Graduation ceremony has coming near. NEXKY wants to tell all the new grads about tricks to avoid increasing waste on the graduation day and how to give gifts🎁 which are environmentally-friendly 💚🌍 to all the new grads.
1. Avoid giving gifts that might create garbage, for examples, balloons🎈 , flower💐, foam-made materials, microplastic and other plastic materials, and diamond power-made materials🎉.
2. Give something meaningful and practical to use such as crafts, memorable photos, or money to congratulate them💸.
3. Encourage not to use single use plastic container, use personal reusable bottles and containers instead. Free water can be added from water dispensers around the campus💧 🆓 .
4. The campus has provided garbage bins spots for various areas. When throwing your trash in a bin, don’t forget to separate its types of garbage. Blue bin 🔵 is for general or food-contaminated garbage. Yellow bin 🟡 is for recycling garbage. Green bin 🟢 is for food scraps. Orange bin 🟠 is for dangerous garbage.
Nexky has already proposed 4 easy ways to avoid increasing waste on graduation day and how to give all new grads with environmentally friendly gifts, so don’t forget to protect our planet together😄.
“Happy giver, joyful new grads, and no waste left”
📌Here are 10 locations for studying around Chula campus with good atmosphere 🌱, yummy snacks 🧁, and convenient to go. You can sit all day, too😊.
🙌🏻What’s up all Chula peeps🩷 Are you looking for cafes to sit for midterm exam studying👩🏻💻? Today, NEXKY has gathered good places to sit for you😊. Let’s take a look where they are👉🏻.
1. Labyrinth Cafe
📍Samyan beside Samyan Mitrtown Mall.
☕️ Special coffee that differs from others. Many menu are available to choose.
📸 Dark atmosphere and corners for photo capturing cafe, anyone who loves cool coffee style should not miss this place😎.
2. Experiment Cafe
📍Samyan Chula 50
☕️ Many drinks and snacks are available to choose. Croissants are signature menu with different types as well, too🥐.
📸 White tone and clean decorated shop☁️. Relaxing and Korean mood cafe that you can take pictures. NEXKY highly recommend🤍!
3. Tokyo Sweets
📍Samyan Chula 50
☕️ Japanese snacks and drinks including mochi and daifuku are complete in one place.
📸 Cute daifuku shop with cute, warm and Japanese style shop that you can sit to work🏻💻.
4. BITESCAPE_Art4C
📍Samyan beside Samyan Mitrtown Mall.
☕️Cute prices of food, drinks, bakery are available.
📸 Exhibitions from Faculty of Fine Arts Chulalongkorn University are displayed in the cafe🖼️. The exhibitions always keep on updating🏻🎨. Many working spaces are also provided a lot, too.
5. Queen’s Chula Cafe
📍 Beside CU Stadium
☕️ The shop serves American drinks style provided along with hotdogs, milkshake, pancakes, and icecream.
📸 American 50’s style cafe with peaceful atmosphere and vintage photo corners are really special for those who love to be vintage and Y2K style.
6. Onward+ Cafe
📍Samyan Slowcombo Project
☕️ Aside from various drinks, they serve brunch, too.
📸 Clean minimal cafe with relaxing vibe🌱 for those who love peacefully private atmosphere and take a long study, this is the place for you.
7. Eattention Please Cafe
📍Samyan Chula 50
☕️ Many drinks, snacks, and food in one place.
📸 Warmingly atmospheric cafe that gives you lovely and chilling vibe with drinks, snacks and food choices to choose, if you want to both eat and drink, this place is the answer🧁.
8. Starbucks
📍Samyan Mitrtown Mall
☕️ Bakery and coffee are in one place🧋.
📸 It’s the best place to study located in the mall, convenient to go, warm and woody atmosphere, and 24-hour open.
9. The coffee club
📍Samyan Mitrtown Mall
☕️ Various food to choose including sandwiches, bakery, Thai food, and salad🥗.
📸 Dark tone style and popular spot for coffee, there are separated private zone and provide many working spaces with charging area, too🔌.
10. Tim Hortons
📍Samyan Mitrtown Mall
☕️ Coffee and sweets are various.
📸 Another popular spot of CU peeps to sit 🤝👨🏼. It is also available to study and work by giving an active atmospheric vibe🗣️.
