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7th Nov to 12th Nov || days 108 - 113

⏲ recalibration and goal setting ✨

hi I think this is the longest I've been away but I am back! the past week has been a time for a lot of introspection and several important decisions and now i just hope to stand my ground and keep going. starting tomorrow, I will resume my 150 days of productivity from 13th Nov as day 108 and day 150/150will fall perfectly on Christmas hehe

UNI Deadlines

📚 Internals ↳ Biostats: 27th Nov ↳ CCT: 28th Nov 📍 Finals: ↳ Biostats: 4th Dec ↳ CCT: 5th Dec 💻 Project Presentations ↳ internals: 27th Nov ↳ final: 7th Dec

Misc expected progress

🩺 Radiomics Project: 80% by 25th Dec (day 150) 📝 English Proficiency Test: 14th Dec (day 138) 📝GRE prep: 80% by 25th Dec (day 150) 📁Admission Essays for Unis: 90% by 25th Dec (day 150) ✅ Internship Applications : first set by 20th Nov(day 115)

Personal Goals/ Reminders

👟 consistency with exercise ↳ start with 30min a day (walk, jump rope, dance, etc) ↳ increase slowly 🥗 meals and water ↳ record water intake daily (atleast 6glasses) ↳ eat a fruit a day (literally any fruit) 💌 gratitude and introspection ↳ record what i'm grateful for daily ↳ keep recalibrating work plan 🎨 hobbies ↳ dedicate atleast an hour per week for reading ↳ dedicate atleast an hour per week for drawing/writing ↳ outdoors!!! or I will die in my room

edited to update completed events// the next six weeks of days of productivity posts will go on with these goals and intentions in mind. i'll file these posts in their own subcategory(final42) under 150dop

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20th - 25th Dec || 145 to 150 of 150dop

this is a late post because I was away from home for the holidays and I didn't really have the time or good enough internet to update you guys, but here we are!!! thank you to everyone who tagged me in cute games during this time (i will be doing them only next year tho hehe) and especially to @chaotic-diaries-of-yours-truely and @winryrockbellwannabe who sent in really comforting asks during this time <3 you guys are my favourites. (I will answer them soon I promise! I've just been swamped 😭)

🎧 Son O-Gong by Seventeen

📋 Tasks

🩺 Radiomics Projects ↳ BCR: draft next year timeline ↳ GBR: download source code and learn mechanism 📝 English Proficiency Test ↳ results are out!!! I did really well, yay!!!

🎨 Personal

I went to my hometown (it's not so much my hometown as it is my native place) and got to meet a lot of family friends and relatives!! It was a lot of fun!! I had a great time!! 📺 Shows this week ↳ My Love Mix-Up JP ✅ ↳ Cherry Magic TH 🔽 (can I just say that I love this adaptation wayyy more than I expected. I really like that it is not trying to be a replica of the JP version and instead focusing on the same themes in a different light) ↳ Last Twilight 🔽 ↳ I also kind of started Trillion Game (meguro ren the man you are)

and we're finally done!! this was my first challenge after setting up my studyblr and I am so happy that I made so many wonderful friends on here who have been checking in on me and supporting me through the course of these 150 days. Even if you're just sharing these posts or liking them, it has really motivated me to do better and keep going. And you guys, who have also been working hard to meet your goals, y'all inspire me day in and day out, I really wouldn't be here if it wasn't for this wonderful studyblr community <3

I initially started this series in july and it was only supposed to be for 100 days, but now, after several days skipped in between, and the 100 days updated to 150, and constantly changing goals, we're finally here. At the end. And despite all the modifications, I've only really met 50% of the goals I set for myself. But that being said, i'm proud of myself for making it through. I tend to struggle with consistency a lot, but I'm happy that I still tried my best to be regular with posting. I'm also happy that I was kind to myself through the duration of these 150 days- that I didn't get too rigid with the structure and I let myself have off days or club several days in a post together. At the end of the day, it wasn't supposed to feel too pressurizing or like a chore, and I think I succeeded in that. I also learnt a lot about planning, and I've also in general come to accept the truth that goal setting is a dynamic process and goals and due dates will change over time and that is okay. So yeah. I felt really challenged throughout this series, but that being said, I'm never doing this again 😭. May next year bring new challenges hehe

37 - 42/final42 // the end.

