Studying sucks more than just about anything – it makes your eyes hurt, your stomach growl, your head spin and your morals crumble. It causes problems and irritation with your relationship with Netflix and seems to always be the reason you’re irritated or scared out of your mind. No worries – I have found five ways to make studying semi-almost-not really-bearable.
1. Paper-Mate Felt Pens
These guys are the bomb! With a wide array of colors and the perfect combination of color brightness and smoothness, these pens will help you make the most beautiful outlines in the world. Plus, you can get even more distracted in class, like me, by color coding your notes or doodling flowers all over the side of your notebooks.
2. Greenroom Notebooks
These notebooks have the prettiest designs and they’ll convince you to open them and maybe read your notes for the first time since second grade. I’m a massive fan of the pineapple design, but I’m too broke to buy them.
3. Highlighters
Highlighters get me so excited. If you put a highlighter in my hand, I can guarantee you that will not listen to a lecture or focus in class. But these bad boys come in handy when studying! Go to town – highlight important points, important quotes or just words that you think look important (or words longer than 3 syllables).
4. Starbucks Lattes
Lattes make me feel like a grown woman who has their life put together, and throw some vanilla syrup in there and I am the perfect combination of Blair Waldorf and Meryl Streep from The Devil Wears Prada. Add whipped cream? Elect me for student body president and watch me to solve the crisis in Syria.
5. When all else fails...watch others succeed
^^if this can't make you jealous and ready to study, what will?
Tumblr has these blogs full of people with their lives together, and they share pictures to make you feel even worse than you did before. However, sometimes, it might even motivate you to buckle down and get work down. My personal favorite blog is elkstudies. She's got her life together MAJORLY.
