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What i’ve learned from college thus far

Stop studying the night before. I have noticed that if i keep forcing myself to learn until last minute (which it’s not gonna happen, you know what you have been processing for a while not just right before they hand the paper sheets) i start doubting myself more

Go with an “i don’t care anymore” attitude to the exam. This one is my fave. With this i mean letting go of every single worry you may have of failing in that moment (not ignoring your books the whole semester) If you don’t care about failing there’s no tension or stress during the exam, therefore you will be able to think more clearly than under pressure.

Figure out your minimum hours of sleep. I learned that i need at least 5 hours to function properly. Find yours and use it in your favor.

Relationships with classmates. You probably will only see your friends in some classes or just one, dont let this unmotivate you and not attend to lectures!! Everyone is asleep and no one will think you’re awkward for sitting alone. Don’t force friendships or try acting like someone you’re not, people can see it and repells them.

Relationships with teachers. Can’t stress this enough, if you’re gonna put effort in creating a bond with someone in college, it has to be your teachers. Try getting there early and pick a seat in the front, make questions via email or in person, if you’re shy like me wait until the end of the lecture and talk to the teacher instead of asking out loud.

Learn from failure. Don’t waste precious time giving yourself a hard time, it won’t make you any smarter. Pay attention to details and correct them for the next time, that’s how champs do it AND YOU’RE ONE OF THEM!

Relaxing. I know how guilty you feel when it’s been days and you haven’t looked at your notes, but hey we all go through that. It’s important to disconnect a little sometimes and come back with a %100 battery instead of a %35, am i right? Just don’t let the relaxation become 2 weeks or a whole month.

Hope these few tips may help you if you need them ♡

Part 2

:/ Black and diasabled lives really don't matter in the USA or any other countries.

http://chng.it/5Nd5TDgFKD Here's is a petition you can sign to get some justice for AJ and his family.

Change.org

Sign the Petition

Require First Responders to be Educated in Dealing with Mentally Ill

EDIT: GUYS WE'RE ALMOST THERE. KEEP SIGNING

ALSO HERE IS MALIK WILLIAMS'S PETITION ANOTHER DISABLED BLACK MAN MURDERDD BY THE POLICE. SIGN IT TOO

http://chng.it/5KZRQrpxdd

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Fire the Officers That Shot 84 Rounds at Paraplegic Malik Williams and Release Footage

Self Improvement Masterpost

Time Management

Waking up earlier

Stop staying up all night

Wasting too much time on a certain website?

Top 10 Reasons for Lost Time

29 Time Wasting Activites

General Time Management Guide

Creating an effective schedule for your day

How to stop being late to things

Easy to prepare healthy recipes

Make time for your hobbies!!

Making School Suck Less

Prioritization

…what if everything is a priority?

Studying methods

Strategies for students with ADHD

Strategies for students with learning disabilities

AVOIDING BAD PROFESSORS

Dealing with difficult professors

Preparing for competitive exams

Quick and healthy snacks that are good for focus

Finding cheap textbooks

Relationships and Sex

How to tell if someone genuinely likes you

Why relationships fail

Putting yourself first when you need to

Eight differences between healthy and unhealthy relationships

Know the difference in protective and possesive

10 things to know before you start being sexually active

Maintaining a long lasting HEALTHY sex life

Considering a friends w/ benefits relationship? read this!

Money Management

Are you spending too much money on ____?

10 Tips on Saving Money

Steps to take in starting a budget

Mobile apps for budgeting!

Buying a car

Tips for buying a house

…and apartment

25 Wastes of money

Even savvy savers make these mistakes

Getting / Keeping a Job

Interviewing etiquette

Creating a resume

Starting your career before you start your career

Workplace etiquette

Shitty boss?

Waking up with a hangover…

Getting ahead in the workplace

Physical Health (Diet and Exercise)

General Men’s Health website

General Women’s Health website

Gym Etiquette

Micro changes for macro results at the gym

7 foods to help trim belly fat

How many calories should you be consuming?

No gym? Try these at home work outs

Great diets for men

Great diets for women

Miscellaneous (Better you…)

Stop forgetting things

Stop cursing

Keep your car stocked

Stop smoking

Deal with the police responsibly

Love yourself

Know when to shut up (This is from a Christian outlook btw but it would probably still help)

Stop talking shit about people

Let me know if any links stop working, even if this only helps one person in a small way it was worth the effort i put into finding good sources! - Keaton

The First Semester is finally Done and I've checked out of my dorm! My semester finished earlier than others, and it was fun to just lounge around my room until it was the time to go home.

Today, I offer you pictures of Iska sleeping at our common area. Tomorrow? Who knows?

190806 //

Mom brought the printer to the repair shop last Wednesday, and because of that I am enjoying printing stuff again! I decided to pick up a book again, since it's been so long since I read for leisure. I have already read the Time Keeper before, but now I plan to read it again with a deeper understanding of the world than I did 2 or 3 years ago.

I went out to see my friends this Friday afternoon. We met up at a popular café, and as usual, I'm late. It was my first time eating at the said café and I'm looking forward to going there again. The food is okay, the ambiance is good even though it doesn't have booths that would give a semblance of privacy. I thought it would be hard for the people to get intimate and personal with each other since you can clearly see everyone around but I saw that the people we're eating with actually enjoyed their companies.

