-0/1 -21:12

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Finished 2/3 of a journal article.
• Work
  • Meeting for requirement updates.
• GRE
  • Math + analogy + reading comprehension problem of the day.

If I get to have a long weekend … I wonder how much could be done.

-0/3 -00:45

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Meeting with adviser, first task direction decided.
• Work
• Collaborative coding
• Communication
• GRE
• Reviewed 35 words
• Analogy problem of the day

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New constraints made it tougher than I expected .. even though no major violation of order is occurring, it might be helpful to watch behavior harder.

-0/4 -01:50

Weather:

Overcast: missed class -> Sunny -> Overcast:

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Further discussion with course professor on project relevance.
• Read one journal article on tangential topic.
• Revision on one past experiment.
• New software installed for facilitating journal article annotation.
• Work
• Minor information exchange.
• GRE
• Vocabulary review
• Picked audio book back up.

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I had a poor new roommate. -_-

-0/5 -08:00

Weather:

Sunny -> Partly Cloudy: overshopping

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Discussion with a professor on potential class project connections.
• Work
  • Design discussions
  • Shifted role into support coding for deadline meeting acceleration.
• GRE
  • Sentence completion problem of the day.

… a fairly productive workday otherwise. The supervisor is going to cover me for my temporary full-time support role so I could potentially free up other people from their task for support. Going to experiment with it and see how much progress I can help create.

-0/5 -23:57

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Started hand evaluation of data.
• Work
  • Finished some big chunk of implementation.
• GRE
  • Vocabulary review.

A good night's sleep is very nice for a workday.

-7/0 -00:53

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Extra manual experiments.
• Obtained some unsorted data. Need to examine them by hand. ^_^;
• Work
• Looking for alternative protocol implementation with no success.
• GRE
• Antonym of the day.
• Examined 16 words in the audio book archive, categorized some of them in my own vocabulary list.
• Vocabulary review.

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A bare survival with mistakes and accomplishments .. should have a little more common sense by now, hopefully.

-0/0 -18:16

Weather:

Sunny-> Storm: expected -> Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Experiment with applied knowledge.
• Work
• Heavy research on the implementation of a protocol.
• GRE
• Antonym of the day.

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Operas are quite wonderful.

-0/1 -19:41

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research: no significant progress
• Work
  • Started writing new feature.
• GRE
  • Vocabulary review.

Severe misbehavior alarm #_#

 

-0/2 -22:56

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Studying overlaps.
• Work
• No significant progress.
• GRE
• Permutation problem of the day.

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Got a mouth ulcer and it causes headaches. T_T Hope a little more sleep would help that.

-0/3 -20:06

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Discussion over human study.
• Work
• Very little progress on the new feature implementation.
• GRE
• Analogy problem of the day
• Vocabulary review

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Had long long hours of pleasant conversation with my new roommate today. From religion to anthropology to language to music to computer science to medication to photography ... he has a contemplative mind. :)

-0/4 -22:17

Weather:

Storm: misbehavior -> Sunny -> Overcast: single tasking

• School
  • Thesis Research: no significant progress (some new motivation ^^)
• Work
  • Finally found one good article to help make one decision over many implementation methods.
• GRE
  • Vocabulary review
  • Analogy problem of the day

Almost lost my bag today … spent a few panicked hours to find it, in vain. But just as I started to think about how to live without it and started lining up the most important course of actions to take before most of the lost could be recovered, my bag magically appeared in a place I already looked at least twice -_-; Guess I was just too anxious to see clearly.

-0/6 -01:52

Weather

Sunny -> Partly cloudy: unsettled business

• School
  • Class:
    • Bill paying
    • Registration
  • Data mining project idea
• Work
  • No significant progress
• GRE
  • Reviewed 30 words.

Finally got department to take care of my bills, but one of the classes turned out full -_-; Have to sort it out tomorrow.

-0/7 -01:12

Weather:

Overcast: unsettled business

• School
• Thesis Research:
• New study notes.
• GRE
• 23 Antonym + 15 Analogy + 10 sentence completion practice.

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Some business needs to be settled soon~

-0/0 -23:56

Weather:

Sunny

• Housework
  • Roommate got a new, used, unclean-for-a-decade carpet for almost free. Spent almost a whole day refurbishing it. It actually turned out pretty good looking after getting 10 full vacuum-loads of dirt out and putting one full-bottle of carpet-cleaner on it. Satisfied and exhausted. ^_^''
• School
  • Found an old data file that is actually pretty much quantized – and wrote down an inspiration on the notebook.
• GRE
  • Antonym problem of the day.

There was someone who knew little of what I knew but dared to do everything that I didn't. So I offered him my knowledge and tried to borrow from his courage. It's interesting how knowledge could be easy to share but sometimes hard to comprehend, while courage could be easy to comprehend, but sometimes hard to receive.

-0/1 -20:01

Weather:

Partly cloudy: thesis block -> Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Prediction contemplation.
• Work
  • Continued API study.
• GRE
  • Antonym problems of the day.

Stocked some good healthy food today .. have to learn a bit more cooking to increase my (real) life expectancy.

-0/3 -01:12

Weather:

Sunny->Thunderstorm: misbehavior->Overcast

• Housework
• Vacuum finally fixed. Ran it through whole house.
• School
• Thesis Research:
• Meeting with advisor.
• Read one more journal article.
• Work
• Continued a little algorithmic study.
• GRE
• Found a new practice questions repository.
• Antonym practice.

