Productivity - Blog Posts
It’s very easy to fall into the trap of being busy, and being busy is not necessarily productive
Tim Ferriss (via fit-thin-fierce)
11/30/22
3:36 : i think my laptop hates me??? so annoyed rn. it keeps deleting my posts and im starting to get mad. i wrote a whole post earlier but nooo of course it didnt save. whatever. basically i had an awesome time in *REDACTED* and it was so super fun. AUGH. i didnt have school yesterday and the day before so that was awesome. i got to work on my music all day and just relax and honestly im so glad i got it bc being around all those kids man it DRAINEDDDD me (it was still awesome tho). anyway at school today and OH MY GOD MY GRADES ARE SO BAD!!!!! im gonna be working my absolute butt off. i know what i have to do so HOPEFULLY i can get it done. also my teeth hurt but thats probably bc i keep FRIGGIN forgetting to brush my teeth. so glad that school is almost over. i have rehearsal today and i gotta practice a SHIRT ton today bc i have my lesson tmr and i havent practiced for a whole WEEK AAAAAAAAH! i missed my bf so much man u have no clue. uh but yeah. idk what else to say so i might update later before 8. if not sorry lol. imma be studying my music and working on it and practicing and doing my work all night. i got this :).
MISTAKES WERE MADE
aaaughhh dont get mad at me but... i fforgot to make a post today AND i forgot my laptop at home so oops. basically yesterday was pretty good i made some apple pies and practiced my sax a TON super happy with that basically mastered what i was told to learn. a few mistakes here and there but i got this. i went to a instrument repair place and basically i got a "job offer" so imma work there in the summer. gotta start on my drivers license so i can y'know.... have one. yayyy. today as i said earlier i forgot my laptop at home and i just luckily didnt have to use my laptop that much whoo. band went well but my teacher got lowkey mad at us bc we werent putting in effort bc the music was easy. im tryna learn how to sight read (still cant lol) but im getting better. gotta do a fit check 4 tmr and make some waffles for my frieends:)))) . anyway goodnight/goodmorning to all and im glad u tuned in again. should i make a closing image????
i have decided
im gonna start a studyblr bc i think it would be fun and help me be a bit more productive. well more like just a daily blog but with extra spice. idk lol. i will post stuff like what i did all day (with time stamps hopefully) and stuff i need to do. daily updates at (around) 8pm. school sux but i wanna try to make it feel a little better with this. i hope anyone who finds this will enjoy it and find my ramblings fun :3.
Day 1/100
// 02/08/23// Today is the first day of this new thing. I'm not so sure about what I'm even doing but I'll try it anyway, I'll need the "pressure" of this challenge when this new semester start's in a few days.
So! Some things I did today:
Go to work
Go to a restaurant with my coworkers and my boss for one of this girl's birthday (there was a bird who came inside multiple times for food <3)
Try the weird food my boss ordered
Rearrange my underwear in the closet
Have dinner early
Give Odie (my dog) his food, insulin and medicine
planned out all my ap chem and ap psych studying for next semester! i think i’m studying every single day lol
i liked the sky when i was walking home today :) today hasn’t been the best tho, a toxic ex hit me up and for some reason i’m being really friendly 🙃 also i have a massive crush on this guy who’s really on and off in wanting to talk to me. on a happier note, i’ve listened to lots of Tame Impala today, and all my studying is going well !
don’t have a picture today but! today was productive. made a family recipe for my class tmrw and went to track practice. hope everyone had a good day! :) 💞
Any tips for dealing with a parent who won't acknowledge your accomplishments? Tonight was my university's honors convocation. I sent my mom a link to the YouTube video (it was a virtual ceremony) and told her the time my picture came on the screen. She read it and never said anything. It's been about 2 hours. I was actually proud of myself, but now I'm bummed out. It's like when she said she would go to my K-12 band concerts and then I'd look for her in the audience and she wouldn't be there because she "forgot" or something like that.
Officially caught up on all my sick work!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Now to tackle this week's activities that mostly accumulated on this weekend 🙃
Also, I use google docs as a planner because my online classes are hard to manage with their random postings and due dates and changes. I normally don't need to do this, but the rainbow highlighting at the top was part of a list of everything I needed to do this week (I am doing the work for this week and last week). I color coded it for each day to help break it up.
I can actually read my notes for once!
