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You know what… I’m finding school so hard. Online lessons are draining. I cannot finish my work. I’m submitting work as soon as I’ve done it without crafting it like I used to, just so I can finish. I’ve got four assignments due in for tomorrow and 5 overdue assignments, some from last year.

It’s completely normal to feel a complete mess right now. At least that’s what I tell myself in an attempt to get any work done. One day this will be over and maybe I will enjoy learning as much as I used to.

And to make this confession I decided to take a nice photo of the only work I’ve done today and put a nice filter on it.

Basically I think I just want to say don’t be fooled by social media. I have lots of nice pictures of my work and study materials, yet I don’t post pictures of my exams that get 14/30 marks.

This too shall pass :)

trying to get back into latin and greek while running behind on every single other subject i’m doing! (and of course doing my biology work!)

i wish i was more productive

I treated myself to the new stabili boss highlighters and OH MY the green is cute. It’s like a limey green but not neon!? Gorgeous?!

* Also the picture of Arietty is from @/Stella Rigs on pinterest

Yes I complain that I don’t have enough time to get all my work done.

Yes I just started learning Japanese.

We exist

because i have made mistakes,

i am able to forgive others their mistakes.

Hello! I’m back after a while ☺️

I hope everyone is well and fighting through quarantine. I’ve found it so draining and difficult to even get through each day.

I think studying has been one of the ardest things for me this year. Finding my motivation to study BY MYSELF? Who’s she?

I ended up just telling myself “do 15 minutes. Even if you finish that and can’t do anymore, at least you have done some.” And usually you find once you’re in the swing of it, finding your motivation becomes easier.

But of course, some days I don’t study. I can’t even bring myself to. And that’s ok. Because school work will NEVER matter more than your wellbeing and mental health. Grind culture is toxic especially for young people. It’s ok to do nothing all day. It’s ok to do nothing all month. As long as you are asking for help and finding ways to get your mental health back on track.

If anyone needs to send me a message you can! Send them my way :)

Working during the last free period before school closes due to the corona virus. I can’t say I’m not a bit worried. I think it’s going to be a big change and it’s going to be very hard to stay isolated for so long. I think it will be such a big change to my life that it will take some time to get used to. Just things like hanging out with friends I’ll miss a lot. But hopefully, it will be safe soon and I wish everybody with corona virus a speedy recovery and mild symptoms ❤️ this too shall pass

Today I was revising for my biology test. It was so loud everywhere today and so I was soooo tired. But, listening to TXT always puts me in a good mood :) .

❄️✨ busy day

So my music theory test is tomorrow and I am unsure of how I feel. I will be glad to get it over with because I didn’t particularly enjoy it, however I do not feel ready for the exam. There are so many language terms you need to know and they’re really hard to memorise.

My plant has also grown a little dude. I don’t know plant terminology

Being productive in my mostly free day. I always love free periods when I can just get bits and bobs that have piled up finished.

I did the biology test that I was revising for in my last post and I’m a bit disappointed with my results. I got just below half marks which is by far the worst marks I’ve got on a test before. Despite this, I’m feeling ok about it. I was expecting my grades to drop when I entered sixth form as I was told that it was the norm, so I was just waiting for the test where I would perform poorly.

So basically, despite feeling disappointed, I’m actually quite glad I’ve done especially poorly on a test because it was getting a bit too good to be true with my grades . Now, I can just work on improving my exam skills.

So I’ve been revising for my biology test and my teacher was ill today, so I can do it whenever I want. But I’m glad I did so much revision for it because I got it out of the way.

And I’ve got a really hard French essay due in as well which of course I’m not prepared for. I have enough time to finish it though so I’m trying to be productive today!

I think I’m going to do a post about my top songs of the year so far because I’ve been finding some absolute gems this year.

After not doing particularly well in my music test, I’m hoping that with a bit of extra work I can bring up my grade. Music is the one I’m struggling with the most- it’s so picky and specific.

