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Study Tips

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Study tips ✨ 📚 

📖 put the phone down and away. Preferably where you cannot see it. Turn it on silent. 

📖 grab a snack and drink to keep by so you don’t have an excuse to randomly stop and get up. 

📖 get into your “studysona” who loves studying, is smart, and takes cute notes. 

📖 if you’re struggling with motivation, try and work on it for at least five minutes. Starting is usually a mental block in of itself.

 📖 get yourself excited with nice pencils and highlighters. You’ll find your brain can be easily bribed by such things. 

📖TAKE. NOTES. This helps you retain the important information plus you can go back and study on it later if you need to. 

📖 pick some music but just pick a soundtrack and go. Don’t get distracted or bogged down. 

📖And usually it helps to have songs with no words so you’re not tempted to sing along and get derailed as far as your concentration goes. 

📖personally, I recommend video game sound tracks as they are designed to help people focus. 

📖use flash cards for memorization oriented studying. 

Dreaming

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I used to think dreams were for the rich. The ones with money. And that if you weren’t allowed it when you were born then you were just out of luck. But I was wrong. 

Dreams are for those with friends. Those who are willing to work hard. And for those who are willing to keep on trying and trying. Who are willing to keep their promises. Who are loyal. And who instead of looking for the good in people, choose to live it instead because others actions shouldn’t mandate whether or not you’re happy and neither should your circumstances. Dreams are for us. 

You and me. 

Cool Websites

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Cool Websites

For learning:

Sites that I recommend if you want to learn something new✨

Duolingo- a new language

Springhole.net – writing/life advice 

Khan Academy – nearly anything. Has computer coding, history, art, math. The possibilities are endless. 

Cook Smarts- cooking (kind of a duh)

Memrise- words and vocab 

Make- DIY projects. 

For fun:

Ambiance mixer – lets you create your own atmosphere using sounds. 

Boil the frog – great for finding new music. You type in two artists and it makes a musical bridge between the styles of music. 

Fantasynamegenerator – fun for procrastinating writers. 

Chaotic shiny – same as above. 

Dolldivine – quality dress up games because I’m secretly still 10 years old at heart. Don’t lie, dress up flash games are the bomb. 

Rinmaru games – also same as above. 

Hackertyper.com – just a dumb time waster but still cool. 

Dragoncave.net – collect little dragon eggs and hatch them. 

Sleep Over Ideas

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Sleep over ideas 

 

A princess diaries themed sleep over. 

The agenda?

Mattress surf if you can. 

Eat ice cream out of the carton. 

Wear tiaras. 

Dance to fun music. 

Eat pears and cream for breakfast. 

Do dart painting. 

Archery. 

A star gazing themed sleepover. 

Make a bed on the trampoline and sleep there while looking at the stars.  

Eat popcorn. 

Break out a telescope if you have one. 

Tell Greek myths to each other. 

A writing themed sleepover. 

Pull an all-writer nighter. 

Make a writing space (preferably with fairy lights)

Play a few writing themed games like mash. 

Discuss everything. Especially philosophy.

Become possessed by Socrates. 

3am? Your time to shine. 

An artist’s themed sleep over. 

Spend the night making art. 

Follow a bob Ross tutorial. 

Making portraits of each other. 

Play drawing games. 

A hobbit themed sleep over. 

Have tea. 

Make flower crowns. 

Tell riddles. 

Sleep in. 

A cooking themed sleepover.

Every meals a banquet. 

Search up fun recipes to try.  

Make a big supper. (I recommend Italian)

Watch food network or the great British bake off late into the night. 

Wake up and make a lovely breakfast. Pancakes or waffles are a must. 

A girly themed sleep over. 

Do each other’s nails. 

do each other’s makeup blind folded. 

Get face masks together. 

Wear cozy robes. 

Go out for ice cream the following morning. 

A Retro themed sleepover. 

Wear silk bathrobes and pearls. 

Drink everything out of wine glasses. 

Bonus points if it’s that sparkling juice. 😉

Watch old movies. 

Wake up and throw on a retro dress and do your makeup with dark lipstick and go out for breakfast. 

