Today was a little bit better from a productivity standpoint. I bought the SimplyNoise app for my iPod Touch and it was a big help this morning when I had to read close to 40 pages to get my reading up to date for a take-home exam in my legal research class. Basically it acts like a white noise machine to block distractions out.
Still not sure what I'm going to do about the math class for certain. Tonight I tried catching up some more but found enormous difficulties with some of the factoring problems that were in the homework but never covered during the lecture. I couldn't find any VirtualNerd videos that explained them, so I had to intentionally take some wrong answers to see a walkthrough...which I still really don't get. I hate harping on it but losing my math tutor a month and a half ago continues to be a liability and it hurts that I've reached the point where searching for a replacement is no longer workable because there's too much going on. It makes me wish I had never been through what I've been through getting myself to trust people face-to-face could well be an issue for the rest of my life for all that I know.
On a happier note finishing that reading has me in a position where I'm comfortable with position in two courses now, which means I can finally start working on the research paper that I should have started a month ago but got tossed on the back burner when my (expletive) hit the fan for what feels like the fiftieth time this semester alone.
Still not sure what I'm going to do about the math class for certain. Tonight I tried catching up some more but found enormous difficulties with some of the factoring problems that were in the homework but never covered during the lecture. I couldn't find any VirtualNerd videos that explained them, so I had to intentionally take some wrong answers to see a walkthrough...which I still really don't get. I hate harping on it but losing my math tutor a month and a half ago continues to be a liability and it hurts that I've reached the point where searching for a replacement is no longer workable because there's too much going on. It makes me wish I had never been through what I've been through getting myself to trust people face-to-face could well be an issue for the rest of my life for all that I know.
On a happier note finishing that reading has me in a position where I'm comfortable with position in two courses now, which means I can finally start working on the research paper that I should have started a month ago but got tossed on the back burner when my (expletive) hit the fan for what feels like the fiftieth time this semester alone.
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Hey :) awesome that you found something that can help you concentrate! I didn\'t know they had an app for that lol. I do the same thing sometimes when I\'m writing or trying to sleep...I just use the videos on YouTube, sometimes it actually works to slow down my thoughts a bit. Hope things are good with ya :)