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Final project

code (Python):

import math

def crastinatorCalc():

    #basic formula: (sin(x/time*.33)/(sqrt(x/time*.33)))

    #derivative: (sqrt(x)*cos(x) - (sin(x)/(2sqrt(x)))/x) <- base formula that the actual one is based off of

    time = int(input("Enter total days to do assignment (from assign date to due date not time left):\n"))

    primeDate = math.ceil(time*.37)

    print("Prime date for starting assignment is day", primeDate)

if __name__ == '__main__':

    crastinatorCalc()

Math:

Some background on the math and the program:

I wanted to make a mathematical version of Adam Grant's brief procrastination curve. What I did was I experimented with a couple of functions that would produce such a curve. The one I used in the end was (sin(x))/sqrt(x). This would prevent starting with negative days, but it would also prevent starting on day 1 (but who starts on day 1 anyway). The bounds are from (0,pi] and the program simplifies everything by finding the percentage of the time inputted by the user. But how is this percentage found? If you take this function and put it into a graphing calculator you can set the y axis to functionality of the project and x is time. I found the percentage by taking the derivative of the function, and finding the approximate peak of the function by setting the derivative to 0. (This was done by using a calculator, it is not on the paper) I then used that to find the percentage of the bound. Because the curve would be the same shape regardless of time, the peak will always be around 37% of the total time, which gives you your optimal day to start. This of course, will also be procrastinated, but the function is still fun to play around with regardless.

To say this function is not perfect would be giving it more credit than it's worth. Obviously there should be more research put into it, but I think its cool none the less.

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play

A group of four girls are talking to each other while studying. During this study session one of them sparks a conversation over another girls studying materials (pens, pencils, paper, etc.) and then another one relates it to a friend. They start debating.

Girl 1: You know that reminds me, you know guy?

The girls all agree that they know him.

Girl 1: Well he holds his pencil like this she wraps her whole palm around the pencil, like how a toddler would draw with a crayon

Girl 2: Laughing out loud Really?! What does his hand writing look like?

Girl 1: Like chicken scratch.

Girl 3: I would never let my kid write like that, at some point you need to learn how to write.

Girl 1: Yeah but he's super smart like he can do things I can’t.

Girl 3: Still it is a maturity thing, like how can you write like that while everyone else is writing normally after elementary school?

Girl 1: I don’t know but he could probably learn if he tried.

Girl 2: Maybe you could teach him?

Girl 1: No, that would be too much work, and I already feel dumber than him. I need to have something to hold over his head.

Girl 3: That’s fair, I don’t like feeling dumber than other people.

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Conversations

1- A group of girls talking about how a friend uses their pencil with their whole hand. They identified it as childish, and noted they would not let their children hold their pencils like that.

2- Someone in my lab was talking to their lab partners, loudly. In this conversation these people were complimenting the center of the conversation, a single person.

3- A couple were studying together, but instead of actually studying the whole time they got off topic multiple times, resulting in several humorous conversations.

4- A professor talks to a student who was caught cheating on a test outside the exam room. He was allowed to finish the test. (I did not record any exact dialogue since I was also taking the test)

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Week 7 Story

During the first two years of high school I was in a relationship with my first girlfriend. During this relationship I introduced my girlfriend into my then friend group at the time. Since she didn’t have many friends at the time she decided to get closer to a lot of the people in my friend group. She then brought up her “concerns” about some of my friends and told me I shouldn’t be around them anymore. I decided to go along with it because I thought she meant the best for me. Eventually she was a major part of the group. Eventually about a year in she said she wanted to take a break. At that time I noticed the people in my friend group decided that her and I hanging out in the same setting was not good, so they isolated me from the group and rarely invited me to events. When I brought this up they said I was exaggerating, and since I had no one else in my life since I stopped talking to them I just had to accept this. Eventually we did get back together and we started hanging out as a group again. It was around this time I became the punching bag of the group, all the jokes were directed at me, and I was treated like dirt. Whenever I brought this up to my friends they said the same thing, that I was exaggerating. My girlfriend also said the same. Despite this I continued to hang out with them and support all of them, my girlfriend most of all who had a variety of mental problems. Around the start of the pandemic is when it all really hit the fan. I broke around two months in, I let all the emotions I was holding in for the last couple of months out and I finally told my girlfriend that I was feeling depressed because of the way everyone was treating me, including her. Right then and there she broke up with me. She told everyone in the friend group that I raped her and I learned a couple weeks later she was getting with another guy in the group before she broke up with me. I had absolutely no one. It was at that point when I had to pick myself off the ground and come to the reality that I only had myself, and I had no one to lean on. It was difficult, but it taught me that at the end of the day you only have yourself and that is who you should be relying on at all times even if you have people around you who “support” you. This is also how I started to get into bodybuilding and working out. I decided that since I am already at rock bottom, working out and improving my body is the first step I can take in recovery. For the first couple of years it was more of a coping mechanism, so it was not very intense and I did not have any intention of making it a big part of my life like it is now. But my new found mentality of only relying on yourself played very well into my new hobby, since at the end of the day if you want to get fit it is on you. You can have support from your friends and family but without your own passion and drive it won’t get anywhere. Every time I think about slacking or taking a break, I think back to myself at that time and realize I never want to be like that again so I continue forward.

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final project ideas

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Poem

Every day I strive

To obtain things that make me feel alive

A repeating cycle, unwavering

Unless I feel my sleep is waning

I sculpt my mind and body

Through iron and paper

Hoping to get better

While saying its a hobby

Will I ever reach my dreams

Or will my dreams ever stop growing

I feel like this life is showing some themes

And nothing is helping

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Name: Borderless Window

An open window with no way of being closed, within an enclosed space that allows one to feel the space outside while still within a building.

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Unnoticed Things Day 6-7

Friday- Chinese people give out red envelopes with money in them for the Lunar New Year

Saturday- There is a circuit breaker inside my room in my apartment

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Unnoticed Things Day 5

Thursday- Old Nelsons is cheaper than 7/11

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Unnoticed Things Day 1-4

Sunday- Car rides back home make me tired

Monday- Some trees still have dead leaves

Tuesday- My friend is getting a crush

Wednesday- Most people have macbooks

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Week 3 Assignment

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