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16.11.22 I hope I am always learning to become better

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

I was not sure if this was going to get posted tonight or not. The internet has been acting funny, and I think it's a DNS problem since the speed is nearing 100 Gbps, and it was any website loading that was timing out. I changed the DNS, and that seems to have helped. I wonder what is causing it to act up.

Today was good, long but good. I had trouble sleeping last night. Insomnia periods are not fun, so I hope I am not slipping into one again. Every now and then I will wake up in the middle of the night and not be able to get back to sleep for another hour, which is not good because normally I would get 8.5 hours of sleep without that. With that, that sleep time drops to about 6 hours! That is not healthy!

Saying of such, I am going to get ready for bed now. Pray that I can sleep well!

P.S. If you look at my biology section below, you will see a link to a YT video on the video I had to watch for Bio today. It is informational but quite disturbing at the same time. You have to watch it to the end. If you are looking for something that will make you go "what just happened?", I recommend watching it. If you know anything about that particular organism, you will understand it, but it is still questionable.

Tasks Completed:

Geometry - Properties of Triangles Review + honors review

Lit and Comp II - Reviewed Units 22-24 vocabulary + read a biography about Theodore Roosevelt + read more on Theodore Roosevelt + read the beginning of Theodore Roosevelt's First Annual Address + took a quiz on Much Ado About Nothing (100%) + completed a page of timed writing on a play topic

Spanish 2 - Presented my clothing "design" presentation to my dad + reviewed preterit, imperfect, present, and future verb tenses

Bible I - Read Matthew 5

World History - Wrote a short essay on how the interference of the Soviet Union and the United States impacted Korea, Cuba, and Vietnam

Biology with Lab - Watched a very weird video lecturing on protists + looked at a protist image gallery + finished up my experiment + finished typing up my formal lab report

Foundations - Read the definition of truthfulness + completed next quiz on Read Theory + finished writing my speech (last day for writing/speech presentation on Friday)

Piano - Practiced for two hours in one hour split sessions

Khan Academy - Watched World History Unit 6: Lesson 11 (parts 6-7) + completed High School Geometry daily mastery challenge

CLEP - None today

Streaming - Watched Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War episode 7

Duolingo - Studied for approximately 30 minutes (Spanish, French, Chinese) + completed daily quests

Reading - Read pages 161-196 of Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross

Chores - None today

Activities of the Day:

Personal Bible Study (1 Corinthians 10)

Ballet

Variations

Journal/Mindfulness

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😵‍💫 17 (In)Sanity Challenge // Day 5 of 13 🤡

네, 오늘 난 이렇겠었어요. 내 시험은 실패를 또는 일해에서 해고돼를 진짜 싶지 않아서 난 아직 동기를 없어 놀라요 😮‍💨 (yup, this was me today. for someone who really doesn't want to fail my exams/get fired, i have a surprisingly low amount of motivation 😮‍💨)

🍚 drove more discussions, sought professional help (from my manager, lol, there's this new project i want to pitch some ideas for, so she helped me frame my arguments 🙏)

🍒 slow workout for the girlies

🐸 고잉 세븐틴의 meditation

🍚 wrote exactly one line of code as a first step to fix a seriously fucked up bug

😼 Japanese + Chinese lessons

🍊 reflective journal to Improve Myself™️

🦊 comparative cognition review

💌: 아직 좆됐어. 근데 한국어으로 말해면 더 좋은데 🤡 (i'm/it's still fucked. but it's better if i say it in Korean 🤡)

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⛰️ 17 Sanity Challenge // Day 9 of 13 ✒️🤍

今天不错了！我觉得更好！昨天晚上我很好的睡觉 😇 而且生病后我再次可以好的吃 🐯 (today was not bad! i feel much better! last night i slept very well 😇 and after getting sick, i can eat well again 🐯)

🍊 my first time writing a dream journal! ☺️

🍚 refactored code to be much better than it was before 😌, made good progress and used new tools on bug investigation 🤓

🐸 loving kindness meditation

🍒 4/7 beginner ballet lessons complete!

😼 Japanese lessons (3x)

⚔️ talked to a new-ish friend! (we have mutual friends and hang out sometimes but never really talked 1:1 before!)

