Kish’s Blog

I'm taking 5 classes this semester, and something that's been surprisingly nice is that I have a pretty regular schedule (and no classes on Fridays). Monday through Thursday, I have a class 11-12:30, a one hour lunch break, and then either a 1.5 or 3 hour-long class. I realized that having a consistent daily schedule really helps with establishing a regular sleep schedule and morning routine. Usually, I wake up a bit before my alarm at 9:20 (unless I go to bed late/am super tired, in which case I wake up later and skip breakfast), and have a slow and relaxed morning in. Usually I have time to walk to class early and either journal by the Woody Woo fountain or reflect inside the Richard Serra sculpture. In terms of my classes...they're definitely a lot of work as a whole, which I kind of touched on in my last post . I'll just go through them one by one. World Drama (English / Theater) : I am taking this class to satisfy my requirements for the theater certificate, and I ...

For people who don't know what pomodoros are, they're basically alternating periods of work + break (usually 25 min working / 5 min break), and there are a bunch of desktop and mobile pomodoro apps that you can get. I've known about pomodoros for a pretty long time but only started doing them after learning more about them when I took the Learning How to Learn online course  while I was at RC. Even then, I never fully incorporated them into my work until this past month. I feel like doing pomodoros has changed my life in a big time way, by making me more aware of both the passage of time and my own mental state. For instance, now I can set daily goals for myself like "work on cos pset for 3 pomodoros," which allows me not only to break down big (and undesirable) tasks into manageable daily chunks, but also to become more aware of how long it takes me to do certain parts. Not only that, but I'm now also more aware of how many things I can actually do during the...