📌 TOPIC OF STUDY: Views of Different Ages on Facial Recognition Surveillance in London 

👉 TARGET AUDIENCE: Londoners: people who live in London (UK) who are above 16 years old

⏳ DURATION: 3-4 minutes

🔗 ORIGINAL LINK: https://forms.office.com/e/uxAFE9ahwf?origin=lprLink

Hello!

I’m inviting you to participate in a research study I’m conducting as part of my master’s program. The study aims to understand how different age groups in London perceive the use of Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) for surveillance. If you decide to participate, you’ll complete an anonymous questionnaire on Microsoft Forms that should take about 3-4 minutes.

Your input will greatly contribute to understanding public attitudes toward this technology. Participation is voluntary, and all responses will remain confidential. If you're 16 or older and live in London, I would greatly appreciate your participation.

I’ve got an extremely important exam in 2 weeks and I’m so burnt out cause I’ve been studying for it for so long that I really can’t focus anymore. I’ll be studying but I won’t be there, I’ll be reading but my head won’t retain anything. When I do past papers I look at the question and my brain is blank even tho I know I’ve studied that. What’s worse it that can’t even bring myself to care that I can’t focus. It’s like ive disassociated. I thought it’d help to take some time for myself, but I’ve got a job and I can’t take off because my boss is kind of an ass and if I start taking days off now he won’t let me take any days off right before the exam. I need tips on how I can reset my brain, I really don’t have time

i'm from the uk so the school system works a little different to the us. for the us ppl i'm currently in high school in grade 11 and to the uk ppl i'm in year 12 also known as my first year of collage. anyone got tips on how to study for it?

I am starting to study with my group. It is going to be punctual. Interested please know.

Please mention in the comments if interested in joining.

I have a really big exam coming up and I have a lot anxiety due to it.its getting so bad that I think about that exam almost all the time and I believe that my fear is hindering my ability to study for it.can you guys suggest some ways I can cope with this anxiety

I play either chess or silver mirror cube.

UK student here.

For me, I should have been aware much sooner in Year 11 or even Year 10 about extra years. Which means that if I have to re-sit GCSEs, then I can apply two or more campuses. My desired one, as well as my back up one (nearby).

My desired campus is pretty far away and is served by rubbish bus services, where the buses are either late or way too early; most are way too packed, therefore I end up coming home around 5-6pm; leaving no time to properly study and revise for my resits. Whereas if I go to my back up one nearby, I can do my GCSE resits, coming and going by walk with no nuisance and leave plenty of time to study and revise for my GCSE resits, then when I get the right grades, then I can do my 2 years of my desired A-Levels in my desired campus the next academic year.

Furthermore, gap years in campuses from my experience usually has alot of arrogant students who never have any goals involving education, which can ruin my experience in my desired campus, which I should enjoy as it was my wanted one. Whereas in the backup one, I would not care as it is not my desired one; I would just go and come home just to make sure I get the right GCSEs.

So, anyone who wants to go and study in a campus, make sure you book not just your desired one, but also a backup one near your home, incase your GCSEs go wrong; GCSEs to further studies is a big jump.

I have quite long attention span, so once I start studying, I can go on for hours. But the problem is, I can't get started and that's ruining the little to nothing streak of consistent studying. Help :(

I'm a ca student and I've been failing the past two attempts. Every time my score drops after each exams and it's affected my confidence in myself. Everytime I makes a plan i fails to execute it and I gets anxious everytime I tries to stick to one. I feel like a failure and I've not even been able to sleep or eat these days. I got an exam coming in next 20 days and I got a huge syllabus to be done with. I sleep for about 9-10 hours and I still feel tired. I've been trying and i feel like I'm not getting anywhere. I've not been able to focus at all makes me wanna cry. It feels like a huge pressure but I'm scared of failure too.

I been to study servers where you sit on vcs to count your study time and stuff but I need a different more fun competition. Please drop some suggestions

It's a recurring loop for me.I make plans, i allocate enough days to prepare some subjects, i collect all the materials i need and delete applications to help me get started for preparation.

But as soon as i start the first chapter, and can't uderstand anything i am studying, the hopelesness sets in immediately. I begin thinking and making assumptions that if i am unable to understand the first chapter, how the hell am i going to complete all the other chapters, which will get more difficult as the number of chapters increases.

Then i procastinate for the rest of the day, doing everything else other than sitting down and studying, thinking that there's no meaning in even trying because i am going to fail anyway.I waste the next day doing the same. Then the next next day, i begin thinking that i have wasted two days, now i won't be able to complete the syallbus anyway, so i jump to another subject.

However i still can't prepare that next subject because back in my mind i am constantly thinking about the previous subject i didn't prepare when i had enough time and how i am for sure going to fail that subject. Even after telling myself again and again, that i would pass that subject no matter what this time.

Then, i start getting depressed, I begin overthinking about my past, about how i shouldnot have even failed the subject. This all leads me to the same place, one day before the exam and me cramming as much as i can, and for sure i fail to prepare enough and i fail anyway.

Well depression and hopelessness will not pass my exams and i have been doing the same for 5 years already.

I have been thinking, maybe my approach to this has been wrong the entire time and it's the biggest reason i have not passed my backlogs.

Maybe what i should have been doing is, trying my best to prepare as much as i can for the exam. It doesnot matter if i have failed multiple subjects in the past, how many mistakes i have repeated in the past , how i should have taken this more seriously, how difficult the subjects are ,or how my friends are doing better than me.

Maybe it was all about me giving my all in preparation, no matter how much difficult or hopeless i find the situation i am in. Then, at least even if i fail, even when i don't have confidence of passing that subject, i will somehow be satisfied that i didn't give up completely and gave it my best in preparation. Even if i fail, i will for sure perform better the next time than the time when i don't even start studying because of fear of failing.

