[3.48 Pm]The Piecewise Functions That I Didn't Like Can Be Solved Easily Using Greens Theorem (Happy

23/05/2021

Hello 👋

I hope all was well for you guys 🤗

So today I did the following stuff

Group Theory problems

Cooked dinner for my parents

Duolingo

Continued reading 'Wuthering Heights'

Exercised

I'm looking forward to the coming week.There is nothing special but I don't know I am just feeling good about it 🤭

My favourite quote this week

It's delightful when your imaginations come true,isn't it?

-L M Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

august 30, 2021

Hello guys! This semester has been pretty amazing for me so far! I’ve stuck to my goals and I’ve been working on my homework ahead of time and I’m not backlogged at all! It feels so amazing ^-^. I’ve also been using my Notion page well, and it’s been immensely helpful in helping me organize my homework and my life in general :’). I’ve also been steadily chipping away at college apps, and today I’m gonna force myself to actually start on my personal essay and not just plan it endlessly ;-;. And last, but not least, I’ve finally planned out the plot for the fic I’m writing in a fest I signed up for!

30th August - What did you learn over the summer? (note: this doesn’t have to be academic-related)

I finally learned how to become an organized person lmao. And I learned how to effectively manage my time and energy, and it’s still working well now!

Hello! If you don't mind can you tell me how you organised your journal for your academics.I am a maths major and I wanted to do that for my proofs as well.I did try searching on the internet but I didn't get anything good.

Thank You in advance xx

It was a really basic format honestly ! So these are all the journals I kept during my whole undergraduate degree.

The black ones were for course and module information, lecture notes, to do lists and essay plans.

The dark and light yellow were a reading journal and a dissertation journal. I wanted to separate my own impressions of texts and I wanted to keep all my dissertation research and planning in one separate place as obviously I was conducting it by myself.

Black Journals

At the start of every year I would write down all the essential information from each of the four modules I was taking. This is an example (I have whited out the name and email of my course convened and lecturer for privacy reasons). But it includes contact information, lecture and seminar hours and locations, learning outcomes and assessment criteria (the things you will be assessed on, obviously paying attention to these helped me get top grades), assessment information (how many essays or exams I had that year and how much they contributed to my final mark and how many words they were) and finally the primary reading list.

This is what a spread of my lecture notes looks like. I always hand wrote my lecture notes because I couldn’t retain information and didn’t enjoy using a laptop. In my first two years I used a rough notebook to write them down then wrote them up neatly later, which was too time consuming for third year. But by that time I had developed my note taking skills and felt confident writing them up as I listened in the lecture. I just wrote the name of the module and the text we were studying and the date for reference. I would change to a red pen for anything I felt was key information. I know most people won’t like this method but I write fast and quite neatly !

My to do lists, essay plans etc didn’t really have a format obviously. I just wrote down what I needed to do, did some rough mind mapping, occasionally put a little doodle in. My essay plans were sort of all over the place but this is where I did my essential planning and then rough work tended to be on scraps of paper or on the draft essay document. The first is a checklist at the end of the year and the second is one of the essay plans/brainstorms for an essay I got a first in.

Yellow Journals

(i.) Reading Journal

I kept a reading journal throughout university, which I wish I had used more. It’s literally just a brain dump of all my thoughts and impressions of what I was reading and any quotes I found relevant. I included secondary reading in this too in my final year. It’s something I’m going to carry on with because I love having somewhere to keep my stream of consciousness about literature. It was so helpful for me to read over this when I was writing my essays because there were some really insightful bits of analysis or key things that I had forgotten and needed reminding of. Highly recommend everyone doing this, if not on paper then on a document on your laptop !

(ii.) Dissertation Journal

There was very little method to this journal. But having it all in one place really kept me organised. It was a place of messy but very important brainstorming, figuring out and rough work. It’s the sort of thing that’s probably only coherent to me. I just wrote down what I needed to do as I went along. So in the early stages there was a lot of trial ideas, there was pages of information about how we should structure and deal with our dissertations from lectures, deadlines etc.

The first image is the first page where I started writing out some vague ideas about the topics I wanted my dissertation to address and which literature that worked with. The last two are just an example of what some of my working out looked like, how I was deciding to structure my argument, and which secondary materials and theorists I would use for each chapter. But there were all sorts of things in there, random tangential points and ideas I needed to note down, tips about how to write an effective dissertation etc. It ended up being my highest grade so this definitely worked for me !

saga in black and white

Tagging Game

Thank You sm for tagging me @mymessystudyblr ^_^

Favorite colours: Currently purple and yellow

Currently Reading: Men of mathematics

(I know the title is Sexist but so is history 🤷🏻‍♀️)

Last song: It's a malyalam song called as Theerame.My bf even played it on his guitar for me hehe

Last movie: Lake house.It is one of the best movies I have ever watched.It's short and very good for a chilled evening.

