“Not all men” I say, “there is but one who is purely good.” But which man am I referring to? In Iceland, deep in the woods and the snow, there lives a lad raised by wolves who feasts upon sunbeams and loves all of nature, unburdened by man’s sins. Tenderly, he strokes a hungry squirrel, sharing with her the last acorns of the autumn harvest. A tear rolls down his cheek. Who is he

According to a letter Tolkien wrote in 1971, his school-friends “used to write his initials as ‘JR²T’ and pronounce them ‘to rhyme with dirt’.”

I really like this gif because Stitch does that little squinty thing that animals do when they’re really happy and relaxed and you can tell that he’s having such a superb time playing that little ukulele

So my friend works in the sound booth at his church and during the sermon, the preacher started bashing on gay people, so my friend muted him. Literally muted his preachers microphone I

a list of current immortals

• florence welch: probably like 200 BCE celtic queen
  
• keeanu reeves: 1500 renaissance hoe
• jeff goldblum: late 1800′s i would guess
  
• harry styles: fairly new immortal, 1970′s 
  
• lorde: 1920′s flapper era
• hozier: man who even knows, rough estimate is like, 400 BCE
• john mulaney: 1930′s/40′s, still bitter about the great depression probably and if he could put it in a bit with out being #exposed he would
  
• paul rudd: newest to the immortal club, didn’t age past the 1990′s

imagine trying out a super risky outfit ur not sure is gonna land well and on your way to the party you fall into a bog and become a bog body and in like 3,000 years they pull you out in like a pink mesh bathing suit with an applique that says “barbie girl” on the front tucked in as a body suit to a pair of track shorts that say “your card was declined” on the ass and a pair of elevated 90s gel sandals with a hitclips clipped to the strap with one cartridge (60 seconds of an nsync song) and they reconstruct you in a museum and tell the public that’s how people dressed

the crew goes out into the forest just to film random b-roll shit and the director accidentally finds the like..rarest worm on earth so they run back to their house like COYOTE LOOK and then there is a very heartfelt and sincere response to weird worm including an entire mounted piece of wall art apparently

I decided to share my notes taken from this amazing 1 hour Youtube lecture by Marty Lobdell. i really liked him and his tips, i think they are super effective and cover a lot of situations! i highly recommend it!!!!! wow

but here are the tips and examples Marty mentions, so if you don’t have the time to go through the full hour, you can just scroll down. hope this helps somebody!

• Break your study time in chunks with breaks
  
• most students lose focus at 25 minutes
• it’s a mistake to keep going once you do, since you won’t actually learn anything and you’ll hate every minute of it
• so when you start losing focus take a 5 minute break
  
• do something nice like talking to someone or listening to music
  
• it’s something you practice so with time you’ll be able to work for more time without losing focus
• in the end of the study session have a big reward you look forward to
• Create a study area
  
• environment highly affects the way you act. Bedrooms are for sleeping, kitchens for eating: you’ll feel sleepy in your bedroom and hungry in the kitchen. So if you have a study area, it’ll be easier to start studying and staying focused.
• study in a specific room like an office or school library if you can
  
• if you have to study in your bedroom use a specific object you only use for studying: a lamp/desk. Make it a no-distraction, away from your bed, blank walls area.
•  The more active the learning, the better
  
• 80% active learning 20% passive
  
• ask yourself: is it a concept or a fact?
• learning a concept: understand/grasp/know it
• put it into your own words
• really think about the meaning of it
• relate it with something you already know
  
• teach somebody else. Recapitulate what you’ve learned. Talk out loud even if you don’t have anyone to teach - talk alone. Or at anyone that listens.
• learning a fact: memorize it
  
• use mnemonics
• Acronyms (e.g. colours of the rainbow RoyGBiv – red orange yellow green blue indigo violet)
•  Coined sayings - anything popular or sayings you’ve heard since you were a child.
• Interacting images – work even better if they’re weird. Creative associations make you never forget specific details. (e.g. 1 gram of fat has 9 calories: picture a fat cat – each cat has 9 lives)
• any time 2 things are highly similar but not the same you will get maximal interference!! USE mnemonics!! (e.g. afferent vs efferent neurons: SAME - Sensory Afferent Motor Efferent)
• Be a part of  study groups
  
• others can help you in ways you never thought before
• Recognizing VS remembering
• never confuse the two
• while reviewing a chapter you may recognize concepts but not actually know them
• and when you get to the test you won’t be able to remember any of it
• so quiz yourself without looking at it
• or stop in a page of your notes/textbook and ask yourself what is the concept immediately after and before it
• Get your REM Sleep 
• get ~8 hours so you don’t undo your studying
• this is how your brain stores permanent memories
• without it you’re ability to remember seriously decreases
• most people don’t even begin to take the advice but it’s simple: sleep better. Do better.
• There’s 162 hours in a week. There is time.
• reflect on what you are doing with your time and what activities you have to prioritize to succed as a student
• Taking notes is vital.
  
• right after the class take 5 minutes to expand everything you’ve jotted down, give it depth.
• NOT hours later. You won’t remember half the things you wrote down.
• Ask your questions to class mates and teachers.
  
• teachers want you to succeed and it’s more than ok to ask your question in the teacher’s office or in the next class
• How to use a textbook: SQ3R technique
• Survey Question Read Recite Review
• Survey: skim through the entire chapter in a couple of minutes.
• Raise questions: e.g. what is osmosis? What is this graphic about? What is a prototype?
• it causes you to look for answers and you’ll find the information better once you actually study it after. If you intend to find something you learn it better.
• Start studying for tests early.
• don’t undo yourself. You should only be reviewing the days before the test. don’t leave it till the last minute!

(don’t just scroll through this!!!! really think about these methods and how you can actually implement them so you can benefit from them!!! these actually work but only if you put them into practice boo good luck!)