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#3. Keeping momentum

You are tired. You are lazy. You can't do anything. Those are the voices I hear, and you might hear, after a long day at school. All I want to do is lay down on the couch and take a nap or get lost scrolling on my phone. But I know if I do, I'm going to spend the next two hours doing absolutely nothing.

Try not to stop doing stuff when you have a break. And I don't mean you should be constantly working. Make yourself a cup of tea. Journal. Call your friend. Something that keeps your momentum. It's harder to stop when you're stationary compared to when you're already moving.

#2. Red light, Green light

More study tips! Separate your to-do list into three buckets: red light tasks, yellow light, and green light.

Red light tasks are the hardest things you have to do. Typically, there is some planning involved, different components, and it will take you multiple days to work on it. Think essay, presentation, big project.

This might come as a surprise but studying for hard tests I put in the yellow light category. (If you’re cramming put this in the red category, but pls don’t.) You are going to want to split up hefty homework assignments and big tests into smaller actionable pieces. The idea is to study a bit every day. The idea is that there is more flexibility and resources while you study, and each problem generally has a clear solution.

Green light is something like emails, routine Khan Academy practice, reading a chapter of a book, or small homework assignments. The point of my system is to be flexible and put things into categories based on how I’m feeling and how much time there is as well.

What this does is it reduces your to do list into three sections, makes a plan, and helps you quantify how urgent tasks are.

Here is my typical schedule for these tasks:

After school:

Break for 1hr

Green as a warmup

Yellow for one hour for 1-1.5hrs

Red after dinner for 2~hrs

Green until tired .5hrs

Weekends:

Finish ALL Green in the morning Sat

Red for 5~ hrs (or however much you need) Sat

Breaks interwoven between

Dinner and relaxing Sat evening

Yellow for 2-3~ hr Sun

Red for 1-1.5hr Sun evening

Day off where I wasted the entire morning:

Red for 2hrs

Yellow for 2hrs

After dinner do Green until tired

to all the seniors who told me junior year was going to be easy FUCK YOU LIEING FUCKERS

6 april 2025

doing some more physics questions today from a lecture to solidify my 11th concepts - almost done with the lecture

i also plan to do 12th biology with questions today, since i’ve done questions for most chapters already i might be able to finish it.

nothing too interesting other than this. just a slow sunday with my bottle of coffee and the never ending todo list 🌸

anyways have a nice day my loves

💌

also lately been feeling a lot of fomo cuz all my friends get to go out and have fun while i’m gonna be cooped up at my desk, with the same old lectures :( but yeah well- hopefully all this pays off.

rainy days, hot coffee and a shit load of academic stress ☕️🍒

+ never ending to do lists 💌

1 april 2025

okay soo i finished the organic lecture and got done with 5 hours of phy part 1 lec (super happy) sooo i think ill be able to finish it off by tmr

i’m gonna end today early cuz i’m really exhausted (don’t know why) also i feel like im out of my burn out phase so yayyy !!

okay so for my lecture - i finished until 2D - which is like 5 hours 😭😭 so i’ll start off with NLM and the rest from tmr

also been really into editing lately so i’ll do some of that before i sleep

goodnight loves 🍊

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31 march 2025

long time no see :)

i haven’t been able to do a lot, i’ve just been super exhausted and unmotivated and i feel like that shouldn’t be an excuse for me to not study, considering my exam is so close but i can feel the exhaustion and burn out in my bones.

well regardless, i’ve been tryna finish a 12 hour organic chemistry lecture and ill finish it today, marking the end of my organic revision.

i also have to start a kinematics / class 11 physics part 1 lecture and that’s also 12 hours 😭 but let’s see, i’m hoping to start it off today me finish it by tomorrow or maximum, day after.

eh anyway, let’s just hope this one month goes by quickly.

goodluck to all of you and have an amazing day and stay hydrated my loves 🌼

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28 march 2025

i kinda just crashed yesterday and didn’t do any of this so let’s get it done today

i made a whole study plan for until neet so i think ill just blindly follow that and grind super hard

last one month left :)))

also wont be posting alooooot anymore cuz we gotta lock in yall 😕

anyways goodluck with everything my loves 🌼

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27 march 2025

LONG TIME NO SEEEEE

okay i’m back from vacation (had the best time ever) and now it’s time to lock in 😼

i’m starting slow and doing zoology to pick up momentum so today’s goal is to finish the entirety of human physiology.

to do list :

breathing and exchange of gases

body fluids and circulation

excretory products and their elimination

locomotion and movement

neural control and coordination

chemical coordination and integration

okayyy i’m gonna get back to studying now

have an amazing day my loves 🌼

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late night biology cram session (finals ver.) 🧬

got some matcha 🍯🍵

biology cram session 🧬

(notes hoarder ver.)

