My July Spread 🐻

25 II 2023

I had an exam yesterday, one more to go. it was the written part, so 12+ hours of solving problems, exhausting just like before. I completed all of them, but of course I am not sure if my solutions are correct, I will find out on monday. I'm proud of the progress I've made

right now I'm studying for the second part, so the theory-oriented one, I can barely focus because I've already learned those things and now I have to relearn them again

I'm trying to prove all the theorems on my own. partly to see how much I remember, partly to see how much I'm willing to improvize. as they say, if you're using too much memory then you're doing something wrong so I'm hoping to be able to come up with the proofs without memorizing anything new

my technique for studying the theory for the exam is to first test myself on how much I remember by trying to write everything down and note where I'm unsure or don't remember at all. then I read the textbooks starting from the worst topics up to the better ones. when I encounter a long complicated proof I am trying to break it down into steps and give each step a "title" or a short description

for instance, the Baer criterion featured in the photo has the following steps:

only do "extenstions on ideals to R→M ⇒ M injective"

define the poset of extenstions of A → M, A ⊆ B and a contrario suppose there is a maximal element ≠B

use the assumption to define an ideal and a submodule that contradicts the maximality of the extension

it is much easier to fill out the details than to remember the whole thing. this is probably the biggest skill I acquired this semester, next to downloading lecture notes pdfs of random professors I find online lmao

a friend suggested that I could make a post about tips for reading math textbooks and papers. as for papers, I don't have enough experience to give any tips, but I can share how I approach reading the books

a big news in my life is that I got a job. I will be a programmer and I start in march. at first I am going to use mostly python, but in the long run they will have me learn java. I'm excited and terrified at the same time, this semester is gonna kill me

🌿2021 Summer Studying Challenge 🌿

Thank You to @myhoneststudyblr for creating this challenge ^^

🌸July 1 2021🌸

🌱What are your plans for this summer?🌱

I intend to complete 3 courses from YouTube.(Linear algebra,Real analysis and Differential equations).I'll be doing this by watching one lecture of LA or DE or one of RA everyday.

Perfect the proofs of Analysis 1,2,Linear algebra (Theory and computational)

Solve and perfect the problems of Vector calculus, Integral Calculus, Linear algebra , Real analysis.

🌼I also want to remember throughout this challenge that I am more capable than what I believe.🌼

[10.26 pm] Tomorrow’s my chemistry final.So just hoping that it goes well.Today I completed Differential calculus and vector calculus course.I still have problems to do though but that is 2 down out of 50 assignments ^^ (Happiest Dance lol).It felt nice to cross of that from my monthly goals spread.

I hope your day went well.If not there is a fresh tomorrow waiting for you.<3

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215 days left to go…

Will I make it ?

The Mayuriit Project.Stay tuned on a Tumblr blog near you.

17/05/2021

Today I have classes till 4.30.I am not feeling great but I am determined not to be controlled by my negative thoughts.I will rest for some time after the classes then maybe have a cup of tea(I know drinking tea is not recommended after 2 lol but maybe an exception today), and start my work.Today I want to get done the following stuff

Complete revising my last week's maths content.(Hardly 15 minutes)

20 Problems from Group theory( at least 1 hour)

Group theory (Important actions and applications)(Maybe 90 minutes hopefully less lol)

Around 3 hours of work.Hehe not much but I'll be dead tired by the end of it.Okie see ya!

Hope you are having a wonderful day!!

Hello! If you don't mind can you tell me how you organised your journal for your academics.I am a maths major and I wanted to do that for my proofs as well.I did try searching on the internet but I didn't get anything good.

Thank You in advance xx

It was a really basic format honestly ! So these are all the journals I kept during my whole undergraduate degree.

The black ones were for course and module information, lecture notes, to do lists and essay plans.

The dark and light yellow were a reading journal and a dissertation journal. I wanted to separate my own impressions of texts and I wanted to keep all my dissertation research and planning in one separate place as obviously I was conducting it by myself.

