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i really do be losing my mind over george harrison on july 8th, 1968

“I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.”

— Khaled Hosseini

Me waking up on September 1st.

How to Never Fall Behind in Classes

Alternatively titled: How to Use Your Planner or How Organization and Discipline Will Get You Better Grades

This is my full guide on how to use your planner effectively and make sure that you are never missing deadlines or falling behind in classwork and homework. This is definitely more about the university level and works best with a dated planner, rather than a bullet journal. Let’s get started! 

Get all of your syllabi together and write down dates. Go through one class at a time and mark down all of your major tests and assignment due dates. I recommend putting these dates into the monthly and weekly views, and perhaps coming up with a symbol or other indicator that tells you they are of utmost importance. 

Make a weekly schedule of when to complete readings and do a weekly review of notes. Instead of trying to randomly decide when to do these things, assign a date for each task for each class. If you have a tutorial on Tuesday, do the assigned readings for it every Wednesday. I recommend scheduling one to two weekly tasks per day, and to leave a few days open, whether it be weekends or days when you have a lot of classes.

Make a master list of assignments. I find that sometimes, even having due dates in the calendar view isn’t enough, and they can still sneak up on you. The master list will be a good place to double check if you have any deadlines approaching easily. 

In the week or so before a due date, create a checklist of smaller tasks needed to complete the assignment. Set individual due dates for each smaller task by working backwards from the due date. Smaller tasks may include finding sources, making an outline, writing a rough draft, and editing and adding references to create a final copy. Write the smaller tasks into your daily to-do list. 

You can also do this with studying for tests, but the checklist would look slightly different. You could either sort by study method (first do flashcards, then do essay outlines, etc.) or sort by the topics you need to study. 

Stick to the schedule you have made. Obviously, if something comes up and you need to move your to-do list around, do so! But if you aren’t doing anything and you see readings on your list of daily tasks.. do them. Having the plan set out like this makes it easier for you to remain disciplined. 

Why use this method? 

By creating a schedule for repeated weekly tasks like completing readings, you make sure that you can’t repeatedly push off smaller tasks until you are weeks behind. I don’t think it is very reliable to just will yourself to do readings, or to keep up with them without tracking it. 

By writing down all of your due dates, you will never be shocked to find out something is due the night before. You will know and you will be prepared. 

By creating smaller checklists of tasks to complete before a major test or assignment, you will never find yourself in a situation where you have an essay due in a few days and haven’t even started. You will be following a timeline and making sure you don’t have to rush.

I know this system may seem rigorous, but planning is the only way you can keep on top of your workload in university! Falling behind is a lot harder if you are organized and disciplined, and being on top of your workload will help you a lot when it comes to exam times… no cramming and all-nighters if you have been consistent all semester! 

everyone posting that “my generation lost hobbies” post is so stupid like no you fuckwits hobbies were stolen from you by a system that demands you work 8 hours a day to earn a tiny percentage of the profit you generate, leaving you too exhausted and brainwashed to enjoy exercising passion without financial incentive

Types of students this autumn

all songs can be found on my autumn or studying playlist here and here

The Cosy Cuddler: ‘Jackie And Wilson’ by Hozier

hides away from the cold winds under a bobbled blanket, sips warm mugs of milky tea as they work through essays and research, avoids leaving their room at all costs, oversized hoodies that you can nuzzle away into, mini clouds of pumpkin spice float in their room from their candle constantly burning

The Library Lover: ‘Rainjacket’ by Back to Yours

spends endless hours pouring through mountains of work marked down and scheduled in a to-do list, comes prepared with nutritious snacks and lukewarm flasks of coffee, tapping fingers to their studying playlist, power walks for ‘their’ seat each day

The Caffeine Consumer: ‘Empty Castles’ by The Hails

thick turtlenecks that cover up scandalous actions, sipping burnt black coffee that coats your tongue, avoiding set work to flip through your favourite poetry anthologies and copy down quotes from your favourite books, torn out pages embellishing your plain walls, cigarette smoke cascading like a waterfall out your window

The Unwilling Undergraduate: ‘Atlantis’ by Seafret

glazed eyes that open when the sun has already toasted the frosted ground below, spends lessons in another world, turns up with bleak notes scribbled onto a scrap piece of paper, would rather sip amber beer than morning protein smoothies

The Channelling Creative: ‘Apple Cider’ by Early Eyes

embroidered the warm bonfire tones that surround them into their fictional written works, daydreams of photography projects embracing the morning dew and harvest moons, strategically places spices into their coffee for the tastiest brew, adorned in shades of burnt orange and black velvet 

The Seasoned Studier: ‘Better’ by The Honeysticks

trudges through their normal routine taking little notice of the changing winds and awakening shadows, fresh sheets of paper and obsidian ink, clean collars peaking out from under sweatshirts, soaring high marks across the board, enveloping your senses in green tea

dark academia on a budget

(because not only rich people can be dark academics)

-thrifting with friends for old sweaters that someone’s grandfather must have worn

-getting second (or third or fourth) hand books and reading the notes that other people left in them

-making sure everything is tidy and clean, no matter what

-adopting a minimalist aesthetic

-or making your own decorations (which then makes you better at lettering and art)

-sitting in a local cafe and buying the cheapest thing so that you can study there (and making sure that you tip as much as you can)

-reading poetry online, printing your favorites, and posting them on your walls

-taking as much of your family’s clothing that they’ll let you have

-rotating the same few shirts, pants, and shoes without anyone noticing

-a lack of jewelry (because there are more important things)

-sitting outside at a park to read or write

-looking outside windows on public transport while listening to somber music

 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall - November 9, 1989.

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these paintings feel VERY lesbian to me💅