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Day 1/7: Hope I follow my plan!

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Learning to live in the Present Moment

Honestly I have not studied in 4 days. I feel scared and overwhelmed about the grades of an exam I have not written yet. I am too afraid of what the future holds for me.

I was trying to go over DCS slides today. Since it is the subject I find easy, I thought I will go through it first. After finishing one of the ppts, I just didn't want to study anymore. I felt the weight of the ppts that had to be finished and the lack of time.

Then I sat and thought that I am too worried about what's gonna happen 4 days later. It's good to be a player of the long game but not when it's suffocating the present. I need to focus on what I will do in the next two hours. It’s like walking with a flashlight at night. You don’t need to see the whole road—just the few steps in front. That’s enough to keep moving.

I just need to keep moving. I don't need to think of the last presentation, just the one that I need to study now.

So I will go to study that. Btw I am listening to The Night we met. It's beautiful.

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Plan for today:)

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So I had my CP exam today. Went awful, ngl. I know I prepared alot, and I know I enjoy doing it. I just feel I need more time to practice it, and get a good grasp of it. Just three months as a semester course are not enough. But honestly, the course has given me a kickstart and I plan on doing it regularly now, just for my enjoyment.

I might also be doing an online internship under the same dreaded prof I did my winter internship under(⁠๑⁠•⁠﹏⁠•⁠) More about it later.

I plan on working on my AO project today and tomorrow, and prepare the theory on 23rd. Exam is on 24th. I hope my plan works🤞

Update: got something of a result in the project. I was slightly unproductive today°_° but it's okay, will make up for it tomorrow

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I had watched this video in my 4th semester while studying Data Structures and Algorithms, and for some reason I hadn't been able to really appreciate the power of binary representation for this problem.

Coming back to this again in my 6th semester as a part of my Competitive Programming course, I was blown away this time. It is elegant solutions like these that increase my conviction that I love this side of Computer Science: algorithms and mathematics. Do watch if you want to have 14 minutes of cool and simple mathematics.

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it's ok to not like or forgive your parents. In fact, it's ok to hate them.

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To do for today. I have CP exam tmrw (apparent from my to do list)

Update: 03:19 pm. Solving some programming problems, and after a long time, having fun doing that. (plus, listening to bossa nova mixes(～￣▽￣)～)

Update: 02:07 am. Now I know that even if I flunk my exam, I did my best preparation.

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Finally, the Dreaded EndSems T-T

Syllabus:

26th April Algorithms: FFT, greedy problems, dynamic programming, matroids, Amortized Analysis, Heaps, Pattern Matching.

28th April Digital Circuits and Systems: Combinational Circuits, Sequential Ciruits, Counters and Registers, Memory devices for computers

28th April Electromagnetic Theory: Electrostatics, Potentials, Electric Field in matter, Magnetostatics, Magnetic fields in matter, Electrodynamics, EM waves, Tlines and Antenna Theory

29th April Principles of Communications: CH 2,3,4,5,6,7,10

I plan to finish studying these chapters once and revise them a day before the exam. I have Lab exam on 19th and I have to finish and submit project report by tonight.

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Today's plan. Hopefully this is the last time I have to do any club work, otherwise I will postpone the rest of it to after my endsems.

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Me during my entire CP course this sem-_-

The programming/math thing of not getting a thing for hours or even days, then getting it and going "oh I'm dumb "

And immediately after having to explain to your friends you don't actually believe you're dumb and it's not self loathing it's just part of the process

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The biggest problem in undergrad/university is that you find the most interesting but random thing to try just a few days before your endsems. Like, why did you not appear in my life at the start of this semester, when I had all the time in the world?!!! Why the heck are you appearing now when I am drowing in assignments I haven't started working on and exams I haven't started preparing for?!!

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Late start to the day but it's not over yet, so I can't give up!!

Update: yep😌 plans change, but I was productive. We should learn to go along with the flow people~~

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Let's goooo!

Update: it's 3:35 pm on 14th, I studied quite alot on 13th but I have fallen into this 'no study' mood since last night. This has to stop!! Gotta go work on my project now.

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Plan for today✨

Update: did most of what I decided🥹 had a 2 hr study session after a looooong time. Went to bed early so will study AO later.

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Monday, 08th April 2025

2:10-3 pm: Afternoon nap

3- 5:30 pm: Algorithms (Heaps)

5:30-6 pm: Tea break

6-7:30 pm: Matchings

9 - 11 pm: Algorithms (Pattern Matching)

11:30 pm - 1 am: Matchings

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Day 1/7: 03 April, 2025

Woke up, had a bath and breakfast so we are already off to a good start! Now I have classes till 1 pm

1 pm - 3 pm: lunch and printouts✅

3 pm - 4 pm: DoSA office for club work ✅

4 pm - 5:30 pm: get poster printed, inform FA, inform ICH, talk to LHC office

5:30 - 6:30: relax✅

6:30 - 7:30: club work✅

7:30-9:00: dinner✅

9:00- 12:00: CP practice

Update: My eyes feel tired right now:/ planning to sleep early today and wake up early tmrw to study CP. Fingers-crossed that I may be able to study well for the CP quiz!!

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(Restart) 7 Days of Productivity

(ongoing study session with my Bible CLRS with me😌)

Day 1/7: 24 March, 2025

11:00 am - 12:00 pm: AI✅

12:15 pm - 01:30 pm: CP✅

02:30 pm - 03:30 pm: Matchings❌

04:00 pm - 05:00 pm: CP Extra class✅

05:15 pm - 06:00 pm: Matchings✅

06:00 pm - 07:00 pm: Meeting with Club FA✅

07:00 pm - 09:00 pm: Break♥️

10:00 pm - 11:00 pm: AO