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[chaoticandromantic]

Me, a romantic: candlelit dinner, blooming roses, tender kisser, love letters, longing eyes, beating hearts

Me, a Romantic: sword fighting, bloody knuckles, messy hair, smudged red lipstick, cold hands, fiery eyes

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[dropdeadfemme]

Shelf confidence BPC / Most likely to become a movie

It’s been a movie many times before and I’m sure it will happen again.

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[superinstituteoffuturesstudies]

Superposition DCCCXXX

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[365filmsbyauroranocte]

White Zombie (Victor Halperin, 1932)

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[angry-witch-society]

This is the hill I will die on:

IF YOU ARE NOT NATIVE AMERICAN, YOU DO NOT "SMUDGE" , YOU SMOKE CLEANSE. SMUDGING IS A RITUAL SACRED TO NATIVE AMERICANS, WAVING AROUND A BUNDLE OF SAGE AND JUNIPER IS NOT IT.

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[literatureandwit]

is there anything better than fresh clean sheets and blankets on a cold day? don’t think so

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[study-well]

Study Techniques:

• SQ3R Reading
• The Pomodoro technique
  
• Online Pomodoro timer
• Feynman Technique
  
• 100 Things to do in your study break
• Develop active learning strategies
• Cramming (last minute option)
  

Study Methods, Tips, and Resources:

• How to make flashcards (electronic and paper)
• What to write on flashcards
• Uses for flashcards
  
• Creating and using mindmaps
• Studying using textbooks
• The benefits of textbooks
• How to annotate
• Tools for referencing
• Tips for visual learners
• How to read journal articles critically (by marielstudies​)
• Top 5 Study Tips to Achieve your Study Goals
• How to pull an all nighter
• How to pull an all nighter (2)
• Studying vocabulary
• Study guides
• How to create a study guide (by studyspoinspo)
  
• Using whiteboards
• Assignment Calculator
• Learning how to learn (by strive-for-da-best)
• Get good grades (Youtube)
  

Memory:

• Learn how to memorise and find the memory techniques that work best for you.
  
• Here’s an interesting article about long term memory.
• 6 research tested ways to improve your memory.
• Here’s an ask about how to memorise material.
• An ask about forgetting material within a few hours.
• Some memory tips (by astackoftextbooks)
• Learn instead of memorising
• Thinking and memorising
  

Time Management:

• How to prioritise tasks
• Apps for scheduling
• Creating a revision timetable
• A post about making a timetable (by grxeek).
• How to keep your revision focused
• An online study planner.
  

Motivation/Procrastination:

• Reasons to study
• Blocking apps/extensions for phones and computers.
• Reasons to study now
• 10 tips for getting started on an academic task
• How to deal with family distracting you from study
• How to stop procrastinating (Youtube)
• 10 Tips for managing procrastination
• Questions to ask yourself for motivation
• How to improve your concentration
• Quick concentration tips
• Get Motivated (Wikihow)
  
• Choosing the appropriate study environment
• Short and sharp motivation
  

Stress Relief:

• Stress relief techniques and ideas
• The 10 Best Yoga Poses for Stress Relief
• Relaxing Yoga Poses for Beginners
• 20 Easy Steps to Stress Relief
• Relaxation Techniques
• 23 Science Backed Ways to Reduce Stress
• 25 Destressing Techniques
• Deep Breathing Exercises
• Three Guided Relaxation Videos
• Vent Anonymously Online
• A sleep calculator here which will calculate when you should go to sleep/wake up (depending on what you’re working out) based on sleep cycles. This will make sure that you wake up refreshed and ready to work.
• Problems with sleep
• Failure anxiety
• Do nothing for 2 minutes
  
• Calm (meditation site)
  

Health:

• There’s also some information here about studying with mental illness from MIND.
• There’s a really great post here about depression in university (by landofstories)
  
• There’s a similar post here about studying with depression (by bloggerforstudentprogress)
  
• Studying with ADHD
• Studying maths with dyscalculia
• Managing test anxiety
• Self help: test anxiety
• Emergency Compliment (for when you’re feeling down)
• Studying with dyslexia
• Revision and exams for people with dyslexia
• Study skills for dyslexic students
• How I coped with OCD at university
• Study skills and OCD
• Study skills and OCD PDF
  

Music:

• Nature sounds in calmsound
• Sounds of rain
• Beethoven
• Coffee shop sounds
• More coffee shop sounds
  
• Mix sounds (soundrown)
• Sounds of the ocean
• Whitenoise
• Study mixes on 8tracks
• Music to boost concentration
  

For the exam:

• Exam preparation
• Exam life hacks (by studyblob)
  
• The best ways to prepare for exams
  
• Exam tips
• The day before an exam
• Tips on Taking Multiple-Choice Tests
  
• How to write a great essay (by englishlit-chic)
  
• Psychology Essay Exams (gives an example and how to answer)
  
• Looking after yourself after exams
  
• Oral tests and exams
• Writing and presenting a good speech

Links, Games, etc.:

• Live panda camera (for destressing; you wouldn’t believe the amount of time I spend watching this camera).
• Live animals
  
• Try to find the ten gnomes
• Origami
• Create your own nebula
• Easy magic tricks
• DIY Home Spa (BY @recoverykitty)
• Brownie in a cup
• Cookie in a cup

[sapphowhostudies]

So great for when you feel unproductive!

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[madmoiselle-bulle]

Michael and Margie Loeb House. Upper East Side of Manhattan.

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[utwo]

Monschau Germany

Monschau is a small historical town located in the hills of the North Eifel in North Rhine-Westphalia (German: Nordrhein-Westfalen) in Germany, situated just 4 km across the Belgian border. The picturesque old town center has many preserved 300 years old half-timbered houses along the river Rur.

© J.Höhn

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[oldmoonlullaby]