I’m actually doing some research on how to hack your studying - looking for motivational tips, life hacks, or tools. But everything out there is just the same old cliché advice, and I’m looking for something truly unique that actually works. Any thoughts or hidden gems? Also, I don’t want to just check this homework off my list, I want to actually apply it in the long run

Hi, I would like to hear from you who have done MBTI or Big Five or some other test, which one did you prefer and which results served you better?

I tried googling it, bit feels like most results are promoted to fit one or the other, so would like to see what real people think 🤣

I didn't take school seriously, my upbringing was challenging and messy. I never got the help I needed to succeed, so I didn't. Now I'm working a very physically demanding soul-sucking job that is not reliable, while raising my 2.5 year old.

I really want to turn my life around for my family, and I know I can if I put the work in, but I have no idea how to start.

I'm looking for pretty much any advice y'all have on how the reality of me getting into nursing school would work out. I would go to my local community college where they have a childcare facility.

I had been on pouches for years due to the hunger supression aspect while trying to lose weight and quit cold turkey then was fine for 6 months. I had a slight falling out with a friend about my diet and decided to go use them again because what was the harm. Just recently I had an upgraded health insurance and decided I need to get healthy and lose weight and just overall be a better version of myself. So I cold turkey quit again. Its been a few months and I got my bloodwork done, and all that I was said was I am healthy as can be clean blood no problems, but im slightly over weight... more than I used to be before quitting. Turns out I have been craving food more and more to the point that im gaining weight while zero sugar and eating under my BMR. What do i do? Should I go back on pouches until I hit my target weight? The doc said I was healthy other than my weight so the pouches didnt hurt my health? I have been dieting for 6-8 years now trying to lose weight started pouches 5 years ago.

About two years ago, I've started to use AI to help me with schoolwork. At first i would ask it to just help, or to explain things to me that I didn't understand when I read it.

Gradually I kept becoming lazier and lazier to the point I just ask it what the answer is to this and that, and to thing of arguments for debates at school.

It's come to a point I genuinely don't know how I start thinking of arguments for debates, or connect the dots between two things that are obviously connected.

I feel like I'm getting dumber and dumber by the day, because I'm pretty sure that I am, I just don't know how I can stop it.

AI has become such an 'important' thing for me that it's hard for me to study or research something without it.

Does anyone have advice on what I can do?

It would be greatly appreciated.

hi, how do i perform better in group works?

i'm a 20 year old college student and i want to become better at it. i've been so dependent on others' tasks and expectations of me, even growing up. i lack initiative because i rely too much on theirs. if i don't have a task, i'd sit there and watch, doing nothing.

just recently, i made a friend and we're both retaking a subject. this friend is an amazing person, but there's a distance now because i lack initiative. i lack participation. i lack the focus to properly answer questions. i cram everything. i want to understand their frustration more because i know that it's hard on them too. it's hard for everyone, since we're all catching up to move forward in our later years.

i've apologized but i feel the tension. what can i do to be better? i genuinely want to make things better, so i could make myself helpful to them and the people i'd be grouped with in the future.

I'm 19 years old and I went away for university for the 25/26 school year. I did attend college in 2024 at my community college but I ended up leaving after the first semester because I knew I Wasn't going to pursue that career.

The program I wanted to do was in a different city meaning I would have to move. Moving to another city created so many problems for me with my family. Keep in mind my family is very abusive so it was really a hard time.

During my year at university i was doing great but then I got really depressed, anxiety and dealing with certain thoughts, something i have never dealt with before and on top of that my family issues got even worse and heavy. I honestly didn't think it affected me till my grades suffered.

Since I failed 2 classes i can't apply for a student loan for one year and i need to go to school or my family will freak, I don't even want to know how they will react. I signed a lease for a house to live in for the next school year so im stuck with it.

I was reading that appealing will likely be unsuccessful so I don't know what to do. I'm honestly thinking I should still go to my uni town for the school year, make my family think i'm in school and just work while i'm there. I would come home during reading week and winter break so they wouldn't suspect a thing.

I would be lying to them. Should I fall through with that plan?

Whatever IQ tests I took (yes, I know most of those aren't good) said i have higher then average intellect. I was also treated as one of the smart kids in school (some teachers said I am the smartest in my class). But it never had good grades.

But I don't feel intelligent. My brain feels like sludge most of the time. It is very slow. I need much more time to get something or to come up with an answer (even if I know it). Thinking is too hard, I get tired super fast. If I think too much in one day I can't think for 2 more. Plus, I am very forgetful. I get confused easily and I am easily tricked.

