#study slump

Usual sea view / Fundamental English exercise that I can't complete because I don't have the audio/ Costar.

A bit like this day: I slept little and badly again, I woke up all the time. Emotionally, I can no longer stand the discomfort given by loneliness. I wanted to spend time at the beach again with my ex or in the company of someone. But I have no one to spend time with, and going to the beach alone would not be the same. Mother continues to disapprove of the fact that I waste time studying instead of serving her, so I struggle to concentrate and take refuge in the simple pleasure of social media and silly online videos.

- - Todo - -

Morning lessons ✅

Take a nap 'cause I slept standing up ✅

Thoroughly clean Gaia the Canary's cage✅

Summarizing George Orwell's "1984" ✅

Summarizing "The Great Gatsby" by Fitzgerald ✅

Duolingo ✅

Dinner: a sandwich and stuffed potatoes left over from yesterday

After dinner, math exercises {Still to be done }

After dinner, prepare the packed lunch because tomorrow I come home in the late afternoon {Still to be done }

Failed: Get up early to study ❌

5/100 days of productivity • 29-Oct-23, Sunday

About today

Still could not get out of my PhD slump. Been feeling guilty all day. So if you have any hacks, please feel free to share <3

Went to lab and sat at desk for sometime, snacking on some mishti doi, a traditional Bengali dish that's sweetened cooked yogurt. (I live on campus, so going to lab is like taking a break from my room. Applies vice versa too)

Rested well, took an afternoon nap and feeling better with my cramps all gone

Cooked dinner - made chapati and paneer gravy

Exploring the first week of this #100daysOfProductvity thing, I am wondering if I should set Sundays to be strictly rest & recreation only. For, we all need time to wind down. But with my PhD schedule, I am not making such decisions right now. Once I get into the rhythm, I can take days off fully. Till then we are going with #NoZeroDays on Sundays too.

I’m sticking to what I said about my notes not being perfect or aesthetic. My notes are a tool to help me, and while I do like to make them look nice sometimes, that is not the point of them.

Today I’ve begun to break my productivity slump over the mid-semester break by:

Starting biology exam revision

Researching for geography

Completing an online disability training course

Happy Saturday, everyone! Today I would like to talk about an inevitable part of language learning that I'm 99% sure everyone hits eventually—the dreaded slump! Maybe you've hit that intermediate plateau and feel like you just aren't improving no matter what you do. Maybe you've been stressed out and have had no time to study and, when you find you do have free time, you can't really get back into the language stuff. Or maybe you just find that brand-new-language excitement is wearing off. Whatever the reason, slumps are too real, and getting stuck in one can turn into a de-motivational cycle in which you take time off from studying, you feel like you're getting worse and there's no real recourse so you take more time off... and so on.

But! There are ways to get yourself out of that hole. Of course, everyone has their own different methods, but these are my own recommendations.

This morning the weather was bad, towards evening it improved. I don't have much to say today either. In the morning I only had two hours of lessons, thrown away so randomly, everyone was looking at their cell phones. Mornings like this stress me out and tire me more than 4 hours full of notes and explanations. I've spent the afternoon sleeping, again, and I have a vague headache from too much sleep. I also took a phone call from R. because I was sleeping - ugh. I have to get my period and I feel tired, tomorrow I will take mineral salt supplements. And tomorrow will also be the last lesson before the week off for the Easter holidays.

- - Todo - -

Quick cleaning of my room and bathroom, today we throw away the undifferentiated garbage.

Cleaning Gaia the Canary's Cage

Go to the tobacconist for photocopies

Messages with a friend (I would like to be optimistic and romantic like her, not cynical and disillusioned and bitter)

Duolingo (Just a lesson for momentum. I'm thinking of uninstalling the app)

Delicious snack / another palindromic time (13:13)

Even today I skipped school for a bizarre fact: On the national morning news they announce a general strike of public transport, so not having a car I stay at home, but from one of my companions I learn that the means of transport work here! Oops, and it was too late to go to class.

I didn't even go to the library to study because my friend would have come home. Anyway I did a little too much screen time again today, this is not good at all. For dinner I heat a pizza, I don't want to cook. I have the feeling that I have wasted and thrown away the day and the week.

- - Todo - -

Too much screen time

I reviewed art history (the teacher was really absent

Placed the back of the library reserved for school supplies

Duolingo (I finished a chapter)

A couple of math exercises

Reading a bit for fun (I found an Italian fanfiction about Harry Potter that I'm really liking)

Senior slump, senioritis–call it what you would like, but the actual fact is many students in their senior year of high school typically struggle to keep up the motivation necessary to keep learning a priority. Whereas a want to enjoy the social aspects of high school before graduating for college is understandable, slacking off will cause significant issues for senior slump students. Consequences might embody missing out on valuable learning opportunities and earning mediocre grades, that in turn could cause loss of scholarship funds or perhaps a revoked college admission. Students ready to scrape by with good marks still risk arriving at college unprepared for the more difficult work that lies ahead.

It is important to motivate students regarding their academics and co-curricular activities to avoid senior slump. There are many boarding schools in Dehradun which provide motivation and inspiration sessions to help the students stay focused on their goals and objectives.

Unfortunately, whereas you'll warn senior slump students of the chance they're taking till you're blue in the face, few can realize your concern significantly motivating. Instead, motivated academics are presumably to produce motivated students. Skip the lecture and put one or additional of the subsequent practices in place to stay your senior slump students engaged throughout the rest of their high school career.

Technology

BYOD could be a hot term in education without delay. The form stands for "bring your own device," or the practice of permitting students to use their own tablets and laptops within the schoolroom. Today's school students love anything and everything to do with technology, therefore incorporating devices into assignments is also the best route to fostering engagement. Rules can be set in place to stop online misconduct. With the proper approach, BYOD has the potential to revolutionize high school lecture rooms, particularly for college-bound seniors.

Long-Term projects

Most high school students relish operating in teams, particularly if they're inquisitive about the concepts covered in group projects or assignments. group work is additionally useful therein it teaches students to collaborate, skill experts say is more vital than ever for those coming into the hands. Whereas many academics use group projects in the classroom to some extent, few assign long-term projects that span months or perhaps full semesters. Planning such projects are often very time-intensive for academics, particularly as they will struggle to connect project needs to key concepts in their courses systematically. Sustaining student interest and motivation can also be a struggle, as seniors typically have a proclivity for procrastination.

The secret to the successful inclusion of long projects into the programme is student involvement. Once students are ready to direct their own learning, their engagement within the material grows tenfold. Whereas the teacher ought to provide some sense of structure encompassing the project, some or perhaps most of the selections ought to be left up to students. Academics will then offer feedback on these selections and create suggestions as needed. To discourage procrastination, academics ought to split projects into sections and provide deadlines throughout the semester. This way, once the deadline for the ultimate version approaches, students won't be left scrambling to place everything along at the last minute.

College Preparation

Preparation for college doesn't simply involve learning to write a good paper or take an exam; for those students selecting to leave home and live in the dorms, a large transition is on the horizon. academics can speak with college-bound students regarding what they'll expect in their 1st year in the "real world." Such topics are often incorporated into the curriculum in a very variety of ways, through viewing the historical impact of college students in History classes, to interviewing current college students for English papers on the college experience or perhaps attending an open lecture at a nearby campus.

When using this approach, avoid excluding school students who aren't designing on attending college. It should facilitate a survey at the start of the semester and ask students to write what their plans are once they graduate from high school. If a significant part of the class is planning on heading straight into the workforce, you'll need to form a point of including work-related problems as well as college issues.