hey guys in today's video I'll be
showing some clips of the studying that
I did over the past week so to begin
with in what's showing on the screen
right now I'm doing my math homework on
Tuesday evening I originally wanted to
record all of the studying and school
work that I did over one whole week to
show you guys the amount of school work
and the type of school work that I
typically do in a week but it didn't
really work out for a variety of reasons
so instead I'll just be showing you the
clips that I was able to record and
giving you some more information about
what's going on and why certain things
are happening that was a kind of weird
and very explanation but you can
basically expect the same kind of thing
as my normal study with me videos as I
mentioned earlier right now you're
seeing me work on a math homework
assignment and the reason that it sped
up so much is because I spent a very
long time on it
this section was about work which is a
pretty difficult topic and I also missed
the lecture because I went to cross
country League finals on Monday instead
of being in class so needless to say I
struggled quite a bit and I had to refer
to those answers on that post to note a
lot to guide me in the right direction
now moving on I am adding some
highlighting and boxes to my notes from
my math notes that were taken this day
in class and then I'm doing some more
math practice questions from a previous
chapter to practice obviously if you've
watched my videos for a while you
probably already know this but the way I
schedule when to study certain chapters
is based on the curve of forgetting
which is a system and printable that I
will have linked in the description if
you'd like more information I personally
think that it's pretty helpful I've been
using it since freshman year and I find
it especially useful in math since in
math all the concepts build off of each
other in some ways so I need to make
sure I remember everything from the
previous units
we're moving along and learning new
things if you're wondering about the
supplies I'm using they'll always be
linked in the description right now I'm
using a whiteboard notebook and an
ultrafine expa marker I like to do my
practice math questions on a whiteboard
to conserve papers since I never really
refer back to them so I don't need them
permanently preserved instead I can just
erase them and not waste as much
resources and now moving on I am
attempting to study for a quiz on the
crucible which is the play we're reading
in English by flipping through the
annotations I made but I honestly don't
really know how to study for English so
if you have tips please leave them in
the comments it would be very greatly
appreciated continuing on now I am
studying for AP u.s. History by doing
some multiple-choice practice questions
on Albert I oh it's a website with
multiple-choice practice and answer
explanations from previous AP exams
officially from the College Board it
does cost money to access all of the
questions but I find it a pretty helpful
resource and it's worth the investment
in my opinion more than any other prep
books that I've tried now I'm doing some
notes for a push which are from my AP US
history textbook and the reason that I
take notes from the textbook is because
it is an assignment from my teacher the
way my history class is structured is we
get a lot of our historical details and
background knowledge and everything from
reading the textbook and activities and
lectures in class are meant to point out
certain important details and help go
over the more important concepts if
you'd like some tips about how to take
history notes especially for a push I
will link some videos in the top right
card that will explain more so first of
all I have a video called how to take
history notes which is about how to take
history notes obviously and it's based
off of what I did when I took AP
European history last year
my process for a push is pretty similar
except I changed the way that the notes
are laid out instead of having two
columns with a margin for the titles and
other commentary type stuff I just use a
header and then the bullet points
underneath that header I also changed
the way that I format the headers so the
top is the calligraphy header and that's
the title of the chapter then I have the
title for each section in a longer
highlighter bar thing that extends
across the whole page and then the title
for each subheading within each section
is regular writing with regular
highlighting if you're wondering what
the blue thing underneath my paper is
that's a writing board and I use that to
make the surface of my table more
comfortable to write on in a pen and I
use it for when I'm writing on the
backside of a piece of paper I don't
want to press really hard and make the
ink or pencil transfer over onto my
white table since it gets dirty so
easily by the way this set of notes that
I did was split between Tuesday and
Wednesday which was why there was a cut
in the middle of this note-taking
session where I moved the textbook that
was a completely different day in fact
also I'm really sorry about how often
the top of my head and my glasses showed
up in this clip I don't know why but
this day I just really felt like leaning
over really far and getting my head into
the shot I don't know if any of you guys
noticed but I got a new pen body
recently this is the Uni Jetstream alpha
gel body and I put the pen tell energy
gel refill into it usually I use the
