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Herts Study Series: Staying Sane & Organised by Rebecca Matanda

The past 3 years of uni taught me one thing; disorganization is the fastest way to lose your mind. There’s nothing worse than remembering your lecturer said something   important … and then realizing its buried somewhere between your Notes app, five random Word docs, and a screenshot called “finalfinal(2).png”. By second year, I learned chaos wasn’t cute anymore. I’d jot down a great quote or case during class and never see it again.  My laptop looked like it had been through a digital hurricane. Then I started the   Bar course , and that chaos had to go. Between advocacy exercises, research tasks, and readings that could double as doorstops, I realised organization isn’t optional, it’s   survival . My first step towards sanity was   OneNote . I started separating my work into units, with every lecture and seminar neatly labelled. Whenever my tutors uploaded Word docs or readings, I’d insert them straight into OneNote as clickable links. Everything stayed t...

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