20 Awesome College Notebooks Guaranteed to Make Note-Taking (More) Fun! Back-to-School Essentials for 2021

Are you tired of all those plain boring-old notebooks? Want to start off this school year in style?

Show up on your first day of class with some super fun new notebooks!

All of the following are 8.5x11 in size with college-ruled lined pages…which makes them absolutely perfect for note taking!

Here Are 20 super-cute notebooks GUARANTEED to make this school year at least slightly better!

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14 Things High School Students Need to do Before College Starts

Are you transitioning from high school to college? Congratulations - what an exciting time!

FINALLY you can study something that you at least KIND OF want to study, and you can work towards a specific goal for a while…regardless of whether not that ACTUALLY becomes your future career!


But what do you need to DO in these last few weeks before the crazy whirlwind starts? You’ve hopefully planned out the logistics at this point, and now you just have to….wait for the adventure? (/impending doom?)

Here are some things they might not tell you about, but they will help you feel THAT much more prepared for your first day of class!

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How to Make Ice Cream at Home - Shaking/Plastic Bag Method

I was so excited when I discovered you could actually make ice cream at home, using supplies that you probably already have in your kitchen. (well….at least you’ll have MOST of the supplies. I had to buy the cream).

What makes it even better is it’s also super, super simple! So, if you’re willing to put in a bit of manual labour (which is probably for the best if you’re also planning on consuming ice cream), you’ll be tasting its sweet goodness in no time!

So, what do you need to make ice cream at home?

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20 Randomly Weird Words You Never Knew Before

Do you want to pretend to be proactive outside of school hours by learning something extra…but instead actually TRYING, you’d rather just half-heartedly learn something silly and useless instead?

Tadaaaa! Here’s a list of words you quite possibly never knew before, and can learn for *unofficial extra school credit.

Though to be honest, if you didn’t know them, it’s probably because they’re not exactly super useful additions to your vocabulary.

That doesn’t mean learning them’s a waste of your time, though. You never know when random vocabulary words will come in handy!

Here are:

20 Randomly Weird Words You Never Knew Before

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11 Adorable Notebooks - Perfect for Journaling!

Have you found yourself journaling over the break? I’ve always found it’s a great way to clarify my thoughts and blow off a bit of steam.


For anyone who doesn’t know, I’ve recently started designing notebooks on Amazon. While some I’ve put together are more made for school, these are my favourites for keeping right beside your bedside table.


These ones are all 6x9 inches in size, and have simple lined pages inside.


Check out these adorable notebooks that are absolutely PERFECT for journaling!

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7 Things to Do When You Have No Clue What To Do

So you want to know what you should do right now?

Ummm……do you really think a random stranger on the internet can tell you what to do today?

Sure!

No pressure, Nadya…

OK….let’s see what I can come up with.

What Should I Do Right Now???? 7 Things to Do When You Have No Clue What To Do

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You Won't Succeed at School Unless You Do THIS

Because the exams seem to be labelled as the Penultimate Grand Finale of the school year, you might think that exam season is the most important part of the school year.

Your school will also tell you it is…because that’s the part they care about the most. It’s important to THEM that you do well because those numbers are reflective of how well they’re doing their job.


The test is there “to prove you learned something”, and it is thought that the better you know the material, the better you’ll do on the test.

Since the whole system seems to be pointed towards this highly stressful moment of reckoning at the end of the course, you’d THINK it’s the most important part of the school year.

It’s not, though.

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Bad Grades? What should you do? (When you worked SUPER. HARD.)

So, you worked super hard, but still got a bad grade? That sucks - I’m sorry. There’s not exactly anything I can say to reverse it.

Thankfully, no matter how awful it feels, bad grades aren’t a life sentence to eternal failure, though. Your life can, and will continue…and I promise, over time, all of this will become less significant.

That being said, what do you DO to get over it, get through it, and move onwards and upwards?

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