Mind mapping is basically using visual images and other graphic details to make a deeper impression. It is based on the fact that the brain often recalls information easily in the form of pictures, symbols, sounds, and shapes.
Advantages of Mind Mapping
1) Mind mapping helps to prepare notes from the textbooks.
2) Mind mapping increases your creativity and productivity because it’s an excellent tool to let you generate more ideas, and effectively improve your memory retention.
3) This method is a great way for you to categorize and organize the ideas you brainstormed.
4) The use of colours, images, and keywords in mind mapping aids in enhancing your memory.
5) By using a single page or space you can already place a huge amount of information.
How To Make Mind Maps
((1)) Write the main topic in the middle and enclose it within a particular shape you like.
((2)) Add a branch extending out from the centre for each important point, write a keyword on each branch and build it up by adding details.
((3)) You can use abbreviations, but be sure to be familiar with them so that you are able to identify them instantly.
((4)) You can decorate it, too! I typically don’t always worry about this step, but if you love doodling or scrapbooking, then turn this into a mood board or, you can keep it minimalist & not worry about it.
Just saying that there is no single way of mind mapping, you can choose to do it with whatever shape, color or symbols you want as in the end it is you who will have to study thro them.
a book that makes you feel like you got punch with the feels
“A lyrical novel about family and friendship from critically acclaimed author Benjamin Alire Sáenz.
Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship–the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves and the kind of people they want to be.” (Source: goodreads)
If I had the option I would read about Ari and Dante for hours. I started reading this book because my best friend claimed that it was her favorite and she thought that I would love it, she was right, I do love it, a lot. The book is from Ari aka Aristotle’s point of view and I can’t count how many times I underlined or highlighted something because it struck a chord with me. In simple words it is a story about a sad and angry boy who feels like he is a mystery to himself and can’t figure out the cause behind his anger. It is also a story about this pure and very real friendship between Ari and Dante. It is a story about self discovery and loving yourself and people around you. The day I finished this book it was raining (uhm uhm) and I was so overwhelmed by the beautiful ending, that I was almost convinced that it was a dream, mostly because I was happy and so much in love with a book and it’s characters that don’t exist but are very real to me.
One of my favourite thing from the book was the use of literary devices, the way Ari compared Pain to a storm, Poems to people and Dante’s face to a map of the world, it just felt very captivating when he expressed himself. If you follow my instagram or tumblr you would realize that I quote a lot from this book, it is part of my personality now, I can’t help it.
AWARDS
2013 Stonewall Book Award
2013 Printz Honor
2013 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Top Ten
2013 Pura Belpré Author Award
SERIOUSLY READ THIS BOOK, IT IS WORTH IT! (also I heard that there might be a sequel and I can’t wait for it)
The web series follows the daily life of high school students. Each season focuses its plot on a central character and particular theme/s. Based on the Norwegian web series of the same name. SKAM means “shame”, something that the teenagers face a lot today because of the pressure to be perfect.
There have been many remakes of the SKAM and each foreign adaptation of the original series keeps a similar format. The same goes for the characters, even if their names and some details vary. The first season of the Franco-Belgian version focuses on Emma Borgès and self-acceptance, the second on Manon Demissy and cyberstalking , the third on Lucas Lallemant and homosexuality, coming out and bipolarity, the fourth on Imane Bakhellal and relation with faith. The fifth and sixth seasons are original creations of the French adaptation, the original version having stopped at the fourth season. The fifth season is about Arthur Broussard on the topic adult toxicity and invisible disability, while the sixth season focuses on the character of Lola Lecomte (original character of skam France), and on the problems of addiction and self-destruction.
Throughout the week, sequences of two to eight minutes are published on the Internet (youtube and official site), the same day and at the same time as in fiction hence following real time format.
REASONS TO WATCH SKAM:
1. It tackles some hard-hitting topics that teens are dealing with today such as cyber-bullying, searching for your identity, sexual assault, coming-out, faith and religion, racism, mental health issues and addiction.
2. The diversity. A Muslim girl who is black, characters who belong from LGBT+ community, character who is bipolar, character who is dealing with a disability etc. Honestly not many shows or movies provide viewers with so much diversity with actual stories.
3. Each season deals with separate themes integral to the each character’s own development. Each season is so intimate and real that you cannot help but fall in love with each character slowly.
4. The relationships the characters have with each other, both platonic and romantic are perfect examples of love and support that you have or aspire to have with your loved ones.
5. The series is realistic unlike other shows we find nowadays for teenagers.
6. While Skam depicts issues that bring shame to many people, it never shames its characters for those things that are too often treated as shameful by society.
If you’re looking for a story to gives you hope in a more inclusive, empathetic future, Skam is one tiny corner of pop culture that will. It is not in English but subtitles are available and I think it’s worth to atleast give it a try. The episodes are on YouTube. Skam France is currently on season 6 with 62 episodes (as of now).
