Is it better to study when you're tired, or rest up?
I always seem to get fatigued in the middle of a semester, where it's been a while since I've chilled out properly, where it's not new anymore and becomes more of a slog, but the assignments and exams haven't yet piled up so the adrenaline hasn't started pumping yet.
My eyes are always glued to the computer though, and I really hate that. I'm definitely going to try get to yoga next Saturday, right before my Jurisprudence essay is due. Should do something about my bike too.
I feel like I should really be making progress on that essay, but so far it's 15 words in with around 4k words in notes. Given how much sleep I got last night, though, when I actually sat down to start writing it, I couldn't make out the argument I had written out at all, the one that I know is pretty good because even the ever wise lukas signed off on it. Problem is, I can't currently make heads or tails of my own argument, much less try comprehend the positivism v natural law debate as a whole.
So, I gave up and decided to write this entry instead. I think I'm getting better at writing narratives, though, whether it be in fiction, about my own life, or an argument from beginning to end.
This past week, I got asked to join the postgrad moot team, which I'm super happy about. Add that to two high distinctions (barely, barely, but still) in two quizzes and I should probably be a lot happier than I am. That's personal and acedemic progress! But I still wasted a lot of time, and maybe I could have gotten even higher marks, gotten a bit closer to my Oxbridge pipe dream. I've read about this constant striving to improve more as a function of our human-ness, let's us make incredible progression as a species and that makes me a feel better to think of myself as part of this grand, Hegelian ascription of history. So it's okay to constantly feel a clawing need for improvement, because at least it serves a good function on the large scale, and no, God can't fill this void.
So fuck you, postmodernists, the englightenment project may be misguided and wrong in some aspects, but totality is something I reckon we can achieve, and stripping us of our meaning does no favours.
Anyway.
I better go vote. There's a $50 fine for not voting in this country, didn'tcha know.
My eyes are always glued to the computer though, and I really hate that. I'm definitely going to try get to yoga next Saturday, right before my Jurisprudence essay is due. Should do something about my bike too.
I feel like I should really be making progress on that essay, but so far it's 15 words in with around 4k words in notes. Given how much sleep I got last night, though, when I actually sat down to start writing it, I couldn't make out the argument I had written out at all, the one that I know is pretty good because even the ever wise lukas signed off on it. Problem is, I can't currently make heads or tails of my own argument, much less try comprehend the positivism v natural law debate as a whole.
So, I gave up and decided to write this entry instead. I think I'm getting better at writing narratives, though, whether it be in fiction, about my own life, or an argument from beginning to end.
This past week, I got asked to join the postgrad moot team, which I'm super happy about. Add that to two high distinctions (barely, barely, but still) in two quizzes and I should probably be a lot happier than I am. That's personal and acedemic progress! But I still wasted a lot of time, and maybe I could have gotten even higher marks, gotten a bit closer to my Oxbridge pipe dream. I've read about this constant striving to improve more as a function of our human-ness, let's us make incredible progression as a species and that makes me a feel better to think of myself as part of this grand, Hegelian ascription of history. So it's okay to constantly feel a clawing need for improvement, because at least it serves a good function on the large scale, and no, God can't fill this void.
So fuck you, postmodernists, the englightenment project may be misguided and wrong in some aspects, but totality is something I reckon we can achieve, and stripping us of our meaning does no favours.
Anyway.
I better go vote. There's a $50 fine for not voting in this country, didn'tcha know.