In which a horribly overwhelming TODO list is revealed

September 26th, 2010 • Academics

Yeah. Horribly overwhelming is an understatement. I always get really excited for the weekend because I figure that’s two days of sixteen hours in which I can “really get stuff done”. What usually happens, however, is that three quarters of Saturday is spent visiting my family (and by that I mainly mean visiting the love of my life (and by THAT I mean my golden retriever)), a block of time which is bookended by a few hours of America’s Next Top Model, cleaning and general dicking around the house. So that’s one day down. Then by Sunday, I am so distraught by the fact that I haven’t even started on my seemingly endless to-do list, I get overwhelmed and what little work I manage to get done in between stressing out and jogging is horribly unfocused.

Ugh! I miss the days when my exams were “paint what you feel when you eat chocolate” or some crap like that. Actually, I don’t. I hated that.

So, I am going to commandeer a whole blog post to a to-do list, mostly for my sake. This gives me a modicum of accountability, at least, and it’s a little more permanent than the wayward scraps of looseleaf I usually write my todo lists on and lose/destroy shortly thereafter. And maybe in a few years, I can look back on this and laugh. If I survive.

Important Dates & Deadlines
Wednesday, Sept 29th: Math 302, assignment 2 due
Thursday, Sept 30th: CS312 assignment 0 due
Friday, Oct 1st: Math 223 assignment 3 and Ling 101 assignment 1 both due
Friday, Oct 8th: CS322 assignment 2 due

Math 223
Read sections 1.6 (all) and 2.3 (up to Theorem 2.3)
Get assignment  #3 finished to the point where I can go to office hours and not look like a twit
Summarize important sections (I use the Cornell note-taking method)
Do practice questions for sections 1.2 to 1.6 and section 2.1

Math302
Work on assignment #2 so I don’t embarrass myself on Tuesday when I meet with the prof
Work through the handout problems from last class
Find a textbook that I actually like|
Summarize important sections

CS322
Work on assignment #1 (due Oct. 8th… lots of time right? I wish.)
Summarize important sections (i.e. read my Norvig text since what I absorb from lecture is equivalent to what a rock absorbs in a puddle)

CS312
Read chapters 4 to 7
Work on assignment #1
Summarize important sections
Install Hugs on my machine (sigh)

Ling101
Absolutely nothing. (Remember the Arts faculty stereotype? Yeah.)

Misc. Stuff
Download gedit for my computer (since GVim is cranky)
Dig up my old CS121 notes (which involves going into the closet… eek)
Find my actual dayplanner so I don’t have to spam the Blogsquad feed with my mundane to-do lists
Make a new running playlist because I’m sick of bad Crookers megamixes
Get a fob for the CS buildings so I don’t get stranded (again)

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