City Adventure List

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Adventures to be had in the city:

Eating somewhere new

Geocaching 

Taking photos with friends 

Finding a new coffee place

Window shopping

Finding a bookstore

Drive around and just sight see

Draw with chalk on the sidewalk

Find a park to take a walk in 

Find the local library

Leave notes for strangers

Bring a sketch book! This opens up many possibilities! For example: sit in a coffee shop and sketch strangers. Or find a good park bench and sketch the architecture of buildings. 

Play chess or checkers in an unusual location.

Find an art store or gallery.

My Personal List of Reasons as to Why I procrastinate & the faulty logic behind them…

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Welcome to my procrastination diary. Please enjoy your stay…

1. You’re on your phone.

Major, #1 distraction.

I wish I had an actual reason as to why my phone distracts me. Even when there is really nothing to do on my phone and I’m just switching between the same two apps constantly and refreshing. Frankly, I think it’s because nearly ANYTHING is more interesting then what I’m trying to get done.

2. You have too much to work to do so you do none of it.

Genius, right?

3. You’d rather be doing something else.

In other words, you’d rather be procrastinating. Which in of itself isn’t a fun activity but it beats actually doing the thing, right? Nothing like dying a thousand deaths before actually getting the THING done.

4. Your music distracts you.

Instead of helping you concentrate on your homework, you find yourself having your own personal dance off in your bedroom to whatever soundtrack I’ve downloaded recently.

5. It’s past your bedtime (You’d rather sleep).

It’s 8:00? Sorry mom, can’t study. Past my bedtime. When I need to get something done, I suddenly am on a toddler’s sleep schedule.

6. Your favorite show comes on

Cause I have my priorities straight.

7. You are too busy writing a list of reasons of why you procrastinate.

Impulse Control

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I was thinking, what would my past week have looked like had I no impulse control. It’s a scary yet interesting question. 

I think I would have thrown a head of lettuce in my sister’s face. 

I would have told that girl her dolphin earrings were cute and that lady that her highlights were spot on. 

I would have said hello to that person I thought I recognized and asked that girl who was crying at the library if she was okay. 

I would have randomly turned left as I drove out of our driveway and would have skipped work. 

I would have gone to the coffee shop and just drawn with charcoal all day. 

I would have told the barista that I wanted the sweetest drink she could concoct and I would drink it in one gulp. 

I would have woken up at 3 am to take a walk outside at night.  

I would have punched a wall once and a fake friend twice. 

I would have bought myself a new dress and shoes and would have danced in front of the mirror just to watch the folds of fabric shimmer and wave. 

I would have dyed my hair how I always wanted and maybe even cut it short. 

Until now, I haven’t realized fear has stopped me from doing so many things. Some good and some bad. 

Bored?

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Are you bored? Well maybe you need to try something new. Here’s a short list of new things anyone can try and are relatively cheap too!

Learn to play the Kalimba

Learn Latin phrases

Paint 

Try calligraphy

Make some bread.

Go Geocaching.

Sew something simple.

Write a short story or poem.

Try computer coding (I’d recommend starting with Khan Academy)

Make yourself a new playlist.

Learn a new dance off of youtube.

Make a scrapbook.

Try archery.

Or rollerblading.

Make yourself a smoothie from a a recipe you wanna try 

Redecorate 

Find a new restaurant and dine. 

Try and make an Italian dinner 

Learn origami

Make optical drawing illusions

Go plant something and watch it grow. 

Find a new style of clothes and try it out. 

Look up new hairstyles that you’ve never tried and give em a go!

Learn about the stars.

Learn about the different kinds of tea and make yourself some.

Try your hand at jewelry making.

Script a movie.

Try watching a new show.

Paint yo nails.

Graduation Thoughts

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“We ARE rich,” said Anne staunchly. “Why, we have sixteen years to our credit, and we’re happy as queens, and we’ve all got imaginations, more or less. Look at that sea, girls—all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen.” 

Let me tell you something. This quote is everything. Never have I felt something that so perfectly mirrors what I feel about looking back on high school. 

High school has been hard but it’s like any time period of your life. You take it: for the good and the bad. 

If I had any regrets in my high school experience, it would probably be the very thing that this quote seems to express. 

I wish I had spent less Monday’s wishing it were Friday. I wish it didn’t take me this long to figure out that I’m happy as a queen. 

But better now then never.  But I guess that’s just how life works. Especially when you have eighteen years to your credit. You finally realize how rich you are. And knowing this makes facing the uncertain future all the easier.