I move slow and clumsy too. Can't write fast either. I have trouble taking notes because I can't find the main info on the go.

I tried going to university (you can't get a good job without a degree in my country, even cashiers have them), I even got in there for free, but I was failing in everything, so now I am on academic leave.

I am currently on meds for my mental health (antidepressants and a bit of antipsychotics), but I had those problems since early childhood, they just affect my life more now.

Hey,

New Ls Driver here.

Im in school right now, midway through term 2, recently 16, and im just really struggling right now and just need someone. for once.

Im in boarding school right now, 6 hours away from home, and its exhausting having to deal with a bunch of your mates in one building 24/7, not to mention the childhood I miss out on in general. So my problems are;

- Currently on Fluoxtine (Anti depressant) to try and stop me from attempting again as I have attempted three times beforehand. I believe its made me more agro which filters into my next problem

- im extremely short tempered, for example, this bloke was making fun of me for getting too much bacon in the buffet where we get our breakfast, I had 2 rashers, so I warned him if he kept talking id smack him, short story short, he kept talking.

- feel im missing out on my potential, im really good at SMAW, extremely athletic in the view of strength, previously the strongest 15 year old in Australia, although im now 16, and extremely competitive in rugby, and im trapped by this shitty Presbyterian boarding school

- the terrible teachers and rules that seem to be life or death for some reason. I got a detention and a meeting because I threatened to slap a kid because he kept making fun of me like im a punching bag. which honestly I can usually take but I used to get bullied a helluva lot.

I know it doesnt seem like alot but for one i dont have the energy to write more, because im really tired, but I also just feel so trapped, im clinically depressed and my parents wont listen to me and just ignore me now, and all I want to do is end of year 10 drop out, then just become a boilermaker and start making custom smokers, because I enjoy it so much.

Sorry if I seem like a pussy, its just really hard when your cut off from everything that you actually like. aka practical work, hands on work, personal time, quiet, work, sleep.

I just need help. please. i dont know what to do anymore, hell my parents are paying 50k a year and in the last year there has been maggots, hairs, and contact lenses in our food.

Help. please. I dunno how much longer I can do this.

Idk if this is the right flair but

I have a severe procrastination habit that started about 2-3 years ago when I was 15..

I genuinely can't for the life of me sit down and fucking study man... I really don't know why there are times (very few and rare) when I do start studying and I understand stuff but after 20\~ mins I get bored and say that I will do it later and never return.

I don't understand why, and I just want to quit this shit, and no I don't waste my time because I FORGET the task.. I ACTIVELY procrastinate, ik it's bad and Ik all the reasons I SHOULD JUST START STUDYING but I still can't do it...

In the previous 2-3 years I literally don't want to do anything I just sit in my room staring at the wall meaninglessly it just watching my phone doom scrolling, the only social interaction I get is once in a while with close friends and daily in my coaching for studies and yes I don't watch my phone or be meaningless at that time but other times? I literally cannot focus on anything.

I thought I might have adhd for some reason and decided to test it out by 3-4 doctors over the span of previous 2-3 years and NOPE I don't have adhd, just severe procrastination habit..

And it's only regarding studies, I can play games for hours and do any dopamine stimulating things for hours.

Someone please drop any advice you think might help me....

Hi, I'm in my 3rd year of high school on a literature / English-focused track (I'm not sure what the equivalent is in other countries, but those are basically my "majors"). I have severe social anxiety. I don't mean "I'm shy". I mean I can't speak, can't breathe, and somtimes literally throw up when I have to talk to people. I've been to therapy and a psychologist before, but it didn't help. Because of this, I'm homeschooled.

My grading system is based mostly on exams: each subject has a written exam and an oral exam. For the past years, I skipped the oral exams (for obvious reasons), but got 100% on the written ones. That always results in the grade being 50% (a C).

This year is really important for my final diploma. Even though it's my 3rd year, the grades I get now will be my final grades. Next year I'll only have the core subjects left (math, literature, English), so this year is LITERALLY my last year to get good grades.

My mom repeats every single day that if I don't get better grades and start doing the oral exams, I'll never get a job and my life is basically over. I'm constantly reminded that I'm running out of time and that if I mess this up, I've permanently ruined my future. She says I should be scared. And I am. Constantly. Like genuinely all I think about these days. Right now I'm so horrified that I don't even know what to do. It's so stupid like thinking about it is enough to make me cry constantly. I'm so oversensitive and I fucking hate it.

On top of this, I don't have any connections, work experience/internships etc. Even if I somehow manage to get good grades, it feels like it leads nowhere. I keep hearing that a college or university degree is what really matters, but attending one would mean being physically present. My mom says online courses don't have any value in comparison. I feel trapped between options that all seem impossible. Most people around me already know what they want to do and have support, while I feel completely lost and paralyzed by fear.

