Truly An Old-book-enthusiast Haven.

im crying because distance learning has been kicking my ass for FOUR semesters now, two of which i flunked.

No im not doing it i dont care

“Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”

hobi wearing chokers + plants  moodboard

What are your top tips for dealing with a bad grade or failing a class? :-)

50 Things To Do For a More Productive Summer

1. Find some work experience  2. Head to the theatre and indulge in a good ol’ play or, even a musical 3. Plan a local trip or a day in the city and soak up all the culture 4. Volunteer your time once a week to a charity/ shelter 5. See if you can get work as a summer temp 6. Deepen your faith 7. Meet up with family and friends that you haven’t seen for ages, take loads of pictures and have an AWESOME time (how about camping in the New Forest? Or in your back garden? Barbecues or a simple trip to the ice rink) 8. Try curing one of your fears 9. Do a movie marathon 10. Develop or find a new hobby 11. Attempt to create a business with your own innovative idea 12. Do a charity challenge 13. Start taking driving lessons 14. Learn a language 15. Give your room a revamp — how about jars filled with multicoloured or fresh pinecones? A fresh coat of paint? A cluster of assorted candles? 16. Begin your #100daysofhappiness 17. Soak up the sun with a load of picnics, beach trips and outdoor games with your friends 18. Have a wardrobe clear out and donate all the clothes to a local charity shop 19. Pick an actor and watch all the films they’ve been in 20. Start a blog! 21. Get baking and come up with some new creations 22. Make a list of all your skills and everything they’ve taught you 23. Become a dog walker for a neighbour 24. Start saving for something worthwhile … 25. … or blow all your money on some concert tickets (you only live once) 26. Designate a whole day to go without a TV, laptop/ computer, internet, music, phone and any other electric devices 27. Begin writing a novel 28. Make proper lemonade and sip reading your favourite book under a tree 29. Go out for a day with nothing but the things that you can fit in your trouser or cardigan pockets or carry in your hands … OR … with as little as possible 30. Read an entire series of books or pick up some classics and get through them 31. Host a tea party with your friends 32. Make an exercise routine and stick to it (for a month, at least) 33. Watch an entire box set 34. Get rid of your anxiety by writing your worries down on a piece of paper, folding it into a bottle and sending it out to sea 35. Make a scrapbook of your favourite memories 36. Get hooked on a new genre of music or a new artist that hardly anyone has ever heard of 37. Head out to the selection of free festivals and carnivals available throughout the country 38. Make a birthday cake for one of your friends or a member of your family 39. Get active 40. Buy dinner for a homeless person 41. Get your body to your ideal size/ weight 42. Set yourself a budget and see how far you can get on public transport with it 43. Read a collection of children’s books 44. Go to a book signing, find someone famous or attend a celebrity event to get a glimpse of the stars 45. Plan and execute a 3 course meal for yourself or your family 46. Spend a day being a child again 47. Start a diary 48. Spend a day detoxing your body – drinking green tea, eat plenty of fruit and veg, guzzling water and meditating 49. Re-work the way you view yourself 50. Write your bucket list

a lengthy intro post ><

I'm currently going through my archive and I just realized how I've never actually did an intro post? (Maybe I did but I can't see it so it doesn't exist anymore <3)

Anyways, hello! I'm Sunny, a college student from the ph! Quick facts:

I was born in 2001

I'm a Libra sun and my MBTI is INFP/INTP

I'm into various interests (films, reading, K-pop, recently fs and whatever my mind decides interesting)

I'm a heavy procrastinator ._.

I've been in the studyblr community since 2017 but I didn't really post a lot of stuff because I felt like it was "too productive" for me. I kept on seeing posts with pretty journals, tons of pens, aesthetic desk set-ups, and I kept telling myself that I should be at that level as well. If I don't have nice pens, nice desk set-ups, and nice journals then I'm not a studyblr.

These past years in the pandemic literally shattered who I am as a student, and I just felt so lost. I've been in a tough place and I really cannot care less about my academics. I flunked a lot of classes, argued a lot with my mom, and was just all around negative towards my studies. I'm not proud of it, but I know that I did what I could've.

I'm trying to be better now, though! Hence, why I'm here! I realized that I don't really have to be a certain 'way' to use a studyblr. I should be fine-tuning this platform for me, use it as what I need it and not the other way around. Sure, studyblrs can become an inspiration, but I now know that I don't have to be the same as them.

I'm still trying to rebuild myself as a student, hopefully this time with a stronger foundation! Please, feel free to hit me up! :D I'd love to have friends who can motivate me and I can motivate as well T__T I'm also in studytwt!

study/blrs that I've followed through out the years: emmastudies / tbhstudying / noodledesk / eintsein / studynostalgic and many more!!

HOW TO WIN AT FRESHMAN YEAR IN COLLEGE Pt 1. (Academics)

Aight here we gooo

Don’t think about when it’s due, think about when you can get it done by. Always try to get work done as soon as you get it, because the information/motivation is a lot more likely to make you productive immediately after. Don’t backward plan and leave things to the last minute.

Research your course. Find out about the electives you have to take, the ideal course load and the progression requirements. Don’t graduate a semester late because you forgot to take one 1000 level English course.