i have no idea why i keep writing to learn but i don’t trust myself to remember content unless ive written it so i have notes from first unit test, midterms and second unit test 😭 ill prolly end up selling these after my exams cuz they’re super concise and helpful too heheh

anyway - i finished reading my portions and was making shorter notes (pls don’t ask why) and i did four chapters so ive got 9 chapters to do tomorrow which sounds pretty chill for tmr. its gonna be a long day tmr so im gonna sleep early (hopefully) but yay i’m pretty happy with how much i got done today.

i do have to read evolution and ecology, i’ll end up doing it last thing tmr cuz i really can’t get myself to do those chapters (send help)

okay but also finals is an excuse for me to finish my ncert reading sooo that’s a good thing, so after this i’ve only got 11th bio ncert left (i say that like it’s easy) (it isn’t)

okay enough yap, let’s try to sleep (watch me fail cus my insides are a cocktail of anxiety, caffeine and insomnia)

also no more strawberries from now on :(

16 march 2025

slept at around 5.30 am yday (today) so i’m starting my day kinda late but that’s okay. i had some sort of neet webinar at 11 am so that took almost 1.5 hours. i’ve got my cinnamon coffee so yayyy

todo :

full biology syllabus.

ecology and evolution are the difficult chapters for me cus i find them really boring so i can’t really bring myself to study them but ill have to do them today regardless so thats gonna be the only difficult part. i finished the reproduction unit last night but im gonna revise it again today

anyways, have a lovely day <3

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days left for neet : 49

13 march 2025

pretty boring day cus i’ll have to do like 15 chapters of hindi (syllabus is huge) so yeah. i spent half my morning looking for my textbook (🤡🤡) but later realised its with a friend so yay

also i made the best coffee i’ve had ever and im so happy eeeeeeek- ok so i made regular iced coffee but substituted the sugar with honey and used cinnamon infused milk (added too much cinnamon but it tastes super yum so no regrets) also used vanilla coffee so its a bit different from the regular coffee i’d make - anyways, amazing combination of flavours 🌸

todo list :

hindi.

that’s literally it for today, might do some revision and questions from physics or biology for neet

anyways-

have an amazing day my loves

💌

12 march 2025

CHEMISTRY DONE YAYYYYYY (lowk fucked up but it’s over)

i messed up a few mcq’s and proly one FIB but the rest went well. i also got confused rosenmund with etard and lost a mark there (so mad at myself omfg)

but at least it’s over. i’ve got english in two days but ill be studying hindi tmr cus ive got 20 chapters in hindi and only one day to prep (do they make these schedules on crack???) but yeah 😭

i got 40 mins of sleep before my exam (maybe that’s why i messed up basic name reactions???) so i’m gonna sleep (finally)

have a nice day my loves 🎀

💌

11 march 2025

alr so i woke up earlier than i normally do cuz i couldn’t sleep (it’s like a cocktail of insomnia, anxiety and stress) 😭 idk i don’t trust myself to remember all this content

anyways, today’s agenda is to just revise the entire syllabus. currently done with half. 🌸

also the paper got leaked like five times and they’re all the wrong leaks (wtaf is happening) but yeah 😭 i don’t trust these leaks so id rather just study the entire syllabus.

welp i just gotta revise all of this and go through mcq’s for all chapters cus that’s where i lose marks a lot, it’s gonna be another long night (when is it not) but i just gotta get this over with now.

anyways, have a nice day my loves <3

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alsooo the moon looked pretty last night <3

9 march 2025

pretty lazy-chill day, until now. i’m revising organic from yesterday cuz i don’t remember all of what i did yesterday. had a major caffeine crash last night and slept like a baby after. i got a good five hours of sleep hehe so im refreshed. i don’t feel sick today so i hope it stays the same until im done with my exams but yeah

anyways,

to do list :

coordination compounds

d and f block

revise full organic

list looks pretty short so i’m hoping to fit in some more neet question sessions, but lets see how that goes.

anyways, have a nice day my loves 🍓

💌

update - feeling super burnt out :((( i don’t wanna do this anymore but gotta push through. i’m gonna shift to my bed and continue with some ginger ale hehe but i really feel so burnt out idk what’ll happen :(

chemistry study session.

goal : finish organic chemistry + questions.

new desk addition hehe, i got a desk mat :)) i’ve always had this but there’s a lot of pen marks so id put it aside but i got it out today and removed the pen marks using rubbing alcohol so yay, this looks cozy so im happy with the way it turned out. it doesn’t quite match my desk’s white-ish look but it’ll do.

