Hi guys! In today's video,
I'm showing you a time-lapse of me working on a timeline for AP European history.
In our class one of the assignments we have every unit is to make a timeline of some major events of that historical period
So right now, I'm working on the one that spans from World War I to our modern day.
The basic way this works is that these are color coded. So red is political and diplomatic...
yellow is social, green is economic, blue is intellectual, artistic, and cultural...
and lastly, purple is religious.
My process for this is: as we do our reading assignments
I record the name of an event, the time and place, and a description on a Google spreadsheet...
then whenever I have more free time to actually
construct a timeline and write everything in, I do that, and this time I happened to film quite a bit of it.
I will admit it's definitely not the best footage I've ever filmed.
Number one: you're probably noticing that my head keeps showing up in frame.
I was writing really small to try to fit all of the
explanation into this tiny space on the sheet of paper...
and I kept leaning in because I was writing so small and I wanted to really look at what I was writing.
My eyesight isn't even so bad that I have to do that so I think it's just a bad habit that I've gotten over the years.
Secondly, a chunk of the recording--or the process--is missing because
normally, I use Forest, a Pomodoro timer app, to notify me every 20 minutes to stop the recording and then start it back up again
because my camera automatically cuts off after 20 minutes.
So, this time I was not alerted every 20 minutes, so I missed one of the times
and it just didn't record. I think this is because I have my phone set to automatically go on 'do not disturb' mode after 9 p.m.
and while I was working on this, it turned to 'do not disturb' mode
and I no longer got the alerts every 20 minutes.
Despite these flaws, I still wanted to share this on my channel because I find it really
satisfying to watch myself write things out in a sped-up 'study with me' video
and I feel like based on comments from older videos, you guys tend to agree...
And with my current student studying lifestyle, most of the studying or work that I do at home
doesn't involve a lot of writing--at least not in big chunks like this or like note-taking.
Also, if you like watching videos of people writing really fast,
then one suggestion I have for you is to go into the YouTube settings
that are in the bottom right corner of the playback page--at least on desktop...
and turn the playback speed to x2.
Also, make sure you mute the video, so you don't have to listen to aggressively fast piano music and me speaking like a chipmunk.
On a completely unrelated note, it's been a while since I've been able to do one of these
chatty just-me-saying-whatever™ videos and one thing that's really been weighing on my mind is:
I'm really... tired, stressed-out, unmotivated, and just uninspired
because how busy I've been with preparing for AP exams and finals and track and all that.
I'll make a page on my tumblr blog with my video ideas,
and it would be great if you guys could give feedback on those ideas [of] what you really want to see, any other suggestions,
topics that you really want me to talk about... Just any sort of feedback like that.
Hopefully it will help me get back into the swing of things and it would be really greatly appreciated.
I hope you enjoyed this video, and if you'd like to see more 'study with me' videos, I'll link some on screen right now.
I also upload new videos every Monday and Friday,
and I post daily on my Tumblr and Instagram which will be linked in the description.
See you next time~