🌿2021 Summer Studying Challenge 🌿

21/05/2021

👋 Hello

It's around 10 pm and I'm not yet sure If I want to sleep in early or just chill around with my phone a little longer .Today I completed the following tasks

Revised Group Theory

Revised stats for 15 minutes

Revised chemistry for minutes

Studied Bayers Strain Theory in chemistry

Complete 10 problems from group theory

Little bit of Duolingo (I'm learning French)

I also submitted my chemistry assignment today

I'm quite happy with how today turned out.In the afternoon I was thinking that I can't get it all done but some I managed so a little proud of myself today.

Tomorrow I'll be starting the Schaum's series for Abstract algebra.I'll not be doing it entirely now.I will just be focusing on the group theory part that is the first 10 chapters.I'm planning on doing 1 chapter a day for the next 10 days.If anyone wants to join me in solving the Schaum's series please let me know, we can do it together and keep each other accountable and help if doubts arise.It'll be just for 10 days so a very short period of time.

That is all that is there in my study part of my life right now.

I hope today treated you well as well😊If not, there is always a tomorrow🐣

Good Night 🌟

16/05/2015

I just finished revising for group theory. It's about 5.30 in the evening and I thought I'd have it completed by 9 in the morning lol. So anyways now I plan on covering the following topics

Group acting on sets

Orbits and stabilizers

Revise maths and catch up with this week's work

Solve 10 problems on Group Theory

Wish me luck and I hope you are having a better day than me!❣

🐼3rd July and 4th July of Summer Studying Challenge 2021🐼

Do you have a lot of work this summer?

The work is not a lot but I do need to be disciplined to get it all done.

What is the most important task that you need to complete this summer ?

I have to complete my mathematics assignments.These include Vector Calculus, Integral Calculus, Real Analysis, Linear algebra and Group theory.It might look like it's a lot but it is not.I have been struggling with Group theory assignment 3.It has been such a nightmare lol.I did speak to my maths professor about this and he said he will help me out.So a bit relived for that.

My July spread 🐻

In the above picture I have a calender where I put down major events, tracker for my habits, a monthly check in for reflection and improvement.

Happy and Blessed July to you ^^<3🌿

19/05/2021

Heya👋

It is currently 8.50 in the morning and I'm getting ready for a class at 9. I just finished some lessons on Duolingo. I kinda get into a competitive mood when I see my rank on the leaderboard and want to come at the top but I have to remind myself that I have other things to study too. So anyways today I'll be doing the following stuff

1 lesson of organic chemistry (It might take 30 minutes or less)

20 Problems on Group theory (This might take an hour)

Conjugacy classes in Sn and An (This might also take an hour)

I'm trying to work today in the afternoon because I don't want to work in the evening today. I have some catching up to do with my school friends. I haven't spoken to them in some time. I also want to make it a habit to work a little in the afternoon because distractions are so less.

I hope the day treats you well.If It doesn't always know that you are much much more than a bad day.

Have a Happy Day!!

I love nights because I can peacefully think about proofs without self made restrictions (To do lists and life)

Each time one of you followed me, I have got a smile on my face.You guys have made me smile like a hundred times.Literally.Thank You for sticking around.I love you guys so much. Just wishing the best for each one of you and nothing less.

Lots of love and tight hugs xx

Hello! If you don't mind can you tell me how you organised your journal for your academics.I am a maths major and I wanted to do that for my proofs as well.I did try searching on the internet but I didn't get anything good.

Thank You in advance xx

It was a really basic format honestly ! So these are all the journals I kept during my whole undergraduate degree.

The black ones were for course and module information, lecture notes, to do lists and essay plans.

The dark and light yellow were a reading journal and a dissertation journal. I wanted to separate my own impressions of texts and I wanted to keep all my dissertation research and planning in one separate place as obviously I was conducting it by myself.

Black Journals

At the start of every year I would write down all the essential information from each of the four modules I was taking. This is an example (I have whited out the name and email of my course convened and lecturer for privacy reasons). But it includes contact information, lecture and seminar hours and locations, learning outcomes and assessment criteria (the things you will be assessed on, obviously paying attention to these helped me get top grades), assessment information (how many essays or exams I had that year and how much they contributed to my final mark and how many words they were) and finally the primary reading list.

This is what a spread of my lecture notes looks like. I always hand wrote my lecture notes because I couldn’t retain information and didn’t enjoy using a laptop. In my first two years I used a rough notebook to write them down then wrote them up neatly later, which was too time consuming for third year. But by that time I had developed my note taking skills and felt confident writing them up as I listened in the lecture. I just wrote the name of the module and the text we were studying and the date for reference. I would change to a red pen for anything I felt was key information. I know most people won’t like this method but I write fast and quite neatly !

