TOEFL ESSAY, THANKS FOR THE COMMENTS :D

Some students prefer to study alone. Others prefer to study with a group of students. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

During the high school, and more essentially in the at university, it is important fo find which a way of studying that fits more better with your personality. It is very relative personal and it depends of personal taste. In my opinion, I prefer to study with a group. I will try to explain why studying with a group is better than studying alone.

First of all, a group of people gives you motivation, energy and a lot of support. They explain help you when you have doubts and they cheer you up when you are close to giving up. When you are alone and you feel stuck with some topic it is very easy to get depressed or nervous. this These kind of feelings betray your confidence and then if you do not feel sure about yourself it is very easy to fail an exam.

Secondly, when you study with other people is a team work where you can teach what you know and you learn what you do not know. Sometimes, when you explain something you reinforce this knowledge in your brain, so, you never loose lose it. Alone it is impossible to have a retroalimentation (I don't think this is an English word) or feedback, it is just you and the books.

Thirdly, it is much more funny to study with a group. Sometimes it is easier to get distracted but if you have confidence (not sure that 'confidence' is the word you are looking for) with that people it will be possible to find time to study hard and have a break. When you are alone, you get bored and sometimes if you sleep less than eight hours you can get fall asleep on the books and never realize it.

To sum up, studying with a group has a lot of advantages. In From my point of view, the knowledge is absorbed faster and better when you study with a group than when you study by yourself.

passable mean acceptable or ok. and "which it doesnt ask to start" is the program not asking permission before it starts to update. the just implies that that is all there is "just a miserable existence" and nothing else

What happened today?

Well, there isn't much to say since it's only twenty-one past five. Today I got up very late because last night I went to bed late. I was reading The Casual Vacancy, the new novel by J.K Rowling, the author of Harry Potter. The novel is for adults not children because it contains many dirty words and explicit scenes. Nevertheless, I love the novel. Today, I've been editing one of my short stories that I've been writing. I have written since I was 19. For the time being, I'm just practising with very little things and simple stories. One day I'd like to become a good author like J.K Rowling.
I have created a literal blogspot and, in there, I publish all the things write, even poems in English and in Spanish. I'm a bad translator, that's why I don't translate any of the tales to English. But one day I would like everyone to read them.
The story I'm editing is about a young man that recently lost his fiancee who was an actress. In the middle of arguments, love, desperation and pressure, the relation ends up in a tragedy in which, these two main characters suffer, separately, a horrible destiny. The tragedy takes part mainly because of a misunderstanding the young man has, and he uses what he has at hand to get his beloved fiancee back. But that has a price. And it is very high.

a correct version would be either; it's different from what i imagined or it's different to what i imagined

There is a slight difference. Even if it is only subtle. Most of the time either will do. The main difference would be if you are thinking more in depth about something then you would say you are "thinking about it." You would be actively thinking about it (considering options, what if...) eg. "I'm thinking about when I learnt to drive." If you are "thinking of" something it is more of a passing thought. eg. "I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 10" You aren't really thinking about the number, only in the sense that it exists at all. Most of the time either can be used "I'm thinking about/of shutting the door." Either of these make perfect sense and nobody would question them. To conclude. It probably doesn't matter most of the time. But in general to think about something is to think in more depth (perhaps considering is accurate here.) Thinking of is to just recall/come up with something. Or to simply have it on your mind (not much thinking involved) Final example. To think of an idea is to come up with a new idea, to think about an idea is to consider one that has already been created. Think of = invent/recall. Think about = consider/actively wonder. Hope this helps :)