zebra sirasa as you might know but I'm
trying out this one because I have the
Uni alpha gel mechanical pencil and I
really like how squishy the grip is
currently I'm not liking this pen as
much since I'm not using the correct
refill in it I'm using the pen tell
energy L which mostly fits but is
very slightly too small so there's a
slight ratalie shifty feeling but I
don't enjoy also the grip is not quite
as soft as the mechanical pencil and the
texture doesn't feel as nice it feels
almost sticky if you guys have used this
pen before let me know if that improves
with youth or if it's just not quite as
good as the mechanical pencil grip I'm
honestly not a hundred percent sure
whether I like this or not I'm going to
keep using it to see if I can make it
work for me and grow to like it but
right now I definitely wouldn't
recommend you to spend your money on it
since it is pretty expensive I remember
last year I got a comet or two asking
why I always wear my winter coat inside
and I'm from California so I don't
really have a concept of a winter coat I
just have this puffy down jacket in my
house and I never wear it outside of the
house since it is kind of ugly but
inside it's so warm and it's not even
cold in my house I just always feel cold
for no reason so that's the reason I'm
wearing this jacket if you really cared
that much to know now moving on I am
making some flashcards for French and
I'm using the software Aki which is a
spaced repetition software I don't know
the exact science behind it but it helps
me do flashcards and remember vocab so
it works great anyways the way I do the
flashcards is I have the image as the
prompt and then I need to recall the
French word the reason I'm using an
image instead of just the English word
is so that I can associate the concept
of the thing with the French verb rather
than thinking of the English word and
the French word and then needing to
translate between them
and then I'm just reviewing those
flashcards and now on a different day I
believe this is Thursday I'm reviewing
some more multiple-choice questions for
a push since we have a quiz on the next
day and I really wanted to review it
this chapter seemed to be a fat struggle
for me as you can see by the accuracy
bar but that's okay because improvement
is good and good to learn from your
mistakes and all that if you are
wondering why my computer screen is
orange-tinted that's because I use the
app flux which blocks blue light after
sunset which will help me go to sleep
more easily I know it doesn't look like
it's after sunset
since the lighting is so bright in my
filming desk area and if you'd like to
see how I set up the lighting for these
videos and how I set up my camera to get
the downwards filming angle I will link
my behind the scenes of a study with me
video video a high in the scenes video
about to study with me videos in the top
right - card right now the last three
minutes of this video are of me taking
an entire chapter of a push notes this
happened on Saturday evening I didn't
really film much over the weekend since
I was super busy and had to study during
whichever small bits of time were
available so this included me on the car
or me at a random time period when I
didn't really want to take out my camera
and just film 10 minutes of work the
only time I filmed was for this set of
notes because I feel like reading a
chapter of notes is a thing that you
have to do in a really long focused
block of time and continuously it
doesn't have to be continuous I suppose
I don't do continuous all the time but I
try my best to take all of my really
intense information heavy notes in a
pretty continuous focused block
one reason I find this helpful is
because I get into a kind of flow state
where I don't even need to take breaks
for a Pomodoro timer or anything also if
I do it all at once I couldn't remember
everything that I previously read in the
chapter which is all from the same time
period and are all related to each other
and since I can recall pretty much
everything within the chapter I can more
easily make connections between the
things that are happening in the chapter
which in turn will help me remember
everything better
for a long-term memory way did that make
any sense I hope it did also I know you
can't see this but while I'm recording
the voiceover I make a lot of hand
gestures and they make sense in my
gestures but I don't know if they make
sense in this Beach hopefully this
verbose and somewhat related to the
video tangent helped you in some way I
personally do think it helps to focus
for a long period of time when you're
taking notes but obviously you don't
have to do this and if you don't have
time the best time to study is whenever
you do have time don't worry too much
about doing things in the best optimally
productive way it's better to just get
it done even if it's not to the 100%
perfect method because ninety eight or
ninety five percent is still much better
than zero percent or 50 percent I
usually finish off my eight push notes
by copying down the time line that is in
the chapter summary of the textbook this
one is of the Civil War so it's pretty
long and detailed with dates and
everything
I hope you enjoyed this video and if
you'd like to see more study with me
videos I will link them on screen and in
the description I also upload new videos
every Friday and you can see pictures of
my notes on my Tumblr and Instagram
which are at to study quill see you next
time