying.

10. The saliva that flow now will become the tears of tomorrow.

11. Dogs are learning, ambassadors are playing.

12. If you don’t walk today, you’ll have to run tomorrow.

13. People who invest in the future are realists.

14. The level of education is in direct correlation with your salary.

15. When today is over, it will never come back.

Tips for Improving your Focus

1. Set yourself some goals at the start of the day – and make sure they are goals that are reasonable. Then check off each item, and keep going till the end.

2. Make sure you take plenty of regular breaks as these will increase your productivity. We can focus for around 20 minutes at a time - and then we need to get up and walk around.

3. Break larger tasks into lots of smaller tasks. That way you will receive constant reinforcement for making some progress, and finishing some tasks.

4. Use offline tools such as paper and pen as they make it easier to stick with the plan and to not get distracted by online stuff.

5. Notice the times when you tend to feel tired - then plan your breaks for around those times.

6. Give yourself some deadlines as these focus the mind, and give us something concrete to work towards.

Nearly done for today - very productive day! 🤗

The next few days I need to revise object orientated programming. One of the other of my 4 exams in 2 weeks.

I still plan to work through one of the past years math exams per day - I have a pretty good grasp on all the concepts in this course - just practice, practice, practice now.

Typical bagel morning on this rainy day featuring my cool pajamas

One of the main reasons why you don’t make progress or why you are stuck in the vicious cycle of procrastination is the lack of courage to take that one small imperfect step. The more you are fixated on the end result, the less likely you are actually going to do something to achieve it.

A case in point of this so called ‘phenomenom’ is when you keep putting of you essay for a class you are taking. You keep convincing yourself that you have lots and lots of time to write it and suddenly your deadline is tomorrow. What do you usually do in these kinds of situations? I bet you usually open a new document and just start writing something, a quick draft, because you think you just need to get something done. In other words, you are actually just taking an imperfect step towards your end goal, which in this case is a finished essay. When you’ve taken your imperfect step, you often get this flow and just keep working and working until you are satisfied with your input. It seems surprisingly simple, right?

To summarise everything, you need to stop being so focused on the end result. The process is the most important part of your work and you can always edit and work on it later. An imperfect step is the most important step and more people need to realise this. If you have a long list of things to do or deadlines to meet, then just decide to start somewhere. Make that awful draft, scribble down something, make a mistake, just do something. Sooner or later, you are going to notice that you’ve made a great deal of progress. These imperfect steps are what you need in your life.

you all know how much i hate the idea that you have to be super rich to run a successful studyblr. i already have a tag for studyblr discourse and tips to run a studyblr on a budget, but i still love the look of all the expensive stationery - so here’s a masterpost of dupes for the big name brands!

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day 8/10 back to school challenge

Create a color coding system for your classes Try to match it with your supplies to stay organized!

Well, this is the colour coding plan that I have for my current units, largely based off of the colours of the folders I’m using. It’s the first time I’ve tried different colour codes for different units so it’s probably only a matter of time before I mess up and wind up getting them in the wrong order but it’s worth a go. Particle Physics doesn’t start until week 7 so I haven’t included it here as I’ll decide on that closer to the time.

Biophysics

Yellow folder

Orange titles

Yellow highlighter

Solid State Physics

Dark red folder

Red titles

Orange subtitles

Quantum Physics

Green folder

Green titles

Light green subtitles