Today I:
●went to a virtual comp class that was a total waste of time
●partially caught up on week 8 module videos for my stats class
●added the video content to my running review for the stats class
●went to a virtual 2 hour group meeting for that stats class (so unnecessarily long and dumb)
●took a practice quiz
●started some practice problems
●studied outside! (For a little bit- still quarantined so it was in my backyard and there's very little shade and the umbrella isn't big enough to accommodate sun movements)
What I got done today:
●read a chapter (late)
●pre wrote for an essay (late)
●wrote a draft (late)
●read an excerpt for class tomorrow
●peer edited an essay that needs to be done by tomorrow
●wrote a discussion post (late)
●wrote a reply post (late)
●finalized an activity I need to test on a pretend student (my little sis)
●made a plan for catching up and keeping up this week after being sick + emailed all my professors
I feel kinda proud that I toughed it out. Still have a headache and sore throat, but significantly less coughing and just an on and off again low grade fever. I'll live and just need to buckle down and get my homework done.
I was very sick and had to be admitted to the ER Tuesday night. I had a really high heart rate and fever so they told me to treat it as covid despite negative results. I am quarantined now and was told to take it easy and not stress out over things. I already emailed my professors that I will check in on Monday on how to better catch up and keep up. I just started making a list of all that I need to do and I'm beyond stressed out. More is going to be added to that list as this week's modules are posted. I'm also in 2 group projects. I feel pretty OK right now. It just feels like a cold. I'm just getting very stressed. I know it's just a matter of buckling down and cranking out work, but it's a daunting task. Wish me luck.
I've been a mess lately, but it's a good kind of mess. I actually felt ~happy~ yesterday. It was a foreign feeling. I've been trying to catch myself feeling happy or proud of myself. It's the same idea as trying to catch kids being good instead of catching kids when they're being bad. I had a really good day at work yesterday. Driving home I was a bit stressed, but I heard some great feedback and I was just on cloud 9... well compared to stressy and depressy. I really needed that with the pandemic, online classes, weird hybrid subbing, my grandma, and just everything else.
Hey I've been like incredibly swamped lately so sorry for being absent.
I actually have been working a lot, but this week I only worked on Monday (I was so incredibly off that day for no reason and I made some really bad mistakes such as saying shit in front of sheltered middle schoolers when I got locked outside of the building when the door became unpropped and I let them out to break up the weird hybrid schedule and also kinda losing 4 kids but they just twisted my directions to go for a walk around the school... those incidents shouldn't have happened). I normally have Tuesdays off because of my inconveniently timed composition class. I took Wednesday off to get ahead for school (would have gotten more done if I didn't get blown out cuz CANVAS glitched the literal second I submitted my high stakes midterm). Tomorrow, Thursday I get my second dose in the morning. I had a kinda bad reaction to the first shot (actually was like the second dose with swollen lymph nodes, low grade fever, exhausted, headache, dizzy, just overall feeling bad) for 48 hours and then still a little out of it for another 48 hours. Fingers crossed this dose goes much smoother. Just in case it doesn't, I have everything done that is due before Sunday at midnight. I also got my mom to drive me to my appointment tomorrow cuz I damn near passed out at the place and driving home (i dont do well with shots if you can tell but they're so important and I wouldn't risk not getting it).
I've been doing in person subbing, which is a big jump for me. It's a lot more stressful because I'm constantly reminding middle schoolers to pull their masks up and to give each other a little more space. Their behavior also got a lot worse because they haven't been in person for nearly a year. However, they really needed this. It just sucks that they're being put in this position. Getting the first dose made me feel a little better, although I walk in with a thing of wipes, two masks, hand sanitizer, a pack of back up masks, and no lunch (they've been shoving kids into classrooms to eat because the lunch rooms are tiny). Wish me luck!
School has been a bit chaotic. I had to take a couple days off to recover from the first dose of the vaccine (I'm notoriously bad about shots). While I'm so incredibly grateful that I could get it, I was knocked out for 2 whole days and am behind.
72 hours of chaos:
●read a chapter + notes + watched necessary videos and presentations
●graphic organizer activity for this (past) week (mind map with bubbl.us or whatever that took too long)
●discussion readings + post + reply
●19 page assignment
●"long term assignment" that was a 4-5 page essay in response to an article that I did within 12 hours
●170 minutes of stats videos + notes
●initial contribution for stats group project
●lots of essay revising for a comp class + submission
●reading this week's essay for comp class and prepared notes
●shoveling my corner house and my grandma's house *twice*
I wish I could say that tomorrow is going to be better, but it's not :/
My region is currently being pummeled by a snow storm and I'm going to have to get up early early to shovel 7-12 inches of snow before my online comp class and another grueling day of online learning while my grandma is currently dying alone in a hospital with a positive covid test along with many other health issues
~It's fine. Everything is fine~
I didnt get a bingo but I'm excited @educitizen !!!!
