today i want to talk about something i am very proud of! my overall goal for November was to quit caffeine because it made my anxiety worse & it messed up my sleeping schedule. I managed to go 18 days without coffee in a row and 20 days overall.
some positive changes i experienced: - i hade a balanced energy level through the day, no more afternoon slump - i didn’t need naps!!! - i was tired by the end of the day & i slept much calmer
are you a coffee lover? how many days could you go without it? 👇🏻💬
Gloria Ramirez was rushed to the Riverside General Hospital in Riverside, Californa on February 19th 1994 after complaining of breathing difficulties. Ramirez who was just 33 was suffering from terminal cervical cancer and taking medication to deal with her illness.
On the way to the hospital, IV fluids and oxygen were administered in order to stablise her but as soon as she made it into trauma room 1 things went downhill very quickly. She became almost unresponsive with shallow breaths and her heart began beating rapidly.
Medical staff who defibrillated her reported her skin being covered in an oily sheen and she smelt ‘sickly and like garlic’. A member of staff attempted to take her blood and noticed oily blobs in the vial, soon after the member of staff passed out. One by one, other staff members began passing out and complaining of nausea and headaches.
The hospital was evacuated and a clean up crew were called in to contain whatever was going on with Gloria Ramirez. Sadly, Ramirez passed away and her cause of death was listed as kidney failure related to her terminal cervical cancer.
Theories surrounding her death range from mass hysteria to DMSO4 being the cause of a toxic gas that leaked into the emergency room. Scientists have put forward the theory that DMSO2 converts to DMSO4 with the addition of oxygen.
Gloria’s case is quite complex and it is something that I plan to cover in depth in an upcoming episode where I will discuss the findings of a paper written about her case in 1997.
When Gloria’s body was returned to her family, her heart was missing and her other organs had been contaminated. Gloria Ramirez’s case remains highly controversial within the toxicology and pharmacology community to this day.
She has now been laid to rest at the Olivewood Memorial Park in Riverside, California.
Hi! I’ve posted before how I learn vocabulary so I decided to make a printable for it. As this is my first one, it isn’t as pretty as I’d like it to be, but it serves its purpose. Something I included in these is the part of speech as I noticed many people don’t write this down when they learn vocabulary. These are available as a PDF in different colors.
How to use:
You can use it for different languages or just English vocab
The word definition sheets can be tri-folded to test yourself.
You can cover the definition, guess the meaning and vice versa.
You can also use that blank space to write what you think is the answer.
The sentence sheets have space for you to write the sentence you found the word in or find an example of it online.
There are boxes to check the part of speech or add your own if it is not there.
Feel free to tag me if you use them or let me know if you would want me to edit something in the file! I am currently making Russian-specific ones so if you want something similar, let me know and I’ll see if I can help.
Hey guys, so I’m nearing the end of my senior year, and it’s been great so far! I accomplished my academic tasks efficiently and didn’t burn myself out, and I think the main contributor to my success as a student is my organization system. This system has been refined throughout my high school years, but I think now I’ve finally found the most effective methods.
Please remember that this isn’t the only organization system you can adopt; this is just the one that works the best for me, and I hope that by sharing it with you, you’ll gain a new perspective on how to stay organized as a high school student.
The first thing I wanna talk about is my notebook system, which I briefly mentioned in my Guide to Note-Taking.
My notebook system comprises three types of notebooks: the Everything Notebook, the subject notebook, and the revision notebook.
The Everything Notebook
The first stage is in-class notes. I only bring one notebook to school every day. I call it my Everything Notebook, and this is where I write down all of the notes I take in class. This way, I don’t have to lug around six notebooks where I’m only going to use a few pages in each of them that day.
Subject Notebooks
At the end of the day, I would revise my notes and compare them to the syllabus so I know where we are in the learning process. I would then transfer my class notes from my Everything Notebook to my different subject notebooks. This is stage two. I also start to jazz up my notes because I use the notes in my subject notebooks to study for tests.
In addition to my class notes, I include material from my teachers’ notes that they might not have elaborated on, as well as points in the syllabus (I’m currently taking A2) that were only glazed over briefly, or not at all, in some cases. (Note: this does not mean they completely skip a chapter or topic; it’s more like they missed a few bullet points that should be in my notes but aren’t. An example would be if we’re learning about phenol reactions and the teacher forgot to mention the use of FeCl3 as a test for phenol.)
Revision Notebooks
Stage three comes a little later, when exam week is just around the corner. Essentially, I rewrite and improve my notes from my five different subject notebooks into a single revision notebook or binder. (Recently, I’ve opted for a revision notebook because they’re lighter and easier to carry around.)
Because my teachers don’t always teach in the order of the syllabus, the first thing I do is organize my notes according to the syllabus. I would then fill in any other missing gaps in the material that hadn’t been filled in stage two.
When compiling material for my revision notebook, I use as many sources as possible: my own notes, my teachers’ notes, youtube videos, online sites, and my favorite, the mark scheme! I add in some answers from past papers (explanations only, so no calculations) mainly to secure marks. It’s safer to memorize definitions straight from the mark scheme than from the textbook or from handouts. I also do this to ease my memorization, especially for topics that require lengthy explanations. It’s a lot easier to remember the 6 points I need to explain the principles of NMRI than to remember everything in the four-page handout my teacher gave me.