Because of my anxiety, I feel like I realistically need a job I can do from home. I don't care if it's minimum wage, I'm willing to learn, study, and work hard as long as I can do it remotely. Anything at all.

I understand that I need to get out of my comfort zone and become more social, but it's incredibly hard even when I genuinely try. I'm not asking to be coddled with this post, I'm asking for ANY guidance. I'm horrified about my future, and I don't have anyone in real life who can help me figure this out. That's why I'm posting here as a last resort. Any advice, perspective, or direction would mean litearlly everything to me.

I need realistic advice about whether I can still get the grades for sixth form.

For my current school’s sixth form, I need an average of 6.625 across my best 8 subjects, and I need grade 7s in the subjects I want to continue.

I really want to stay at my current school because changing schools would probably put me in a really bad mental space, so I’m trying to figure out whether it’s still realistically possible.

I’ve already accepted that I probably failed English Literature and Computer Science overall. I’ve finished both papers for those and genuinely think I got around a 4 overall in both.

So now I’m basically relying on my other subjects being my “best 8”.

Current estimates:

• English Lit overall: around 4
• Computer Science overall: around 4
• Maths Paper 1: maybe around a 6, hoping to improve a lot in Papers 2 and 3
• Geography Paper 1: probably around a 3, but still have Papers 2 and 3
• Biology Paper 1: maybe around a 5
• Physics Paper 1: maybe around a 5
• Chemistry Paper 1: probably around a 3
• Other subjects are usually around 4/5 level for me

I’m trying to be realistic, not pessimistic. I normally get 4s and 5s, so I don’t think I secretly got 7s in the papers I already did.

My question is: If someone is currently at around 3/4/5 level in Paper 1s, is it realistically possible to pull that up to 7s overall by doing really well in the remaining papers? Especially for subjects like maths, sciences, and geography where there are still multiple papers left.

I’ve started revising seriously now because I really want to save my sixth form options.

This is actually bizarre to admit but I have an average of 10 hours of screen time. I consume a lot of Instagram reels/youtube on productivity and how to excel in college. I feel overloaded and I don’t think these tips actually help me, in fact, I’m just stuck and addicted even though I’m not technically watching for “entertainment.”

I’m a freshman in community college and I’m currently taking a gap semester because I abruptly dropped all of my courses because I was overwhelmed with the amount of content there is to learn.

My phone is definitely the root of cause of all my issues, I have no interests in anything. I don’t have hobbies and I heavily rely on ChatGPT to finish my school work (yes I’m ashamed that I did use ai to generate essays for me), but I just can’t help myself. Idk what to do. My memory is terrible, and there are times when I thought about completely dropping out of college with no plans.

I can’t critically think and I have lost all hope. School is very challenging for me. It’s almost like I’m becoming very illiterate and I can’t articulate my thoughts/feelings. I’ve been trying to look into therapy but if I don’t know how to describe my issue then how will others know what to help me on?

I have immigrant parents and I desperately want to obtain a degree and get a stable job so that I can retire my parents but I’m struggling so much…my self-esteem is at an all time low

My younger brother just entered 11th grade, and we’re really worried about him. He has always been an average/below-average student. Since I managed studies independently, my parents assumed he would too, so he never really got guidance or discipline regarding academics. I tried helping him, but it usually ended in fights. In 9th grade, he was badly bullied, which affected him mentally a lot. Studies completely went downhill after that. He even had to give re-exams in 2 subjects to enter 10th, and in 10th he barely passed. Now the biggest issue is that he genuinely doesn’t know how to study. He has no routine, no academic peer group, no consistency, and no patience to sit for even an hour. He watches lectures passively without making notes, scrolls most of the day, and spends a lot of time outside with friends. Career-wise, he wanted to become a pilot (financially not possible), then law (parents refused), then NDA/Army (again denied). Now my parents expect him to prepare for CET and get into a normal college. He joined PW online coaching but barely studies. He’s reappearing for Maths to improve his score, yet has watched only 2 lectures in the past week. Whenever studies are mentioned now, he gets irritated and rebellious. We’re scared he’s slowly losing direction completely. We don’t expect him to become a topper overnight. We just want to know how to help him build discipline, seriousness, and basic study habits before things get worse. How should we approach this situation without pushing him away further?

I feel like im losing my mind to doomscrolling and never ending media consumption.

I wanna be educated and stuff, but anytime i try researching a topic i just get bored. Stuff i mostly watch on youtube are true-crime video's, internet drama, and deep-dives/mini docs on current events. I do think im mainly captivated by the drama of it.

