02/09/20

20/08/20

a cluttered desk setup : )

24/07/20

summer studying challenge, 24th july: what is your favourite holiday memory?

probably when i was in menorca with my family in 2017 and we went to a cliff to watch the sun set over the sea. it was so beautiful!

me vs starting out a new skill with overly complex tasks and ending up not understanding and having to relearn the basics *facepalm*. every. damn. time! today i spent ages working on the python challenge then this evening wrote a fun little code to calm my brain :)

23.08.2020 | 84/100 Days of Productivity | finished my hobbit-inspired spread for this week + essentials for a quiet day | thanks to my cd player i'm getting through quarantine relatively sane...

ig: doestudies

i am dreaming of travelling to vienna again, i can’t get it out of my head

07/08/20

coded a rock, paper, scissors game! (=> completed one of my summer goals!)

did some mini exercises and summary post-it’s of rotational motion

read a third of the good immigrant

& tonight i’m going cycling with my dad and will do another violin session!

summer studying challenge, 7th aug: what is your favourite summer ‘beach read’?

red, white & royal blue by casey mcquiston!

yeah

How to Handle Having TOO MUCH To Do

So let’s say you’re in the same boat I am (this is a running theme, have you noticed?) and you’ve just got, like, SO MUCH STUFF that HAS to get done YESTERDAY or you will DIE (or fail/get fired/mope). Everything needs to be done yesterday, you’re sick, and for whatever reason you are focusing on the least important stuff first. What to do!

Take a deep breath, because this is a boot camp in prioritization.

Make a 3 by 4 grid. Make it pretty big. The line above your top row goes like this: Due YESTERDAY - due TOMORROW - due LATER. Along the side, write: Takes 5 min - Takes 30 min - Takes hours - Takes DAYS.

Divide ALL your tasks into one of these squares, based on how much work you still have to do. A thank you note for a present you received two weeks ago? That takes 5 minutes and was due YESTERDAY. Put it in that square. A five page paper that’s due tomorrow? That takes an hour/hours, place it appropriately. Tomorrow’s speech you just need to rehearse? Half an hour, due TOMORROW. Do the same for ALL of your tasks

Your priority goes like this:

5 minutes due YESTERDAY

5 minutes due TOMORROW

Half-hour due YESTERDAY

Half-hour due TOMORROW

Hours due YESTERDAY

Hours due TOMORROW

5 minutes due LATER

Half-hour due LATER

Hours due LATER

DAYS due YESTERDAY

DAYS due TOMORROW

DAYS due LATER

At this point you just go down the list in each section. If something feels especially urgent, for whatever reason - a certain professor is hounding you, you’re especially worried about that speech, whatever - you can bump that up to the top of the entire list. However, going through the list like this is what I find most efficient.

Some people do like to save the 5 minute tasks for kind of a break between longer-running tasks. If that’s what you want to try, go for it! You’re the one studying here.

So that’s how to prioritize. Now, how to actually do shit? That’s where the 20/10 method comes in. It’s simple: do stuff like a stuff-doing FIEND for 20 minutes, then take a ten minute break and do whatever you want. Repeat ad infinitum. It’s how I’ve gotten through my to do list, concussed and everything.

You’ve got this. Get a drink and start - we can do our stuff together!

17.04.2019 went to a biology post-offer day at imperial today, it was so interesting! unexpected bonus included dissecting a squid 🦑 have to make uni decisions 2 weeks today and am still conflicted! Any advice would be great 😊

ever since i was a young hydrogen particle 14 billion years ago i knew i wanted to be wasting all the hot water in the shower

27th march 2020

was being all productive rewriting my higher physics notes (seeing as i’ve no set work until after easter -_-), but then i got onto fission and started raging about how undercredited lise meitner is, so now i’m in a state of feminist rage about the severe lack of women in stem and particularly physics. happy friday!