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4th to 7th Dec || 129 - 132 of 150dop

and thus the semester ends 💗 it was a long, long five months but it is finally done!!! just striked out soo many completed tasks from my schedule, I feel alive xD

🎧 The holy trinity of Taylor Swift heartbreak songs (aka, Labyrinth, Say Don't Go and You're Losing Me, and also this mashup of the three)

UNI

📆 CCT Finals // 5th Dec ↳ prep [4/4] 💻 Final Project // 7th December ↳ hard bound report ✅ ↳ presentation ✅

📺: started this new Thai BL called Last Twilight!! it's such a cute little love story and I'm super invested in these characters god I hope the new eps come out soon

🎨: went out to an art café with friends today ^=^ we painted cute mugs to gift each other (a little secret santa idea hehe) which we'll collect after glazing next week

21-24/final 42 // time for applications, passion projects and hobbies

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13th Nov || day 108 of 150dop

🎧: Paper Mache World by Matilda Mann

UNI

💻 Final Project ↳ Call to discuss next steps [⨯] ↳ Updates of publication [⨯] ↳ Get started on presentation [⨯]

Misc

🩺Radiomics Project ↳ Call to discuss next steps [⨯] ↳ Downloaded and learnt how to use 3D Slicer [⨯] 📝GRE prep ↳ Verbal Reasoning [45min] ↳ Quantitative Reasoning [45min]

Personal

👟 30 min dancing (kpop my beloved xD) 🥗 fruit salad for dinner 🥛 water [6/6] 🧹 cleaned my desk 🎨 gamed with my friends for a bit <3 💌 : @muakrrr who is my best friend ever and listens to my ramblings and checks out my song suggestions and sends me nice songs back and buys me video games but never gets around to watching any of the movies I suggest. i miss you, watch Ponyo soon or else 🔪

1/final42 // tomorrow i need to check out papers and email 2 profs for internships and introduce myself to the new software for radiomics project, along with the other daily goals. i'll try to dedicate some time and finish my bit for the final project presentation. maybe if i have time, I can read for a bit.

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17th Nov || day 112 of 150dop

UNI

📨 updates on submissions for final project presentation!

Misc

📑 Interview with SR/CBR [⨯] ↳ the discussion went really well! I spoke a lot on my interest and the work I've done so far and she said i would be a great addition to her lab, and that she'll confirm in a couple days. if i do get in, there will be another round of interviews, so yeah, just have to keep going xD 📝GRE prep ↳ Verbal Reasoning [30min]

Personal

🧹clean the bathroom [⨯] 🥛 water [6/6] 🎨 watched From Up On Poppy Hill (I'd recently learnt about the story behind the making of this movie and I really wanted to rewatch) 💌 Ghibli Films for opening my eyes to the beauty of small tasks and relationships and life as a whole <3

5/final 42 // gotta make time for hobbies. I really need dopamine for tasks

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12th to 19th Dec || 137-144 of 150dop

hi. i've been gone a long time. I wasn't doing really well for the past week, so i just put up my progress on Notion to update it here later.

📋 Tasks

📂 Notion Setup ↳ for daily journalling (yes it's ponyo themes xD) ✅ ↳ tv/movies tracker 📝English Proficiency Test ↳ apply for exam ✅ ↳ sample practice (listening and reading sections) ✅ ↳ check writing samples ✅  ↳ write exam!! ✅ 🩺 Radiomics Projects ↳ read BCR base paper ✅ ↳ check out automatic segmentation options ✅ ↳ check out radiomics extensions and pyradiomics ✅ ↳ lots and lots of voice calls and meetings xD

🎨Personal

⛲ Going Out ↳ visited an Art Museum with my best friend ↳ went for brunch to an art cafe with a friend (and tried key lime pie for the first time! it was very good) ↳ got boba with a friend and visited an indie bookstore with a friend and bought a book 📺 Shows this week ↳ Cherry Magic JP ✅ ↳ My Demon 🔽 ↳ Last Twilight 🔽 ↳ Perfect Marriage Revenge ✅ 📟 Cool Links and Videos ↳ The best explanation on the Monty Hall Problem ↳ Sleeping Beauty Problem(i am so confused) ↳ Dan Ariely and data manipulation in psychology studies ↳ Anwn Ddu, the Wikipedia King that doesn’t exist ↳ Korea’s King, a 2 Part Documentary ↳ An Inverse Turing Test: How Random Chance is not really random 👟 Lots of walking

29-36/final42 // so close! just another week!!! let's go!!