🦊 comparative cognition review

🐶🐻‍❄️ laundry fairy~ (jazzy bgm)

💌: 生活真的很好啊~ 🥰 我会继续努力所以我可以很好的完！加油！(life is really very good~ 🥰 i will continue to work hard so i can finish well! let's go!)

bonus: merci pour le tag @mochademic 😘 changed it up a bit since i did it recently 😉

last song: when was anyone gonna tell me this hidden gem 💎 by a rare seventeen sub-unit existed??

currently watching: started watching Tokyo Vice recently!

sweet/savory/spicy last snack: korean style pork jerky~~

relationship status social battery: 80% (higher than average)

current obsession: honestly, this challenge high-key slaps, if i do say so myself 🤓 i feel so motivated!!

study break time, friends!! 💙 @winryrockbellwannabe @casiopeasmiles @rose-learns-japanese @tokidokitokyo @megumi-fm

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A startling witchy book in an old Oxford bookshop 🔮📚!

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oops! i did it again. lessons from this school year...

Hey, you remember that post I made about my winter term priorities? HAHAHAHAHahaha ha ha. That plan totally went to shit, but it's all part of the journey, right? 😅 (Tbh, it's quite difficult to make a conscious effort to change yourself when the default response to being and feeling busy is to go on autopilot -> all the unconscious habits, even if unhealthy, take control, and bc it's unconscious, you don't realize it until it gets quite bad! anyway! no more! my future plans make it so this will be impossible to do while still retaining some sense of sanity. so to prep, we're gonna slowly implement little changes so hopefully it's not so overwhelming that i give up)

🧘🏻‍♀️ comparing mindsets in fall and winter term

Fall term was not that bad bc I had 2 STEM subjects I really really loved and was interested in (biochem and mol bio 💕), and despite their difficulty, that love and interest and the feeling that "I am in the right field for me" kept me positive. There were times I thought I would feel burnout symptoms if I wasn't careful, but I really think that positivity protected me from the worst of it.

Winter term, however...I had one favorite subject: moral philosophy, which led to me wistfully dreaming about an AU in which I double majored in philosophy and piano performance, lol. After the highs of biochem and mol bio and the natural ease with which the bits of info flowed together in those subjects, I did not enjoy pharmacology or the 2nd half of psyc as much -> loss of interest -> negativity and feeling like I'm in the wrong field bc how dare I not like pharmacology (or psychology) as much as the other life science-y subjects when it's really so important for us to survive and thrive! 😅 I mean, there were times I could get that spark from pharmacology or psyc, but it wasn't often enough or intense enough to keep me consistently inspired throughout the semester. The feeling of "maybe I don't have what it takes and I'm in the wrong field" was compounded by the re-realization that there's sm to know of bioinformatics and I struggle to know any of it! Persevering is important, but it's harder to persevere with a negative mindset.

😤 what went wrong this school year and what i learned from it

I still struggle with perfectionism (and bc of it, procrastination). While it might not be as bad as it was in high school, I still spent too long on assignments that weren't worth much and during finals season, was so scared of getting less than 90% just to keep up my A+ streak. Like, I'm pretty sure no one who cares to know your GPA cares about whether you have an A+ streak or not. I have too high a threshold for what is a "disappointing" grade. I also struggle with deep regret about how I haven't mastered everything they throw at us in each course... definitely an unrealistic expectation, especially as the proportion of new info to absorb increases with each course. I did what I could using what I knew to do, so it is what it is. I may find ways to make improvements and learn more, but I won't beat myself up for not having known to do those things in the past.

Did not use effective study methods. Since first year, my problem has been keeping up with the readings and my solution has been to just use typed outline notes. It worked for the first few years when it was mostly review from previous courses with a few new concepts in between. But as I progress through my degree, the proportion of completely new info is increasing. This notetaking method won't work anymore bc it just causes cognitive overload, especially during exam season (when I've mostly forgotten the details of everything that isn't smth I've already known for years). E.g. for pharmacology, I got so bogged down by the details of all the drug classes that I didn't see the big picture and so didn't organize the info according to it. This made it hard to see patterns and better chunk the info. I was so stressed during finals season bc of this (and the sheer amount of notes that I had to read for psyc 😭). What makes it feel like even more of a problem is that the cognitive overload problem from my notetaking method has been a thing for all other uni courses thus far, it's just that pharmacology was the first time I needed to create a stronger connecting thread between the otherwise disparate pieces of info (drug classes). In all other courses, that thread was part of the nature of the topic being studied so I eventually understood it as I kept going and mentally re-organized it in my brain...but even then it was hodge-podge and so my depth of mastery was and is so flimsy, and every semester I leave feeling drained and like I wasted the opportunity to maximize my learning. (How dramatic I get about this is also probably tied to my perfectionism, but I still think it would greatly benefit future me to change my notetaking style.)

