This Week In A Glance

⏰this week in a glance🏃‍♂️

may 13th - 19th ; week 21/52

this week was all about transitions and the concerns regarding things to come, as well as a need to re-allocate my time and energy. i also realized recently that amidst trying to maximize my productivity i have been subconsciously neglecting my thoughts and feelings... these are issues i have faced before and will face again as an unmedicated adhd kid adult in a world that prioritizes productivity and academic/economic success over all else. knowing that doesn't make it any easier to accept though, and it gets tiring to fight the same battles you thought you had once overcome. but i guess that fits perfectly in the spirit of this challenge and the anime it is inspired by, which is all about building the strength and patience to break the same loops over and over. and the first step to that is recognizing these loops

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stuff that happened this week!

🧹 I was home alone for the most part which meant that most of the time i was just cleaning and doing chores...

🎓 I'm officially done with my undergrad!!!! yay!!!!

📚 completed reading a book! it's been a while

💌 met a lot of my friends <3 we yapped a lot xD

🎧 I'm trying to arrange the songs in my playlist according to the same scale of music and it's taking years off my life T-T idk why im doing it but i can't stop

🎵 Soundtrack of the week: Go Find Less by Riley Roth

💻 7 weeks until internship ends!

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tracking

key: ◆ - completed / ◇ - not done

📅 Daily-s: 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 + 19

👟 Movement: ◆◇◇◇◆◆◇ // expected, given that i was unwell

💧 1.5L+ Water: ◆◆◆◇◆◇◇

🔋 i think im pushing myself too much and as a result my energy drains too quickly... trying to find new ways to stay motivated while also getting the rest i need

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Can you imagine the heat?? Badass af

I spend do much time on writing my thesis lately that it's coming to me in my dreams

head-in-the-clouds student essential tools (that’s me!!)

i always have study difficulties (before it was unsuitable environments and adhd symptoms and now pseudo-dementia from chronic depression 💀💀💀) and over the years, these are the tools that help me the most hehe. i hope these will help you as well whether you have difficulties or not :)

goblin.tools

the tagline is "breaking things down do you don't". If you are, like me, easily feel overwhelmed by a task and doesn't know where to begin, this program will help you tremendously. it will break down a task into minuscule mini-tasks that feels manageable. you just need to add a task into the text bar, set the spiciness level (how difficult the task appears to you) and hit the add button (+) to add the task, and then hit the wand button. a series of smaller tasks will appear and you can start doing it one by one. the app is paid, but the website is free to use.

bionic reader

this add-ons will apply bold to words in a way that enhances its readability. I don't know how they do it, but i feel like i was reading faster and comprehend more by turning it on. I feel like my focus is improved, too. This was truly a game-changer for me. Im currently using its mozilla firefox free add-ons, but i think theres one for chrome and iOS as well. 

brainscape flashcards

know a lot of people, esp medical students use anki, but i was unfortunately got distracted by the UI and the effort it took to organize things. so instead i use brainscape. it works similar way to anki with spaced repetition, with the bonus of more buttons to press and an animation screen that congratulates you on level achievements. the minus is that it has no cloze functions, no table function, no heatmap, no image occlusion, or image function really (unless u paid for a premium plan). definitely use anki and its myriad of add-ons first to see if it works for you. if the brain issues prevent u from thriving in anki, then use brainscape.

focus to do

i tried a lot of pomo apps and i think this works for me best ^^ it also has a built-in forest app (ish) that i love. It also has a subtask function which is very helpful for easily overwhelmed little guys like me

ambient noise

there are a looooooooot of websites and apps that I use over the years (I literally started using coffitivity since 2014) and I have no tips on choosing them–you just gotta experience them to find what’s best for you. among my favorites are mynoise.net, coffitivity, focus@will, calmyleon, and jason lewis’s Mind Amend channel on yt. sometimes i also just put a full concert in the background and roll with it, though.

2024-05-20

A list of things that’s been on my mind, in no particular order:

Rice is technically a fruit.

Lamentation of warm weather hindering my ability to drink copious amounts of hot tea.

Convergence tests and thermodynamics.

Summer! Rest! Freedom!

Trying to survive the last semester, catching up on journaling, drinking coffee, and petting the cat.