Day 6/100 Of Productivity

Day 6/100 of productivity

Finish Astrophysics assignment

Start waves assignment

Finish Excel course

Revise Italian assignments

Read ‘The cult of the Virgin Mary’

Read ‘Colloquial French Course’

Cosmology lectures (1)

Read Algebra notes

{Notes of the day: I must begin applying to internships and yet I cannot find any sort of academic fervor within me to write all of the required numerically limited texts demonstrative of my ardent devotion to being an underpaid intern. The rain is getting heavier and the notion of wasting my (vanishing) money on steamed red bean buns becomes more attractive with every passing day.}

Language Goals 2024

{Chinese (Mandarin)}

Go through the Peking University lectures from HSK1 to HSK4

Go through the HSK official textbooks from HSK2 to HSK4

Watch more Chinese dubs in order to better my listening comprehension

{French}

Go to France for a 2 week long French culture and language intensive course

Revise my B2 notes and start delving into C1 material

Read at least 5 books in French

{Spanish}

Revise my B1 and B2 material + exercises

Improve on my daily exposure to European Spanish

Read at least 5 books in Spanish

{Russian}

Recover my Russian by picking up B1 and B2 textbooks

Better my weekly exposure to Russian (audio and translations)

Read at least 2 books in Russian

{Italian}

Do my university exam and pass with a decent grade

Revision + exercises from B1-B2 level textbooks

Translate/read Italian everyday for 20 minutes

Improve my Italian exposure by listening to podcasts daily

{Latin}

Pick up Latin again (study on a weekly basis)

Finish the ‘Reading Latin: Grammar and exercises’ series

{Catalan}

Read ‘Complete Catalan’

Delve more into the history of the language

{Galician}

Read a Galician Grammar and Vocabulary textbook

Read ‘A companion to Galician Culture’

{Others…}

Read ‘Origen y Gramática del Romance Andalusí’ and delve more into the history of Mozarabic and dialects spoken during the Andalusian Period throughout different Iberian regions

Maybe start studying Greek or Ancient Greek… Highly depends on how my summer studying will be structured.

These are quite ambitious goals but I do hope to be able to at lest cover 70% of what is present within this list (depending upon my university’s workload…of course…).

‘Well I’m not a poet, I’m just a woman’ but instead is me going ‘Well I’m not a mathematician, I’m just a physicist’ to all the math majors watching me decay as I am forced to take pure mathematics modules to pass this godforsaken degree…

Day 7/100 of productivity

Waves notes ✓

Waves assignments ✓

Finish laboratory passport (for the last experiment of this semester) (thanking the divine forces that led me here) ✓

Finish Italian assignments ✓

Revise Chinese material ✓

Plan Chinese study ✓

Real analysis notes (series)

{Notes of the day: Exam season is approaching and I must start actually dedicating myself to my studies, though I feel I could have done better with all the assignments for this semester there is still time for improvement during the next one. I’ll return to my country soon for holidays so I must plan my revision and exercises carefully. I am also planning on obtaining a copy of the Corpus Hermeticum from the library soon… I have already a copy myself but it is a really old translation and I hope to gain a new perspective upon the text with Brian P. Copenhaver’s work.}

You're in the wind, I'm in the water. Nobody's son, nobody's daughter.

Lana Del Rey, Chemtrails Over the Country Club

Days of productivity 1/100

• Survived lectures this morning and proceeded to finish an introductory book about the Etruscan language… read some Weil and proceeded to celebrate the fact that the coffee machine from my residence is working again…

- Finished Waves revision + exercises

- Finished Algebra assignment

- Finished Astrophysics assignment

- Read programming and data science handout + exercises

- Read Italian lecture notes for this week