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Missouri 30 USA A.A. in Psychology Grad B.A. in English w/ Women & Gender Studies Minor (Current)

[omgstudying]

100 Days of Productivity [11/100] 6.24.20

Continued reading chapter and taking notes for German

Completed all the German activities in MindTap that were due today

Took oral quiz in Collaborate

Practiced German in Duolingo for 10 minutes

Completed first writing project for ENGL 3010

Finished The Buried Giant and I loved it

I did not sleep for over 24 hours. I made bad choices, but looming deadlines empower me and I got everything done. I hope I did well on all the assignments. I will try to be better about my time management.

[omgstudying]

The before and after of my messy bookshelves. 

[omgstudying]

100 Days of Productivity [10/100] 6.23.20

Attended Collaborate session for German

Made list of what I need to know for tomorrow’s oral quiz

Continued reading chapter and taking notes for German

Continued reading The Buried Giant

I did not make the best use of my time today. I should have gotten further with my notes and reading, but I kept getting distracted. I have a lot to do tomorrow, but looming deadlines tend to work for me, so I hope it goes well. 

[omgstudying]

100 Days of Productivity [6/100] 6.19.20

Read CH. 4 and CH.6 for ENGL 3010

Took Module 3 Quiz for ENGL 3010, made 100%

Practiced German in Duolingo for 10 minutes

Continued reading The Buried Giant

100 Days of Productivity [7/100] 6.20.20

Started organizing my bookshelves

Practiced German in Duolingo for 15 minutes

Continued reading The Buried Giant

100 Days of Productivity [8/100] 6.21.20

Practiced German in Duolingo for 15 minutes

Continued reading The Buried Giant

100 Days of Productivity [9/100] 6.22.20

Finished organizing bookshelves

Started, finished, and submitted writing assignment for ENGL 3010

Practiced German in Duolingo for 10 minutes

Did a few activities for German in MindTap

Continued reading The Buried Giant

I had a two day break this week where I focused on my room and helping my mom with some of her schoolwork. From now on, I think my days will be busier as the work load increases. I have some pictures of the before and after of my bookshelves that I need to remember to post. 

[omgstudying]

100 Days of Productivity [5/100] 6.17.20

Took German Oral Quiz in Collaborate, made 100%

Took quiz in ENGL 3010, made 90%

Started reading The Buried Giant

100 Days of Productivity [6/100] 6.18.20

Read chapters 4 & 6 for ENGL 3010

Completed discussion post and replies for ENGL 3010

Picked up papers needed for financial aid appeal

Continued reading The Buried Giant

I have been so tired for the past two days. I’ve kind of been in a daze, so I am getting the bare minimum done. I hope I start sleeping better and get this whole mess turned around.

[omgstudying]

I honestly need a second one for all of my color pencils and markers, but this is progress. 

[omgstudying]

100 Days of Productivity [4/100] 6.16.20

Ate breakfast

Began reading for ENGL 3010

Attended Collaborate session for German

Started assignment for ENGL 3010

Began chapter 2 for ENGL 3010

Finished previous assignment and then started and finished the 2nd one

I’ve been rewatching SOA and I am a third of the way through S3

Finished The Rape of Nanking

Wrote in my journal

I got a lot done today. I did all of my readings for this week and finished 2/3 of my assignments. I managed to stay awake all day too after getting some sleep, so that is a bonus. Maybe I can get back to a regular schedule.

[omgstudying]

100 Days of Productivity [3/100] 6.15.2020

Started my morning organizing all of my photos

Ate breakfast

Received my school supplies in the mail

Began reading my German textbook

Went to bed because I had not slept yet

Read more of The Rape of Nanking

Completed my German activities for the week

Wrote in my journal

I’ve been having major issues sleeping lately, so I tend to stay up all night watching TV. I’ve taken melatonin gummies tonight and I hope that helps as tomorrow is a very busy day for me. 

[omgstudying]

100 Days of Productivity [2/100] 6.12.2020

Gained access to an old school account

Printed, filled out, scanned, and uploaded a financial aid verification form

Responded to emails

Began The Rape of Nanking

Today was not a super productive day. Most of my productiveness happened around 3 AM. I am planning on going to a Vo-Tech in the fall to get my phlebotomy license so I can work and pay for my undergrad degree since I am close to my loan limit. I need to do a financial aid appeal to get back in. I spent my time this morning gaining access to the account and beginning my financial aid appeal. After that, I responded to emails for my current school and composed emails to the staff at the Vo-Tech. I spent the rest of my day sleeping, fitfully. I have felt ugh, all day. I hope tomorrow is more productive.

[omgstudying]

100 Days of Productivity [1/100] 6.11.2020

Went over German phrases and sounds during Collaborate meeting

Began cleaning/rearranging my desk

Completed discussion post replies in Intro to Professional Writing

Finished cleaning/rearranging my desk

Jumped back into The Remains of the Day and finished it

Wrote in my journal

I wasted a little bit of time between starting and finishing my desk reorganization. During that time, I watched TV, talked to my mom, and kind of blanked out for a bit. I started the cleanup because it was difficult for me to take notes and reach my keyboard in the space I had available. Now, I have plenty of space to write and the area is clean!