I would not feel guilty, stressed, ashamed, hopeless and stuck in the loop like i am now.

Now, even if its a day before the exam, even if its an hour before the exam, doesnot matter how difficult the subject is, i have decided to change my way and start giving it my all in preparation, do everything i can, then finally i would be able to accept whatever the result i get.

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I feel so stressed every time before exam day, and as its my first time taking an open book test, i'm nervous because people kept saying its more difficult than a memorisation test even though I know some people who knows it isn't I'm trying to study but my throat keeps tightening and its really uncomfortable to study in this state. How do I stop this a day before exam? I do not want to wake up in this state again.

I suffer from chronic depression. have been trying really hard to study for my engineering exams coming up very soon. I've been studying by making notes and revising. But I get this sudden feeling of despair and start to feel miserable. I tried going on a walk and having a coffee, it helps for a while but I start to feel like that again after some hours. Sometimes I wake up and force myself to be positive but it just doesn't work.

I've been in on my room for about a month now with no friends. I don't have anyone to co-study with. loneliness gets the better of me and I think it's the main reason I'm feeling like this. I really don't want to fail my upcoming exams..

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Hi everyone, I am a french student, I am currently studying in 2nd year of Japanese study at university in Paris but I really think to move to the US because I don't really like what I do and I am practicing a lot of sport (in 2025 I'll do the Boxing Ile-de-France Championship and maybe the national one) I think I would like to study Law in university. In France, you don't have to study law in your life to ask to study law but I don't know if it is the case in USA because I left high school with a Math and physics degree, I studied Japanese at school and that's all, except that I am only practicing sports, speak French, Spanish, English and Japanese and that's all. Do I have any chance to study in USA ? What can I do ?

Over the past years and so, sometimes i get incredible grades and sometimes my grades go down, no doubt about external issues that most students face and i sure did face some but is it right to say that a majority of our academic failure should be attributed to teachers? should they take the biggest shares of blame?

Hi everyone! This is the Accountability Thread where people can list what they need or want to accomplish today and have everyone else help keep you accountable to do them. So, in general, a post will look like this:

Things I have to get done today:

1: Post Accountability Thread

If I had more to do that I had not completed I would list them and update this when these things were complete.

Also, if I saw someone doing something that I happen to be well-educated or have some sort of expertise in I can offer support or help on the topic/task.

The thread is a versatile one, use it in a way that helps you and others stay on task!

Happy studying!

Does anyone here have PTSD or any kind of dissociative disorder? I’m heading back to school after 8 years and a disability later this week and I’m honestly concerned about zoning out during class. I have ALOT of sensory issues and I’ll just kinda blank out for several minutes.

Has anyone found anything to help in class? I’m planning on carrying an ice pack on me to use on my neck when I need but I really don’t want to miss out on information ya know? Any tips would be super helpful! Also memory or retention tips would be appreciated.

Good luck to everyone starting soon!

i want to join a study community to ask questions and to be with like minded peers. i am currently in 9th grade. please drop a link to a helpful server if you can :)

I got history+physical edu in miranda .. is it a good option for upsc??

hi ! Im a 23yr old and I wanted to start my education journey in Public health after two years in a public health fellowship program in one of the island jurisdictions in the pacific. I decided to major public health, but I still feel not smart enough for it. Don’t get me wrong my overall goal is to work within public health, but i get these self doubts that I wont make it and its haunting me. Going to university of hawaii away from my home island, my family and my friends. I dont want to let them down but coming from a poor family i barely have enough to make it through this fall semester. Is my decision to this major worth my future? Im scared that i will regret it later.

I have my chemistry placement test on Monday which I completely forgot about the whole summer, oops. It's on HN chem and I basically only know the periodic table stuff, atoms, stoichiometry, bonds, and maybe structures. I need an 85% to pass, do I still have a chance? What part should I start with? What materials should I use? I'm doing Khan Academy rn but it's taking forever

I am a software engineer, and I like to read many articles and watch many YouTube videos to keep myself updated.

I think my personal framework for absorbing knowledge can be broken down into 3 steps:

1. Sourcing: Search for valuable information sources to learn from and collect them.
2. Consuming: Organize and review the collected information periodically.
3. Revision: Revise everything you've learned and consider how to apply it in your daily life.

Sourcing

1. Newsletters: I source information by subscribing to many high-quality newsletters. I recommend the TLDR newsletter, which provides high-quality content spanning various topics.
2. RSS: Many blogs (especially in tech/engineering) offer RSS feeds you can subscribe to, making it easy to get updates.

Consuming

1. Save: I typically save articles in a read-later tools like Mindgen or Pocket for easier review later.
2. Summarize: I use AI tools to summarize articles. You can do this manually with ChatGPT or Claude, or use tools like Mindgen that extract and summarize content from URLs. I find content much easier to consume with summaries that have clear outlines at the beginning.
3. Glance: With a basic understanding from the summary, I quickly scan the article's headings and read sections I find interesting.
4. Deep Dive: If I find an article particularly interesting and worth more time, I'll read it thoroughly. This framework is much more manageable than diving straight into the details at the beginning.

Revision

1. Revision is crucial. It's useful to keep valuable ideas in mind, as there are many instances where ideas I captured long ago come back to inspire me. I use Readwise to store notes from ebooks, podcasts, and articles, and it resurfaces these notes periodically.

Do you have any tips in learning effectively ? Would love to learn from you too !

I recently started a new semester and my big problem on the last one was my lack of notes, I'm not a very good writer so I most of the time I record the audio of the classes and listen to it later, but even doing that it makes me difficult to make my notes better... any tips on what I can do?