My to do lists, essay plans etc didn’t really have a format obviously. I just wrote down what I needed to do, did some rough mind mapping, occasionally put a little doodle in. My essay plans were sort of all over the place but this is where I did my essential planning and then rough work tended to be on scraps of paper or on the draft essay document. The first is a checklist at the end of the year and the second is one of the essay plans/brainstorms for an essay I got a first in.

Yellow Journals

(i.) Reading Journal

I kept a reading journal throughout university, which I wish I had used more. It’s literally just a brain dump of all my thoughts and impressions of what I was reading and any quotes I found relevant. I included secondary reading in this too in my final year. It’s something I’m going to carry on with because I love having somewhere to keep my stream of consciousness about literature. It was so helpful for me to read over this when I was writing my essays because there were some really insightful bits of analysis or key things that I had forgotten and needed reminding of. Highly recommend everyone doing this, if not on paper then on a document on your laptop !

(ii.) Dissertation Journal

There was very little method to this journal. But having it all in one place really kept me organised. It was a place of messy but very important brainstorming, figuring out and rough work. It’s the sort of thing that’s probably only coherent to me. I just wrote down what I needed to do as I went along. So in the early stages there was a lot of trial ideas, there was pages of information about how we should structure and deal with our dissertations from lectures, deadlines etc.

The first image is the first page where I started writing out some vague ideas about the topics I wanted my dissertation to address and which literature that worked with. The last two are just an example of what some of my working out looked like, how I was deciding to structure my argument, and which secondary materials and theorists I would use for each chapter. But there were all sorts of things in there, random tangential points and ideas I needed to note down, tips about how to write an effective dissertation etc. It ended up being my highest grade so this definitely worked for me !

august 18, 2021

Hello! I’m in a pretty good mood today bc I’ve started getting homework done and I’m determined to stay on top of my work this year! I don’t want to make the same mistakes I made in my junior year and I have college apps, so I’m gonna work extra hard this year! Best of all, I also got the Director of IT position for an organization I applied for! :)))

18th August - What is your favourite summer drink?

Cherry slushies and chocolate milkshakes!

Hello! I really like your blog and it somehow makes me feel good and safe, your notes are really pretty! When I look at them they seem so interesting and I wish to understand them but the problem is I haven't even started university (I have just finished high school) and I'm kind of scared thinking it would be too difficult for me to grasp. It is just so different from high school math but at the same much more fascinating. Do you perhaps have any advice on how to introduce myself to it, where to start? Or should I just wait for the classes to start and then study?Best wishes to you!! Thank you

Hey @dantesdream !

I just want you to know that mathematics is difficult at the University level but it is not more difficult than any other university course.It is just different.📚

So how is mathematics different and why you shouldn't get discouraged by it?

There is an entire book written on it.It is called 'Alex's Adventures in Numberland' written by Alex Bellos.There is one particular page that I really like.It talks about how are brain perceives the world around us on a logarithmic scale but mathematics is linear and that is why we have to put the extra effort into it (To convert logarithmic to linear) but according to me this extra effort is far less than wading through hundreds of textbooks often contradicting each other that many other university courses require. Here is the cover page of the book I recommended if you would like to read it.

Apart from having a positive attitude towards it I think it'll be great if you could start studying it before your university begins.

So from where should you start?

If you know where you'll be going for your university studies then you can check if your university has uploaded their notes online and start accordingly.Some old students also usually post their notes,so see if you can get your hands on them.If these two options fail then there are two more.Oxford university has made all their mathematics notes avalilable.You can start with their Introduction to mathematics and complex numbers course (I'll put the link at the end).A student from Cambridge University named Dexter Chua also has made his notes available.You can start with Numbers and sets if you use his notes (Again I'll put the link at the end).

Oxford notes:

https://courses.maths.ox.ac.uk/overview/undergraduate

Dexter's notes:

https://dec41.user.srcf.net/notes/

You should be fine with these but the beginning steps into mathematics needs a little more help.You can use the book called as 'How to prove it:A structured approach' by Daniel J. Velleman.If you can read this with the first course that you are taking (your university notes or Oxbridge notes) then I think you'll enjoy the course more just like I did.Here is the image of the book

If you want to know more then I'm just a message away so feel free to ask your doubts.

And thank you for all your compliments hehe ^_^