📜 Revisiting A Developmental Psych Essay To Apply Some Feedback I Recently Received. Today Has Been

The semester is almost over and now i have more time on my hands to read :”) which is great bcs i missed it, and its my favourite me time activity. How is everyone doing these days? <3

A mood

Learning languages is fun because I love being able to embarrass myself internationally

MAY 15 / 21

A BOOK, A BUJO, AND AN ART JOURNAL = the essentials

Something great happened!!

Yesterday I was in an online lecture about qualitative research, everything was pretty normal until I noticed that I was writing in English instead of Spanish. I'm so excited because I finally reach the point where I can think in English.

Thanks for the tag @mindscistudies 💛

Rules: answer the 20 questions, then tag the bloggers you want to get to know better.

1.NAME: Valentina

2.NICKNAMES: Vale.

3.ZODIAC SIGN: I'm a capricorn (I don't really believe in this)

4.HEIGHT: 1,65 cm or 5’4”

5.LANGUAGES SPOKEN: Spanish and English (still learning).

6.NATIONALITY: Chilean

7.FAVOURITE SEASON: Tbh I love them all, I love how beautiful everything looks at autumn, how I can stay at home and watch the rain at winter, how colorful is spring even though I'm allergic to pollen, and how I can can get out and know new places in summer.

8.FAVOURITE FLOWER: Sunflowers. I think miniature roses are extremely cute.

9.FAVOURITE SCENT: I love a lot of scents, for example, vanilla, coffee, strawberries, forest, sea breeze or the smell of a natural Christmas tree. Now let's move to something less common, I love the scent of cumin, Idk why I just love it.

10.FAVOURITE COLOUR: Blue and yellow.

11.FAVOURITE ANIMAL: Butterflies, wolves and dolphins.

12.FAVOURITE FICTIONAL CHARACTER: I can't choose one at the moment.

13.COFFEE, TEA, OR HOT CHOCOLATE: Hot chocolate.

14.AVERAGE SLEEP HOURS: I wish I could say 8, but as a Uni student I usually sleep 5 or 4 hours.

15.DOG OR CAT PERSON: Dog person, I have two babies.

16.NUMBER OF BLANKETS YOU SLEEP WITH:  Usually 1,but since winter is coming I sleep with 2 blankets.

17.DREAM TRIP: New Zealand or Nuremberg at Christmas with my family.

18.BLOG ESTABLISHED: Since this blog reborn as a studyblr recently I'm gonna say 20 of March because that day I decided that I wanted to join the studyblr community.

19.FOLLOWERS: 18

20.RANDOM FACT: In Chile people have something called "once", which can be translated as "eleven". It's called "once" because "Agua ardiente" has 11 letters. In the past when miners were working but wanted to sneak off for a sip of agua ardiente liquor they would say "let's go to take"𝐎𝐧𝐜𝐞" so their boss wouldn't know what they were up to, as time goes by it degenerates in a snack that take place something between 6 and 9 pm. Now we eat bread and drink coffee but it started as a code word.

Don't feel obligated to answer this, I just tagged you because I'd like to know you.

@oh-mystudyblr

@psychlogystudies

@astudyingbird

@psychologystudies101

@tazmynstudies

@amyrosestudies

@freudscat-psychblr

🚨 TOXIC PRODUCTIVITY 🚨

📝Have you ever felt you didn't 'deserve a break'? Or felt guilty when you did take any?

🧠Then I think you might have a bout of toxic productivity!

☀️What the heck is that you ask?

Well, it's essentially the unhealthy need to be productive all.the.time.

👉🏻I remember watching a reel where the creator said their toxic trait was not going to the 🚽 until they finished whatever work they had to. Tons of people in the comments agreed that they similarly had toxic traits too like not eating dinner until they 'deserved it'.

What the heck. No one should ever hold their pee or not eat dinner. You'll just get a UTI and starve yourself.

For what?!!?! No one should be rewarding themselves with basic human needs like food and going to the bathroom!!!! Those are literally things that keep us alive!!!

🥲Dear students and academics alike, please don't do this! 😩😩😩

Taking breaks is being productive

Self-care is being productive. Self-care is not just using face masks and taking bubble baths. Self-care is having boundaries, self-care is holding your ground and saying no when you need to. Self-care is putting yourself first.

Taking time out for yourself is being productive.

🏠 At the start of the pandemonium there was some post on Twitter from some butthead that went along the lines of "you better come out of this lockdown speaking another language and having an online business or you suck" to paraphrase.

💉Buddy, why are you patronizing strangers? We're all just trying not to die here. There was so much stuff online about being productive 24/7; yeah sure a lot of people's businesses thrived and tons of people put themselves out there. But shaming people for not doing the same was really a shitty message at a time when people were afraid of what was going on and were losing people they loved.

🧠You are not a machine, you have needs, and taking breaks and time to yourself is one of them. 🫀

Psychology notes

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Here you have my personal tips to learn English (could work with your target language too) in a more effective way. Some of them may be too obvious:

Watch series and movies in English with English subtitles until you're prepared enough to understand almost everything without them. You will acquire many grammar structures without consciously learning them.

Focus on fluency rather than on accuracy.

Follow English-speakers on your social media.

Read in English things that genuinely interest you so that the learning gets more meaningful.

Avoid memorising words without context.

Don't rely on translations too much, try to guess the meaning from the context. Think in English.

Read the lyrics while listening to an English song.

Quizlet is a great app to make flashcards and study vocabulary. However, instead of creating them with translations, do it with definitions and pictures.

Change your phone language to English.

When you're learning new vocabulary or structures, write down examples related to your life.

Write a diary in English.

And maybe the most important one: don't be afraid to talk, to communicate, to make mistakes. Don't worry about your accent. Forget about what other people may think about you. Keep trying and keep improving.

To all my gals on studybrl.

Remember this is not a race!

You can start late, you can fail, you can start all over again!

I doesn’t make you less of a person. We all fail, we all start somewhere, the important thing here is being patient with yourself and consistent and overall be happy with what you’re doing!

Don’t be afraid of learning and taking care of your mental health at the same time!!

Please y’all, take care and be proud of who you are today and everything y’all did today, keep on the good job guys.