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School and productivity
Aug. 21st, 2012 02:42 pmI am slightly disturbed by how much I enjoy my math classes. Even Financial Accounting, which is horribly tedious and gave me some really nasty anxiety moments when the teacher started lecturing from Chapter One in a way that really felt like she expected us to have read it already on the first day of classes. I mean, I get it, it's a class that meets once a week, we need to get shit in however we can, but that was just plain stressful. Couldn't we have gone over the chapter as a group instead? (Sadly, at least half my classmates didn't have the book yet, so no, we couldn't. Even if the teacher had been set up to.)
But as I was saying, math classes! Gosh do I find adding and subtracting and multiplying and dividing fun! And figuring out what to math things by? Such a good feeling. Procedure! Concrete rules! Things that don't frikkin' change all the time! It's practically a guarantee that I'll know what to do, which is something that makes me very comfortable indeed. And if I don't know what to do, I at least know the basic building blocks to get me to where I do know (see: Financial Accounting). I seriously enjoy math.
Something I only figured out when I got to my first class yesterday is that basically half of my classes don't actually start until October. (Also, said first class of the day ends in October, just before the other two start.) Which, uh, whoops? I mean, not in a bad way, though my sitting-around-time is no longer built in. But it does mean I potentially have more time to work during the day, and I'm still a full-time student, so. I guess I'll just have to make the time? Sitting around the building after class can't be too difficult to make myself do. Just - blargh, homework.
I'm also writing! I have a good few paragraphs written of a particular Homestuck AU and I am quite pleased with myself :) I mean, it's mostly tell and not nearly enough show at the moment, but it's good progress, and huge chunks of "This totally isn't going to work" have been pulled out of the original concept outline and replaced with stuff that does work, so I'm definitely on the right track.I'm just hoping it doesn't actually turn into a trilogy the way it's threatening to. Or at least waits until after the comic wraps up to get to some of it.
One of these days I need to figure out what it is about going to school that encourages me to write/do creative things. My old hypothesis was that it was the "waiting time" that did it, but I'm beginning to wonder if it's not more closely related to "'enforced' learning". I really want to figure it out, though, because productivity = good.
No writing done for the Snow White and Rose Red and the Seven Dwarfs reboot yet (and I seriously need a less unwieldy title for that), but my gut's telling me I may need to get some more baking learning/experience under my belt before I'll be ready for it, so. Though my brain did suggest I mark the Red Riding Hood story as more of a potential sequel than prequel, which is... intriguing.
Anyway, back to things.
But as I was saying, math classes! Gosh do I find adding and subtracting and multiplying and dividing fun! And figuring out what to math things by? Such a good feeling. Procedure! Concrete rules! Things that don't frikkin' change all the time! It's practically a guarantee that I'll know what to do, which is something that makes me very comfortable indeed. And if I don't know what to do, I at least know the basic building blocks to get me to where I do know (see: Financial Accounting). I seriously enjoy math.
Something I only figured out when I got to my first class yesterday is that basically half of my classes don't actually start until October. (Also, said first class of the day ends in October, just before the other two start.) Which, uh, whoops? I mean, not in a bad way, though my sitting-around-time is no longer built in. But it does mean I potentially have more time to work during the day, and I'm still a full-time student, so. I guess I'll just have to make the time? Sitting around the building after class can't be too difficult to make myself do. Just - blargh, homework.
I'm also writing! I have a good few paragraphs written of a particular Homestuck AU and I am quite pleased with myself :) I mean, it's mostly tell and not nearly enough show at the moment, but it's good progress, and huge chunks of "This totally isn't going to work" have been pulled out of the original concept outline and replaced with stuff that does work, so I'm definitely on the right track.
One of these days I need to figure out what it is about going to school that encourages me to write/do creative things. My old hypothesis was that it was the "waiting time" that did it, but I'm beginning to wonder if it's not more closely related to "'enforced' learning". I really want to figure it out, though, because productivity = good.
No writing done for the Snow White and Rose Red and the Seven Dwarfs reboot yet (and I seriously need a less unwieldy title for that), but my gut's telling me I may need to get some more baking learning/experience under my belt before I'll be ready for it, so. Though my brain did suggest I mark the Red Riding Hood story as more of a potential sequel than prequel, which is... intriguing.
Anyway, back to things.
