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100 Days of Productivity: Day 13/100

I disappeared for a few days, so much is going on. I have wisdom teeth coming in (and an ear infection and migraines to go along with it) I missed 2 days of classes and got into a car accident. But here's what I've been up to for the past few days:

Productive:

Worked through Pre Calculus modules

Attended Pre Calculus lectures

Attended Chemistry lectures

Worked through Chemistry practice problems

Attended Biology lab and lecture

Worked through Biology study guides

Took a Chemistry quiz (did not well :/ )

Took a Biology exam (did well :0 )

Self Care:

spending some time with my girl

hung out with my dad a lot more

took days off when I wasn't feeling well

Hey 👋🏻 it's been a while... It feels like a lot of things have been going on, irl and in my head, and I needed to get away from social media to collect my thoughts. I'm seriously considering transferring university. It will be a more rigorous program and further from home (longer commute 😭), but when I think of it objectively, it will broaden my future options, which is ultimately what I want. But based on past experience, there are two issues that are likely to crop up:

I'm really awful at juggling many responsibilities at once (and my current threshold for "many" is very low...e.g. i take the minimum number of courses needed to be considered a full-time student at my current uni). The juggling act consistently overwhelms me and the overwhelm scares me. So far, I've been fortunate enough to be able to organize my life around this, but it's just made my fear of potentially overwhelming situations greater and it has cost me many a good opportunity. So I really do want to get better at this since I can't continue on like this and live the life I want to. It seems that this ability to juggle many responsibilities at once without feeling overwhelmed, overstimulated, or anxious, improves with practice (exposure therapy!) and good energy/time management, so that's what I'm going to attempt to do in the coming months before I actually apply 🙈

It was a hella long day, we had a color focus session today, I was the fastest but I am still drained.

I'm really enjoying the studies thought.

Now I gotta get to bed because I have 4 more days to go through.

I was in elementary school when I first started loving writing my notes by hand. I would often say that it helps me study better, read the material with more intention, and is just generally therapeutic to do. However, when classes shifted online because of the pandemic, writing my own notes was no longer as efficient as I want it to be. Our university’s blocking system demanded a faster pace of learning things and although I would have loved to keep writing my notes by hand, I knew I had to adapt to the present times to make ends meet.

Who knew this day would come?—that I now use digital note-taking methods and modernized media to do my revisions. This is the reason why I haven’t uploaded a new photo in so long. I try to cling to familiarity. I attempt to produce the content I am known for; forgetting that growth is one of the most beautiful things I could actually share on this platform. Perhaps it’s because during birthday celebrations, people would wish you to “never change” when in fact, change is what keeps us alive day by day.

Being able to adapt is an important trait everyone should have and this year, my priority is enjoying the process while pursuing things that are meaningful to me. This priority requires being efficient and being mindful of my time. Here’s to longer captions and a slightly new theme that I can hopefully maintain. 🤞🏻

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Technicalities: Notes taken above were written using a drawing tablet (XP-PEN Star G640) but captured on the iPad Pro 2021 12.9”

App: Microsoft OneNote

Camera: iPhone 11 Pro Max

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So the 3D graphic banner is driving me up a tree but all my discussion work for the week is done ✔ caught up on a couple other little projects too, and deciding on new colors to paint my room✔ excited it's autumn as well!

I studied for 4 hours today, which is not much for a board student I guess but it is much more than what I had been doing for the past few days. I am happy to be finally getting out of that academic burnout.

Here's a picture of the ASL speech that I wrote for my English practical on Tuesday.