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just saw bindi irwin got engaged and apparently her fiance is american. she’s 21 and they’ve been dating for 6 years. I wonder if his family lives in aus/works in conservation because imagine just being a random 15-year-old tourist at the zoo and having a meet cute with steve irwin’s daughter lol
apparently that’s exactly how they met. bindi just happened to be giving tours the day his family visited. love is unreal. how is this not a teen romcom yet
It gets better. Terri is also American and met Steve Irwin the same way, by chance at the Australia Zoo, in 1991. Terri was devastated when he immediately offered to introduce her to his girlfriend Sue, until Steve called Sue over and a dog came bounding up.
Multi-generational love at first sight.
My favorite part of the story of how Steve and Terri met is that it was literally love at first sight. He saw her in a crowd and froze. Which was a bad thing, because he was sort of wrestling a crocodile at the time.
Aussie fairy tale
Well imagine it from Terri’s perspective. She sees a guy wrestling a whole-ass crocodile for funsies and just immediately goes “HIM”
So managing your readings can be super difficult, so I decided to share my method of managing, annotating and organising my readings.
Folder
So I use a folder/binder to hold all of my readings and I use plastic dividers to separate each of my modules. (I used to use card dividers but since I got the plastic ones I’ll never go back! they feel really nice and DO NOT RIP, whereas my card ones would always rip.)
Checklist
So this may not be possible for everyone but it’s really useful for me.
My university has a portal/website that I can access which details all of the readings I need to do each week and other information about my modules.
I use this portal to make a checklist for each of my modules, the checklist includes the date it needs to be read by, the title of the document and a checkbox. When I’ve read the document I tick it off!! (it makes you feel really accomplished to tick readings off of the list)
Post It Note
So I go through my checklist and write all of the readings I have to do for the week on a post-it note that I then stick to the front of my folder. This means that I can just quickly glance to see a) how much I have to read and b) what I have to read.
So I only highlight the MOST important things on the page, if more than 10% of the page is highlighted then I’ve probably highlighted too much. I like to use post-it notes and summarise the entire reading (if it’s a big reading I’ll use a sheet of paper and stable it), I then stick this post-it note to the beginning of the reading.
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