Thank you @ChasingTheMaximumLife for nominating me. Guys please check out her blog. She is an amazing person and an incredible blogger.
THE RULES 1. Thank the blogger that nominated you and give a link to their site 2. Do a post to show your award 3. Give a summary of how your blog started 4. Give two pieces of advice for any new bloggers 5. Select at least 15 other bloggers for this award 6. Let each nominee know you’ve nominated them and give a link to your post.
HOW IT ALL BEGAN?
Honestly this isn’t even my first attempt at blogging. I had a blog which lasted for like a month. Anyways fast forward to the end of July this year, months after being stuck inside the four walls of my room due to the lockdown (I’m being over dramatic here but just go with it) I started writing about different movies, shows, books and my day on my laptop. I shared one of those rants with my pen pal who encouraged me to start a blog. Initially I wasn’t very enthusiastic to that suggestion since my first attempt at blogging was a major fail and I thought who would even want to read rants of a random teenager? Then one night I was ranting about “paracosm” and at that moment something changed. I felt like this could be my paracosm. And here I am now. Blogging definitely helped me boost my confidence and come out of my comfort zone. So thank you guys for helping me find my paracosm.
MY ADVICE
Honestly be yourself. Talk about what you find interesting, what fascinates you and what is important to you. After all it is your blog.
This is the “academic” academia. It focuses on pure knowledge and is the most disciplined one. Common features are calm and composed attitude, respectable aura and extremely focused. This is not an outdoor academia by the way.
CHARACTERISTICS
Mind full of facts, especially historical
Impeccable notes
Research papers stacked on table
Journal writing
Amazing vocabulary
Typewriters
Autumn vibe
Swearing in different languages
Calligraphy
Old books and bookmarks
Everything is organised
Reading classic literature for fun
Prim and proper
Favorite pen
Libraries are your idea of fun
Usually introverted
Sometimes show off your knowledge
Documentaries are fun
Staying in a study hall for hours
Letters with red wax seal
Good with instruments like violin, grand piano etc
Probably know full name of classical music pieces
CLOTHING
Trench Coat
Sweater vest
Satchel
Glasses
Watch
Proper hair
MUSIC
Something that won’t distract you like instrumental music.
This a romantic branch of dark academia in short. Its key elements are letters, academia activities with partner, holding hands, poetry, cafe etc. The name itself suggests that is based on the movement “Romanticism”.
CHARACTERISTICS
Since it is very close to both light and dark academia the books and movies which come under them can also be part of this aesthetic. However these are few of its common elements:
Library, museum, art gallery dates and fascination with art.
Reading books together in front of a fireplace
Outdoor dates
writing love letters but not just to your partner, writing love letters to your friends or even yourself, basically to express your emotions
Wearing their jacket because they insist it will be warmer than yours, despite just wanting their jacket to smell like you
Writing poems for each other
Bullet journals
Very expressive
Self care
Old movie date night
The kind of love where you don’t have to say anything, being in each other’s presence is enough… old school love
Small gestures of love like forehead kisses
Ballroom dance (I don’t know why but this feels right)
A Brazilian movie based on a short film “I don’t want to go back alone” is a story about Leonardo “Leo” a blind teenager searching for independence. His daily life, the relationship with his best friend, Giovana, and the way he sees the world changes completely with the arrival of a new student Gabriel.
The film is slow paced with no angst moments or huge plot twists and is pretty realistic. We see a beautiful platonic relationship between Leonard and Giovana without unnecessary complications. We also see the parent-child dynamo when Leo’s wish to be more independent despite his disability creates conflicts at home as his mother is skeptical about him experiencing the world on his own. The film is not entirely focused on a romantic relationships, which is refreshing. Over all the it is a very sweet film with an amazing cinematography, color grading and an apt ending. This film is huge step forward for disabled representation in LGBT+ fiction
The film, directed by Daniel Ribeiro, weaves the social challenges of adolescence into a story of self-discovery and with no surprise was Brazil’s foreign-language entry to the Academy Awards
A sub-category or you can say the opposite of the dark academia aesthetic. This academia is more focused on the theme “beauty in life” and “finding happiness in small things”. Some common attributes include art, music, open fields and plants, old books, poems, outdoors and being social.
BOOKS
This aesthetic seems very poetic and emotional. The first person I think about after hearing light academia is Jane Austen.
Emma by Jane Austen
“a novel about youthful hubris and romantic misunderstandings. It is set in the fictional country village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls and Donwell Abbey, and involves the relationships among people from a small number of families.”
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
“a collection of romantic poems by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, first published in 1924 by Editorial Nascimento of Santiago, when Neruda was 19. It was Neruda’s second published work, after Crepusculario and made his name as a poet.
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
“Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote’s fancy often leads him astray—he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants—Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together, and together they have haunted readers’ imaginations for nearly four hundred years.”
