Also because it's nice to live somewhere clean and tidy?
Eight classes a semester! Our universities must run on a very different model. For me (humanities degree), a full course load was five courses at once, each of which had three instructional hours per week. So I was normally in class for 15 hours a week, and probably spent about the same amount of time studying/reading. Going from five classes to four effectively meant going from 30 hours a week spent on school stuff to 24. It was much easier (especially since I was also working p/t).
It's still Minecraft and Terraria.
Oh, also! I don't know if you live on campus or if you're a commuter, but if the latter: stay on campus during the day! Sometimes I had big enough schedule gaps that I could have gone home in between classes, but staying on campus instead made it a lot easier to just go to the library or whatever.
Pomodoro timers, as someone else mentioned, are great. It was a lot easier to start when I could tell myself "ok, I only have to do this for fifteen minutes" -- and most of the time when that first timer went off I'd gotten into a groove and kept going anyway.
For writing assignments, I found starting with a blank page really difficult, so I'd paste in a paragraph or two of lorem ipsum or some other nonsense text and go from there. Having words on the page, even though they were irrelevant and I knew I'd have to delete them later, tricked my brain into thinking "oh, I've already started this; carry on, then!"
The habit of doing even just a little bit every day was more sustainable and more effective for me than infrequent big cram/study/writing sessions.
I had probably the most success with using musical cueing. Whenever I sat down to write or study, I listened to one of the same two albums on repeat. (I like classical; one was Handel's Messiah and the other was a two-disc set of Thomas Tallis choral works.) Even now, almost a decade later, when I put either of those on it instantly snaps me into work mode. Creating that kind of association is really helpful! And having only one or two choices also meant I couldn't distract myself by trying to figure out what to listen to: it was A or B, end of.
You might also consider how/whether you could spread out your course load. Most years in undergrad I did five classes a semester, but one or twice I did four only (plus a summer class to stay on track) and being at only 80% of a full load made a huge difference.
Good luck!
Whoops, there's still a stray "poodle" in L17.
I'm sure his victim wants to move on with her life as well, but the impact on her sure isn't "very brief" or "momentary."
What's your favourite dinosaur?
DS9 for sure. I like the darker feel a lot, but what really makes it stand out for me are the story arcs.
With TNG, especially in later seasons, it really started feeling like nothing had consequences beyond its own episode -- even the events of "The Inner Light" are barely alluded to afterwards, which is crazy if you think about it. DS9 gives us plots and stories that stretch across multiple episodes and even multiple seasons, and it has so much more of a sense that the whole thing is going somewhere. This also allows for an incredible amount of character development over the course of the series.
Plus, Gul Dukat is easily one of the best TV villains of all time.
^...I didn't care for Vince Fontaine though.^
Lovely!
I don't have a lot of experience with foraging but since we have so many dandelions this seemed like an easy way to start! They're laid out on a clean sheet to dry in the sun (it'll hit them in about an hour and stay on them just about until sunset).
Yeah I have no idea what this is talking about. 38 here, I've owned a printer for 15 years at least. We switched to a Brother laser printer a few years back and it's the tits.
I also own a minivan, AMA.