Last series: Aaah Gilmore girls.This is my third time watching it and I can't seem to get enough of it.

Sweet,Savory,spicy: Spicy Spicy Spicy

Craving: Fries and sweet corn 🌽😭

Coffee or tea: Coffee anytime anywhere

Currently working on: My analysis 3 notes.It's about Riemann integration.

Tagging: @notes-by-saher @a-students-lifebuoy @caffeinatedpies @caeruleuz @hizerain @model-theory (just some of my fav blogs) and anyone who wants to do this!

25 II 2023

I had an exam yesterday, one more to go. it was the written part, so 12+ hours of solving problems, exhausting just like before. I completed all of them, but of course I am not sure if my solutions are correct, I will find out on monday. I'm proud of the progress I've made

right now I'm studying for the second part, so the theory-oriented one, I can barely focus because I've already learned those things and now I have to relearn them again

I'm trying to prove all the theorems on my own. partly to see how much I remember, partly to see how much I'm willing to improvize. as they say, if you're using too much memory then you're doing something wrong so I'm hoping to be able to come up with the proofs without memorizing anything new

my technique for studying the theory for the exam is to first test myself on how much I remember by trying to write everything down and note where I'm unsure or don't remember at all. then I read the textbooks starting from the worst topics up to the better ones. when I encounter a long complicated proof I am trying to break it down into steps and give each step a "title" or a short description

for instance, the Baer criterion featured in the photo has the following steps:

only do "extenstions on ideals to R→M ⇒ M injective"

define the poset of extenstions of A → M, A ⊆ B and a contrario suppose there is a maximal element ≠B

use the assumption to define an ideal and a submodule that contradicts the maximality of the extension

it is much easier to fill out the details than to remember the whole thing. this is probably the biggest skill I acquired this semester, next to downloading lecture notes pdfs of random professors I find online lmao

a friend suggested that I could make a post about tips for reading math textbooks and papers. as for papers, I don't have enough experience to give any tips, but I can share how I approach reading the books

a big news in my life is that I got a job. I will be a programmer and I start in march. at first I am going to use mostly python, but in the long run they will have me learn java. I'm excited and terrified at the same time, this semester is gonna kill me

[3.48 pm]The piecewise functions that I didn't like can be solved easily using greens theorem (Happy dance ).The only condition is that the terms gotta be continuous and bounded.I did complete my targeted 20 problems a day but not at all satisfied with the topic.So I am going to do the same topic tomorrow again but I will find some different problems.It suuuuuuuccccckkkksss when you do problems and still need more problems to perfect the concept but I am going to be patient because everything will be just fine after a year.

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[10.43 pm] I usually wind up with my studies by now but I haven't yet finished some of it. So I am going to sit for 30 more minutes and finish it all off and not push it to tomorrow. I was helping my friend with experimental values for a physics experiment. You know those scientific notations I always used to find them boring when I first learnt about them but now after actually using them so many times I have come to appreciate them very much. Those notations feel like these delicate things to me now. You gotta handle those notations with care and when you do it will give you get such an accurate answer.its just a very nice feeling to see it come together.

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[11.45] I completed a chapter of real analysis 1 and a very small chapter in group theory.I wanted to do a bit of linear algebra but I changed my mind and so I am gonna do it tomorrow.

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220 days left to go...

Will I make it ?

The Mayuriit Project. Stay tuned on a Tumblr blog near you.

19/05/2021

Heya👋

It is currently 8.50 in the morning and I'm getting ready for a class at 9. I just finished some lessons on Duolingo. I kinda get into a competitive mood when I see my rank on the leaderboard and want to come at the top but I have to remind myself that I have other things to study too. So anyways today I'll be doing the following stuff

1 lesson of organic chemistry (It might take 30 minutes or less)

20 Problems on Group theory (This might take an hour)

Conjugacy classes in Sn and An (This might also take an hour)

I'm trying to work today in the afternoon because I don't want to work in the evening today. I have some catching up to do with my school friends. I haven't spoken to them in some time. I also want to make it a habit to work a little in the afternoon because distractions are so less.

I hope the day treats you well.If It doesn't always know that you are much much more than a bad day.

Have a Happy Day!!