I've been meaning to get some schoolwork out of the way and get my life together before subbing ramps up. This provided that needed push lol thank you
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I felt so unproductive, depressed, stressed, and distracted today. I'm overwhelmed. I dropped a stats class yesterday (first time ever doing that) because
1) I no longer want to minor in stats
2) I truly couldn't understand the lecturer
3) the course didn't closely follow a textbook.
It wasn't her accent, I had absolutely no issue with that, but her slides just didn't make any sense. There were no sample data or pictures or diagrams and even the formulas didn't make sense (instead of sub scripts she would just put random punctuation afterwards). I gave it a valid shot for two classes, but it was clear we weren't a good match. I'm now enrolled in a comp class (counts towards my degree), but I'm so incredibly anxious. Writing stresses me out so much. I also think that my university doesn't do a good job with their composition courses. I finally got a copy of the syllabus and textbook, and I'm going to be rereading and rewriting about essays I saw in 10th grade Accelerated English. I feel anxious even though I have already done this. I have a lot to improve on, which is painfully obvious, but it doesn't sound like this course will help me. Also, I'm now about 1.5 weeks behind in that course. I needed today to be productive, but my mother called and brought up some touchy stuff and I got all blown out. Anywho... here's what I got through (1/3 of what I needed to do)
• read ch. 1 for reading in the content areas
• read ch. 3 for reading in the content areas
• digested a pre-recorded presentation + took notes
• explored some cool vocabulary sites for teaching K-12 (mostly elementary if we're being honest) (it's very very important to teach literacy in all grades for all subjects but my university kind of drops the ball with high school / secondary ages)
• did 2 loads of wash
• actually put away my clothing
• saw my sis and it was a little cathartic to talk about how messed up my mom is and what we went through but also bothered me a lot
...And with that I'm gonna go to bed and hopefully tomorrow I feel a bit better and can get some more stuff done considering all the due dates coming up 🤞
21/04/2024
Woke up at 6 am to revise the work done in yesterdays chemistry class .
Didn’t complete maths revision 😑
4 hour long maths lecture today in 2 hour intervals and half an hour long break . Studied about modules operations and solved questions related to yesterdays class
2 hour long Chemistry lecture
Completed school work that I was lagging behind in
Jotted down the first experiment in physics .
Organised my records
PICTURED :
A keychain my dad got from Thailand for me 🐢
My plan for studies this semester. 📖
My physics lab work
My skincare products lounging on my bookshelf 🧴
20/04/2024
The date today is sooo pretty and satisfying 💕
Anyways , Today I had
3 hour lecture on Mole concept and stoichiometry
1.5 hour lecture on Wave Curly Method (solving inequalities)
Note : Very tired so will be waking up early tomorrow morning to revise what was taught in class 👾
When I first opened this account as a student, I was 21 years old. I tried to post one or two times but soon realized that I was taking arranged photos that weren't enough for my motivation/productivity.
Now I'm 24. I can't grasp all of the change three years have brought. But I grew a little more, and I know myself a little more.
This is the first day of the year. My one goal was to practice doing everything imperfectly in all areas of my life. So this is the beginning of archiving my study-life journey. 01.01.25
02.21.23
So, I found myself a study buddy and we're committing to a weekly schedule, rather than a daily one. It's much better on me mentally to have that. Also, I'm going through a lot right now. Ahh, I need to push through. I need to work hard.
A study buddy is important.
I'm going to forget about yesterday. From now on, I'll give you my all, dear my future.
02.08.23
I studied for 6 hours today. It feels so good to study. I wish for academia to take over my life and consume me. I want to be a workaholic.
02.05.23
So, I've been pretty productive today. Did groceries and attended the lectures. Need to do a chap rn. I need to study and do well. I'll study till 9pm and then, sleep. Slept a good 10 hours yesterday. Sleep is the most important thing ever.
02.03.23
So, today, I got done with a lecture that I've been putting off since December. Feel much more productive. I have a long day tomorrow. I have 2 more lectures to go through and a 5 chap test of physics tomorrow.
02.03.23
So, today, I got done with a lecture that I've been putting off since December. Feel much more productive. I have a long day tomorrow. I have 2 more lectures to go through and a 5 chap test of physics tomorrow.