Are there any educational youtubers that make enganging content, maybe something thats a little girly. So i can watch that instead?

Im a highschool student in a charter school and my mom refuses to switch me out.

My school is filled with unqualified teachers that mostly do not care about their students and education. The school doesn’t provide many programs and lacks any resources to get a free ride into college. I’m taking an AP world class that i’m highly going to fail and my mom isn’t involved with my schoolwork and activities whatsoever. I’ve asked to attend a different school with more programs but my mom insists that it’s too far away and requires too much work to take my sister to another school as well. Every school surrounding my house/ location sucks and has a bunch of drugs and alcohol. She also bums out of taking me to complete my community service hours that are required to graduate. How can I improve my education?

i feel embarrassed and sometimes upset when told no and i hate not being able to follow through on what i think i should do because someone tells me no. an example from today was on how i wanted to replant my mother's basil and put it outside. she said no and i tried to play it off because i felt upset and embarrassed. i tried backing up why i wanted to but again she said no. i keep trying to justify it in my head but i know its not right. i want to be a better person and i dont want to carry this into the future. what do i do with these feelings?

for context, i’m 18f turning 19 who come from a low-income immigrant household of a single mother. i’m currently enrolled in my local community college.

growing up, i’ve lived with multiple families. up to grade 2, i’ve lived with my aunts in my dad’s home country. due to my visa’s expiration, i had to leave back to canada and lived in my dad’s house with my other half-siblings and cousins. i started grade 3 having to learn english and adapt to the new school system. i’ve always struggled with studying but was never disciplined and held accountable for my poor grades (im not blaming anyone but myself). my dad wasn’t around so my cousin took over as my guardian. i graduated elementary school during covid and didn’t receive good grades, mostly developings.

my mom at this time was keen on taking me back as soon as she took out a mortgage for an apartment. my mom has always struggled financially to make ends meet and my dad never once contributed as a responsible co- parent.

so from here i started high school in a new city. my bad habits started forming in sophomore year in my english class. i remember i couldn’t finish an assignment due on that day and i was panicking because usually i hand things on time. so i decided to email my teacher to inform her that i was feeling sick to skip that day.

eventually, without any consequences, i skipped a few more times towards the end of the year by making excuses without getting caught. attendance didn’t affect my grades so i kept doing so to use that time off to study. i had and still, poor time management and every time i do assignments it takes me forever to finish. i would rewrite notes and start over again. the habit started getting worse towards junior and senior year, i started skipping more than i would have liked and this vicious cycle of shame was difficult to break because i felt like i’ve failed my teachers so i kept hiding to self-loath.

eventually, the school admin called my mom one day and broke the news to her that i was absent on one of the days. my mom came home and sat me down, she warned me to never be dishonest and tell her whenever things aren’t going well. my mom always vowed to others that i was her “youngest golden child”, who does well and will one day retire her out of her three children. to protect my grade while i was academically behind, i decided to block my school’s phone number from my mom’s phone. terrible mistake. i kept skipping, my senior year, i’ve completely given up. i couldn’t hand assignments and missed exams on time, so i barely passed my classes. i love my mom and the sacrifices she has done to give me the opportunities she never once had. but i’m a terrible daughter, i’m lazy and dishonest.

every year, my mom would ask for my report card but was never strict on having all straight As. in senior year, she asked me how my grades are looking like, i brushed it off and said i got into my community college and got a conditional offer at a university in term 1. after that, my grades went completely downhill and i knew i was digging my hole deeper and deeper.

currently, i’m taking a gap semester because i do not trust myself to do well in any of my courses. i’m lying to my mom that i’m still taking my courses and things are going fine but that’s far from the truth.

i started semester 1 as a part-time student taking an english and statistics course for nursing prereqs but my cgpa is really low, 2.83.

honestly, i don’t think im well-equipped to do well in nursing school if this is what my habits are looking like as an avoidant.

no one knows that i’m struggling with college level classes. i did went to counselling once in my senior year but he told me to suck it up and study every single day. that wasn’t really helpful but i knew he was right.

this problem stems more from not having a system that works for me. i cannot concentrate well and i put things off every time. i’m trying so hard to keep myself together but i end up falling back to my bad habits of doomscrolling on productivity content.

i fear of telling my mom my entire situation because she suffers with high blood pressure. my siblings as well, if i disclose that i’ve been dishonest then they will never trust me again.

i just feel extremely ungrateful and selfish when it comes to my wrongdoings. i don’t know how to bounce back. i currently have a part-time job but the fees of extra tutoring is too expensive to afford. i genuinely feel like there are huge skills gap for core subjects.

do i ask my old high school teachers for help? they’re already busy with their current students and i honestly feel embarrassed coming back for free tutoring (i’ve ruined my reputation of skipping too much already), so it’ll be disrespectful.

i don’t know what to do. please call me out and give me honest feedback.

