「First Month Down」☆
POSTED ON: 2013年9月27日金曜日 @ 0:39 | 0 comments
It's been awhile!~
ひさしぶりよね～
Fall semester has been very busy. Honestly, it's by far my busiest semester. It's been a pretty 50/50 balance of having a social life and studying like crazy.
I'm undoubtedly focusing and studying more than in the past. It feels good to be this busy after a somewhat unpredictable summer.
In the past five weeks did all that much really happen? It feels like it's going by too quickly~
I'm enjoying my classes for the most part. I constantly have assignments and reading to do though. My Dynamics of Asia class is very "seminar" style and we're assigned a lot of reading during the week.
My Processes of Writing class is constant writing and theory reading but it's overall a very calming class.
My Modern English Grammar class is quite tough! Honestly, I thought Linguistics had rewired my mind in the sense that I realized how difficult descriptive grammar is! Man, we really take for granted the built in knowledge of a language that we have.
Japanese is going well. I'm very aware, however, of my lack of speaking skills. It's not that I can't speak at all, but it's more broken than I thought. I can understand a lot but I am poor at speaking. This is something I really want to improve on this semester if time permits me!
Finally, my final math class. Oh yes, the thorn that has been stuck in my ass for the past four years. Logic is confusing but not scary. I think it's because actual "logic" is counter-intuitive to what we normally think. It's much more systematic then what most people think and against our "common sense." The class is huge but the professor is passionate about teaching.
I've gone through feeling waves of things over the past month. I think I've gone through a slight bout of depression but it's nothing serious. I'm always worrying about one thing or another.
Actual school work hasn't stressed me out so much yet.
I am allowing myself proper time to study or forcing myself to meet deadlines even when I'm feeling overwhelmed like I want to back out.
It's easy just going back to sleep or pushing the deadline away instead of racing the clock. It's really very easy to give up.
I spoke with my dad for a bit this evening. I'm surprised anyone is keeping their head above water back home. He has a way of handling very stressful situations and still sounding pretty happy.
He really seems to detach himself from everything when he talks with me and it always lifts my spirits. He was talking about going to visit my aunts in Maryland for winter break.
On Wednesday night I watched the two hour premiere of Law & Order SVU with Cindy. It was super exciting and I thought it was really cool that she had gotten into it with me.
I applied for various jobs across campus but in general I'm just doing a lot of praying. Praying for family stuff to calm down, praying for my own finances, praying for some of my friends..
There is a lot of jumbled stuff going on in my head.
However, tonight I still have a small pot of coffee, some sweet Italian creamer and I want to study a little.
Today is going to be relatively busy. Classes, JLA and studying for next weeks exams.
I'd like to go for a run this morning but my feet are in pretty bad shape and it's late.
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So, you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul,
instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
You learn that you really can endure,
that you really are strong, and you really do have worth.
You learn and learn, with every goodbye you learn.
Scream your name
Your thoughts, and your cries. Be nice.
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「First Month Down」☆
POSTED ON: 2013年9月27日金曜日 @ 0:39 | 0 comments
It's been awhile!~
ひさしぶりよね～
Fall semester has been very busy. Honestly, it's by far my busiest semester. It's been a pretty 50/50 balance of having a social life and studying like crazy.
I'm undoubtedly focusing and studying more than in the past. It feels good to be this busy after a somewhat unpredictable summer.
In the past five weeks did all that much really happen? It feels like it's going by too quickly~
I'm enjoying my classes for the most part. I constantly have assignments and reading to do though. My Dynamics of Asia class is very "seminar" style and we're assigned a lot of reading during the week.
My Processes of Writing class is constant writing and theory reading but it's overall a very calming class.
My Modern English Grammar class is quite tough! Honestly, I thought Linguistics had rewired my mind in the sense that I realized how difficult descriptive grammar is! Man, we really take for granted the built in knowledge of a language that we have.
Japanese is going well. I'm very aware, however, of my lack of speaking skills. It's not that I can't speak at all, but it's more broken than I thought. I can understand a lot but I am poor at speaking. This is something I really want to improve on this semester if time permits me!
Finally, my final math class. Oh yes, the thorn that has been stuck in my ass for the past four years. Logic is confusing but not scary. I think it's because actual "logic" is counter-intuitive to what we normally think. It's much more systematic then what most people think and against our "common sense." The class is huge but the professor is passionate about teaching.
I've gone through feeling waves of things over the past month. I think I've gone through a slight bout of depression but it's nothing serious. I'm always worrying about one thing or another.
Actual school work hasn't stressed me out so much yet.
I am allowing myself proper time to study or forcing myself to meet deadlines even when I'm feeling overwhelmed like I want to back out.
It's easy just going back to sleep or pushing the deadline away instead of racing the clock. It's really very easy to give up.
I spoke with my dad for a bit this evening. I'm surprised anyone is keeping their head above water back home. He has a way of handling very stressful situations and still sounding pretty happy.
He really seems to detach himself from everything when he talks with me and it always lifts my spirits. He was talking about going to visit my aunts in Maryland for winter break.
On Wednesday night I watched the two hour premiere of Law & Order SVU with Cindy. It was super exciting and I thought it was really cool that she had gotten into it with me.
I applied for various jobs across campus but in general I'm just doing a lot of praying. Praying for family stuff to calm down, praying for my own finances, praying for some of my friends..
There is a lot of jumbled stuff going on in my head.
However, tonight I still have a small pot of coffee, some sweet Italian creamer and I want to study a little.
Today is going to be relatively busy. Classes, JLA and studying for next weeks exams.
I'd like to go for a run this morning but my feet are in pretty bad shape and it's late.
ラベル: goals, life, money, plans, thoughts, university
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