Folders and binders are essential to organizing your papers. Some people keep a single accordion folder for all their papers, but for me it’s just too heavy to carry around all the time. The same goes for subject folders that are brought to school every day.
Instead, my binder/folder system comprises my Everything Folder and my subject binders.
The Everything Folder
The folder I carry with me to school every day is this A4 folder I got from Tokyu Hands. It has 5 pockets, one for each day of the week, so all the papers I receive on Monday will go behind the first divider, and so on.
Some people also keep blank papers in their folders; I don’t because my school has its own lined paper and graphing pads that I keep under my desk that I use if a teacher asks us to do an assignment on those papers. If I do work at home, I prefer to just use a plain A4 paper or a legal pad.
Subject Binders
At the end of the week, I’ll sort my papers into my subject binders. Sometimes I’ll keep some papers in the folder if I think I’ll be needing it the next week. This usually only applies to worksheets because all my teachers’ notes are available on Google Classroom, so I can access them even if I don’t physically have them.
Each of these binders have sections inside them:
Physics: 1 for handouts, notes, and tests, 1 for Paper 4 (Theory), 1 for Paper 5 (Practical Planning). I included extra tabs to mark the different topics in the handouts section.
Chemistry: same as Physics.
Economics: 1 for Paper 3 (MCQ), 1 for Paper 4 (Case Study and Essay). A lot of my Economics material is online, though.
English: 1 for Paper 3 (Text and Discourse analysis), and 2 for Paper 4 (Language Topics, which includes 1 for Child Language Acquisition, 1 for World Englishes). Past papers, handouts, and notes all go under their respective topics.
Mathematics: I just keep everything together because I never revise math and just constantly do past papers.
This makes it easier for me to revise each subject because I can just take one binder with me instead of a messy folder with everything just shoved in there.
I keep a magazine file for each of my A-Level subjects (English and Mathematics are combined). All my textbooks, revision guides, and subject notebooks are kept here, so if I need to revise one subject, that’s the magazine file I’ll take out.
These magazine files prevent any small things (like my book of flashcards) from being shoved to the back of my bookshelf, or materials from different subjects from getting mixed up.
In my senior year, I mostly plan using this app called Edo Agenda. It syncs across all my devices for free and has all the features I need: a to do list to organize tasks, monthly and weekly calendars to organize events, a journal to organize notes and memos.
I used to bullet journal regularly, but it takes too much time during weekdays, so now I just bullet journal for the therapeutic effects it gives me, and I use an app for organizing tasks and events. Sometimes at the end of each week, I’ll transfer my tasks to my bullet journal and then decorate the page, but again, this is just for its therapy.
Organizing your school supplies is just as important as organizing your papers and notes. With a more organized backpack and pencil case, you won’t waste time looking for your things at the bottom of an abyss.
Pencil Case
I don’t find it necessary to bring so much stationery to school unless I plan on making notes at school (usually during revision week).
Backpack
Because we’re already in the revision term, I don’t really carry a lot of things in my everyday backpack, just the following:
Pencil case
Everything Notebook
Everything Folder
Revision notebook
Kindle
Phone
Wallet
Earphones
Calculator
Speaker
Drinking bottle
A pouch with things like a hairbrush, pads, and lip balm
And that’s all for now! I hope this post will help you organize your school life (if you haven’t already) or at least provide some useful insights on some ways to stay organized as a high school student.
John Balcerzak and Joseph Gabrish were the two police officers who returned 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone
to Jeffrey Dahmer after they found him stumbling down the road, bleeding from the anus and from a hole in his head that Dahmer had drilled. He had been drugged and raped by Jeffrey Dahmer yet managed to escape. The officers were fired after their actions were publicised, including an audiotape of the officers making homophobic comments to their dispatcher and laughing and joking about having reunited the “lovers”. In reality, they had just returned a teenage boy to the man who would, in moments later, kill him. As soon as Sinthasomphone was back in the apartment, Dahmer murdered him.
During Dahmer’s trial, in reference to this incident, Dahmer said: “I hope and pray they can get their jobs back because I know they did their best and I just plain fooled them.” Dahmer’s wishes were soon granted, and both jobs were reinstated.
Crime scene photos of the murder of Clauddine ‘‘Dee Dee’’ Blanchard
Clauddine Blanchard was murdered by her 24-year old daughter, Gypsy Rose Blanchard, and her
daughter’s boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn (26).They had stabbed her to death on the 14th of June, 2015.
Gypsy had been abused by her mother her whole life long by pretending she was ill and had various disabilities (Munchausen syndrome by Proxy). Clauddine shaved Gypsy’s head in order to fake that she had cancer, she gave her an
unnecessary and painful feeding tube, lots of
unneeded prescription medications
and so on. Clauddine tried to get sympathy by exploiting Gypsy, she was also doing it for donations, free trips, etc.
Gypsy pled guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to ten years in prison, she will be eligible for parole in 2024, when she is 32 years old.