[wildesappho-deactivated20201031]

guys lets romanticize critical consumption in dark academia. i’ve seen posts about throwing yourself fully into unhealthy lifestyles after reading one book etc,  but what’s a lot nicer is reading the literature, and considering the fact that it was made by flawed people who probably did unhealthy things, and then enjoying the hell out of reading the book anyway!! because thinking for yourself is sexy. 

[dudepositivity]

If you have depression and find yourself taking naps often due to chronic fatigue I just wanna remind you that you aren’t wasting time. You aren’t running out of time. You need rest, you need to catch up on the energy that you spend fighting your depression. It’s all gonna be okay. Life is long, you’re not wasting it by sleeping a little more often.

[bananonbinary]

i wanna really zero in on “...the energy that you spend fighting your depression.”

i’ve never heard anyone say that before. sure, having depression means i have LESS energy, but that still always frustrated me because it didn’t feel like an “excuse” to take a nap. it just means i can’t get as much done, but i should still be wide awake while doing those things, right? i’ve never even considered depression as something that actively takes energy to fight. a constant amount of effort exerted in the background instead of just a one-time penalty to how much energy you have overall.

this helped a lot, thank you.

[omgstudying]

Even though I slept a lot today, I had a good day.

I stayed up until 5 AM watching Sons of Anarchy and then went to bed around 6 AM. 

I checked in on my online courses now that they were live and had a teensy anxiety attack. I felt pretty overwhelmed and just need to take a step back, so that is why I went to bed, after taking my anxiety med.

I got up at 9 AM to get ready for a meeting in Collaborate and to speak with the bookstore and financial aid. My science class and it’s lab both require access codes for the course due to all of the online coursework. Both of those are on backorder. I email the teachers and they said I would need the codes this week and if I couldn’t get them from the bookstore I would need to buy them independently. I can’t afford them on my own. The bookstore said they had no ETA for the codes and it could be weeks before they got them. I called financial aid and asked if I dropped my science course, would I still be taking enough hours to keep my loans for the rest of the semester. She told me I would be fine, so I dropped my science courses.

After that, I logged into my writing class and completed this week’s assignments. I still have to respond to discussion posts, but I have to wait for people to post them. I felt pretty great getting a headstart on everything.

My German course requires the book for the coursework and that should be here tomorrow. Nothing is due yet, but I couldn’t get into much of the material without it. The only thing I have to do right now is look at a comic strip in German and try to figure out what is happening. I’ve done that and I am supposed to keep going back to it to try to figure it out without looking anything up. I have a Collaborate meeting for that class to go over the syllabus at 11 AM tomorrow. I also downloaded Duolingo so I could get some extra practice in for German.

It has been a while since I have been in school and I am so looking forward to this semester.

If your semester has started recently or is about to start, Good Luck!!

[omgstudying]

100 Days of Productivity start

I am going to start this tomorrow, even though today was a decent day.

[omgstudying]

I am returning to school. I’ve been out for a year dealing with my mental health and financial issues. I changed my minor over to Women and Gender Studies, but I am still pursuing a B.A. in English. 

I will begin my summer semester tomorrow.

I am taking:

GRMN 1001: Beg German Lang/Intro German Clt I BIOL 1108: Principles of Biology II w/Lab ENGL 3010: Intro to Professional Writing

I am taking all of these online, so it should be interesting. I would have preferred to take my language class in person, but it is what it is.

Over the last year, I have had great success with medication and therapy for my depression and anxiety and I am experiencing my best mental health status in years. I have spent a lot of time over the past year reading. I have a separate blog that is a Booklr, so click here if you want follow it.

I am nervous about starting classes up again, but my course load is much lighter than usual. I just have to take it a step at a time.

[eintsein]

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[omgstudying]

I came so close to being able to take classes this semester.

I owe money to the school I need to finish my degree at and plan to do my masters at. A mistake in withdrawing and all that jazz. This is why I wasn’t able to go to school this semester.

I am about to reach my loan limit for my bachelor’s degree. I have made an unbelievable amount of bad choices and have wasted so much time and money.

I need 55 credits to get the degree from the school I owe money to. I actually think I need 58 because I believe they are counting a partial science I don’t have the lab for, I will have to retake the science.

So, I will end up having to pay for my final semester out of pocket. Based on my loans, I will get enough for the next two semesters I go. I need three semesters to graduate.

ANYWAY. There is another school I was accepted into and I was all enrolled yesterday and ready to go to school this semester, but I had to back out of it. Out of the four classes I was enrolled for to reach the full time minimum, only two were going to count towards my degree. The other school allows you to take 19 hours a semester and for the next three semesters, I will have to take max hours to finish.

I got to thinking and realized that I would be throwing away one of my paid for semesters to only get 7 hours towards the 58 I need. Which means, I would have to pay for two semesters out of pocket instead of one.

I was really disheartened, but the thought of going through with it stressed me out too much. So I am back to no school right now.

I think I will be taking a B term english that applies to my degree and that helps with my mental health, so I will be doing something this semester, but it also gives me a little more wiggle room since it is decreasing my hours.

So yeah, so close and yet so far.

I’ve got to kill these next three semesters if I want to start Grad school in 2021.