 Make a nice schedule! You’re going to be stuck with this for a year, so definitely invest a couple hours into making a good one. (Separate post on drafting a schedule coming up.)

Try to live on campus, preferably in a traditional dorm set up. Not only does it improve the ‘college experience’ but also really helps with networking. 

Do not invest in a loooot of expensive stationery. I know, I know, ironic to say as a studyblr. But coming out of high school where we all took notes on paper, a huge stationery haul might be obvious. But definitely wait a couple weeks into school to see if you want to stick to paper notes or if you’re more comfortable with the laptop. 

Sit. At. The. Front. Beginning in the first week. Freshman year, it’s super tempting to abuse your freedom and just not show up to class. It is imperative that you put yourself in the field of vision with the teacher, not only to make a good impression but also to hold yourself accountable to actually show up to class, because the professor will probably notice your absence and might discount you a little bit. It also helps with the ‘halo effect’, where you stand out right in the beginning, and that’ll tide you over. 

Don’t just show up to office hours, take your notes/solve a mock paper, and get feedback. Doing this a couple times before the exam will help you put together the perfect rubric for answering just about any style of question. If it’s an essay course, the teacher will often make corrections and even send you helpful resources to improve. 

Create/join a Facebook group for your subject, and exchange notes with people over there. It’s reassuring to know you have a backup if you skip class.

Try to inform your professor before hand if you’re skipping class. This policy might be different for different schools, but telling your professor ahead of time that you won’t be attending, or even just shooting them an email at the time of class might help with making up for lost time, extra credit, and being able to skip with more ease in the future, since the prof thinks you’re serious about this class.

Spend the summer before college chilling, yes (I’ve written a post about it here). But also check this out to make it a little more productive, and learn a few handy day to day skills. 

Pt. 2 about college scheduling will be up tomorrow!

羽生結弦、大谷翔平…2017年活躍と名言に期待！（TOKYO FM＋） - Yahoo!ニュース

TOKYO FMの番組「クロノス」では、昨年12月の放送で「こんなのあったね！ 名言アワー - Yahoo!ニュース(TOKYO FM＋)

Famous words of 2016, Sports section 

2nd place: figure skater, Yuzuru Hanyu. “Efforts tell lies.  But they will not be in vain.”  

– from Yahoo News. 

More of what he said about this (from TV programme ‘Hero’s Special’):  “If efforts do not tell lies, then the person who has worked the hardest would win every time. The recent Olympics (Rio), I watched various competitions. No matter how hard a person has worked, sometimes they just don’t win. Conversely, a very young competitor might win by vigour/momentum. It is also like that in figure skating. So in that way, efforts tell lies. However, the lies are not in vain. Because of the lie, you might have to make a different kind of effort or search for the correct understanding of your efforts. I think that is very valuable, isn’t it?”

[my translation; see HERE for the programme where he said this]

Just to save it here as well, in August 2014, during Kozuki Sports Award ceremony, he made a speech. [from 9:10 of this video].   At the end of the speech, he said, 

“I think that sports is very cruel.  The person who worked the hardest does not always show the best results.  But if you do not work hard, you will definitely not be able to leave any results.   In order to leave the best results, we will continue to be grateful, and go on advancing day after day from here on.  Please continue to give us your support.   Thank you very much.”  (my translation)  

(I love the things he says.  I may translate his full speech when I have time.) 

“My heart’s not yours to hold. You hear me? Not. Yours.”

“I think you should consider it a miracle I’ve stuck around this long. It’s so creepy here.”

“Chasing the adventure is only half the fun. Look at all the friends we’ve made.”

“We might have to lower our expectations.”

“Fantastic, you’ve enchanted the bones to life. Dare I ask what’s next?”

“Dare I even try to ask for forgiveness? Do I deserve it?”

do you have any non-fiction book recommendations?

i know why the caged bird sings - maya angelou

maya angelou puts the same amount of care into her words in this book as she does with her poems

i do remember the first couple of chapters being hard to get thru bc i was easily bored, but also, i was in the height of my laziness during the summer + this was for an assignment lol

when breath becomes air - paul kalanithi

beautiful prose, will make you cry

guns, germs, and steel - jared diamond

a rly spicy take on history that was rly enjoyable

also watched the documentary version of this in whap

outliers: the story of success - malcolm gladwell

even spicier than mr diamond’s book lol

discusses success from a different perspective

definitely interesting to read through, although i’m not sure if i agree with all of his conclusions

malcolm gladwell also has a podcast called “revisionist history” that’s rly interesting and does a similar thing with this book where he examines things from a different angle

five days at memorial - sheri fink

an account of what happened at a hospital struck by hurricane katrina

i feel like some perspectives should have been afforded a bit more leeway and more description compared to others, but it was still a decent read

hope and other luxuries: a mother’s life with a daughter’s anorexia - clare dunkle

i find that all the books i’ve read on anorexia so far have been personal accounts, so it was interesting to read about it from the mother’s perspective

i used this book as a basis for my junior research paper actually

the immortal life of henrietta lacks - rebecca skloot

i just think the case of henrietta lacks is fascinating

on writing - stephen king

a hybrid between an autobiography and a manual on how to write

an interesting read, although i’m fairly sure that stephen king would kill me for how many adverbs i use on a day to day basis

there were a couple others, but i don’t rly remember them very well :( hope this helps!!