14 days of lockdown 2.0 🔒 day 7

Criminal procedure summaries featuring some leftover bacon & mushroom pasta.

projectile motion and candles //

listing all the things I need to do for the week on a sticky note really helps for me to organize my day

// listening to: "hope is a dangerous thing..." by Lana Del Rey

Work almost done ❤❤🍀 Will keep posting about the main work.

Going through my tumblr drafts.... Enjoy whatever this is.

anatomy exam prep 🦴

#1 protip if you just can’t seem to complete your to do list

if you’ve got A Lot™ on your plate and you just can’t cross everything off, no matter how hard you work every day, try switching to a work-oriented to do list instead of a task-oriented one.

but sabrina, what’s the difference? glad you asked!

instead of writing down:
☐write essay
☐revise bio
☐clean room

switch to pomodoros/timeframes:
☐pomodoro 1: work on essay
☐pomodoro 2: bio revision
☐pomodoro 3: clean room

this way, you can adjust your pomodoro length to the time you’ve got left - your first pomodoro can be 50min long, but if you find yourself with 2 unfinished pomodoros and it’s already 9pm, you can switch to 25min, complete them, and still be able to cross them off the list by the end of your day :)
now of course this won’t work as well if you’ve got 5 assignments to turn in by midnight and haven’t started on a single one, but this method is lovely for everyday studying in workload-heavy academic programs where you’ve sometimes got 10+ tasks daily, so i’d recommend this for college/uni students especially!

i’ve just recently switched to this method myself and it’s improved my study-related stress a lot, so i thought i’d share it with you and hopefully help my fellow stressed af students x

remember this: you are not meant to be consumed by everyrone. you are not meant to be liked by everyone.

but, you will find the people or the person who loves every part of you, even the hidden parts of yourself and the not so hidden parts that need to be worked on.

stop worrying about messing up. we all make mistakes, and no mistake is lifelong. however horrible something seems to go, know it won’t matter in five years. ten years. fifty years. use it as a learning opportunity for next time.

How to remain productive with online classes:

A few tips from a broke neuro-divergent academic

• Try and wake up early, and go to bed early too. I’m not saying get up at 5 (unless that’s you’re thing) but sleeping into noon is a productivity blackhole. I go for 8 or 8:30, generally, but that’s just what works for me.
• Get dressed for the day. I’m not talking like, jeans and a business casual outfit, but a clean pair of sweatpants, fresh underwear, and a new shirt can really put you in the mood for a new morning.
• Have a workspace. Whether it be the kitchen table, a desk, a spot on the floor with a lap desk, have a place that’s dedicated to your work. Have items that signify that workspace too, like your book, planner, laptop, lamp, whatever. It can help you get into the zone, being in that space.
• Have a morning drink. I choose earl grey tea with honey and cream, but black coffee, herbal tea, lemon water, whatever works for you is awesome, as long as itll wake you up and start your day.
• To do lists. To do lists and to do lists and more to do lists. I have three. One is a post it weekly planner deal (3.99 at a local grocery store). it’s a weekly spread already set up, and if you’re anything like me, its really hard to set up a weekly spread. Then I have an app called Ike. I have a daily to do list I write on that app, and then I have four more to-do lists of what I have to for each specific class.

• Spread out your assignments. Don’t overwhelm yourself. If you’re professors are like mine, and have the due date for each module as Sunday at midnight. What I do is spread out all my assignments from Monday to Saturday, and I leave Sunday blank, so anything I didn’t do that week, I finish on Sunday. It works for me, it might work for you.
• Have a folder for each class, and a notebook for each class. I hate spending money, I’m broke as hell, sono al verde as the Italians say, but a 0.99 cent folder and a 0.25 cent notebook can do wonders for motivating one to fill them up.
• Study with a drink. Tea, water, coffee, whatever, but my go to is generally a warm drink. I cannot study if I’m cold, I get tired and groggy, so warm socks, a robe, and a hot drink really keep me going.
• Take breaks. Make time for your hobbies, for something fun. Working without stopping absolutely destroys my motivation, and let me tell you, when I feel like that, an episode of Avatar and a snack gets me right back on the wagon.
• Do self check ins. Does your back hurt? Are you sad? Stressed? Do you have to pee? Are you hungry? Never put your homework over your health. You won’t be able to get anything done well anyway if you’ve got those blocks.
• Most importantly, get enough sleep. I beg of you. Sleep is so important, and it’s the game changer, at least to me. We as students have such an amazing opportunity to get more sleep than we ever have before during the year. Take advantage of that.