anyway, i haven’t studied all day and i can’t let the day go to waste so ill be revising all of organic chemistry and maybe do some neet questions too (i miss neet mcq’s) but yeah

i got some coffee (terrible idea since i haven’t slept well since two days now) but let’s get this over with. i already finished two chapters (so happy i did organic chemistry before too, revision is a breeze)

anyways, bye byeeeee 💌

update : having a caffeine crash but gonna continue studying regardless (i’m gonna regret this so bad)

8 march 2025

super late start to studying cuz im sick again, i fainted once too 😭 i think its cuz of the amount of caffeine i had yesterday + i couldn’t sleep at all at night (no idea why) so ive been super tired and dehydrated. i’m gonna have a late night tonight cuz exams aren’t gonna wait for me to get better 😭😭

well anyway, i’ve got my chemistry final in 4 days so i plan to have one day each for organic, inorganic and physical and one last day for revision

to do list :

haloalkanes and haloarenes

alcohols phenols and ethers

aldehydes ketones and carboxylic acids

amines

biomolecules

anyways i had some yummy breakfast of ice cream, brownie and strawberriessssss 🍓 along with some ors cuz your girl cannot go one day without her powerbank

have a nice day loves <3 and please take care of yourselves 🌸

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also a very random dump of pictures 😭😭

the moon got shy?

5 march 2025

hihiiii

okay so i finished revising today, im doing questions for each chapter and hopefully i’ll be able to do at least half the portions by tonight. i’ve been trying to get in more productivity hours so i think ill have to start waking up earlier (ironic considering the insomnia) but yeah

to do list :

revise first seven chapters of physics with questions and derivations

plant kingdom reading ncert

welp that’s more or less it for today

have a lovely day <33

💌

does looking at sunsets count as studying physics ?

let’s just say i’m studying refractive indexes :)

4 march 2025

i’ve got three days for my physics boards so the plan is to finish revising in two days and have my last day for the final revision. i do have a question bank for chapter wise revision so ill be doing that along with revising it all too. 14 chapters in two days and i plan to do 11th biology on the side

to do list :

electric charges and fields

electric potential and capacitance

current electricity

moving charges and magnetism

magnetism and matter

electromagnetic induction

alternating current

read biological classification

re-do breathing and exchange of gases

i plan to do at least two chapters of biology everyday until my exams end and hopefully finish most of what’s left for biology.

anyways have a nice day loves <33

currently logged 3 hours of studying (i started late), i think it’s gonna be a long night so im preparing for probably another all nighter (i really need to fix my schedule)

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2 march 2025

woah okay so my boards start tomorrow and i finished most of my revision yesterday, for today my only goal is to solve integration pyq and other model papers.

to do :

integration pyq

model papers for math

it’s a pretty chill day but i am kinda stressed cuz math isn’t my strongest subject 😭 i really wished boards started with pcb to give me some confidence in my upcoming exams but yeah wtv, it is what it is

anyways, i left probability for today and i just finished it. i feel pretty good today, not sick at all so that’s good. i pulled an all nighter last night and got a quick two hour nap at 8 am cuz my brain would not process more math without rest but i feel pretty okay and not tired even after my all nighter

anyways goodluck for today loves <3 stay hydrated

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i’m so happy this is my last math exam ever

28 february 2025

starting late but it’s okay cuz it’s integration day, i needed the mental prep 😭 hopefully i finish it off today and have the next two days for revision. day 3 without coffee, it’s getting more difficult, i might cave in 🥲 but anyway :

todo list for today :

integration

application of integrals

differential equations

this’ll take my whole day by itself so yay, if i get some time ill prolly do physics or chem questions - i really miss doing physics questions now 🥲 but yeah let’s see

goodluck loves <3 have a lovely day and stay hydrated 💗

6 pm update - done with 1/4th of integration :))) seems kinda slow but i did a lot of questions so im happy with it

10 pm update - i’ve got 1/2 the chapter left (why is this so godamn long oh god) but yeah 🥲 sounds like it’ll be a late night

clocked in 8 hours of integration until now, my brain is going to collapse into itself

12 am update - done with integration, i give up on the rest for today, goodnight loves 💌

integration is content heavy so i can manage revision and doing the rest of it tmr or day after too

clocked in 9 hours of integration 🥲

days left for boards : 2

i’ve started to enjoy math lol wth is happening ☺️

(stockholm syndrome)

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i thought i finished differentiation completely but my notes are just incomplete lol (im gonna cry)

