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It feels bad to go to class unprepared. I went to history lecture and discussion today without having read this week's readings due to poor time management. I completely forgot that we were going to be discussing the readings during the discussion section, so I could contribute very little to the discussion.
Fortunately, I've been making nice friends in some of my classes. I bump into people I know more frequently than I would have anticipated in such a large school. And yet, there are others who attend the same university whom I have hardly seen.
Yesterday before bed I was reading Steinbeck's "Cannery Row". The novel (novella?) feels easy to read and simple. There are some common features of Steinbeck novels that I have observed from the few I have read. He opens the novel through a detailed depiction of the novel's setting, usually in nature, often with someone walking into the scene as it were. He has one or two characters who are or become disheartened, dejected, or depressed with regards to their outlook on life.
I wish I had slept more from 10am-11am between my two classes. I would have felt more energized going into my history class. This week, I have to catch up with my history readings, take notes on operating systems topics, work on the operating systems lab, write my history essay, take some automata practice exams, do statistics practice problems, take the operating systems midterm, and debug inconsistent results for my lab.
I looked at a recent Putnam exam and tried the first problem in my mind, which I was able to solve. The concept seemed interesting; I would like to try more problems in the near future. I have so much work to do that my mind is feeling confused. Do I sleep? Do I take notes? Do I continue to write? I have so much to be grateful for, including a steady supply of reasonably challenging coursework.
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