Back to school with Jordan: Life Hacks for Back to School

Hey guys! So, today since school is coming up super soon, I am doing a back to school life hacks blog to help you guys out and make school a little bit easier for you guys! so ya, let's get in to it!

So, this first life hack is to put your alarm clock across your bedroom so that in the morning you actually have to get out of bed to go shut off your alarm clock and really wake up.

Also, if you have a super annoying alarm clock it can make you wake up in a bad mood so you should change you alarm clock to a song that you like or something that won't make you annoyed as soon as you wake up.

The next life hack is to use scholar.google.com instead of just regular old google because it takes a ton of the useless websites away and gives you the websites that are actually going to be useful and help you with your studies!

Another hack is to put your schedule as a screensaver so that you always know what class you are going to, but at my school we are not allowed to have our phones out in school what-so-ever, but we do have school Ipads, so if this is the case for you, you can save your schedule as your screensaver on that as well. If your school doesn't have school Ipads and does not allow cell phones I would recommend getting a homework folder for two reasons. One, to hold all of the homework you have and so that if you only need one page in a binder or something you don't have to end up bringing the entire biner home. Also, you can glue or tape your schedule to the front of this and bring it to all of your classes to put your homework in and also the schedule will be there to help you remember where you have to go to next.

When you are writing an essay sometimes it is hard to catch all of your mistakes so a quick tip is to copy and paste your essay into google translate and then listen to it allowed. This will help you catch any mistakes you may have in your essay and your essay will be mistake free.

If you are like me and you get super bored when reading a textbook a good idea is to put candy or a snack at the end of each paragraph and reward yourself a little snack at the end of a paragraph.

Homework is almost always boring so a good way to jazz it up is to listen to music without words so that the words don't distract you but your homework isn't as boring.

When you're doing your homework sometimes your phone will distract you and you will end up on social media instead of doing your homework. A good way to fix that is to put your phone on airplane mode this way your notifications won't come through and you won't get you distracted.

When your in class and you see something important that you think you will see later or if your teacher says this will be on the test a good tip is to highlight that so that it will catch your attention and you will have an easier time studying what you actually need to instead of everything you wrote down.

Before you go to bed instead of watching tv or going on social media, it is a good idea to read over your key points for studying so that when your sleeping that's what your brain will be thinking about and you will be studying in your sleep.

If you're allowed to listen to music in class or when you're doing homework, listen to motivational music so that it will help you work faster.

In the morning when you are getting ready you should set a playlist that is the same amount of time that you have to get ready in the morning so that when the playlist ends you'll be ready to head out the door and you won't be late!

When you're studying to make it easier, you should read stuff out loud, because it is proven to help you memorize faster and easier.

Right before you take a test it is a good idea to write down your worries and just have them down and out of your head before you take the test. This is proven to boost your test scores.

A good idea is to get everything ready for school the night before so that you aren't rushing as much in the morning and you can get ready a lot faster. You should finish your homework the night before.

You could pack up your backpack, make your breakfast.

Take a shower.

And do a little bit of your hair if you can, like if your going to curl it you can braid it or put it in sponge curlers or even just curl it with a curling iron the night before. You can also pack your lunch the night before and pick out your outfit.

Lastly, you can keep an agenda to remember everything you have for homework that night or any after school activities you may have after school. You can also color coordinate your agenda to remember everything you have to do. For me, I just write my homework down and highlight it when I am done with that assignment. For a test, I write it in red pen and in all caps and same with studying so that I remember that the test is important and that I need to study hard. Also, anything extra that I may have after school, I write in blue because it is a calm and cool color and although sports are important to me, they are not top priority because I also need to focus on school and my studies. So, that is it for this back to school life hacks blog. If you want more back to school blogs follow me for more back to school fun and to follow every other adventure I post on here!:) Talk to you guys soon, Jordan:)