Have you ever found yourself getting distracted by your phone, while trying to read a book? 😫
Today, NEXKY introduces four apps that will help you stay focused on your reading during the exam season. 📚
1️⃣Focus To-Do 🧘🏻♀️
Focus To-Do is a minimal reading time tracking app that is easy to use. It can track both work and break times, plus you can schedule tasks and organize your to-do list. Additionally, it can gather statistics and analyze your reading habits.📓
2️⃣Forest 🌳
The most popular tree-planting app. You can select and nurture your own virtual tree, and its growth depends on your reading time. You can start with a small tree or a big tree that takes a lot of time. This app also uses user data to plant real trees, letting you to focus on reading while contributing to conserving environment.🌎
3️⃣Focus Dog 🐶
An app where you earn donuts from your reading time to feed virtual dogs. It provides missions to motivate your reading and rewards you with coins and points for feeding dogs and completing missions. You can exchange these rewards for donation money to help real dogs.💸
4️⃣FLIP 📖
An app for tracking your reading time, where you can select background sounds like natural ambiance or a cafe vibe while reading your books. It includes a D-Day feature to count down your tasks scheduled, such as exams dates. Moreover, you can connect with friends from all around the world.🗺️
You can download these four apps on both IOS and Android to help you focus during exam season.📕 Now, you’re ready to prepare for exams with the assistance of these helpful apps and your determination in reading book.💪🏼
Right now everyone is studying for their exams, right?💪With the exam season approaching nothing can be more useful in this time than making study notes!
Which is why NEXKY wanted to share tips on how to create effective short notes. The kind that makes you want to get up and get studying❤️🔥.
1️⃣Check the materials✅
Looking at the overview of the course, what the main and sub topics are, and getting an understanding of the material before taking notes can make the process more efficient and in better organisation.
2️⃣Get the main idea💗
Make a summary of main ideas in a concise way so that it is easy to read.
3️⃣Use highlighters🖍️
Emphasise certain areas using a highlighter in the colour of your choice, for example, using yellow for the heading and red for important information. Not only does this emphasise the information you want but also makes the material easier to remember.
4️⃣Use pictures🖼️
Of course if there were only words, it could get a bit boring to read. So add some pictures, which not only increases comprehension but also makes the note cute and fun to read. NEXKY confirms that this way you won’t be sleepy when studying for sure👍.
5️⃣Add annotations and warnings⚠️
Using certain signs can help emphasise the important information to not be missed, for example, ⭐️for materials commonly seen in exams or❗️for things you usually get wrong. But don’t use too many or else it may get messy!
6️⃣Take your notes, your way📝
Use language that is easy to understand and in your style, decorate your notes how you like it and studying will be much more enjoyable.
Lastly, NEXKY hopes that these tricks and tips will help you all have more fun when taking notes for studying. Not only taking notes, but don’t forget to review and A will not be out of your reach✨.
Ambience is known to be the sound of your surroundings that when listened to leads to calmness and focus. Some examples include nature sounds, coffee shop ambience or music which many may have seen and heard of on YouTube.
Now that the exams season is approaching and studying is crucial, opening ambience sound when reading can help you focus better because ambience is a kind of background noise, which is not too loud and facilitates productivity and concentration more than reading in silence. 📚
Today, NEXKY have 5 themed videos to recommend for those who are looking for some ambience when studying.
Harry Potter🪄
Harry Potter fans who would love to study in Hogwarts amongst the magic, this is the theme for you. I am sure that all Potterheads are ready to take notes with their magical wands.
Dark Academia🏛️
This theme is for the classical lovers. Those who want to study in the olden Western architecture, this one is for you.
Studio Ghibli🎶
Howl’s Moving Castle and Spirited Away atmosphere is ready for all you anime lovers to sit down and start studying.
Crackling Fireplace with Rain⛈️
Imagine the cold weather with a crackling fireplace and rain running down the window. What more can you ask for when studying and hoping to stay focused?
Coffee Shop☕️
You don’t have to go to a cafe to get the vibes. This theme is like bringing a cafe home with the barista making coffee and people chatting in the background, all cafe lovers, this one is for you.
Ambience videos help you to relax and focus better when studying as stated in Florida National University’s research that said opening ambience sounds while studying can help reduce stress, increase learning capacity, and reduce heart rate.
The benefits of opening ambience are endless, so create the vibe for this midterm. Whichever theme you like, just search on YouTube!🤩
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