Feeling pretty good at the moment.
I said last week that I was probably going to fall behind with my uni work - and I did.
This past week kind of taught me that I needed to bring back some structure and planning into my life.
I had entered this year with the mindset of not taking uni too seriously - well at least not as seriously as year 12. I obviously wanted to do well, but I didn't really want to put in too much effort - which is a dumb idea and looking back, I shouldn't have underestimated the difficulty of uni.
So when uni started, I didn't create any homework/study plan, nor did I write down any sort of list of the tasks I needed to complete each day. This lead to lots of clutter in my mind, and me forgetting to do certain tasks, and overall me just being stressed out because I knew I needed to get shit done, but I didn't know exactly what shit actually needed to be done - if that makes sense....
Anyway, I have learnt that structure is necessary, and I've felt a lot less stressed an anxious because I now know what needs to be done and by when.
My computer science units are getting really interesting. We are learning about the internal structure of processors and how instructions are executed and how data is transferred within a system. It's kind of like studying human anatomy, but instead of studying the human body, we're studying a computers.
The maths we are doing is pretty fun - boolean algebra. The last lecture was on mathematical induction which I knew from doing algo in year 12.
The computer science subjects are very time consuming. The lecturer for the maths unit is really really good, but the computer systems unit lecturer doesn't fully explain things - leaving me constantly searching up questions on Google and Youtube to try and figure out and understand the basic ideas that the lecture has failed to effectively communicate to us. Pretty frustrating, but not too bad because the content is interesting.
My economics and accounting units for commerce are pretty boring tbh. They aren't difficult and they aren't that interesting - mainly because so far the concepts are the same as what's covered in year 12 eco and accounting.
I can't wait to learn about stuff that I haven't learnt about before.
My eating is getting kinda better - still pretty bad. My workouts are getting better though which is good.
I can pump out 70 pushups in a row which is awesome.
I haven't put any energy into my side-projects though which makes me feel really terrible. I will get back onto them once I have gotten ahead with uni work.
I did feel a little depressed over the past 3 weeks because of the whole change in my routine and the uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus and uni. It has taught me how important it is to be adaptable to change. Now I feel so much better and it makes me never want to fall back into the habits that I did fall into over that 3 week period - waking up late, going to bed late, eating junk, not planning my days, not saying no to distractions, etc. - because it genuinely is the worst feeling.
If I were to rate the current state of my life right now, it would be a 7/10. At the end of the week I hope to be ahead with my uni work and back onto my programming and investing projects. If I can effectively manage uni and my projects (and my health as well of course) then I could give myself a 10/10.