Its easy to get affected by news from home. In my case, the passing of an uncle and his subsequent funeral today really kept me from focusing well yesterday. Combined with bad practices, I fell behind a few lectures, but I was ready to tackle them today...until I got hit with stomach illness #2 since I got here. I'm not sure if its the heavy A/C or a bad avocado I had this morning, but I've had to leave the library and I'm currently sitting on a seaside dock, where everything in stomach-land has calmed down.
It's probably the lack of A/C that has helped most with reducing, but the calming waves and chirping birds also help. I'm back in the mood to learn and regurgitate this information (as opposed to regurgitating my breakfast).
The bad practice, by the way, is spending more than 3 hours on any one subject. After the second hour, you start seeing diminishing returns. After many hours, I took a break and hit the gym, but I had wasted too many hours at that point on the same lecture. In the evening, I went to an anatomy tutorial, which proved quite useful in explaining some concepts that weren't covered well in class.
I must look back at instituting time-boxing.
Anyways, I'm rambling. Back to work.
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