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26th to 29th Nov || day 121- 124 of 150dop

last leg of this semester! i am positively stressing out so hard it's insane. a lot of submissions showed up super last minute because of a few hiccups and im all over the place. so yeah. my dop posts are going to be more infrequent for a while

(i see all the tag games and asks!! i'll get around to them once the next week is done i promise!)

also look at that mayday cap my sis made for me she's the coolest ever xD

🎧: Satu-Satu by Idgitaf

UNI

📆 finals week! i am... doing as well as i can, I'd say ↳ Biostats internals ✅ ↳ CCT internals ✅ ↳ Final project internals ✅ 💻 assignments ↳ Biostats ✅ ↳ CCT ✅ (submitting tomorrow)

Personal

👟 walking (not as frequent as i'd like, but yeah) 🎨 lunch + gaming with friends (from time to time) 🧵 also started learning how to crochet! im starting slow with a chain stitch, i think im getting the hang of it

13-16/final 42 // feels like burnout. i really need to take a couple hours to reset

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14th Nov || day 109 of 150dop

📟: MAG054, MAG055

🎧: Thanatos (End of Us) by J. Maya

UNI

📚 Proteogenomics ↳  lecture notes 3.4 and 3.5 [⨯] ↳  (revise the basic principle of mass spectrometry) [⨯] 💻 Final Project ↳ complete my parts for the first internal presentation [⨯]

Misc

📑 Internship Applications ↳ SR/CBR [2/2] 🩺Radiomics Project ↳ Check out the online segmentation tool [⨯] 📝GRE prep ↳ Quantitative Reasoning [20min]

Personal

👟 30min of dancing (kinda learnt the first chorus to Dope 😮‍💨) 🥗 tomato soup my beloved 🥛 water [6/6] 🧹 changed sheets and covers for my bed 💌 cardigans with long sleeves. warm mugs. coffee. keeping me alive fr

2/final 42 // need to wake up earlier. need to do more GRE. need to get 2 out of 3 internship applications done by tomorrow. my friends and I are going out for lunch tom! can't wait hehe

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25th Nov || day 120 of 150dop

🎧: Ghum by LAVI & Foenix yet again xD

🔋 today i learnt that maybe I'm not tired all the time because of my phone which is a relief but it also means that i need to change my lifestyle a bit to make up for the limited sunlight and cold weathers. the idea of making a realistic artificial sun seems super tempting right about now

📅 my internals are next week! it's not really a big deal but I notice myself putting off other parts of my routine in the name of studying... we'll see how that goes

UNI

📚 CCT [4/4] ↳ disease triangle, plant immunity[⨯] ↳ herbicide resistance case studies[⨯] (random notes under the cut) 📚 Biostats ↳ assignment questions [2/5] i'll do the rest tomorrow brrr ↳ last unit prep

Personal

💕 tutored my sister 📩 reached out and spoke to an old friend

12/final 42 // gotta wake earlier!! and gotta exercise!! let's go megumi!!!

random whiteboard scribbles for future reference

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20th - 22nd November || day 115 to 117 of 150dop

UNI

📚 Biostats ↳ assignment completed and submitted! ↳ prep [4/4] 💻 Final Project ↳ Completed 80% the final presentation

Misc

📝GRE Verbal Questions [50/50] 📑 I finally got an internship! (i mean, it's not entirely on paper yet but I went and spoke to her and she said it's confirmed and she just needs to finalize the project by next week) but you won't believe who else applied and will be working with me for the next six months

Personal

👟 walking! lot's of walking! (i walked like 5km+ today hehe) 💌 people. just people in gen. today I met an old friend at the lab i visited today for internship (more like she saw me and called out to me) and she really helped me with the directions and things. another friend also helped me out by guiding me on what to expect from the professor under whom I'll be interning (because she also interned in the same place a year ago)

8-10/final 42 // sometimes I go through the motions of life and think to myself- damn, this would make for a killer plot line. this is one of those times.

