Man,
My struggle with the college level studying isn't so much going over the information and trying to learn the information. It's figuring out what information to focus on and study that.
I keep finding all of these side resources and things to help with work on Spanish.
In Spanish, the class, we're learning muy gramatica. But, I'm wanting to be able to hablas.
So I'm finding things that teach me hablas over gramatica, but the focus of the class es gramatica at the moment.
The other issue is that much of the vocabulary that I've picked up in my extracurricular studies is just now being gotten to in the class work and the vocabulary from class is just now being covered in my extracurricular.
Gah!!
So. Yeah, I'm struggling. Also, with this last section I haven't had as much time to sit and study as I would like. What I need is a study partner with a similar schedule to my own. But working nights, doing myself no favors in making friends at work, and being as socially awkward as I am I just randomly spout contextually appropriate phrases around people that seem like they know Spanish and see if they respond with the appropriate answer.
It's worked a little, and those that actually know Spanish that I've been saying "Buenos Dias" or "Como estas" too have been polite about suffering the bad accent and responding in kind.
But, the extracarriculars and class work are starting to overlap, so if I keep on keeping on hopefully it all start to mesh and I'll be able to hold at least a kindergarten level conversation in the near future.
Also, I'll be needing to study spelling more. The online part of the class I'm taking is brutal when it comes to that and I'm constantly mucking up when to use accent letters and spellings based on the pronunciation of my weird accent that blends together spanglish, texmex, mexican, itallian, and latin pronunciations. It sounds pretty, kinda, but it does not help with sounding out words for spelling.
Other than that, classes are going decently. I still haven't learned to slow down when it comes to doing the simple arithmetic in my math class. Trying to blast through the "show your" work portions of the assignments and writing out equations about as fast as I read them. Then transposing a number here, or forgetting to factor a coefficient there, or forgetting to flip the negative to a positive when finding GCF's etc.
So, yeah, I'm picking up the way to show the work and not just jump to the answer, but my brain being so impatient to get to the answer keeps making simple transcription errors that flub up the whole damned equation.
Ah well, I'll get it all together and hopefully have a good GPA at the end of the term.
Then there's acting class.
Which as I'm slowly getting rid of the jitters of being in front of my class mates now have to meet up with another individual to practice a scene with. Which, in this last week the one bit of rehearsal time I had they forgot about so...we ended up going into class at what felt like a cold read. But hey, group projects, Am I right?
Not to mention my social awkwardness and being unable to ask simple questions of like "when are you available" and then bulling ahead with how I see the way the script should be performed.
To many years as a DM coaching players through character motivations and awarding/penalizing them for going with or against the character choices they made at creation and their overall goals for that characters career/character arc. Which, again, is why I'm taking acting classes. Both to learn how to work better with other people and how to let go of the reigns and let someone else be the director of the action.
As well as learn to, well, act better.
Outside of that the research class I'm in is interesting and I'll be needing to sit down and actually work on the paper that will be my final before long. The hard part won't writing the paper as it will whittling out the personal exposition and focusing on the actual academic professionals of the subjects on the findings. Well, that, and remembering to appropriately site sources.
The digging for info and putting things together part... Well that's my jam, jelly, and peanut butter all slathered over a tall stack of fluffy pancakes. I'll just have to remember not to spend too much time on that and remember to focus on the actual course work.
Anywho, back to homework, studying my vocab and verbs, pecking away at my math problems and remembering to CHECK MY DAG NABBED WORK and not to rush through the simple arrhythmic to show how fast I can run an equation. When there's no one watching me do the work, just checking the papers at the end.
That and giving myself the mental down time to run around in Destiny and dig into the lore....oh yeah and wreck some fools in the crucible.
"Haha Guardian! More effort like that and we just might win this!"
