It's well known among my friends that I am very much a "night-time" kind of person. I enjoy going to sleep well after 2AM. However, over the past couple of weeks I haven't been able to go to sleep before 4AM every day (night?). Once I stayed up past 6:30AM... not by choice and not willingly. As I write this entry, it's after 5:30AM.
I do believe that it is important to get one's sleeping schedule in order. And yes, I do get freaked out by the idea that people who sleep during the day more than they sleep at night are at a higher risk for cancer. Yeah... definitely DON'T want.
Anyways, I figured that right now would be as good of a time to tell you that it is important to get a good night's sleep before any major test. Train yourself to go to sleep early and wake up on time (on the first sound of the alarm clock, too... no snooze button!).
The brain needs sleep. Human beings spend a lot of time sleeping, and that is for good reason! Sleeptime is when everything that the brain has experienced during the day settles in... information that you have learned during your waking time marinates in your brain when you sleep. Heck, I would think that babies sleep so much because they are learning everything the first time. Sleep is when everything can sort of sink in.
Sleep is also the time when the body heals itself the most. A lot of energy during sleep is utilized to do bodily repairs. Just because you aren't conscious doesn't mean that nothing happens!
Finally, not getting enough sleep can put a lot of stress on you, physically, mentally, and emotionally. Trust me: no one wants to be around you when you are moody and cranky and feel like crap and want to voice that to everyone around you.
I'm debating right now on whether I should attempt to go to sleep again, or if I should continue to look up cures for insomnia. Funny, actually: I went to Google.com and typed in the words "cures for" and the first thing that popped up in the dropbox, out of everything that there could possibly be a cure for, "cures for insomnia."
Well, my friend, if you are indeed reading this at a time when your eyes should be closed and little z's should be partying with numbered sheep in and around your head, I bid you good night and good luck.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Muggy Day... Perfect Day For a Lazy Blog Post!
SooooOOooo... since I got that Psychology GRE studying book, I haven't cracked it. Eeep. I did though, register for the test, so I really should start working on it. The only thing is that I'm not exactly sure how to work on a book that I got on loan from the library other than photocopying the parts that I would normally write on. The problem with that, now, is that I like to write on everything. Highlighting, pen, pencils, scribbles, drawings... anything that will help me to solve a problem usually leaves some sort of paper trail. My current master's thesis proposal, for example, is currently all over numerous papers. Sigh...
I'm quickly learning that not being in school in the summer and trying to work on a big project somehow enables me to want to be lazier than ever. This will not do.
In consideration of my daily vlog, though, I have been doing very well with it. I'm weirdly proud of it. People are asking me questions about books and wanting to know my opinion on something. They are taking my advice. It's uplifting!
Meanwhile, in trying to motivate myself I've found that I just don't work the way that I do while I'm at school. I think that this is because when it is the school year I am running away doing a lot of things, studying, working as hard as possible... taking on something like studying for a major standardized test sort of just fits into what I'm already doing.
It's also not particularly helpful that there is just so many fun things to do during the summer and that all of my friends' schedules are massively open for event planning. Gah! Fun! It's getting in the way!
Okay, I'm just being a little funny there, but really: I find it difficult to mold summer into a productive work time when everything around me is fun or everyone around me is having fun. Hmm... I'm not trying to say exactly that studying and reading and writing isn't fun. For me it is. Just a different kind of fun. The productive kind of fun that involves hard work.
Summer is popularly known to be the time to relax! I need to figure out a healthy balance and quickly!
I'm quickly learning that not being in school in the summer and trying to work on a big project somehow enables me to want to be lazier than ever. This will not do.
In consideration of my daily vlog, though, I have been doing very well with it. I'm weirdly proud of it. People are asking me questions about books and wanting to know my opinion on something. They are taking my advice. It's uplifting!
Meanwhile, in trying to motivate myself I've found that I just don't work the way that I do while I'm at school. I think that this is because when it is the school year I am running away doing a lot of things, studying, working as hard as possible... taking on something like studying for a major standardized test sort of just fits into what I'm already doing.
It's also not particularly helpful that there is just so many fun things to do during the summer and that all of my friends' schedules are massively open for event planning. Gah! Fun! It's getting in the way!
Okay, I'm just being a little funny there, but really: I find it difficult to mold summer into a productive work time when everything around me is fun or everyone around me is having fun. Hmm... I'm not trying to say exactly that studying and reading and writing isn't fun. For me it is. Just a different kind of fun. The productive kind of fun that involves hard work.
