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A trap I fell into when I initially started practicing Quant was assuming that I can garner a decent Quanti score if I: learned the formula, recognized it, and even explained it.

Then comes GMAT. It doesn’t give you a clear-cut “solve this” question. On the contrary, it gives you a question where the formula is just buried under 2-3 paragraphs of information and your confidence is impetuously humbled. You stare at the screen like this is the first time you’ve encountered mathematics.

Every now and then, you are tasked to recognize if a mathematical concept is being tested, and then you have to translate the words into a solvable structure.

Knowing this now, and learning from my presumptuous mistake, I think it’s best if we spend more time asking “Would I be able to assimilate the situation where this formula is called for?” Instead of asking ourselves if we know this formula.

On January 27, 1993, two young girls playing in Wayne Fitzgerrell State Park near Ina, Illinois found a severed human head along a wooded roadway. No body was ever recovered. Investigators estimated she’d been dead only a few days, guessed her age at somewhere between 30 and 50, and got nowhere. She became known only as Ina Jane Doe for the next 29 years.

She was actually Susan Lund, a 25-year-old mother of three from Clarksville, Tennessee, who had vanished on Christmas Eve 1992 while walking to a grocery store, pregnant at the time she disappeared. The break finally came in 2022 when researchers sent DNA samples to a forensic genetic genealogy lab, uploaded the profile to GEDmatch, and matched it to one of Lund’s siblings. The facial reconstruction built from her skull decades earlier turned out to be eerily close to her real appearance. Her murder is still unsolved, and investigators still don’t know where she was killed or how her remains ended up nearly 300 miles from home.

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Imo one of my favourite ways to get myself to study at night. After showering well I’m already awake anyway, so instead of getting into bed and using my phone for an hour while waiting for my hair to dry, I’ll just sit down and do something that’ll help me get those juicy A’s

By the time my hair’s dry, I’ve usually gotten enough done even if it’s not heavy-studying that going to bed actually feels justified.

Shower > study (no cheating! no blow-drying of hair!) > sleep. Weirdly effective.

Should've known better than to seek comfort from the strongest sorcerer alive. I'm asking Nanami next time.

I wasted years rereading my notes and thinking it counted as “studying”, until I started using a study method that completely changed how I learn and doubled my retention. Instead of burying myself in my notes, I closed them and started testing myself out loud. Active recall is one of the most effective study methods I’ve ever used.

I see a lot of people getting into UGC expecting to make money within a few weeks.

I understand why, You see creators posting about their brand deals and earnings, and it can make UGC look pretty easy from the outside. But trust me it is very very difficult.

When I started, I spent months learning how to make better videos, building my portfolio, pitching brands, and getting ignored. Some brands never replied, Some said no, Some conversations simply went nowhere. There were times when I wondered if I was doing something wrong. Tbh i got my first deal after 11 months

Once I started understanding what brands wanted and got better at creating content, things slowly started moving. So if you’re starting UGC, give yourself some time.

Learn how to make good content. Build a portfolio. Pitch consistently. Follow up. Learn from the campaigns you get.

UGC can become a really good income source, but you need to be willing to put in the work before you see consistent results and don’t except huge amount of money in the beginning.

During exam week, I used my whiteboard as my study tool where I wrote down all the key formulas, definitions and concepts of the lecture. And instead of just rereading them and leaving them on my desk, what I did was place it on my bed and read it before I closed my eyes and when I woke up again, the first thing I saw was my whiteboard. Doing this purposely forced me to study and keep my brain focused on remembering information that will stick in my brain by doing active recall.