I find my planner so stress relieving, and so I want to share some of my favourite planning methods with you!
How I Plan Reading Week (plus some mental break ideas)
Happy Reading Week everyone! Now that the well-anticipated break is finally here, I’m trying my best to plan how my week will go. If you’re like me, you’re struggling to find the balance of taking actual breaks while also catching…
How I am going to be more actively participating
It’s pretty hard to catch a yawn off zoom classes and nobody’s going to share a Timbit with you anymore. It’s hard to listen to someone and even harder to grasp their body language from just their face or impossible…
How I Create Boundaries Between Studying and Breaks!
With online schooling, studying and social time has just become a constant blur. Just yesterday I was studying for my midterm and was constantly distracted by the quicksand of texts and social media. What may be most difficult about effectively…
Already Feeling Overwhelmed? Here’s How I’m Getting Through It
Even though school only started two weeks ago, I’m already feeling pretty overwhelmed. I’m not sure whether it’s a third-year thing, or whether I just signed up for a lot of hard classes, but I’ve had a ton of work…
Mid-Semester Troubleshooting
Is it just me or has reading week snuck up on us this year? I feel like I just started my courses last week and all of a sudden half of the semester is gone. As I’m scrambling to get…
Hand Cramps Be Gone: The Art of Note-taking in Lectures
Maybe you got hand cramps from packing sand to make sandcastles all over a beach, maybe you got them from tapping lines of candy in the intense game that is Candy Crush, maybe you got them from whipping fluffy cream…
How to Do Well in University: The Desert-Traveller’s Journey – A Fable
When I was in my first year of university, I had a insatiable thirst for the magical potion of success in post-secondary studies. This elixir would, as rumour had it, provide one lucky student with a 4.0 GPA, exemplary extra-curricular…