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30/Nov to 3/Dec || 125 - 128 of 150dop

hiiiiii besties so this is my last week of the semester and I'm!!!! god. im just super ecstatic. it's finals week and there is quite a bit to get done in super little time (I'm freaking out a bit for Tuesday's exam); either way it'll be done in the next four days and I can finally focus on postgrad admission applications!!! I'm also thinking of setting up a journal for the next year, but for now... just trying to stay focused on finals. I really hope it goes well.

📻 it's spotify wrapped szn!! my most played track is the judgement of the oratrice💫 mechanique🔨 d'analyse🧮 cardinale✨ (jk it's BTS as usual)

🎧: pop. so much pop 💔 it's missing Rowoon hours :(( I haven't gotten to start Destined with You yet but I have been watching bits and pieces of their off-screen shenanigans in my free time. they've been my serotonin boost this week

UNI

📆 Biostats Final tomorrow! ↳ descriptive stats [9/9] ↳ probability and distributions [7/7] ↳ inferential stats [7/7] 💻 final project ↳ overall report ✅ ↳ plagiarism report ✅

Personal

👟 daily walking for an hour with mum. it's been nice. 🍊 I have been eating a lot of fruits! yay me! xD

17-20/final 42 // you nice! keep going!

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8th - 11th Dec || day 133 to 136 of 150dop

hi besties!!! how you guys been? i really thought i'd post more frequently on here after my finals but I've been overcome by a strong desire to catch up on the shows and books I put aside all this time and now that i'm free, i've been voraciously consuming all of it xD

🎧: Blindness by SOLE

📺: My Demon (their visuals are insane? and their chemistry is so good? just their interviews have me blushing gahh I can't wait for this week's episodes)

📻 I also watched this super informative and eye-opening video essay on the complexities of self-diagnosis and yeah. wow.

Tasks

📑 Internship ↳ visit lab to finalize dates and prerequisites ✅ 🩺 Radiomics Projects ↳ call to finalize and determine next steps of bc project ✅ ↳ read base paper of bcc project (kind of? i didn't understand a lot of it)

Reading

👜 exchanged a few of my books and also bought a couple of new ones 📈 set up a reading tracker for 2024 the near future 📖 recent/current reads ↳ The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji ✅ ↳ Bunny by Mona Awad (reread) ✅ ↳ Good Omens 📌

Self Care

🧹 cleaned up my bathroom and my room 🍊 have been eating a lot of fruits 👟 quite a bit of walking

25-28/final42 // gotta prep for entrance exams

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16th Nov || day 111 of 150dop

UNI

📨 updates! ↳ finals for two classes (NB and PG) shifted to next sem ↳ finals for other subjects preponed to first week of Dec 📅 reschedule weekly plans and test prep [⨯] 📚 retrieve and compile notes for this semester [⨯] 💻 Final Project ↳ finalize presentation1 [⨯]

Misc

📑 Internship Applications: ↳ SR/CBR replied! interview set tomorrow at 9:40am ↳ sent CV to NC/IISC! hopefully interview soon!

Personal

👟 30 min dancing  (continuing to learn Dope 💪) 🥗 papayas! 🥛 water [6/6] 💌: my final project guide! she's been looking out for me in terms of internships and spoken to PIs of several labs on our behalf, I don't know what I'd do without her <3

4/final 42 //gotta sleep early. gotta wake up early. gotta do more GRE. hopefully the interview tomorrow goes well

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15th Nov || day 110 of 150dop

UNI

📚 Proteogenomics ↳ week 3 supplemental lecture notes [2/2] ↳ check about LOD and LOQ [×]

Personal

👟 lots and lots of walking 🥛 water [6/6] 💌 my friends, who are always making me laugh <3

3/final 42 // CWC finals week! neglected a lot of work i was gonna get done just to watch the semi finals 💀 if im not gonna get work done during match hours I need to atleast get lots of work done around it

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23rd and 24th November || day 118 & 119 of 150dop

🎧: Ghum by Lavi and Foenix (watched them perform live and honestly these guys are so underrated it's insane)

UNI 

📅 Schedule Updates! ↳ presentation due dates have been preponed ↳ updated schedule to reflect changes 💻 Final Project ↳ completed poster ↳ completed overall presentation for finals ↳ completed 80% of the report

Misc

📑 Internship: confirmation mail sent!

