When Ramadan enters, the gates of Paradise are opened, the gates of Hellfire are closed and the devils are chained.
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What is Ramadan?
An old woman sells strawberries in Gaza . 2 February 2015
Those are the most beautiful strawberries I ever seen. I’ve reblogged them before, but I would be head over heels for a basket of strawberries like that.
Study Techniques:
- SQ3R Reading
- The Pomodoro technique
- Online Pomodoro timer
- Feynman Technique
- 100 Things to do in your study break
- Develop active learning strategies
- Cramming (last minute option)
Study Methods, Tips, and Resources:
- How to make flashcards (electronic and paper)
- What to write on flashcards
- Uses for flashcards
- Creating and using mindmaps
- Studying using textbooks
- The benefits of textbooks
- How to annotate
- Tools for referencing
- Tips for visual learners
- How to read journal articles critically (by marielstudies)
- Top 5 Study Tips to Achieve your Study Goals
- How to pull an all nighter
- How to pull an all nighter (2)
- Studying vocabulary
- Study guides
- How to create a study guide (by studyspoinspo)
- Using whiteboards
- Assignment Calculator
- Learning how to learn (by strive-for-da-best)
- Get good grades (Youtube)
Memory:
- Learn how to memorise and find the memory techniques that work best for you.
- Here’s an interesting article about long term memory.
- 6 research tested ways to improve your memory.
- Here’s an ask about how to memorise material.
- An ask about forgetting material within a few hours.
- Some memory tips (by astackoftextbooks)
- Learn instead of memorising
- Thinking and memorising
Time Management:
- How to prioritise tasks
- Apps for scheduling
- Creating a revision timetable
- A post about making a timetable (by grxeek).
- How to keep your revision focused
- An online study planner.
Motivation/Procrastination:
- Reasons to study
- Blocking apps/extensions for phones and computers.
- Reasons to study now
- 10 tips for getting started on an academic task
- How to deal with family distracting you from study
- How to stop procrastinating (Youtube)
- 10 Tips for managing procrastination
- Questions to ask yourself for motivation
- How to improve your concentration
- Quick concentration tips
- Get Motivated (Wikihow)
- Choosing the appropriate study environment
- Short and sharp motivation
Stress Relief:
- Stress relief techniques and ideas
- The 10 Best Yoga Poses for Stress Relief
- Relaxing Yoga Poses for Beginners
- 20 Easy Steps to Stress Relief
- Relaxation Techniques
- 23 Science Backed Ways to Reduce Stress
- 25 Destressing Techniques
- Deep Breathing Exercises
- Three Guided Relaxation Videos
- Vent Anonymously Online
- A sleep calculator here which will calculate when you should go to sleep/wake up (depending on what you’re working out) based on sleep cycles. This will make sure that you wake up refreshed and ready to work.
- Problems with sleep
- Failure anxiety
- Do nothing for 2 minutes
- Calm (meditation site)
Health:
- There’s also some information here about studying with mental illness from MIND.
- There’s a really great post here about depression in university (by landofstories)
- There’s a similar post here about studying with depression (by bloggerforstudentprogress)
- Studying with ADHD
- Studying maths with dyscalculia
- Managing test anxiety
- Self help: test anxiety
- Emergency Compliment (for when you’re feeling down)
- Studying with dyslexia
- Revision and exams for people with dyslexia
- Study skills for dyslexic students
- How I coped with OCD at university
- Study skills and OCD
- Study skills and OCD PDF
Music:
- Nature sounds in calmsound
- Sounds of rain
- Beethoven
- Coffee shop sounds
- More coffee shop sounds
- Mix sounds (soundrown)
- Sounds of the ocean
- Whitenoise
- Study mixes on 8tracks
- Music to boost concentration
For the exam:
- Exam preparation
- Exam life hacks (by studyblob)
- The best ways to prepare for exams
- Exam tips
- The day before an exam
- Tips on Taking Multiple-Choice Tests
- How to write a great essay (by englishlit-chic)
- Psychology Essay Exams (gives an example and how to answer)
- Looking after yourself after exams
- Oral tests and exams
- Writing and presenting a good speech
Links, Games, etc.:
- Live panda camera (for destressing; you wouldn’t believe the amount of time I spend watching this camera).
- Live animals
- Try to find the ten gnomes
- Origami
- Create your own nebula
- Easy magic tricks
- DIY Home Spa (BY @recoverykitty)
- Brownie in a cup
- Cookie in a cup
If she’s mad, kiss her.
3 Things You Can Do To Make A Gemini Smile
1. Show that you can relate to them. They tend to feel misunderstood… a lot of the time.
2. Take them some place special, just you and them. It shows that you enjoy their company and they love being around people that matter to them.
3. Send them a nice text, something sweet and meaningful. They’re always on their phone, so they’ll see it immediately.
(via zodiaccity)
Source: thezodiaccity.com
My love life...
- Me: SOMEBODY WANT ME
- Somebody: I do.
- Me: Nope, not you.
Quran 21:33. And He it is Who created the night and the day and the sun and the moon; all (orbs) travel along swiftly in their celestial spheres.



