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[flowerais-deactivated20211031]

gentle reminders in case you need it:

it’s ok to start “late”

drink water if you haven’t for hours

it’s ok if u need more time than other people

it’s ok to feel what you’re feeling

you have a cute smile

you make people happy

you have plenty of good traits

you are loved

you deserve all the good things

it’s ok if you relapse, it doesn’t make u weak

bad days are just temporary

tomorrow is a new day

you can heal again

I’m proud of you

[3ff3x0r]

I’m really in need of some discipline. Lately I’m not practicing consistently and not enough. Also, the little amount that I practice is so unfocused! That is going to change from tomorrow on. “No Fun Week”  Start!

[3ff3x0r]

And here my week plan, I reduced violin practice each day (but added two practice sessions on weekend) because I noticed that in general I don’t practice more than 45 minutes a day on average from the 2 hours I spend in the practice room. I’m really worried about my undergrad studies because I only went to college on Monday this week (because I was sick) so I need to be extra diligent this week to make up for the classes I missed. I plan to start writing my dissertation this week and this the scary part, that’s why a allotted so much time for it.

[3ff3x0r]

My practice sheet for violin this week, I should have posted it friday, but I was not feeling well and ended up not practicing at all. This time I have a day less for keeping up with music school.

[3ff3x0r]

Trying this today, lets see what happen.

[3ff3x0r]

Finally I decided to seriously start the year. No, this time for real, I swear ;)

My plan this week:

Total music practice time 15 h Time for other activities 47 h Total sleep this week 58 h Total time for studies w/ practice 59 h Grand Total: 168 hours

[classicalshits]

[3ff3x0r]

So true...

[3ff3x0r]

(Randon pic) I’m having a rough start with my plans. I’ve been unable to even keep up the pace I had until last week. It’s true that balancing the requirements of my pg program (not in music!) and my violin practice and still be able to have a life outside it will never be trivial. But I’m feeling terrified about how much I need to accomplish this year. I keep trying to find the perfect balance, and usually it start with setting time goals. Ideally I should be able to deliver solid 9 to 10 hours of work, six days a week, sleep 8 hours every night and still have time to enjoy some video games and watch animes, have quality time with my gf. Tomorrow, as people say, is another day. Tomorrow I’m going to try again.

[3ff3x0r]

Starting on time this week. I'm planning a general review of calculus. The finals are on the second week of December.

[3ff3x0r]

Quite similar to last week, but that’s because there are some unknowns about meeting my advisor  and the study group on Friday.

[3ff3x0r]

Learning how to study takes a big chunk of my time. I used to schedule long hours on the same subject and, not surprising, failing to keep focus for longer than a few minutes.  Part of it was actually because I was following a guy that was able to complete a syllabus of CS in about a year or so. He said he could study for 8 hour each day,  but I can't or at least it's not the better approach for me. I think I'm doing more using only a few minutes each day than with those hours before. But it's obviously mere minutes are not enough for passing the upcoming tests and finals. So I need to improve steadily until the semester ends around December 20.

[3ff3x0r]

My plan for this week, each iteration it’s getting .1% closer to what I really can do. It’s part learning to follow the strategy and part choosing more realistic goals. BTW I failed on Monday pretty bad.

[3ff3x0r]

Learning AI from scratch... Basic math.

I had this obvious insight last week, mostly due to a test. I was able to successfully cover all the topics for the first time since I started this course last March. The big idea is that I'm not able to study eight hours in a day on the same subject. As I was working on my Specialization on the first semester I ended up cramming all I could before each test. It was a desperate move and it didn't work at all. But was justified... My life was crazy then. But now I am capable of doing better. Unfortunately only now I noticed. I hope I can make up for the loss in this last leg of the semester. My point is to study every day all subjects, for a minimum amount of time. I'll divide my time also in reviews, homework and preparations for next class. This way studying won't get boring and I'll be able to make better use of my time. Let's see how it pans out next week.

[3ff3x0r]

And here goes my plan for this week. I expect to study for 26 hours total, and attend to over 24 hours of classes. I know that it’s too many classes, I did much worse last semester so I’m learning... slowly. I didn’t allocate as many hour for music practice (16h) as I had last week (25h) because I want to focus on math this week and the next one (but I know that practicing less than 20 hours/week is pretty bad and I have very conflicting feelings about it).  Still no plan to get back to Japanese and still lagging behind on my phd project. 

[3ff3x0r]

This week busy schedule includes one Calculus test Friday and a short presentation on Epistemology Wednesday (one student will be drafted to present for the class). For once I’m not lagging behind on most of music stuff. I gave up on two classes, on because it was useless and the other one because, well because I figured I was going to fail it anyway. This adds up to 37.5 hours that I can study this week and 19.5 hours that I must spend on classes. Leaving me with no more than 25 hours for music practice. Usually I can make 1/3 of this amount of time actual study and practice.