It was fun seeing two of my friends again, since I last saw the two of them at our graduation. I hope we still meet in the future since we won't be studying at the same school anymore. Best of luck to Mama and Bulailai.

A Small Guide to Journaling by Eintsein

Something you may or may not know about be is that I journal. However, only recently have I gotten the hang of it and stayed loyal to the habit of journaling. Here are some tips and tricks on how you can journal successfully. Hope you like it :)

being in school is so wack but studying tho,,,, 👀

Police Brutality in the Philippines

I write this following me currently listening to a podcast regarding this and after watching Alyx Arumpac’s documentary “Aswang” (tr: monster/demon).

“a chick is placed on the coffin of the deceased when their killer is unknown. if there is no justice, it will knock on the conscience of the sinner. but the demon will not care for the knocks of even a thousand chicks.” – Aswang (demon), dir. Alyx Arumpac

I go into the best detail I can manage about the drug war under the cut but the most pertinent information and what I want to say remain above the cut for everyone to see.

additionally, to skim, you may focus on bold text.

for the terror bill (and how you can protest via email)

https://bit.ly/DOJEmailProtest

https://bit.ly/JTBEmailProtest

junkterrorbill.carrd.co

https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/06/05/philippines-new-anti-terrorism-act-endangers-rights

other issues in the Philippines: 

parasapinas.carrd.co

please reblog this if only for those links and how you can help. 

Now without further ado, let’s get to it.

This is my major reference: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/philippines aka Human Rights Watch’s Report on the Philippines based on events from 2019.

Disclaimer: 

I don’t pretend to be an expert on this. Additionally, I speak from a position of privilege, as I have not been personally affected by these issues. But I try my best to be informed on the situation and empathise with the people concerned. I’m linking sources below too.

there are other issues of police brutality/misconduct, details here in a report by Amnesty International, but as a summary:

ineffective implementation of safeguards

torture

torture of children

corruption

isolated (but no less important) cases of locals and internationals alike being abused physically, verbally, etc.

intimidation and threats against filing charges

misogyny and rape culture

more details on the War Against Drugs below the cut, but this is an excerpt:

Official PNP (Phil. National Police) statistics cite deaths at 5,000+ during 2016-2019 (despite an earlier statistic of 6,600), but human rights groups estimate the actual death toll to 27,000+.

these are additional recent scandals (all of which only after COVID-19):

extreme punishments towards those who have violated quarantine guidelines (e.g. someone shot and killed, a journalist arrested for taking off his mask in a jeepney to drink water)

in comparison: a high-ranking officer had a birthday party during enhanced community quarantine [x] [x]

people detained during pride march

people detained during anti-terror bill protests [x] [x] [x]

jeepney drivers detained for protesting jeepney phaseout

police telling women to watch their clothes to not be raped

the rape-slay of a 15 year old girl by 2 police officers after she was refused accompaniment home at night

in those arrests, more often than not, when police are asked on what charges the people have been detained, there is no clear answer.

as a side note, the prosecutor who signed for the release of Pride20 was gunned down. (the 50th among the list of judges and lawmakers killed under the administration)

side notes

as a whole, the government’s “solution” to COVID-19 has been: 

military-based (as opposed to centered on healthcare/medical aspects), 

involved police brutality and selective justice

silencing dissenters with the passage of the Anti-Terror Law and arrests

spreading false news

fighting with experts in the University of the Philippines

NO MASS TESTING DESPITE PROMISING SUCH IN APRIL AFTER PUBLIC PRESSURE

so, where are we now?

Police brutality is only one aspect that will come into play once the Terror Law is  effective. Not only will they be emboldened to act even more atrociously, but the law will protect and allow such acts, even condone them, to an extent.

Even from the start, the law itself is unconstitutional and the definitions of a terrorist are vague. If you express criticism or dissent, meet up with people (with the possibility of collusion), etc. you can be branded a terrorist. Additionally, the detainment period has been extended, and police will be allowed to look into your personal communications and essentially wiretap/keep you under surveillance for a longer period of time if you are suspicious. 

Now keep in mind that there is also the recent denial of a major news company’s renewal. Meaning they have lost their right to their channel airwaves. This is the oldest and most far-reaching news company, with branches in regional languages for those in the provinces. There will be less media coverage and reports of arrests and human rights abuses, and much less people will be informed (especially those in remote areas who could only access this channel). In essence, the government has more control of what they (don’t) want the people to see.

So, tell me. With this kind of track record, and this kind of police culture, and the lack of proper checks and balances on the part of the press, what makes for the future of the Philippines once the Anti-Terror Law is effective?

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April Harry Potter Phone Wallpapers

Here are some Harry Potter inspired monthly phone wallpapers with matching desktop wallpapers. I created versions starting on Monday and Sunday so you can pick the one you use more often!

To download:

mobile: for the best quality, click on the link to the version you would like below, wait for it to load and then simply hold down on the image you would like, press ‘save image’, head to your settings, change wallpaper and select it from your photos.

version one monday / version one sunday

version two monday / version two sunday

version three monday / version three sunday

version four monday / version four sunday

laptop: right click, save image, add image to a phone folder that syncs from your laptop to phone or use airdrop on iPhone.

I hope you enjoy using these and if so, I’d love to see them in action!  Feel free to tag me #emmastudies in any photos you upload on Tumblr, Instagram or Twitter. If there are any problems or errors, please let me know via my inbox.

Disclaimer: These backgrounds are for personal use only.

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