Days left: 63

Now that we've hit the 60s mark, meaning there are just about two months between now and graduation, it's starting to feel real. Two months can pass exceptionally quickly, especially if one is consumed by senior projects and other things.

In any case, I'm glad that I finished the first stage of testing for my senior project. If I didn't stay over campus and run people, I would be even more behind than I am.

So to analyze what my progress was like over break:

1. Submit applications to jobs and internships
2. Have an outline of senior paper by the end of break

2a. preliminary literature review

2b. run 15 subjects
3. Finish a rough draft of my directed research paper
4. Feel prepared for my programming midterm
5. Make serious headway on programming pset 6
6. Work out every day as if it were a class (reward is watching the last episode of Coffee Prince!)
7. Feel like I've made it to beginner status on the guitar
8. Read article, Frederick
9. Read chapters 71-80 of SOTS
10. Write up bibliography of 5-6 books or sources/text for SOTS paper
11. Read Furth, Blood, Body, and Gender

Interestingly, the things that I didn't get to were the things that are more long-term projects. Perhaps this has to do with the stressfulness of long-term, large projects? I realize that for such large projects, they seem like they loom over you especially if you think of them as One Large Monstrosity. It's beginning, taking the first step, that's daunting. Maybe it will be helpful if I break them down into piece-wise steps. I think it would feel much better.