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!
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