But here are my finished notes for Biology. I wanted to be super productive in this study period so I’m happy that I finished all the cover work and homework for my class. Just need to finish French now!

Thank you to everyone who has liked and shared my posts- it means a lot. It is lovely to share my study journey with anyone who will listen, however few people, but it is always nice to see that lots of people have been liking a post.

Thanks everyone! ✨❤️

All of my teachers were absent today so I had no lessons. I went on a lovely walk to get myself focussed and then did my French work. Now I’m just working on my biology cover work.

I’ve been finding so much new music nowadays which has been lovely.

Hope you are doing well!

We’re currently learning the difference between indirect and direct pronouns in French and I made some rather scruffy but informative notes on it.

I had a biology test today which I was not really too worried about because I did all the practice questions in my textbook. It went well, but the markscheme is so picky and specific that I lost quite a few marks from silly mistakes.

Anyway, I had a good day today, I made some courgette fritters as a snack and that took me an hour (I know…?) anyway so I’m a bit late getting to study so the light isn’t that great.

I hope everyone is doing well.

This post is a little different, I thought I’d share my target morning ‘routine’. I’ve been trying to have productive mornings for god knows how long and this is what I want them to look like:

• Wake up & get ready: 6am
• Cup of tea & write: 6:30am
• Go for a walk/run: 7am
• Clean up: 7:30/7:45am
• Breakfast: 8am
• Start work at 8:30am

This would be days where I don’t start college early. If i start college at 9am, it would look like this:

• Wake up & get ready: 6am
• Cup of tea and write: 6:45am
• Clean up: 7:15am
• Breakfast: 7:45am
• Leave for the bus: 8:15am

I currently wake up anywhere between 9-11am, so it’s going to be a challenge. But we like challenges!!

Another productive day! (04/03/21)

Due to Covid my exams have been cancelled for my A-levels. So things are being switched around and I’m now going to complete psychology coursework instead! I’m actually quite excited for it because it means I can apply my learning to any area I find particularly interesting!

But on today’s agenda:

• Psychology lesson- Research methods & Memory revision
• Geography lesson- Hazards
• Photography work- planning a couple of shoots
• Drink far too much tea (per usual)

I hope you have a productive day!!

It’s been a while…

Honestly, lockdown 3.0 did a very good job at destroying my motivation to do anything college related. The work was piling up and I just let it. But that’s okay! Because it’s happening to everybody; all we can do is try.

So, I employed the help of a bullet journal. It’s pretty basic, nothing too fancy. I would’ve struggled keeping up with it if it was a lot of effort so I kept the layout simple. What a time to start one, the last week of February.

I am aware that I’ve said this before however!! I’m going to start using this blog again, hopefully it will keep me on track :)

It’s good to be back- Finn

~15/10/2020~

Good evening! Day 3/100

I had all my classes today, which was quite exhausting. However, we are currently still studying Schizophrenia in psychology which is fascinating to learn about; fieldwork in geography which is confusing but important. I have a resit for geography tomorrow so I’m doing some evening revision for it (hopefully I get higher in the test this time).

My friends and I have decided to set up a study pair for upcoming tests and exams. The library is now open at lunch times so we have decided to work in there- we do have to wear masks but it doesn’t bother us that much. I did some more German vocab this morning on duolingo and decided to buy a new notebook to practise in! The more I’m exposed to the language, the quicker I’ll be able to learn it :)

~14/10/2020~

Good morning! 2/100

Another day of studying psychology. It’s my day off today so I thought, “why not put it to good use?”. It’s currently only early but my plan is to get a lot done:

• Study psychology approaches
• Study coasts for geography
• Edit personal statement (for university applications)
• Write up exam style questions for psychology homework

It doesn’t seem like that much but it is to me haha. I didn’t post yesterday because I had a full day of classes, so I’ll count this as day two instead of day three. What are you studying?