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Note-Taking

Hey guys! So I’ve been receiving questions regarding my note-taking style and strategy for quite some time now but I believe I have never answered them in detail. The good news is, I finally decided to make a post about this (plus, I had fun making the graphics :D). Note that I am a visual learner, so my note-taking methods may not be effective for some of you, but I hope you can all learn something.

Class Notes

I only use one notebook for all my class notes, an A4 grid notebook whose pages I divide into two columns.
I use the outline method for in-class notes, which means I write information chronologically, in the order that they are taught. Some teachers do not have properly structured presentations/lessons (good thing my physics teacher does) so when in need, I use arrows to connect related information.
Abbreviations to me are one of the most important things to master when taking notes. I personally make them up as I go along. Some examples of abbreviations I use are:
  • w/c - which
  • w/ - with
  • cpd - compound
  • envt - environment
  • digenz - digestive enzyme
It might be confusing, but to me, knowing the context and part of speech are enough for all abbreviations to be comprehended.
Here’s an example: ‘Indonesia’s tsunami pre-warning system is made up of two types of components’ could become ‘Indo’s snmi pre-warn sys 2 type comp’.

After Class

The first thing I would do is highlight keywords and terminology (and sometimes formulas). For physics, since my teacher is relatively succinct, I don’t really highlight, but for humanities and biology, I look for words that would be expected by a mark scheme, words that are crucial to the understanding of each particular piece of information.
I would then check if the material taught coincides with the syllabus, and if not, note down any points that are missing or have yet to be taught. You could write these on a post it or on the syllabus itself, but I prefer to highlight the syllabus’ pdf file.

Rewritten Notes

My rewritten notes are arranged based on the order they appear in the syllabus unless there are pieces of information that are related to more than one topic.
I use a black pen for rewriting notes as well as colored pens to write keywords and terminology only. I know some people who write whole sentences in colored pens but to me that is ineffective; we all have our own learning styles. When making tables, I usually use different colors for different columns (see the table for different types of radiation above) which is most often the color I associate with each word. For example, water would be blue, ocean would be a darker shade, ice would be a lighter shade, and water vapor would be purple.
I still abbreviate words in my rewritten notes, but they’re not as condensed as the ones in my class notes. Another thing I find helpful is leaving a bit of space between separate points especially if the page doesn’t have a lot of diagrams. I can’t think linearly, so I can’t remember super lengthy bullet points.
I use mildliners and a drawing pen to make my diagrams (more of these in my biology notes) but I only start with pencil if it’s a complex diagram. I rarely highlight my rewritten notes, but even if I do, it’s usually only the headings and formulas.
I don’t have a rough draft for my notes, but I try to visualize the layout. I try to alternate between words and pictures/diagrams so that when I’m sitting for an exam, all I have to do is imagine that I’m looking at that page and I can remember where everything is.

Well, that’s all from me. I hope that this information could be of some use to every single one of you. Don’t hesitate to ask me questions if you’re confused about note-taking or any other problems you might have :)

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hey guys!! so, quite a few of you seem to have liked my other masterpost about notes and studying and i recently received an anonymous question asking me for a masterpost particularly about self-study resources. so, this is it!! :]

languages

arts and humanities

sciences + math

a lot of courses and other websites on various subjects!!!

okay, so i guess that’s about enough! if you’d like some more help then please don’t hesitate to message me or request a masterpost yourself! hope this helps :] 

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I miss you. I miss you tickling me even when I begged and kicked at you to stop. Now I’d pretty much have to beg you to hold me but I’m a little too prideful to do that. I just watch from the distance, fall deeper into my head. I miss you styling me like I was your little Bratz doll. Little batz doll. Little panda bear. I never cared more about how I looked to someone more than you and whatever you felt looked pleasing was really all my pleasure to wear for you. I miss being your muse & in turn, I miss having you as a muse. Everything can be inspiring, but nothing I’ve created flowed more naturally out of me than the pieces inspired by you. I miss having you lay in my lap and inevitably fall asleep to me twisting or braiding your hair. I used to see all your features in every possible angle and nowadays your features have never seemed so foreign. I miss all the music you played all the time. I didn’t even notice until you said yesterday how quiet my house is now. Externally I’ve been in an unsettling silent environment since you’ve left but internally I just go back and forth with myself over everything that can’t change anything now. I just numb out and try to sleep as much as I can. I miss you coming home to me, randomly blessing me with flowers.. Or sushi.. Or Pommes Frites. Now I can’t even get Pommes Frites for myself. Their building crashed and burned just like we did, but it was fucking ace while it lasted.

I’m constantly reminded that permanence is as fictional as the tooth fairy and the only way to survive is to constantly readjust. To not put so much sentiment in people, or places, or possessions. The more attached you get is the more vulnerable you are making yourself to the fear and pain of losing it.

Normally I could get over someone’s involvement in my life without second thought, by just flipping a switch in my head to just not care anymore.

Immediately after my HS boyfriend and I broke up I was able to be around him and link arms with him and not even once have any thought of a romantic undertone in either intentions. If he even tried to kiss me or fuck me again at that point I would have probably baby barfed and punched him in the throat. I didn’t even mind seeing him and his new girlfriend together and in his room where I used to stay with him. I only stopped working for his mom because his new girlfriend had a little mental break down seeing us interact and share inside jokes and the fact that no one else was bothered except for her. Mind you, my ex left me for a girl and the night he was going to ask her out, he chose this girl instead. I don’t know why she felt the need to be so upset when clearly he had chosen her. I feel like I was the most entitled to be upset and in that moment I’ve never had less fucks to give in my entire life.

I never wanted to be attached to someone again. Seeing her so already irrational and attached to someone I was literally just in a relationship with really affected my psyche and pushed me to become a very detached and nonphysical being for quite awhile. When my best friends would get into it with me I would just let them go, I never chased them, and when people expressed interest in me, I always expressed how it was never mutual. I literally fled from the idea of relationships or sex or affection. Even in my loneliest, I knew nothing lasted. I knew to be the only one to fill my void and head.

Years fly by and I’m living off of vices, pretending like that’s how I’m making myself happy, and to an extent, I was, but that happiness came more from superficial sources and outlets rather than from within myself. It was more like I was living with a certain understanding of how I felt and how to make myself feel better around that feeling rather than just changing how I felt. I didn’t see my lack of self love. The absence of authentic self love was unfathomable to me because I was escaping my circumstances every day and night rather than creating better ones.

My peace of mind slowly slipped away ever since you first found me. I was too eager to talk to you. I wanted to wake up to talk to you and I wanted to fall asleep talking to you and that’s exactly what I did. I started neglecting my friends and their conversations and their want to go out every day and night.

Mind you, you are far from perfect. You weren’t there a lot of the times I needed you to be and a lot of the time you weren’t what I needed you to be, but you were the best lesson I’ve experienced thus far.

It took you showing me what was actually in my best interest for me to completely fall apart and pull myself back together and better. It took losing you to remember to hold myself down. For that, and for everything, thank you.

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I had the time of my life making all of this. thank you all. especially those of you who never let me forget I had to finish. which is basically every one of ya’ll. haha. love you.