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11.11.2018

Yesterday, I was like enough is enough. I set out to get back into my more productive routine and set about organising my week. I use SkedPal to schedule my week. I’ve found that it makes it a bit easier for me because it automatically schedules things according to what I’ve specified are potentially good times and around events from my Google Calendar. Essentially, I don’t have to sit around manually deciding where every single task goes. 

I made notes on Newton’s Law of Motions. The concepts are easy to understand from the textbook I’m using, which is the OpenStax College Physics. 

I also have to find time to fit in some Chem study for the GAMSAT as well... 

The thing that is stressing me out about studying for the GAMSAT is that I understand what the type of thinking they require from me. I understand that they don’t want me to rote learn formulas and numbers and regurgitate it. They want me to demonstrate the ability to think critically under pressure. The problem is I don’t know how to emulate that style of thinking. I don’t know where to start in order to develop that thinking. 

On top of that, I just feel overwhelmed with everything else that I have to do. I don’t know how to fit it all in. 24 hours doesn’t seem enough. 

On a more positive note, I managed to sneak in a quick run on the treadmill. I’ve been feeling sluggish not doing exercise. 

I am in the process of decluttering my room. Yesterday, I just sorted through the top of my wardrobe and there is a lot of junk up there. This includes bags that I’ve kept for 10+ years that no longer suit my style, pure cringe-worthy stuff. 

I’ve decided to throw out my old school books each year. One year of schooling will be thrown out each year. It’s been heaps long since I’ve been a year 8 and I don’t know why I’m holding on to my maths exercise books. When will I ever take out my maths exercise book and reminisce about that time I learnt about negative numbers or whatever? I’m just going to keep the work that I’m really proud of like awards, certificates and projects. 

I did one physics question on velocity and time. I’ve been doing questions on velocity and time for a while. Moving slowly... but still moving. 

I cleaned my room and I’ve realised that I have so much stuff. Why do I have so much stuff? I’m slowly clearing the stuff out but I have to find somewhere else for it all to go.

Today, I formatted my physics study schedule so I can monitor how I’m progressing with my study. I’m ahead of my schedule 😎.

However, I have to be careful that I don’t spend too much time playing around with the formatting on my schedule. (I’ve spent a lot of time recently discovering the magic of Microsoft Excel.)

Here are my poor brushes, I don’t look after them very well. 

I have moved on to the next chapter and am now doing 2D kinematics. Yay!

It took a lot of energy today to get things done. It’s a terribly dark and gloomy day, which isn’t particularly inspiring. It just made me want to curl up in bed and sleep. 

However, I’m a bit surprised with myself since attempting to do a bit of physics study everyday. It doesn’t actually take that long. The biggest struggle that I had previously was forcing myself to do the textbook questions and I’ve slowly worked myself up. This time, I set out to do one question and each day I keep doing one more question. Today, I did four questions. Hey, it’s the little things that count. Making notes actually isn’t that bad because I’m familiar with a few of the concepts presented right now but it’s doing the questions that actually let me know if I understand or not. 

A lot of things have been going on in the past few days.

Today, I finally managed to do something other than just go through the motions of wake up and complete basic life functions and then sleep. I did adult things like go to the bank, follow up on workplace activity and did paperwork.