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- Kalen is a second year PhD student in history and in African American cities at Yale University. Today's video focuses on the different applications of reading and notetaking. Whether you're in high school, undergrad, or a current graduate student, this video is going to be useful.

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- Reading for retention is all about long term recall. Reading and taking notes alone will not help you remember all of the details of a text. Integrating your readings into research papers will begin to establish long term memory.

- The middle sections of chapters focus primarily on evidence, analysis and theory. The conclusion is often rich with the author's argument. Read thoroughly and take notes where useful.

- Unlike reading for class or for retention, reading for research is all about finding the information most pertinent to your project in a timely manner. Do not skip on the index. Establish a set of key terms, find it in the index and see which pages and sections directly reference your subject matter. Comment below, anything that you learned.

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I decided to try living like Emily Dickinson, who was my favourite poet for a day. She was a recluse and wrote over 1000 poems in her lifetime. And she wrote all of it from her family home bedroom, mainly at a tiny desk looking out over her garden in Elhurst, Massachusetts.

Tomorrow I am going to try her write writing habits, routines and just daily rhythms. And I genuinely just can't wait. So I suppose I will see you, Brighton, early tomorrow morning.

All right, so I was lying. It's not Brighton early, it's just plain early. Emily Dickinson would wake up in the middle of the night to write because she could avoid distraction and she could completely focus on writing her poetry.

I'm so tired. I did end up doing this twice. Once where I didn't film and once where I did film, just because the camera would have been a distraction, which eliminates the whole point of writing without distraction.

Now, my thoughts. I enjoyed the sense of quiet, but I think that's the difference between writing in the early morning and writing in the middle of the night, because I knew I was about to go back to sleep. It was more of an inbetween time as opposed to the beginning of the day.

And as a result, I just didn't have energy or focus. I did end up writing one poem, though, and, funny enough, when I read it the next day, I couldn't remember what I'd written. And I think it's because I was in that really hazy, half asleep mindset, but I didn't think the poem was terrible.

I'd recommend trying this. You end up writing something that isn't necessarily typical of your normal style. All right, I'm getting into bed now.

I'm very tired. I understand why this is a good time to work, because there is no distraction, but I do feel hazy. I'm definitely not my most focused.

Maybe that would change if you did this a couple of times. I could go back to sleep. Very much needed.

Anyway, I finished up with that poem and I went back to sleep because I was very tired. Now, here we are. The next morning, it's around 730 that I woke up, andI wasn't actually that tired from writing early in the morning.

But to be fair, I didn't stay up for too long.First, I opened the window and I listened to the bird song. Emily Dickinson loved birds and said this just felt like a very fitting way to start the morning.