#dance science

[gentelthemblackbird]

The Pomodoro Grind 🍅

So, I’ve been using the Pomodoro method since forever and honestly? It’s been a lifesaver.

Today, I managed to knock out 8 solid Pomodoros:

50 min of Bayesian Inference exercises (and realising how much I don’t know 😅).

A quick 10-min break chugging water and getting MORE coffee ☕️

Rinse and repeat.

The best part? Forest currently has a new challenges that make me want to use the app 🎄. Plus, I’ve been using my longer breaks to clean up around and take short walks for a brain reset 🧠🚶.

Do you have a go-to break activity? I’m trying to find more ideas that don’t involve screens.

[iamlostintheclouds]

Essay writing is not it!

[gentelthemblackbird]

It’s all fun and games until your mother goes back to school and has a higher GPA than you. Not only, she also has an army of moleskine notebook and more highlighters that I know what to do with.

She is the ultimate academic weapon.

[gentelthemblackbird]

1/100 - Semester recap

Long time no see, I just finished exam season and mon 24th of February is the beginning of the next semester. this will be my LAST semester of school and I could not be more excited for this. I have been in university for the past 8 years and I am so so ready to move to do research and work full-time.

I gave 3 exam this last season (which is a lot) and I am trying to find a balance between getting out of school and not loosing my sanity in the process. The next exams are in 7 weeks, classes finish in 116 days making this a good place for 100 days of productivity (not like I wasn't productive before). I will try to post more consistently and to keep this space as accountability for myself.

Today I need to:

Finish submission to the journal for my first article

Catch up on Emails

Email disability office

Contact my dissertation supervisor

Write this post

Plan studying for the next term

Study 5 questions of today

Book trip for a conference

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📺 - That triathlon Life

[gentelthemblackbird]

Diary of a scientist in training

Today I have to send the finished version of my paper for review. Of course I found m ore paper that discuss the topic in a marginal way and are now to insert in the final work. I also have to send the abstract for conference submission to my boss.

Today's to do list:

"Work"

Address I'd comments on the paper

Transfer missing citations

Summary new papaers

Insert new papers in paper

Last overall read of the paper

Rework conference summary

Meeting 4.30-5.30

Studying

Send email to professor

Active recall the stuff on postits

Es. 49 Pennoni

Order mom's present

Catch up to video lessons

Life

Running (8 or 20km tbd)

[picture is not mine :)]

[gentelthemblackbird]

29.11 - can you believe that November is gone ?

This week we are at 36 h of studying by Friday. I took a couple of hours to do some work this morning and will peobably finish the week at 40 h of studying and caught up on most reading and assignments

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[gentelthemblackbird]

An ode to the slow life

I have been in university for 8 years by now. learning subjects completely unrelated to each other in order to craft my very own corner of the world. As a result I have had to struggle learn and adapt to many different requirements of different disciplines. 🎭🩺🧑‍💻

Last year I started studying statistics and as a result I was faced for the first time with the stack of learning proofs and construct models out of pen and paper. The beginning was rocky to say the least. With some guidance and much frustration I read "how to become a straight A student" and listen to my professor narrating a way of studying that required a discipline I haven't experienced before. While I am well accustomed to doing split out diagnoses and fact about theatre history the idea of "proving" something is quite terrifying.

I have been taking the time to slow down and trying to fully understand the topics that my courses are teaching. While I slowly build by understanding I have more and more questions about the hows and whys. I have never been good at math, but not for the first time I truly enjoy trying to dit my feet in the water. 🌊

[tfbsafeageappropriatedance]

Dancers Warned Against Copying 'Dangerous' Online Stretching Tutorials

"The biggest issue we have now is that people are taking moves from rhythmic gymnastics and trying to insert them into dance and trying to do this in a very, very quick way as a one-stop shop, rather than looking at all of the detailed training that has to go in before any of those tricks are actually attempted. If they look like they are unsafe, they probably are." - Marko Panzic

Bad news, Tito Marko - the said dancers have been copying moves from RG for 20 years. Here’s proof of that:

Via (wait for it) https://web.archive.org/web/20020225183705/dance.net/stretching.html