Student Work Day – Day 12-14
Everything has been going great so far this week. This morning (despite sleeping in a little on accident), I finally finished off the problem set due tomorrow, and near the end of the day knocked out a sh0rt problem set due Wednesday (having homework due the Wednesday before Thanksgiving Break is kind of evil, but it's done now so HAH!). That one wasn't too bad, and I didn't even have to go to any office hours or get any other outside help for it, beyond discussing two problems with a friend and some google searches to brush up on certain concepts. I'm hoping this all means my problem solving/reasoning skills are getting better, because I noticed that math is starting to make more sense as well. Either that or all the work is finally paying off!
The only hitch now is an essay rough draft due Friday that I've only written the intro paragraph and general argument for, but that's OK. Not ideal, but things are still looking pretty darn good relative to how the beginning (and easy part!) of the semester looked.
As for my free time, I finally got around to going to a "German Dinner." Cornell has language houses, and every Monday night there are tables at the dining hall at Alice Cook where you just get together to eat dinner and talk in foreign languages with other students, workers, and Cornell faculty. I've been meaning to go the whole semester, and I finally went on Monday! I also got a chance to pick up The Original of Laura, Vladimir Nabokov's previously unpublished manuscript...and I finally invited someone other than my boyfriend over to my room for the first time in what feels like forever (not that I don't hang out with other people outside of my room haha). I'm starting to wonder if I should structure my "free time" more now that I've pretty much got the work week down though. The first thing I'm working on is putting in more hours into my part-time job, but I've been neglecting other things lately, like playing piano. Usually I do flashcards and then read blogs to chill, but I realized that playing piano can also be relaxing! Unlike playing Portal (the video game) tonight...I've been freaked out ever since my friends talked about the boss at the end (Him: "It took me like five minutes to kill her the first time" Me: "THERE'S A BOSS??"). Haha. Overall though, my fun is definitely much more before^^.
Last thing I've been thinking about: how much work should I do during Thanksgiving Break? I'm visiting my boyfriend's family in Vermont, and I'll definitely have time to watch video lectures or revise essays while driving...but should I just ignore work the whole time there, otherwise? I know I should relax, but on the other hand I really want to ace my finals, and every hour counts. You could argue that I should just increase my workday hours, but I suspect that I'm only feeling so good right now because I had adequate time to chill and play video games today. Hmmmm...