🎓 advice for future me

Look at the academic calendar, specifically the faculty course descriptions. Look at how many hours they say you should expect to spend on each activity in the course. Try to use those learning hours as a guide for your schedule so that you don't spend too long on an item that isn't worth much. If there isn't such a breakdown, assume one based on whatever they give you or other courses and adjust from there.

Be a more efficient reader by skimming the text first so you can map the flow of info in a way that best creates ease of understanding/synthesis/memory (e.g. via an outline, tree diagram, flowchart, mind map, or simple drawings - and noticing when a list/outline will NOT be helpful bc it'll just be too overwhelming and not easy to compare/contrast info and see patterns). I knowww you've survived thus far without doing it this way and done well, BUT with this many courses, the increasing complexity of each subject, and the overload of info in each, you WILL need to do this to make quicker work of the readings, save you sooo much stress during exam seasons, and improve how much you learn while in school which is the real goal you've wanted to achieve all this time. Don't repeat the mistake you made in pharmacology. And it really doesn't have to be aesthetic and you definitely should NOT get caught up with it if you really wanna learn. You could just use one color for everything and a highlighter and just basic shapes/lines - that alone can be way more effective than boring paragraphs/lists or a colorful, overly complex diagram that'll just distract you from the main point.

Create a realistic daily routine (wake-up and sleep times, start and end times for schoolwork) and be strict about following it. Set your non-negotiables for personal goals to keep up with alongside your schoolwork bc academics aren't everything. Remember how you regretted not devoting more time to extra-curriculars and other skills in high school which would've rounded you out as a person. You can try theming the parts of the day so that you don't have to think about what task you should do first after study breaks and keep up the momentum (e.g. mornings for readings and notes, afternoons for active recall/homework). Then you can live the rest of the day after school as structured or unstructured as you wish. If this strategy doesn't work for you, you don't have to use it.

Take advantage of interleaving so you don't get bored. Whether by following the theming strategy or just switching subjects every hour, idc if you aren't done yet, you better switch bc the second consecutive hour of the same thing is never as effective as the first.

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Bye Bye 2022

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Monday, April 22, 2024

This one was not meant to be posted late, but I had to check on my yeast experiment right before bed, and I like to go to bed at that time, so I did not have time to update my studyblr. I know I am very behind right now with updates and getting to everyone's posts! It is the end of the study year for me, (18 more school days!) so things are getting all convoluted together. Needless to say, I think I am ready to be done. I have enjoyed my first year of high school courses very much, but I am excited to be done and for summer to start. I will still study over the summer, but it will look different due to my summer activities and will be more preparatory for my second year of high school courses.

Tasks Completed:

Geometry - Reasoning and Proofs Review + honors review

Lit and Comp II - Reviewed Units 22-24 vocabulary + read Act 5 Scene 1 of Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare + read modern translation of same scene + answered a discussion question

Spanish 2 - Listened to a story in Spanish + reviewed vocabulary

Bible I - Read Matthew 1-2

World History - Watched a newsreel of the Berlin Airlifts + viewed a map of the Berlin Airlifts + read about the nuclear arms race

Biology with Lab - Started my yeast experiment (it takes 2 days) + began typing up my formal lab report + collected observation data an hour after starting and 12 hours later (10a and 10p/22:00)

Foundations - Read more on tolerance + completed next quiz on Read Theory + started writing my speech (written speech due Wednesday/speech presentation on Friday)

Piano - Practiced for one hour

Khan Academy - Watched World History Unit 6: Lesson 11 (part 1) + completed High School Geometry daily mastery challenge

CLEP - Completed Module 12 reading "Europe: 1945 to Present" 14.4

Streaming - Watched Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War episode 5

Duolingo - Studied for approximately 30 minutes (Spanish, French, Chinese) + completed daily quests

Reading - Read pages 93-125 of Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross

Chores - Cleaned my bathroom + cleaned windows in my bedroom and in the study

Activities of the Day:

Personal Bible Study (3 John 1)

Volunteered 2 hours at the library

Ballet

Contemporary

Journal/Mindfulness

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Reblog if youre any active studyblr in 2024

Reblog so i can find my people!!

