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"And you ask yourself: Where are your dreams? And you shake your head and say: How quickly do the years fly by! And again you ask yourself: What have you done with your years? Where have you buried your best days? Did you live or not?"
It has been a long week, a disappointing series of days. Yet... there is more incoming. Staying on to see the storm through.
01/12/24
Around 5-6 hours of studying today
✧･ﾟ✧ Hello there! ✧･ﾟ✧
𓆩♡𓆪 welcome to my little corner of studyblr 𓆩♡𓆪
🥀Name: Orphic
🥀Age: 15
🥀Personality: INTP
🥀Location: India
🥀Student: 10th grade
🥀Main goal: Academic weapon
About Me:
🥀Lover of late-night study sessions, brief infatuations, life-long learning
🥀Obsessed with Shakespeare, The Secret History, existentialism, chess, music, literature, yearning
🥀Favourite Quote: "I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive."
🥀Aspiring to be the best.
Blog Content:
Dark Academia aesthetic
Moodboards
Relatable posts
Study-related posts
Books
Digital journal
Der Schein trügt.
Messy History notes
Prompt of the week | #11
What are your study goals for the last two months of the year? Is there anything you would like to achieve before January? ☃️🌨️
Get minimum 98% in Periodic Test-3
Get minimum 50 marks out of 60 in SOF National Science Olympiad
Read Embers by Sandor Marai
Productive routine and study habits
Increase concentration span and depth
Last Minute studying, yet again.
I trace your face in the Moon.
14th October 2024
Last minute studies.
I live in the past.
Ad Astra per Aspera.
To the stars, through difficulties.
The original academic validation role model
Can you make a guide on Hermione Granger? How to study like her
How to study like Hermione Granger
Hermione is one the original academic it girls. You can't not admire her tenacity and her ambition. She knows how intelligent she is and she always works hard, regardless of what those around her are doing. Here's a guide on how you can study like her!
Read more. Hermione always has her head in a book, she's renowned throughout the series for the amount she reads and her love of books. To help you better understand your subjects start reading around them and also reading a wider variety of literature in order to expand your vocabulary and understanding of the world around you.
Stay organised and on top of your schoolwork. Hermione planned months in advance and created study guides for her exam preparation. Whether you are also making study guides, consolidating your notes or making new study resources make sure you stay organised and prepared for exams or upcoming tests.
Participate and pay attention in class. While Hermione is often made fun of for also being so enthusiastic in class, it always pays of. Try engaging more in your class, answering questions and engaging in discussions. It will help you remember the information and learn more as you consolidate or learn new facts.
Try teaching others. Hermione always helps out her friends and you can do the same! This is a great way to help learn and highlight important concepts, develop your understanding and discover areas which you may be struggling with.
Actually want to study and have a clear reason for doing so. The reason Hermione does so well in school is because of how passionate and invested she is in her learning. By determining why you actually want to study and what is motivating you, you'll have much more energy and enthusiasm to study.
Find or create a cozy environment to study in. Whether you make your favourite drink or light a candle, make sure your study space a nice area to be in and a place that is soothing and allows you to properly focus.
Join clubs or groups with a similar philosophy as yours. Hermione was incredibly passionate and wanted to extend her knowledge and help to the world around her and so should you. Joining a club/group can help you improve your communication skills, meet people and give you something to discuss in interviews etc. Try and find something to join (or even start!) that you are incredibly passionate and enthusiastic about.
If you find yourself struggling with work or understanding a topic, try and work it out yourself first in order to help you consolidate your knowledge and get better at working independently. Don't be afraid of turning to teachers or classmates but try and work it out independently first.
Do all your homework as soon as you can, don't leave it till last minute as you'll only end up rushing it or it being worse than if you had done it with time to spare. Plus getting work done early gives you the chance to relax and do things with friends or family! Hermione always did her work as soon as she possibly could and that helped her to stay on top of her classes and work.
Be more curious! When something interests you in class or your studies actually in-depth research it. That way you'll have more than a surface level understanding of the topic and may even become more interested in your studies! Hermione loved learning everything she could about her subjects and so should you.
Read and learn ahead of your current class work to help you get ahead and better understand the subject material. Just like Hermione read all of her textbooks before her school year even started, so can you in order to get ahead.
