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back from the dead

helloo!!! i’ve returned, after figuring out the email for this account again.

i graduated high school all well and good, and my first year at college was so wild (but fun) that i completely forgot all about this account. 

looking to revive it though, with a more personal touch because my life is far from being solely focused on studying, but i’m constantly still learning!

@ my mutuals though i missed you and glad to see your accounts still around! i hope all has been well!

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Just got back from break, Individual Oral Commentary in a week so I need to make sure im prepared for that.

Physics test too.

Im liking this semester so far, but wow is it more hectic after break.

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Amanda Gorman

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Two monkeys for twos-day.

Happy 2.22.22!

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The white Western pressure to abandon your family to forge your own thing (immovable object ) vs the urge of color to care very deeply about your family, maybe even to your detriment because small sacrifices for the greater good is kind of in your blood (unstoppable force)

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Bi-weekly, Claudia Keep

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gosh i havent posted here in a while huh

Life has been pretty good honestly, I got accepted to a college, went to a dance, and just trying to get through the last few months of high school.

I'll try to post more here soon in the coming weeks. Im grateful to this blog and community though for making me a better learner all throughout high school.

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I've had a stutter for many years now which makes speaking difficult at the best of times. Combined with the pressure of 5 minutes being worth 25% of your entire language exam grade and having to memorise endless flashcards of questions, oral exams and I have never gotten along well. But I've learned some tips over the years and I hope the knowledge I have to share can help someone else.

Tips

Figure out your weaknesses in speaking

Don't just say 'everything. I cannot communicate and I don't want to open my mouth ever again' (although, what a mood). Stutters are generally worse in stressful situations, but what sounds specifically? Vowels? L's? M's? Is starting sentences more difficult?

If you're in a stressful situation (for example, talking to a teacher or telling a friend something important), reflect afterwards on what sounds were difficult for you to say. Recordings are also a good way to put yourself under pressure and figure out what sounds are difficult for you to make under stress.

Your brain is a computer, find the bugs and work around them

So M's are difficult for you to say? In what situations? Start of words? Start of sentences? Middle of sentences? For example, M's are difficult for me to say if they're at the start of a word, but not if they're in the middle of the sentence. So if possible, I try to avoid putting words beginning with M at the start of sentences.

Ex. Ma maison est assez grande.

This is difficult for me to say.

Ex. J'habite dans une assez grande maison.

This is far easier for me to say as the M isn't at the start of the sentence. Find these loopholes and exploit them mercilessly. Use synonyms so you can use a different word than the one that gives you difficulty. It'll also increase your marks for varied vocabulary!

Memorise early

Make your oral flashcards well in advance and start memorising them as soon as possible. Memorised lines are much easier to say for me, so this is something I find very helpful. Look at them whenever you have a spare moment - waiting for the teacher to hand something out, on the bus, in the dinner line when you're not involved in the conversation at that particular time - and memorising will be a lot easier.

Ask for extra time in the exam

There's no shame in asking for extra time, it's what you're entitled to. 20% extra time is the norm for the CCEA exam board, but the actual amount of extra time may vary. 20% may not seem like a lot, especially for shorter exams, but those extra seconds will give you time to get your words out, especially for the dreaded first question of 'what's your name?'. You will have the time to get onto the longer questions and really show off what you know!

'Normal conversation rules' don't apply

You don't have to make eye contact with the examiner - you can stare at a wall, at the floor, at the desk grafitti, and the examiner won't care - they're too busy making notes anyway. As long as you speak loudly enough for them to hear you, you don't need to look at them. Personally, I hate eye contact, so not having to make it takes some pressure off in the moment.

I was also allowed to take a fidget item into my (mock) exam to help me manage my stress, and the combination of not having to make eye contact, doing the Leg Bounce™ and being allowed to use my fidget item helped reduce some of the stress I felt. You may have to ask to take a fidget item into a real exam, but there shouldn't be any reason why it's not allowed as long as it isn't particularly noisy.

Remember: you've got this. Stutters are incredibly annoying and cause a lot of stress, but there are methods that you can personally use and accommodations you can ask for to reduce the burden on you.

Good luck in your exams!

#reblog #ooohhhh good tips op #my oral exam passed already but i used these tips extensively as someone who stuttered her whole life

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help a black college student pay for tuition

i don't normally do this type of thing, but it's getting to the point where i can't do this by myself anymore. im in the process of trying to find a job, but one of the payment periods for my tuition is coming up and im broke.

so im asking if you could please donate if you can. you don't have to if don't want to. and if you can't, can you please signal boost. i would really appreciate it.

paypal: malayarw

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hey, generally speaking i am pro-pirating but there is post going around with a free version of Maus by Art Spiegelman on a google doc and i am genuinely asking you all to not reblog it. Art Spiegelman is still alive. he still makes money off of Maus. and what is being monetized is his generational trauma as the son of a holocaust survivor. please either buy Maus or get it from the library (libraries also benefit the author and when more people request or check out a book it communicates to the library that they need more copies). pirating Maus is very different than pirating a marvel movie or reading a google doc of a book no longer in print. please use critical thinking.

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my current daily affirmations: i am a capable programmer. i am brave. C++ will NOT make me cry today

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my mind says college but my heart says isolated sheep herder in Iceland

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when the numbers work out for a physics problem you've been working on for hours.... so sexy so goddamn sexy

#reblog #MY PHYSICS PAPER IN A NUTSHELL #bro the order of magnitude was giving me a heart attack but it made sense in the end

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its so fun how dems have the house senate and presidency and we're still getting told every day to vote away our problems like. we did that. we got The Good Guys probably more power than they've had in a long time and what have they done with it? how has a democratic majority throughout the entire federal government benefitted us? we did everything we as citizens are supposed to, we put our ballots in, we called our representatives, we mailed our congressmen, against all odds we managed to secure the presidential election for probably the least promising candidate the democrats have ever presented, and what do we have to show for it? the same old pandemic, the same old voter suppression, the same old corrupt police forces tearing through the same black communities MLK fought for, except now they have even bigger budgets. hate to say it but maybe voting isn't the answer anymore, maybe there are more direct solutions to these problems.

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Monday, Jan 17

Still plugging away at schoolwork. Senior year is tough. Im also hungry.

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