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[letsdothisbruh]

Hey I found the #studychallengewithcleo by @that-premed-student and decided to go for it!

Today I’m continuing to work on my Thesis committee meeting presentation right now. Been at it since morning and I’m sure I crossed the 6 hour mark a while back haha

I’m definitely taking breaks in between, and eating food and drinking water/beverages (do be kind to yourself and take care of yourself even if you are stressed)

So currently my work for today is:

Finish analysing my final dataset

Include those graphs on my ppt

Finish including all the info from the tagged papers on my ppt

Make a script and read it 3-5 times before retiring for the night

And ofc overthinking and writing down any Qs I could be asked in that meeting tomorrow and looking up and keeping track of those answers separately.

I think my list is doable… I am hoping my presentation tomorrow goes amazingly well and my committee members greenlit me for my final semester without any issues.

[letsdothisbruh]

Day 12&13/100- Nov 26- Sat

Hmm I seemed to have forgotten to post yesterday..

Eh no one cares anyways.

Nothing noteworthy happened yesterday beyond going to lab, being a little sick, not being able to even take a single image on the scope despite spending 3 hours at the lab… but whatever, many days are like that, welcome to grad school and academia, stuff takes time!

Beyond that it’s been a quite weekend, but mentally I was annoyed and angry at humans and didn’t get much work done. Hopefully the next two weeks I keep my head down, self regulate and come out of it as a better human!!

My roommates and I went to see the Christmas tree at our downtown yesterday and it was a fun trip and a much needed break!

I got some of my assignments done for this week but need to get more done ASAP, so ciao.

Song of the day:

This is one of my fav anime openings everrr

[letsdothisbruh]

18.05.2020

11/100 days of productivity.

I was reading for my paper today...

Mon Q - Are you related or distantly related to anyone famous?

A. Uh sure? Do standup comedians count? In a roundabout way yes, but that wasn’t really a huge deal and we didn’t even meet him through the mutual relative or anything...

So today I’m going to pull a late-nighter because:

1. I was wasting a lot of time, huge procrastinating in the last few days and today too.

2. I seem to work better in the night when the world is sleeping and there is no external disturbances (I prefer early mornings but I’m not motivated enough to wake up at 4 AM nowadays).

I also applied for an online internship from June... don’t know if I’ll get selected but it felt good to see my updated resume till date.

So late-nighter here I come!

Today’s song of the day: Rather Be by Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne. A friend recommended it to me and it’s a nice song I like it a lot!

[letsdothisbruh]

10.06.2020

31/100 days of productivity

Phew. I just completed writing the master draft of a paper I’m doing with my Prof., woohoo!

I have been very lethargic lately and this really helped me get out of a no work funk and I’m glad it’s over for now.

I still have so much pending work left holy sheesh what do I do what do I doooo?

P.S: I got my NGO intern letter yay! Now I have proof of working like that which really helps my resume!

Today’s song of the day: Chasing Fire by Lauv.

[letsdothisbruh]

16.05.2020

9/100 days of productivity.

Gulmohars are one of my favourite flowers because I saw a lot of them last summer, a period that I consider to be the best two months of my life.

Q. Would you rather get away with lying every time or always know that someone is lying?

A. I want to know always when people are lying. I feel there’s this basal paranoia I have now about people in general after people continue to lie to my face about things I dam well know the truth about... and I think I could breath and trust better if I knew people were lying...

Today was exhausting, mentally taxing. But productivity wise I didn’t do much today.... not really proud of it but I guess I do deserve my rest at times? I saw a film with my parents, jogged early morning... these are good for mental sanity... so that’s good.

Had a one-on-one class with my prof and man I was so sleepy, why is bio economics like this?

I have to make up for my lack of productivity these last two days within tomorrow. I need solid progress in all fronts...

Today’s song of the day: We Don’t Talk Anymore. Because I was hit with a wave of nostalgia as I listened to it today.

[letsdothisbruh]

19.05.2020

12/100 days of productivity.

Today was bad, I realised I’m having too many things interfere with my GRE prep...

And then fell asleep for around 4 hours because I was hurt after a fight (but we all know it’s because I stayed awake the prev night)... wasted so much daylight and time, the one commodity that I cannot afford to lose...

Then I had a 3 and a half hour online interview for my college mag, mannnnnn.... it was taxing and the internet was super uncooperative... but they told me I did good (I know for a fact that it could have gone better but actually, I also know that I definitely will have some role in the editorial board in the coming year. I know that for sure.) Now I just have to convince myself that whatever the posting I get in the coming year, I’ll have to be happy with it... because it’s good to have a nice club of people as friends and it’s good for the resume...

Today’s Song of the day: Anothe One Bites The Dust by Queen. I love this song, and fell more in love watching Hayley Atwell’s dubsmash war one with this song.

[letsdothisbruh]

13.05.2020

6/100 days of productivity

Today I literally caught rainbows in my book (who told life isn’t all rainbows and sunshine?)!

2020 Quarantine Challenge (Yeah I’m doing this now! Can I get a wahoo!)

Q. Would you rather have a dog with a cat’s personality or a cat with a dog’s personality?

A. Ooh that’s a tough question. I love dogs. Like love love them. But I just love how soft and cuddly cats are. Not that I have ever been chosen by cats tho. So I would probably go with being a cat with a dog’s personality (because cats can get away with anything, as a dog with a cat personality I would probably perish).

Today I had a solid 7 hours of sleep with a 89 sleep score, but I didn’t wake up so refreshed. Yet, I had the chance to catch another hour of a mid morning nap(mind you, I never usually sleep in the morning, hate wasting daylight), and man I can’t believe I’m saying this but sleep is awesome. We all should sleep more(at the least, sleep properly everyday).

I also edited an article for my college mag even tho I am absolutely swamped with work (like they even gave me an option out... why am I doing this).

I wasn’t very productive today.

Managed to review a few of my GRE math question mistakes I made while doing a practice full test... man I am ashamed at all the silly errors... but we will get through it, so we will keep working on it.

Finally worked and got done part of the intro of the paper with my prof... it’s been slow progress and I just have one week left but I have to have it ready before then just to proofread and check it before submission.

So I guess it’s goodbye early sleep time for tonight. Ugh. But it’s ok. For science!

So I finally sent the 2 subsections of the intro of the paper with my prof... man that’s a mouthful.

I’m glad it’s over for now. Tomorrow’s a new day. We’ll be ok people. Let’s forge on

Today’s song is: Blinding Lights by The Weeknd. It’s a nice peppy motivational (kinda) song, so me likey.

[letsdothisbruh]

The littlest things can spur you on:

•A new location

•Better Ventilation

•A water/snack break to walk down to your food place and back can clear some of the running thoughts rampaging through the brain

•Listening to one song for a short span of time

•Meditation (if you know how to do it properly because I know I can’t. My brain keeps wavering a lot but that’s ok, I really appreciate the shut eye time).

•Do some exercise or Yoga if you want to focus on something completely different but not get lost or addicted into something(for me it’s books which is why I haven’t touched a proper novel in a long time and make do with <2500 worded fanfictions if I can’t physically restrain myself from reading).

•Read a self-help book then come back... you could combine this activity to help your studies too by reading a study related book too!

•Talk to someone. Your mom, sister, grandma, whoever you can call, please do. Take the time to get to know how their day went, share about your own. Brighten up both your days...

•Just know that you are loved and cared for and that the universe will find a way to turn tides again in your favour. It always has and it always will. Even if today seems like a hopeless ravine of darkness, tomorrow you can wake up into a beautiful world. It’s going to happen. You’ll get through today and tomorrow will be better.