Don't overload your schedule and try and avoid burnout. As Hermione shows, it's important to have a school-life balance. Instead of overwhelming yourself remember to take breaks from studying, hang out with friends or family and have some downtime. Not only is it better for your mental health but it will also help you do better in your studies long-term.
Thank you for reading and I hope you find this helpful! All my love, mj.
(I would just like to clarify that I do not support or condone JK Rowlings views in any way shape or form. Trans lives and trans rights deserve to be protected and trans identities are completely valid. If you are able please consider donating to some of these charities helping to support trans people and fight back against transphobia: Donate to The Marsha P. Johnson Institute - The Marsha P. Johnson Institute (flipcause.com) (black centric trans charity), SRLP (Sylvia Rivera Law Project) (offers legal, social and health services to the trans community) and About - Trans Lifeline (grassroots hotline which offers support to the trans community). There are so many wonderful trans centric charities I really recommend researching and these are just a few!)
03/08/24
Played half an hour of chess
Read 123 pages of The Secret History
Studied Latin for an hour
While listening to:-
02/08/24
30 mins of online chess
Political Science notebook completion
Physics notebook completion
English language notebook completion
Had been listening to:-
01/08/24
Played 2 chess games online.
Studied Latin for 1 hour
Talked with a few friends properly after a long time.
Quis sum ego?
Who am I?
Latin
Poems for a summer day:
Emily Dickinson
(my favourite poet)
A something In a summer's day
Summer shower
Further In summer than the birds
As sleigh bells seem In summer
It can't be "Summer"!
Summer for thee, grant I maybe
It will be Summer - eventually
I taste a liquor never brewed (the best poem ever)
The one who could repeat the summer day
What shall I do when the summer troubles
Ourselves were wed one summer - dear
So much summer
I know a place were summer strives
Would you like summer? Taste of ours.
There came a day at summer's full
Her final summer was it
Twice had summer her fair verdure
The trees like tassel - hit and swung by
John Keats
The Human Seasons
On the grasshopper and cricket
Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a Summer's Day
Over hill, over dale - from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Wordsworth
Book Fourth [Summer Vacation]
Daffodils (not about summer, but gives me summer vibes)
The Solitary Reaper (again, not about summer, but gives me summer vibes)
Langston Hughes
Summer Night (not about summer, but brilliant poem)
Pablo Neruda
100 Love Sonnets
Poem XVI
Poem LI
Poem XCII
Charles Baudelaire
L’invitation au voyage
Amalgamation of Poems
(these poems are grouped in amalgamation not because they are in anyway less relevant than the others above, the poems below have not been read by me or had been read long ago.)
Moonlight, Summer Moonlight by Emily Jane Brontë
June by John Updike
Love Song, 31st July by Richard Osmond
Apples by Laurie Lee
Warm Summer Sun by Mark Twain
A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky by Lewis Carroll
Fireflies in the Garden by Robert Frost
Midsummer, Tobago by Derek Walcott
A Green Thought by Katharine Towers
Adlestrop by Edward Thomas
When we got to the beach by Hollie McNish
Summer Stars by Carl Sandburg
Before Summer Rain by Rainer Maria Rilke
Morningside Heights, July by William Matthews
Miracles by Walt Whitman
Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson
Summer night, riverside by Sara Teasdale
The Idea of Order at Key West by Wallace Stevens
In Summer by Paul Laurence Dunbar
For once, then, something by Robert Frost
Summer Holiday by Robinson Jeffers
A boy and his dad by Edgar Guest
Long Island Sound by Emma Lazarus
Bath by Amy Lowell
Summer Morn in New Hampshire by Claude McKay
In the Mountains on a Summer day by Li Bai (personal favourite)
Backyard by Carl Sandburg
Idyll by Siegfried Sassoon
If you get there Before I do by Dick Allen
Fishing on the Susquehanna in July by Billy Collins
Indian Summer by Dorothy Parker
Fragment 31 (Jealousy) by Sappho (brilliant poem)
Constantinople by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Green by Paul Verlaine
From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, quatrain IX
To Natasha by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
[These poems have an aspect of summer and definitely, most of them have addressed deeper issues through the appearance of a beautiful imagery of summer. This has been created from my own reading experience, google websites and recommendations from friends and professors. If you want me to add anything more, leave an ask or comment. Enjoy these beautiful poems and no hate please.]