Summer is popularly known to be the time to relax! I need to figure out a healthy balance and quickly!
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
The Psychology GRE
Even though it is the middle of the summer, I have this problem in which I can't relax and I need to be doing something productive, anything, something... so I started this new project in which I make a video a day for a year. 365 days of videos is a pretty strong commitment in my mind, and so far I've made it to Day 49. I've been trying to figure out what to do to celebrate my reaching Day 50, which is tomorrow. I think I just figured out what: my return to this blog! So, if you are reading this because my Day 50 video blog sent you here, then welcome. Welcome to another part of my life, which is studying profusely for major standardized tests that have major sayings in my career path.
If you are reading this and you have no idea what I am talking about ("Video blog? What?"), then I would recommend for you to check it out on YouTube. My user name is katinatreesee. Here's a link!:
365 Days of Book Reviews and More
If you are here because of the vlog as well, then it should hardly surprise you that I am doing something like blogging about studying for the GRE, which stands for the Graduate Record Exam and is required by most liberal arts and sciences colleges and universities for admittance, along with GPA scores, recommendations, background experience, and the actual application nonetheless. To catch you up, I started this blog to assist myself and anyone who might be panicking about taking the GRE with studying for the said test. I took the test for the first time in January and got a score of 1400 (Verbal: 680, Quantitative: 720, Analytical Writing: 5), which is pretty good score for what I want to do. If you don't know what I want to do, it's to be a clinical child psychologist.
So, getting back to the intent for this post... I'm back! The time has come for me to begin studying for the Psychology GRE. I thought about it today because I was at the library returning a DVD and decided to do some browsing. I came upon the standardized test materials section and guess what was the first book that I read the title for? Yup... How to Prepare for the GRE: Graduate Record Examination in Psychology. It was like... fate.
Of course I took the book out for loan.
In other news, I've also been hired as a private GRE tutor for a Manhattanite school teacher who is looking to take the test as soon as possible. Pretty sweet. I'll let you know how it goes... I'm supposed to start at the end of July.
Thus begins the journey again... another adventure filled with reading, writing, and statistics. Oh, statistics... how you make me cringe with doubt in myself...
That's another thing, too. I am going to be taking an advanced statistics course this fall. Fifteen minutes ago I literally bought two of the textbooks that I will be utilizing in the course. It's going to be interesting... maybe I'll also write a little about statistics in psychology to help some souls out.
I hope that you all are doing well! If you are going to check out my vlog (video-blog...vlog), I hope that you enjoy it as well.
Cheers,
Katrina
If you are reading this and you have no idea what I am talking about ("Video blog? What?"), then I would recommend for you to check it out on YouTube. My user name is katinatreesee. Here's a link!:
365 Days of Book Reviews and More
If you are here because of the vlog as well, then it should hardly surprise you that I am doing something like blogging about studying for the GRE, which stands for the Graduate Record Exam and is required by most liberal arts and sciences colleges and universities for admittance, along with GPA scores, recommendations, background experience, and the actual application nonetheless. To catch you up, I started this blog to assist myself and anyone who might be panicking about taking the GRE with studying for the said test. I took the test for the first time in January and got a score of 1400 (Verbal: 680, Quantitative: 720, Analytical Writing: 5), which is pretty good score for what I want to do. If you don't know what I want to do, it's to be a clinical child psychologist.
So, getting back to the intent for this post... I'm back! The time has come for me to begin studying for the Psychology GRE. I thought about it today because I was at the library returning a DVD and decided to do some browsing. I came upon the standardized test materials section and guess what was the first book that I read the title for? Yup... How to Prepare for the GRE: Graduate Record Examination in Psychology. It was like... fate.
Of course I took the book out for loan.
In other news, I've also been hired as a private GRE tutor for a Manhattanite school teacher who is looking to take the test as soon as possible. Pretty sweet. I'll let you know how it goes... I'm supposed to start at the end of July.
Thus begins the journey again... another adventure filled with reading, writing, and statistics. Oh, statistics... how you make me cringe with doubt in myself...
That's another thing, too. I am going to be taking an advanced statistics course this fall. Fifteen minutes ago I literally bought two of the textbooks that I will be utilizing in the course. It's going to be interesting... maybe I'll also write a little about statistics in psychology to help some souls out.
I hope that you all are doing well! If you are going to check out my vlog (video-blog...vlog), I hope that you enjoy it as well.
Cheers,
Katrina
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