Hi everyone!
Whether we like it or not, school is going to begin soon. I'll be starting middle school (seventh grade) on August 17, and I've been frantically watching every single back-to-school YouTube video I've found. I've also kind of developed this arsenal of life hacks for when school starts up again, so I'm going to share some right here!
1. I've seen this around quite a bit. Copy and paste your essays into Google Translate and listen to the audio. When you proofread an essay, your eyes might glaze over grammatical errors, but they're much easier to point out when you're listening to someone.
2. To feel refreshed when you wake up instantaneously, keep a jar of dark roast coffee beans on your nightstand. When you wake up and smell them, it gives you that kick of caffeine without actually having to put effort into making coffee.
3. To force yourself to leave bed in the morning, place your phone/alarm clock on the other side of the room. Even if you wanted to snooze it or turn it off, you can't silence it from under the covers.
4. If you ever feel like all your notebooks look the same and you struggle finding your books when you need them, grab a colored marker and mark the pages from the top. You can also write the name of the subject the notebook is for on the cover in the same color, and that's how you can color-code your books for easy access.
5. If you're ever doing research, and for some stupid reason your tabs all randomly close, just re-open the browser and press Ctrl-Shift-T (Windows) or Command-Shift-T (Mac). You'll instantly regain your tabs.
6. Let's be honest: everything is better when it's Tumblr, so I pretty much eat, sleep, and breathe cute notes. There's inspiration galore online for different writing styles and decorations you can incorporate into your notes to make studying that much more enjoyable. And for anyone who doesn't want to bother, just neater handwriting can go a long way. Besides, which would you rather read from - the printout on the left or the cuter version on the right?
6. Have you ever felt like you've been rereading a paragraph in your notes or your textbook over and over and the information still isn't sticking? Writing out what you remember can actually help you with comprehension, and it's easier to retain information like that rather than from simply reading.
7. If you ever need to lengthen a typed essay, just make the font size of the punctuation larger. You can't always get away with this. If your teacher grades the length of your essay in terms of words and not in pages, it won't make a difference.
8. When you have a new notebook, leave a few pages at the beginning to create a table of contents to organize your notes. This makes it incredibly easy to find notes for the chapter/lesson you're being tested on without having to search for it.
9. Reread your notes within 24 hours of taking them. This will help you to consolidate the information in your mind and help you become better prepared for your test.
10. You know that dreadful feeling you get when someone asks for gum? Well, that's avoidable. Keep an extra empty box of gum in your backpack. Whenever anyone asks you for a piece, you can pull out the empty box and say that was your last one.
Do you have any more clever life hacks?
xx Sneha
Whether we like it or not, school is going to begin soon. I'll be starting middle school (seventh grade) on August 17, and I've been frantically watching every single back-to-school YouTube video I've found. I've also kind of developed this arsenal of life hacks for when school starts up again, so I'm going to share some right here!
1. I've seen this around quite a bit. Copy and paste your essays into Google Translate and listen to the audio. When you proofread an essay, your eyes might glaze over grammatical errors, but they're much easier to point out when you're listening to someone.
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2. To feel refreshed when you wake up instantaneously, keep a jar of dark roast coffee beans on your nightstand. When you wake up and smell them, it gives you that kick of caffeine without actually having to put effort into making coffee.
3. To force yourself to leave bed in the morning, place your phone/alarm clock on the other side of the room. Even if you wanted to snooze it or turn it off, you can't silence it from under the covers.
4. If you ever feel like all your notebooks look the same and you struggle finding your books when you need them, grab a colored marker and mark the pages from the top. You can also write the name of the subject the notebook is for on the cover in the same color, and that's how you can color-code your books for easy access.
5. If you're ever doing research, and for some stupid reason your tabs all randomly close, just re-open the browser and press Ctrl-Shift-T (Windows) or Command-Shift-T (Mac). You'll instantly regain your tabs.
6. Let's be honest: everything is better when it's Tumblr, so I pretty much eat, sleep, and breathe cute notes. There's inspiration galore online for different writing styles and decorations you can incorporate into your notes to make studying that much more enjoyable. And for anyone who doesn't want to bother, just neater handwriting can go a long way. Besides, which would you rather read from - the printout on the left or the cuter version on the right?
7. If you ever need to lengthen a typed essay, just make the font size of the punctuation larger. You can't always get away with this. If your teacher grades the length of your essay in terms of words and not in pages, it won't make a difference.
8. When you have a new notebook, leave a few pages at the beginning to create a table of contents to organize your notes. This makes it incredibly easy to find notes for the chapter/lesson you're being tested on without having to search for it.
9. Reread your notes within 24 hours of taking them. This will help you to consolidate the information in your mind and help you become better prepared for your test.
10. You know that dreadful feeling you get when someone asks for gum? Well, that's avoidable. Keep an extra empty box of gum in your backpack. Whenever anyone asks you for a piece, you can pull out the empty box and say that was your last one.
Do you have any more clever life hacks?
xx Sneha
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