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AMBROSIA'S GUIDE TO THE COMPLEX PHENOMENON OF MATHING

i don't really know why but a lot of people at school ask me

"[Ambrosia], how do you study for maths? You're so good at it etc etc [drones on and on, i space out]"

(that being said, i haven't touched the maths textbook i've been working for the past 2 years since february. i actually never study maths at all. i'm just struggling to hand in all my tuition homework on time, so i don't have time to... study more maths. also. i am not good at maths right now. people tend to stick to beliefs from long ago.)

anyway, people are people and sometimes it doesn't work out (TAYLOR SWIFT REFERENCE) so... i decided to write out a list so that the next time someone asks me this i'll just screenshot this and send it to them because i'm just effortlessly this lazy. duh.

p.s. i don't do any of this. play gulper yall

1. If you have problems, deal with them first.

In other words: if you're hungry, don't be hungry; if your phone is blowing up, go and attend to it first; if you're depressed, don't even try to open a maths book because then you'll want to rip out the pages. Believe mThis is because you need your full concentration when dealing with these stuff... and worrying about your friend's pet quail while trying to do maths honestly isn't going to help you.

2. Get motivated.

In my opinion, this step is the most difficult (i'm still struggling with this). Basically, you need something to work towards, for instance the answer to "What do you wanna be when you grow up?" 

If you're like me and don't really have a goal in life, I recommend privately competing with someone who you get compared to, for example a sibling or someone at school or something.

You could also be strict with yourself and be like "2 x 1.5hr study sessions. Then one episode of Wednesday." (This "self-rewarding" strategy works really well. But it's probably not that good for your mental health. Nevertheless, I highly recommend this.)

[You could also go for the "lock in" method where you just aggressively study for 4 hours with no breaks once a week.]

3. Don't get distracted.

Turn off all your notifs... the world probably won't explode within the 1.5 hours of when you do your study session. (actually it might.) If you're playing with God's unicron, put it away and focus on your motivational goal. and then you say this to yourself:

"OKAY [your name],

Please concentrate or else you will fail this subject!

If you fail this subject, you will fail school. And if you fail school, you will get disowned. And if you get disowned, you will have to live on the streets. And if you live on the streets, you will starve. And if you starve, you will get sick. And if you get sick, you will die.

If you die, you will not get to see your friends, family, God's unicron, your friend's quail, your latest GAN rubix cube, your kitchen table and your socks again. You will also never be able to play gulper, chess, death ball (which is NOT a knockoff of blade ball), solitaire or listen to Taylor Swift EVER again. And you will be very bored in heaven if you die in the streets.

Therefore, please concentrate and don't get distracted.

{and after that you lock in and study hard. yea.}

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you procrastinate while doing maths. :3

thanks for the read count lol