The answer to the above question as one of my friends asked me the other day, ladies and gentlemen, is yes, I do spend my whole life on Quizlet. I actually find them a way of alleviating my stress, to make a couple of quizlets, but it gets a little maniac sometimes! But, as that would be a rather boring post, here's a round-up of some of the most effective apps that I have found for revision.
I do actually love a good Quizlet. What this app and website are, are effective ways of making or finding flashcards and learning them. There are some interactive games as well as the flashcards, and my favourite feature is the 'learn' section, which isn't overly fussy but is a brilliant way to actually learn things!
This is particularly good for learning languages, although instead of making your own cards, you can instead find course-specific vocab, which gives it the edge over similar language apps such as Duolingo, where you learn vocab that is just in their course rathjer than a specific exam board.
Kahoot is a crazy and fast paced game for teams, groups or classes usually, with a very very catchy theme song. It's a little laborious to make the games, but it's easy to search and use others', and it always gets competitive!
This is a mind mapping tool, and despite not being the world's biggest fan of the old mind map, they do lend themselves well to certain topics. You can easily add images and colour using this app too.
How is an homage to language even possible to do, unless you're about two hundred years dead, probably? Both Klar and I like to read, we send letters to each other, and I write poetry while she writes the most amazing insightful mini-journals. However, this post is solely about why I love to write.
I like to send letters to a couple of my friends, for different reasons. I send ones to one of my friends because of distance, and also because it's sometimes difficult to have a conversation where we are both there at the same time. Then Klara and I send letters, just because we're cute, there's something inherently uplifting about receiving post that isn't a bank statement or subscription, and because you put more thought into a letter. There's no delete key, so it seems more thoughtful. That and the fact that it's tactile; I keep letters in a box under my bed, whereas Facebook messenger messages and snapchats are there one minute, gone or replaced the next.
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post on a poem that is one of my favourites, because it's special between me and one of my friends. I also mentioned that I *dabble* in writing a wee bit myself, in that I take it very seriously but present it to hardly anyone ever (strangers on my Tumblr that nobody from my life knows exists), and when I do, it's in the light-hearted 'take a look at this bit of crap I was working on in my spare time' sort of fashion, and I wait about six months before posting anything. That's all that it is: I know a lot is superficial, and older stuff has depth forsaken in favour of rhyme or the correct number of syllables. I especially like haikus because you have 17 syllables to speak, so words are a scarcity.
Also while we are on the subject: a homage or an homage? :)
I am very upset by the latest iPhone update (and after speaking to my friends realised I'm not the only one) so decided to do a rant/list blog post. There are not ACTUALLY that many changes so this post will be reasonably short, but the changes there have been have riled me up.
- You no longer slide to unlock. This may not seem like a big deal but I was used to sliding to unlock. It was comfortable and familiar. I miss it.
- The technology is too advanced for my laptop, so I can no longer connect them up. I realise this is not an issue for everyone but it's really annoying.
- Notifications are really difficult to click on and it's exceptionally irritating for me because I have no pride and reply to messages as soon as they pop up on my screen.
- iMessage keeps having fits and not working properly. I don't know if this is a common problem but I'm not the only one experiencing this.
- STUPID APPS I CAN'T DELETE TAKING UP STORAGE!!!! I can't stress enough how angry this makes me.
- The camera features have moved around the app and it's weird.
- I'm sorry, but how many people have houses advanced enough to actually use the 'home' app?
- The calendar showing my upcoming events nearly ruined a surprise party for my friend. I realise this is an uncommon event, but still.