Personal

🎤 Went to watch the MindFool Tour (Vir Das is an insane comedian and a brave political orator all at once; I spent my whole night terrified and captivated and laughing my ass off godd he deserves so many more emmys he's my absolute favourite)

11/final 42 // plans are changing rapidly. i just hope I can keep up

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19th Nov || day114/150 ICC Men's Championship brainrot

Personal

👟 lots and lots of walking 🌱 breakfast and picnic with friends 🥛 water [6/6]

I didn't get any work done so im not sure how reasonable this is to include this in my 150dop list but lucky for me I make the rules so I'm adding it in here. I think i would like this post with my other dop posts because sometimes productivity is about goal setting and inspiration and I think I learnt/realized something very valuable from watching the Cricket World Cup this year (brainrot under the cut)

I come from a family, a community, a country obsessed with cricket, so it's no surprise that when our team makes it to the finals, we all stay home to watch, hoping, praying, eagerly awaiting the trophy. To add to it all, the matches were held here, at home ground, and we had won by huge margins up until the finals. I could go on about what a bummer yesterday's match was or how most members of our team would be retired by the time the next world cup comes around so they'll never get this close to victory again or the emotional outrage of the nation as a whole but you know what? I actually want to talk about the Australian Men's Cricket Team.

Australia is one of the most successful teams in one day international cricket so far, winning 6 out of 13 total world cups, and being the only team to win a championship in every region the game has been played in. They are frustrating to play against, and from the moment we realized that they might get qualified for the finals, a lot of us started panicking.

Unlike India, Australia did not start the tournament with a win streak. They weren't used to the pitch of our stadiums and it affected their first couple games. Their first match was against India and their second match was against South Africa (for which they were heavily criticized for their poor fielding) and they lost both by huge margins. But once they started getting the hang of the game on our grounds, they were performing immensely better. They won every match since their third, steadily improving on all aspects of their game.

I wasn't paying too much attention to their team until two games before their finals when they were playing against Afghanistan. The latter had put up a good score in their first innings and Australia was struggling to keep up in the second, only to end up losing a lot of wickets. The score was 91-7 and it really seemed like they were gonna lose because all their strong batsmen were out except for Glenn Maxwell.

At this point things started to take a turn. Afghanistan started getting overconfident or overeager or something and it was showing in their messy fielding and dropped catches. To add to that, Glenn Maxwell was hitting phenomenal shots left and right. Despite struggling with horrible muscle cramps (to the point where he kind of convulsed and fell to the ground in the middle of the game), Maxwell refused to leave the ground and he singlehandedly managed to score 200 runs, winning Australia the match that would qualify them for the semi-finals. The crowd loved him, we cheered him on as he hit the winning shot.

It was at this point that something hit me, something that I kind of knew subconsciously about Aus but was never able to pinpoint- the hunger. In every subsequent game i noticed how they played- with so much eagerness for the game, like every ball was their last. And while they have phenomenal batsmen and bowlers, their true hunger for the game was revealed in their fielding. They run behind the ball even when it seems long gone, they sprint like athletes to block boundaries and dive in for catches and run outs. It's the one thing that sets their game apart compared to every other team- that hunger, that eagerness. Finals or otherwise, they have their eyes locked in on the ball, and they do everything in their power to learn how to play it in a way that works best for them.

(Also can we talk about David Warner for a second- this man is 36 and lunges towards the ball at such batshit speeds, bringing down opponent scores by 20 or more runs every time. He is easily one of the best fielders in world cup cricket)

So when Australia was facing off South Africa yet again (this time in the Semi-Finals), they were leagues ahead of where they were when they started, and winning almost came easy. And as for the finals against India, the minute Travis Head ran and dove onto the ground like a maniac to get his hands under the ball and get Rohit Sharma out, a lot of us had realized it. Australia was taking home the world cup yet again.

(oh and Travis Head also went on to score 137 runs in the second innings and won player of the match. What a phenomenal cricketer)

So yeah. A success story through and through, thoroughly inspiring that Aus learnt from their two losses and turned them into massive wins the next time. What a tournament. What a game. What a team. I aspire to be that hungry for learning, that enthusiastic to improve, and that engrossed in every task I do.

7/final 42 // like the Adidas motto, life is not a spectator sport. a question running through my mind- what makes me hungry?