Black Journals

At the start of every year I would write down all the essential information from each of the four modules I was taking. This is an example (I have whited out the name and email of my course convened and lecturer for privacy reasons). But it includes contact information, lecture and seminar hours and locations, learning outcomes and assessment criteria (the things you will be assessed on, obviously paying attention to these helped me get top grades), assessment information (how many essays or exams I had that year and how much they contributed to my final mark and how many words they were) and finally the primary reading list.

This is what a spread of my lecture notes looks like. I always hand wrote my lecture notes because I couldn’t retain information and didn’t enjoy using a laptop. In my first two years I used a rough notebook to write them down then wrote them up neatly later, which was too time consuming for third year. But by that time I had developed my note taking skills and felt confident writing them up as I listened in the lecture. I just wrote the name of the module and the text we were studying and the date for reference. I would change to a red pen for anything I felt was key information. I know most people won’t like this method but I write fast and quite neatly !

My to do lists, essay plans etc didn’t really have a format obviously. I just wrote down what I needed to do, did some rough mind mapping, occasionally put a little doodle in. My essay plans were sort of all over the place but this is where I did my essential planning and then rough work tended to be on scraps of paper or on the draft essay document. The first is a checklist at the end of the year and the second is one of the essay plans/brainstorms for an essay I got a first in.

Yellow Journals

(i.) Reading Journal

I kept a reading journal throughout university, which I wish I had used more. It’s literally just a brain dump of all my thoughts and impressions of what I was reading and any quotes I found relevant. I included secondary reading in this too in my final year. It’s something I’m going to carry on with because I love having somewhere to keep my stream of consciousness about literature. It was so helpful for me to read over this when I was writing my essays because there were some really insightful bits of analysis or key things that I had forgotten and needed reminding of. Highly recommend everyone doing this, if not on paper then on a document on your laptop !

(ii.) Dissertation Journal

There was very little method to this journal. But having it all in one place really kept me organised. It was a place of messy but very important brainstorming, figuring out and rough work. It’s the sort of thing that’s probably only coherent to me. I just wrote down what I needed to do as I went along. So in the early stages there was a lot of trial ideas, there was pages of information about how we should structure and deal with our dissertations from lectures, deadlines etc.

The first image is the first page where I started writing out some vague ideas about the topics I wanted my dissertation to address and which literature that worked with. The last two are just an example of what some of my working out looked like, how I was deciding to structure my argument, and which secondary materials and theorists I would use for each chapter. But there were all sorts of things in there, random tangential points and ideas I needed to note down, tips about how to write an effective dissertation etc. It ended up being my highest grade so this definitely worked for me !

Heya!!

So today I just revised the first four easy chapters of analysis 1 and then I started chapter 12 (Analysis 1).Chapter 12 is about tests for convergent series like the leibinz test for alternating series,comparison tests (there are two of them) and a lot more which I will be doing tomorrow.I am feeling very tired today.I didn’t even do much.I just had 2 hours of statistics exam and have been feeling tired ever since.Maybe I did not rest enough after the exam or maybe I just have to go and sleep now.

I did place an order for some multivitamin pills though.This is the first time I’ll be using the brand so let’s just see how that goes and apart from that I telephoned two of my school teachers.Here in India it’s guru Poornima (Basically Teacher’s Day according to the Hindu calendar) and it was lovely talking to them.I really do miss them a lot.I also put a sheet mask on in the evening hoping that it’ll make me feel better.It did but I’m still tired so I’m just gonna go sleep.

Aww look at you cutie reading everything hehe I hope your day went better^_^

See you tomorrow <3

digital planning is fun ♡ 

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My love for both Hannibal Lecter and Sherlock Holmes has returned once more. If we were to add Henry Winter to that list we would have the most influential people in my life, though in a very close fourth place is undoubtedly my math teacher. All of them have contributed towards finding my sense of self and identity in a turbulent world and sharpening my knowledge into a fine blade.

Each time one of you followed me, I have got a smile on my face.You guys have made me smile like a hundred times.Literally.Thank You for sticking around.I love you guys so much. Just wishing the best for each one of you and nothing less.

Lots of love and tight hugs xx