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Gave birthday present to roommate today :)

Finding data, data, and a manageable task ...

-0/3 -22:26

Weather:

Sunny -> Overcast: overslept

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Read three journal articles and extracted one quotations.
• Found the most complete resource repository available - in the most machine-unreadable format. TTTTTT_TTTTTT
• Work
• Finished one preliminary transition.
• Researched some new APIs.
• GRE
• Vocabulary review.
• Analogy and maths question of the day.

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Solution to the thesis data source problem: 1. find good methods to process data to get the conformity I want. 2. manually inputing good data set by hand from that machine-unreadable source. T_T

-0/5 -00:27

Weather:

Sunny/Partly Cloudy: overslept

• School
• Thesis Research:
• No significant progress.
• Work
• Coding
• Learning new framework features
• GRE
• Finished audio book.

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It might make it a little harder to adjust the sleep schedule if I keep napping during the day .. I could think of two solutions.

-0/6 -01:01

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Wrote down some new thoughts in the notebook.
    • Read part of a new journal article.
• Work
  • A little coding.
• GRE
  • Vocabulary review.

Thesis work is both getting more interesting and blocking at the same time ^_^; Hope this week's meeting could bring some more idea.

-0/0 -01:18

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Resarch:
    • Read a somewhat irrelevant journal article.
• GRE
  • Did one verbal practice test and realized I don't have the answer key … T_T Going to look for them online.

Pretty much determined to live through this week right now. Although I have more things I need to figure out now … hope I found my answers quickly enough.

Oh, another mental shift today worked out pretty well. =)

-0/0 -23:48

Weather:

Sunny

• Housework
  • Roommate out for the weekend. Partially cleaned the kitchen for him.
• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Read one journal article. Learned the concepts of a blackboard system.
• GRE
  • Reviewed 20 words

Achieve a deliberate mental task shift today. There's going to be less time overall, but it still looks like a lot of things can be done, and it's not necessary to pass away before then. =)

-0/1 -18:08

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • No significant progress
• Work
  • Confirmation of interface change.
• GRE
  • Vocabulary review

Finished poetries ... hopefully it would not be the only product for the sacrifice.

-0/3 -01:10

Weather:

Sunny -> Overcast: overslept

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Read one journal article.
    • Reorganized research notes.
• Work
  • One coding task accomplished.
• GRE
  • Vocabulary review
  • Almost finished the current audio book.

A beanbag in the office moves the place fifty stories closer to heaven...

-0/3 -22:39

Weather:

Sunny -> Partly cloudy: unsettled business

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Idea discussion
• Work
• Demonstration in the meeting a pleasant success.
• Overcame big problems for collegue through the osmosis of absorbing knowledge from the universe ^_^
• GRE
• Vocabulary review

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Got what I was expecting today .. almost like getting a second life, no matter whether I'd be worth it, it is always worth appreciating. :)

-0/4 -21:25

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Contemplation over hypothesis.
• Work
  • Finished a simple demonstration for tomorrow.
• GRE
  • Reviewed 44 words. 100% recall.

Block on poetry => progress on work. -_-'

-6/0 -00:12

Weather:

Sunny

• Work
  • Design discussion
• School
  • Thesis Research
    • No significant progress
• GRE
  • Vocabulary review

I thought I heard thunderstorm yesterday .. but it was utterly sunny all day .. so one poem was pretty much finished, and somehow I was permitted to live. I know what this would mean, though.

 

-0/0 -00:15

Weather:

Partly cloudy: -> Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Studied limited transposition.
• Work
  • Studied a bit on the new framework capabilities.
• GRE
  • Vocabulary review.

Writing poetry again, it feels good to be still able to do that. And writing really is fed by impulses … at least if this kills me, I'd leave something behind.

-0/0 -23:34

Weather:

Mostly cloudy: caught on unexpected business.

• Work
  • Pushed by unexpected business.
• GRE
  • Half way through the current audio book.
  • Vocabulary review and addition.

Unexpected businesses indeed … big and tough ones, too … But there's enough urgency behind that personal work priority could be put off justified. Had to use Goal Ascension again in work to get past this week, it probably wasn't wise enough of me to think I'd be worthy of living for longer periods anytime soon =_=

-0/1 -21:38

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Free-writing
• Work
  • No significant progress.
• GRE
  • Analogy problem of the day.

Suddenly found so many things to write about .. got a little arm-fatigued today, had to push the writing urge for later now.

-0/2 -21:09

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Meeting with advisor.
• Work
  • Design discussion and notes.
• GRE
  • Analogy & math problems of the day.
  • Vocabulary review

Generalized an interesting GRE math problem that involved a recursive relationship, in the test it could only be solved with enumeration at small input numbers. After generalizing the problem and defining the relationship, plugging in 100 as input yields a number larger than the radius of the observable universe in meters XD

-0/3 -19:09

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research
    • Tried to compile some Lisp program -_-'
• Work
  • Regular meeting
• GRE
  • 1/3 through the current audio book

On impulse, wrote a long commentary on one of the recent novels today. Writing is such an enjoyable activity .. only if I can find myself more time in life to do it.

-0/4 -18:23

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • New experiment.
• Work
  • Interface improvements for custom class.
• GRE
  • Two chapters of audio book.
  • Analogy problem of the day.

Meeting at 11 tomorrow ... need to get some sleep before that.