Day 7/100 Of Productivity

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.}

September approaching…I feel I owe myself a brief respite of leisure and no rushing around. I can't face the dead reality. I want rainy days, lanterns and a hundred moons twining in dark leaves, music spilling out and echoing yet inside my head.

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Aurelia Plath written c. August 1951

‘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…

Thursday, 4th of January

HSK Peking lecture

1 chapter of ‘American Prometheus’

Linear Algebra exercises

‘Introduction to Astrophysics’ assigned reading

Revise Real analysis flashcards

Finish reading ‘Religion in the Modern World’

Start Reading ‘The Bhagavad Gita’

you know it’s been a long week of midterms when you’re hallucinating skyrim cave ambience

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.}