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18.05.2023 || Thursday

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Daily Check-in: April 6, 2024 🎀

🩷 What I Accomplished:

created up to date spreadsheet with housing renting options near my campus

created my task list for today

showered really good + did morning skincare

worked a 7+ hour shift

took a good shower after work + washed my hair

completed busuu Spanish chapter 10

write flashcards for busuu Spanish chapter 10

read a chapter of The Little Black Book

washed dishes

organized in my closet a little bit

made a task list for Sunday

🩷 Good Things That Happened:

got a ride to and from work

took a nap

got some extra hours scheduled for work cause moneyyyy

ate some spicy cheesey ramen (that's all I've been craving lately ahh)

did some self reflecting on this last week

got to zoom my boyfriend

🩷 What Could've Been Better:

work was honestly pretty bad, so work could have been so much better

my restlessness was ramped up

drank a soda after having coffee and had lots of energy

ended my work shift near tears due to immense lower back and stomach cramps + dehydration

roommates at my muenster cheese which made me sad cause I wanted to make a grilled cheese last night

🩷 Stuff to do tomorrow:

deep-ish clean my bathroom

deep-ish clean my bedroom

wash my sheets + bed stuff

wash robes + towels in bathroom

finish chem class prep due on sunday

finish chem class prep that's due monday

maybe study chemistry if time and energy permits

do some light Spanish studying/passive input

that's all! Saturday was definitely probably the worst day this last week. but at least it's Sunday now (posting this on Sunday morning <3)

til next time lovelies 🩷

Ps. Please check out my depop shop link! Much love, will include it here as well

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Brown butter waffles with macerated peaches

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sunday | april 7

i don't think i'll be formally participating in the @nodalstudies challenge but i loved the idea of picking three areas to focus on for a while so that might be showing up in my posts for a bit.

academic: studied for my ochem exam tomorrow! i'm always nervous for the first exam of the term but i've learned a lot and i'm ready to demonstrate that.

physical: went to bed early so i'll be well-rested for my exam tomorrow.

social: got dinner with my roommate and some of her friends that i've been wanting to get to know better! long covid has been super isolating and now that i'm recovering it feels great to connect with people again.

plus - a new audiobook i've been listening to on libby

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Whatever is learned with satisfaction and enjoyment stays with you forever.

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😵‍💫 17 (In)Sanity Challenge // Day 5 of 13 🤡

네, 오늘 난 이렇겠었어요. 내 시험은 실패를 또는 일해에서 해고돼를 진짜 싶지 않아서 난 아직 동기를 없어 놀라요 😮‍💨 (yup, this was me today. for someone who really doesn't want to fail my exams/get fired, i have a surprisingly low amount of motivation 😮‍💨)

🍚 drove more discussions, sought professional help (from my manager, lol, there's this new project i want to pitch some ideas for, so she helped me frame my arguments 🙏)

🍒 slow workout for the girlies

🐸 고잉 세븐틴의 meditation

🍚 wrote exactly one line of code as a first step to fix a seriously fucked up bug

😼 Japanese + Chinese lessons

🍊 reflective journal to Improve Myself™️

🦊 comparative cognition review

💌: 아직 좆됐어. 근데 한국어으로 말해면 더 좋은데 🤡 (i'm/it's still fucked. but it's better if i say it in Korean 🤡)

#for someone who really doesn't want to fail my exams/get fired #i have a surprisingly low amount of motivation 😮‍💨 #EXACTLY ME DURING FINALS SZN #YOU'LL GET THROUGH IT SIS!!!

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About me!

Hello everyone; I am Sivani.

I am a computer science student. I love programming and learning new things. I've been studying and working with C, C++, and Python for a long time now. I also do have some knowledge of HTML and CSS. I plan to start learning Java as soon as possible because I have discovered it is one of the most interesting and sought out skills when searching for job placements.

I have wanted to start a blog for as long as I can remember. I have previously created and deleted a blog multiple times in the past. Sometime around Christmas last year, I had the strong urge to once again try my hand at blogging.

And here I am.

I want to be consistent and share my thoughts and ideas. I look forward to interacting with everyone around here and finding some friends who share my interests.

#codeblr #studyblr #welcome! :)