surprise, another studyblr

16.11.2021

only one exam left and i’m up to my ears in analytic philosophy. it’s definitely one of the most difficult philosophy modules i’ve taken, but that makes coming to understand it all the more rewarding! wishing everyone busy with exams the best!

August 26, 2024 • Monday

second year day 1 :3 Classes were chill today, not much happened. Spent an hour in the library reading some python concepts, and I came across something funny.

Duck typing is a concept in dynamic programming where the type of an object iss determined by its behaviour rather than its class definition. In other words, it's based on the idea that "if it walls like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a duck."

Funny right?

🎧 Idhayane — Anirudh Ravichander

wednesday, january 24th, 2024 | 9/100 days of productivity

I'm onto the second section of this certification course and I'm still really enjoying it. I wish I had more time to study but alas I must do my actual job lol.

today's productivity:

finished section 2.1 and made anki cards

wrote up some documentation at work

today's self-care:

read another chapter in Saving Time

monday 05/02/2024

i finished some past papers and started another one! i’ve really been on my past paper grind because i need to familiarize myself with vocabulary, more complex grammatical structures etc.

18.06.23

1.08.2024 — I studied way too hard for the chapter and vocabulary quiz. I went page by page and studied the entire chapter, basically running through the little tasks on each page twice. Then I watched the week’s lecture and realized that only the first two pages were covered. 💀 The whole chapter is about the place marker 에. It covered how to say where a place is, how to ask where something is, and how to give basic directions by adding words like 안 (inside) or 옆 (side).

It took my approximately 6 minutes to do the chapter quiz and 2 minutes to do the vocab, and that was me double checking and taking my time... I’m not mad at easy quizzes, not at all, but I feel slightly deceived lol. Like why did I spend my entire weekend and some of today studying the entire chapter?

I’ll probably still continue reviewing the entire chapter for the week as we continue on, because I want to learn as much as I can this quarter.

I sent an email to my 교수님 with a question about how to say the opposite of [noun] is here, so [noun] isn’t here, because the textbook only gave examples of the first, and she gave me a really detailed and informative response, so I appreciated that.

If you’re curious, the textbook example goes like this:

Q: 여기가 인사동이에요? Is this Insadong?

A: 네, 여기가 인사동이에요. Yes, this is Insadong.

I wanted to know how you'd structure the no version of this, specifically where you'd put the 가/이 marker and if you needed to add the 는/은 marker.

Basically, you could word it a couple ways and it would still be correct, but she told me Native Koreans typically use the 는/은 marker when answering questions.