So, this week, we have to show how much we progressed throughout the past 6 weeks. I feel as though I haven’t done as much as I hoped, I cleaned my room and maintained it, and also tried the blurting method. I also tried breathing. It was good.

Although that is pretty good for my current schedule (as to why I am internally crying), I am not used to being this slow in my genius hour. Also because I have the urge to want to change this genius hour into self-portraits.

I hope that I am ok. (I should be) :).

Anyways, I am now partly through the music festival, which is good (although tomorrow I have a science unit test and a fairytale thing). I played the first two movements of the Bruch violin concerto, and I got distinction! Pretty cool. However, today I have Bach and I will be playing gavotte en rondeau from the third partita, but I am not ready because my intonation sucks and I am last in the class of 8 people so I will be sad and my hands will be cold.

Let’s stop procrastinating

Tomorrow, as I have mentioned, I have a test for science. I’ve decided to review my notes (like how Marten said). I also got tired of the blurting method… I think blurting is great for small quizzes and less topics because it uses a lot of brainpower and easily tires you out… I think reviewing for tests is better, especially if you understand the whole of the unit already.

However, I often average a 90%, so I will probably get some stuff wrong because I still haven’t found a good enough study method that works for me.

I am also going to quiz my friends who have not chosen to participate in this, but I will force them anyway.

I recorded a part of the quizzing, it’s 14 mins long so I wouldn’t recommend watching it, I’m just putting it here for evidence. Edit, I was unable to upload due to my lack of knowledge. If you would like to listen to the recording, please talk to me.

I will try to work on this more next week after I finish internally crying.

This week, I decided to try the blurting study method. I first read the section I was going to blurt, closed the book, and then tried it. Overall, it took a lot of brainpower because I was in a room filled with people.

I will definitely incorporate this into my studying in the future. I think it’s a great method especially for social studies and science. This really helped me realize that my studying needs help.

I’ve decided…

I’ve decided that since I’m very busy next week, that I will use less time to work on genius hour. However, I expect to be back next Sunday (after all pain). I think I’ll also contact my dad as an expert because he’s cool.

Let’s first talk about the slight change of plans of my genius hour… I find myself procrastinating too much (and there seems to be no effective way to show that) so I think it would be best if I redirect my genius hour to only working on study methods. That way, I can accurately gather information (which would be displayed on my test grades, etc.) and I think this will motivate me to actually do something during genius hour every week.

Now, onto the fun stuff. One of the people I contacted, my friend, Marten, replied with some ideas that may be useful to me! Here’s what he said:

So now, I shall try some study methods that he mentioned such as:

• Reviewing
• Blurting
• Flashcards
• Quizlet
• Reviewing harder material

It just so happens that we have a science test in a week, and since I’m very busy the test week, I will be trying out of study methods this week to see how it ends up. I’m also going to start a google sheets to start recording my test scores (so I can see where I started and where I ended up). I’m not sure if I want to post it publicly, so if you’d like to see it, just comment or contact me.

Now, since it’s way too early to study, I’m going to try to find more experts to contact and also start the google sheets with my most recent grade. (I’m doing this because recently, my grades have dropped quite a bit so I will have something to compare my progress with).

Candles 🙂

I LOVE candles, and I’ve seen this thing where people study until the candle runs out. I’m definitely gonna try that sometime next month.

Expert

It has been brought to my attention that I should contact an expert around now. This matches my timeline because there are some tests coming up (and I feel like I’m procrastinating) so if I could get some expert advice, that would be great. Starting off, I’m going to type up my introduction on a google doc. This is because I plan to send it to many people.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a72zrvsZt_Iuh1oIRXOo3pChkSqTFQyCZCeIrO8NuYk/edit?usp=sharing

Now for the people I’m going to send it to… As of now, I plan to send it to a pre-crastinating friend and to this MIT graduate called Gohar Khan. He has a lot of helpful study videos so it’s worth a try.

I’ve sent out the posts! Now, I just have to wait until they answer. IF they answer.