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27 february 2025

to do list :

maxima minima

vectors

3D geometry

LPP

probability

a complete math day cus boards are close 🥲 gonna be tiring. im gonna try sticking to my no coffee plan but i doubt it’ll last, math is draining me 😭 anyways goodluck to yall too <33

have an amazing day <33

5 pm update - done with maxima minima and vectors (yay). i suddenly feel really unprepared for inverse trig so ill be revising that too today 🥲🥲

11pm update - done with vectors and 3d, took a nice three hour break cuz why not honestly but yeah i’ve only got probability and lpp left for today so im hoping to be done by 1am yay

12 am update - done with probability hehhehehehe only lpp left, that’ll be done soon (yayyyyy) xx

1 am - done with my todo listttt yayyy, did some skin care too, now off to bed 💌 goodnight loves

26 february 2025

good morning <3

alright i got some good sleep and hydrated myself a lot and i feel much better so let’s get back on track ahh, ive wasted too much time being sick, hopefully that doesn’t happen again until my exams end

anyways,

today’s todo list :

determinants

continuity and differenciability

differential equations

applications of derivatives

hindi - read 4 chapters

modern physics - revise + questions

i really need to get done with my boards portions 😭😭 hopefully i finish it all today

also tryna take a day off coffee since excessive caffeine is known to cause low blood sugar, which might’ve been causing my fainting bouts but let’s see

5 days until my boards, so i’m really scared but it’s okay, we got this :)) (i think)

anyways, i’ll keep updating the post to keep track of how much i’ve done hehe

have a nice day loves <33

4 pm update - i finished determinants and started differentiation, im definitely gonna finish this list today (motivation burst idk how) but i do like differentiation more than integration so that’ll help me get through this 🥲 but yayyyyy at least im down one chapter

8.30 pm update - almost done with differentiation, this is kinda fun yall

12 am update - why is this chapter so long omg, but i finally finished continuity and differenciability 😭😭 now moving onto others, they’re much shorter in comparison so i think that’s good

sometime later update - i realised i did more than just one chapter cus of the way our teacher teaches so yay, im done with math. now some hindi reading (my eyes are closing cus i’ve been off coffee)

25 february 2025

to do list for today :

math :

inverse trigonometry

matrices

determinants

hindi :

4 poems - make summaries

physics :

modern physics - revision and questions (only atoms and nuclei)

chemistry :

alcohols phenols and ethers - questions (hopefully)

i started today kinda late cuz i realised i ran out of most of my stationary and i needed some fresh air, so i went out and got some coffee too ehehe

let’s see how much i actually finish today tho 🥲

math is going to be the end of meeeeeeeeeee

(also i love my barbie exam pad 😋😋)

5.00 pm update - i feel really sick again, so i haven’t been able to do much, i might stay up late to finish my list (ugh when does this get better) i’ll come back to update when im done with at least one full section of the list. i’m gonna do it slowly so i don’t just give up tbh 😭 i gotta get back on my ors diet at this rate 🫠 im gonna get something to eat and then continue from 6 again 🫠

5.30 update - fainted, no wonder i felt sick 😭 WHY DURING BOARDS WEEEEEK AHHHH 🥲 anyways orsl ftw

9 pm update - okayyy so i fainted a few times (oops) but i think im okay now so i’ll just do what i was supposed to do for math and hindi and sleep, i tried doing physics but my brain really gave up 😭 i hate being sick ugh

11pm update - did another chapter of math, one more to go and then some hindi reading

24 february 2025

super sleep deprived so i can’t focus much but i gotta start doing math from tomorrow along with hindi for my boards so im doing light work today and heading to bed early so i have enough sleep to deal with math from tomorrow.

i slept pretty late last night, continued studying even after that post cuz why not 🪬 but yeah, i had to be up early for school too so today was reallyyyy tiring for me, i didn’t even sleep after coming back 😭

but i made my plan for all the days until boards and it’s pretty intense so i decided to keep today’s schedule pretty light, just finishing up what i left yesterday like the notes of aldehydes, ketones and carboxylic acids and amines and studying biomolecules.

my eyes are already hurting 🥲

anyways i’m gonna finish this off and head to sleep soon today hehehe

byeeeee <3

23 february 2025 (pt.2)

oop okay part two cuz why not

i got new headphones today :))) and i’m determined on finishing organic chem tonight (i’ve been procrastinating this subject for YEARS)

to do list for tonight :

IUPAC nomenclature

isomerism

GOC

qualitative, quantitative analysis and purification

hydrocarbons

haloalkanes and haloarenes

alcohols phenols and ethers

aldehydes ketones and carboxylic acids

amines and diazonium salts

biomolecules

currently 11 pm - i’m done with :

IUPAC, isomerism and GOC