and* <3

also, british trivia: we call potato chips "crisps", and french fries are chips. confused yet?

seeing MAH BOIIII

QI, always! <3

everything. i'm sexy.

especially my nigel thornberry nose, poppet. AHURRNGHH

hello lovely! sure, i'd be happy to. c:
i take one lined a4 refill pad to uni with me every day, and write all my notes in it from my lectures; sometimes i can copy down everything from the powerpoints my professors use, other times i just write down the extra information they give us while they speak and later add that to the powerpoint notes (which i can access online at my house). when my notes for each lecture are complete and supplemented with the recommended reading from textbooks and library books, i tear out the pages from the refill pad and file them away. i have a large ring-bound folder for each semester, each divided up into my modules. in each module division i file away my written notes, and there are also plastic pockets in which to put loose handouts. by the time my exams come around, i know exactly where to find all my notes for each module, and am safe in the knowledge they are fully complete. c: hope that helps!

love it! nobody else in the world has it. <3

amazing, well done! :D you had it in you the whole time, & i'm so happy to know my advice helped! congrats again~ c:

i've been to london a few times, and it's absolutely wonderful! i really hope you get the chance to go sometime soon - i've always had somebody to stay with & be my tourguide whenever i've been, but if you take a city & tube map with you, you'll be fine! c:
if you do get to go, make sure you look around the natural history museum (amazing dino specimens) & art galleries, visit the original twinings tea shop, walk down the mall to buckingham palace, buy a multitude of oriental treats in chinatown, marvel at the theatres, shop in camden market, walk along thames southbank as the sun sets (and eat at one of the restaurants there), stand on the golden jubilee bridge for that classic view of the city with the lit-up big ben & london eye, and finish the night sitting atop one of the lions in trafalgar square, with the illuminated fountains behind you and red double-deckers rushing round the square in front of you (or the other way around)! all of that involves a lot of rushing around on the underground trains (a.k.a. the tube), but that's all part of the fun. <3

absolutely splendiferous! it's been great seeing everyone, learning & studying and having more funtimes with mah boooi (i always read that in the king of hyrule's voice), haha <3 got my phone stolen, broke my laptop keyboard & have really bad pain in my tummybox right now (acid reflux is so delightful), but i'm still a happy bunny! c:

i don't ever go over my 200-minute monthly allowance, but i do make tons of little calls to friends and fam for quick chats! c:

the student's union pub during lecture breaks, munching on cheesy chips and preparing for the afternoon's sessions with a pint! <3

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this is unbelievably frustrating and would drive me just as mad, honestly! D: you've had some seriously bad luck being stuck with this girl, and you've tried every sensible suggestion already; she's responded so badly to your efforts and is making her problems yours, which is just not acceptable for somebody you have to live with (especially in the same room)! her abnormal behaviour and responses to your opinions/requests are not reasonable, and because of that it's unlikely you're ever going to get through to her. it's her that's got to change, and until she does, i guess the only thing you can do is separate yourself from her as much as possible (and hide your food if you can, or ask to store it at a friend's). if you can study or relax somewhere else - a library, a friend's place, etc. - try and do that as much as possible so you don't have to be around her unless you're both just sleeping. if she gets angry about something ridiculous, demands to know what you're doing, etc., you have the right to stay silent and not communicate, because getting a response gives her reason to think she can keep doing it. she's obviously not good at reading social signals - i mean, eating YOUR food which you've paid for, and expressly saying she won't stop, is such unbelievably rude and spoilt behaviour - and taking hints seems beyond her capacity. she needs to be point-blank ignored when she's being unreasonable to help her see she won't get anything out of it. this could make her even more angry to start with, because it sounds like she's used to people always giving her the attention she wants - but if you keep up the blanking, over time she should learn that you're not going to take her crap any more. your friends are probably well-aware of this situation and i imagine they'd be very understanding and accommodating if you were to go hang out at theirs during the daytime instead, if this girl gets too much for you. get as well-acquainted as you can with your friends' roommates, if you aren't already, so that you've got a good circle of people to go to if you just need to escape for a while; or make the library your second home, haha! c:
i don't know if you have the option to change roommates when a new year starts, but if that's ever possible, take the chance straight away! even if you have to advertise yourself to live with a stranger, anyone's better than the girl you're living with now. i've heard of cases where people have kicked out their roommates if they've been too annoying to tolerate; you must have some rights which will help you either leave yourself or make her leave, so going to see a student support officer (or whatever equivalents are available to you) could help you find a good path. best wishes, i really hope you can find some way to tolerate this until you can escape! <3

that's amazing! thanks for sharing :D <3

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motivating yourself to study is something you really have to force sometimes; it doesn't always come naturally, not even to me! there are so many distractions for us these days, made much harder to avoid when we have to use the internet to study. one way to get around this is to print off all the information you need, shut down the computer and study the printed sheets rather than being online, so you aren't tempted to flick to other sites. c:
go into a totally different room to the computer or put your laptop elsewhere so you're not even anywhere near it; and gather everything you need around you to create a motivating study environment. have an organised work space, with all your materials in reach - including things which help make the study more engaging (coloured pens & highlighters for making key points stand out, lined record cards for condensing points, etc.)! as i've mentioned before, my favourite method of studying is to condense notes onto record cards, using colours to make links between concepts and make key bits stand out, then flick back through them before the exam and re-write things i tend to forget. c:
i hope that helps, and best wishes with these exams! i'm sure you'll do brilliantly. <3