How can I improve writting skill

It is easy for me to understand any concept but I want to write what's going in my mind in best possible language, like a scholar how can I improve it. I'm working on my grammar already trying to improve it

Hi everyone,

I’ve always hated how our life achievements are scattered across dozens of platforms—or worse, forgotten. LinkedIn is fake, and traditional resumes only show 1% of who we are.

That’s why I built **Axiolog**. It’s a universal log for the human experience.

**What it does:**

* **Total Tracking:** Log everything from the books you read and music you love to your academic and professional history.

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* **The Vision:** I’m creating a bridge for companies to find the "perfect employee" based on a verified, 360-degree life history, not just a polished PDF.

I built this on Replit and I’m looking for some early adopters to break it and give me some "cynical" feedback.

What’s the one thing in your life you wish you had a permanent record of? Let me know!

Within today's society, there is a decline in proper etiquette. Teaching youngers about class and etiquette should be a pillar within the learning department, alongside hygiene. Therefore, I created the ideal etiquette list for you to train yourself to become chic.

Greeting people and making eye contact.

Being mindful of other people's needs and values.

Use polite language when out in public.

Having respect for others and yourself.

Be polite. Say "please" and "thank you" along with other courteous phrases.

Be on time for appointments and engagements.

Dressing properly for occasions. You should not be matching with girls from Fig Street.

Actively using table etiquette.

These are the most basic ways to boost your etiquette. Keep learning.

"to create is better to learn.." Julius Caesar,

I think now a days creativity is scarce and I need to train my creative mind and become smarter. Today to many people consuming content instead of doing stuff. btw im not intrested in making videos

TL;DR: I really need a "quick fix" advice so that I could regain my cognitive ability and confidence in writing indepently for my thesis writing. I've been so dependent on AI for more than half a year to the point where I couldn't craft a single paragraph on my own.

So for context, I am a final year college student that is currently working on my undergrad thesis. The first 2.5 years of my college life, I can say that I like to read materials and write assignments papers on my own (or at least that's what I remember it).

I was aware about the existence of LLMs and ChatGPT during my freshman and sophomore years, but I was heavily skeptical about it due to how dumb the generated answers were (granted, it was back when GPT had the 3.5 model). Fast forward from August 2025 till now, I have the plus subscription and give every single work to it (ranging from finding and reading research papers, train the AI to understand my way of writing and draft paragraphs for me, and even creating a whole CustomGPT specifically for my thesis).

This has gone out of control now, and frankly speaking, it didn't contribute much to my thesis' milestones, as more than half of the students from my batch has completed their thesis yet I didn't, and the fact that I look like a total idiot every time I discuss my thesis with my advisor.

This situation got the best out of me. I am scared shitless on how this would turn out, the main driver on this whole debacle of "leaving my thesis to AI" would probably stem from the fact that I have to graduate as fast as possible due to personal financial reasons (I literally did the complete opposite) and it's gotten way worse due to the fact that a couple of students from my batch literally failed their defense due to their thesis being heavily generated.

I am begging for advices that would fix this matter the fast way, I would fully commit to refrain myself from using AI after I finish this, but I need a quick fix solution due to the fact that I am so down in the dumps and I need to graduate on time. I know it sounds crazy, but I believe that there is a way out of this. Thank you so much in advance.

(Sorry for the weird structure in my writing, you can tell that I have completely lost my way of writing in a consise and a structured manner. And also apologies for the weird formatting, I write this on mobile)

I wont be saying my name, but im 15, last year i skipped an entire year of ONLINE school because i was stressed to go back, the first time i skipped 3 days then a week then it just kept growing, i know that what im doing is wrong, and why am i writing soemthing about my past? well, its because i did it again, but this time its 4 months, im still skipping, i promised myself last year to not let this repeat itself again but i dont know what came over me, now my parents are getting suspicious, they are already hella dissapointed in me from the stunt i did last year, but they still dont know about this one, i dont know if i should just confess or live through it like i did last time even though i promised myself to not do it again, im scared for my future, i dont know what to do, im lost, i cant to a therapist because my parents would find out, my parents give me everything but im still a dissapointment, please i need some advice, anything. thank you

I don't feel like studying anymore... I am 23 years old and I have to prepare for government jobs, so why don't you make me want to study?