MOVIES
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
“France, 1770. Marianne, a painter, is commissioned to do the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Héloïse is a reluctant bride to be and Marianne must paint her without her knowing. She observes her by day, to paint her secretly”
Call Me By Your Name (2017)
“It’s the summer of 1983, and precocious 17-year-old Elio Perlman is spending the days with his family at their 17th-century villa in Lombardy, Italy. He soon meets Oliver, a handsome doctoral student who’s working as an intern for Elio’s father. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of their surroundings, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.”
Little Women (2019)
“In the years after the Civil War, Jo March lives in New York and makes her living as a writer, while her sister Amy studies painting in Paris. Amy has a chance encounter with Theodore, a childhood crush who proposed to Jo but was ultimately rejected. Their oldest sibling, Meg, is married to a schoolteacher, while shy sister Beth develops a devastating illness that brings the family back together.”
Thank you @aprilnovaz for nominating me. I haven’t really done this before so I’m excited.
Rules
Thank the blogger who nominated you and link back to their blog.
Answer the 11 questions given to you.
Nominate 11 other bloggers and write them 11 new questions.
List the rules and display the sunshine blogger award logo in your blog post.
Questions for me
1. What inspired you to start blogging?
If I’m being honest it’s probably the quarantine that brought out the blogger in me. I had a bunch of random write ups stuck in my docs so I felt maybe starting a blog might give me a proper outlet for stuff like that.
2. What is your favorite color?
My favorite color changes almost every week according to how I feel. I think it is yellow/mustard currently.
3. What is one place that you would love to visit?
So I have this dream to see the northern lights in person some day. So basically any place which can fulfill my tiny dream.
4. What is one thing that you believe society should stop doing?
Society should stop the cancel culture. I feel that before you “cancel” someone, you should educate them about the problem and make them realize their mistake in a polite manner. You should give them a chance to grow and become an ally.
5. What is your favorite song at the moment?
“Are you bored yet?” by wallows is my 3am song.
6. What is your favorite movie?
This is a very tough question and I actually don’t know…
7. What do you love doing in your spare time?
Ah spare time is something I rarely get now but I usually put on some songs and read a book, or I watchsomething on a streaming platform.
8. What languages can you speak or are learning?
I can speak English and Hindi fluently. I am not very fluent in French but I do understand it.
9. What is something you could not live without?
It may sound cheesy but the answer is family.
10. What is the craziest thing you’ve ever done?
I slept for 12 hours during quarantine once. (The real crazy incident will remain a secret forever)
11. What is your favorite quote and why?
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life” by Virginia Woolf because in order to find peace and the secrets of the universe you need to embrace life by living and not just existing.
My Questions
1. How would you describe your blog?
2. What is your perfect day?
3. Three random facts about yourself
4. Which book, movie, show or quote had an impact on you?
5. What is the best advice you have for a new blogger?
6. Where do you see yourself in five years?
7. Money or Knowledge?
8. Do you have a pet? If not then would you like to have one?
An aesthetic that revolves around literature, knowledge and passion and which gave rise to some other prominent sub-categories of academia. Some common attributes include Latin writings, coffee, library aesthetic, Greek architecture or old buildings, mystery, history and curiosity.
BOOKS
This aesthetic is based on a genre inside novels. The most famous figures are Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, F, Scott Fitzgerald, John Keats etc. Here are a few examples from good reads:
If We Were Villains by M L. Rio
“Oliver Marks has just served ten years in jail – for a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he’s released, he’s greeted by the man who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened a decade ago.”
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
“A young man named Dorian Gray owns a portrait painted of himself. The artist, Basil Hallward, thinks Dorian Gray is very beautiful, and becomes obsessed with Dorian. One day in Basil’s garden, Dorian Gray meets a man named Lord Henry Wotton. Lord Henry Wotton makes Dorian Gray believe that the only thing important in life is beauty. However, Dorian realizes that he will become less beautiful as he grows older.”
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
“Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality they slip gradually from obsession to corruption and betrayal, and at last – inexorably – into evil.”
MOVIES
The movies inspired by the Dark Academia Aesthetic often leave some impactful impression on the audience often about elements of society. These are the movies that will make you cry, and laugh but most importantly they will make you question your ideologies and thoughts.
Maurice by E. M. Forster (1987)
“Maurice is heartbroken over unrequited love, which opened his heart and mind to his own sexual identity. In order to be true to himself, he goes against the grain of society’s often unspoken rules of class, wealth, and politics.”
Dead Poets Society (1989)
“John Keating, a progressive English teacher, tries to encourage his students to break free from the norm, go against the status quo and live life unapologetically through his unorthodox methods.”
Black Swan (2011)
“Nina, a ballerina, gets the chance to play the White Swan, Princess Odette. But she finds herself slipping into madness when Thomas, the artistic director, decides that Lily might fit the role better.”
Kill Your Darlings (2013)
“The story is about the college days of some of the earliest members of the Beat Generation(Lucien Carr, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac), their interactions, and Carr’s killing of his long-time friend David Kammerer in Riverside Park in Manhattan, New York City.”
Paracosm & Stuff 