nonchalante:

Never volunteer unnecessary information. Give only as much as people ask. Silence is golden.

(via patience-and-pain)

mothurs:

friend: you look stressed
me: haha yeah it’s the stress

(via annalindquistt)

lifeofan-architecturestudent:

brithistorian:

lifeofan-architecturestudent:

I love reading and I especially love reading theory but even for someone like me who enjoys it, it sometimes gets difficult to decipher. 

It takes me forever to get through a chapter, let alone a complete book. I’m finding myself having to read a required book by September and two other ones I want to finish before I start thesis. But I have to say that it’s taking me longer than I expected with not only because work and life gets in the way but because I constantly have to stop and keep re-reading things over and over to fully grasp the meaning.

A co-worker gave me a really great tip today that I’m going to start doing and I wanted to share with you all in case you have difficulties with reading theory as well.

Read the whole chapter in one go. It’s like watching a movie for the first time, you’re not going to pause and re-wind constantly… you’re going to keep watching. With reading in one pass, you grasp the overall message of the chapter, you understand the arch of the message.

Then re-read the chapter. The second time around allows you to pick up the details that you missed, just like in a movie. This saves you a lot of time compared to when you constantly stop yourself and keep re-reading sentences over and over again. 

I’m going to try this - theory is my weak spot, so anything that helps me there is most welcome.

Another tip for reading difficult material (this comes from Dianetics, but it works):  Keep a dictionary (or a browser window) with you while reading.  When you hit a word you don’t know, stop and look it up right away.  If you try to bulldoze past it, even if you are able to figure it out from context, you’ll miss part of what comes after because you’ll be having to keep part of your focus on the word you passed.

Yes! Great tip.

(Source: lifeofan-architecturestudent)