MON 24/06/2024 - quarter 4 week 10/10 - exam season
You know what, actually I really love life. I love my studies and I love the sun and I love reading and I love singing along to music and I love eating food that I made and I love cycling and I love the Netherlands.
I made my study playlist so that after every 50 minutes of study music (aka the instrumentals from the Frozen soundtracks lol), three of my favourite songs play. And it makes such a difference! Like, first of all it reminds me to take breaks, of course, which makes my study sessions far less tiring. But also it just makes me happy, and it makes me happier about the studying too.
Anyways, today I went back to the library to study Signal Analysis. I reviewed the remainder of the exercises, and did one past paper. And afterwards, I went to the nature domain outside town and it was lovely. Today was a real summer day and I'm grateful I got to enjoy it.
I also worked some more on my summer camp preparation. If anyone on here happens to know some more little challenges to incorporate in a game, that'd be most welcome. Think stuff like "make up a song about camp" or "draw each of the counsellors but make them alpacas" (the theme is alpacas (my group) and the beach (general theme of the week)).
Before I go on a rant about keyboards, here's today's completed to-dos:
- review remaining signal analysis exercises
- review signal analysis theory notes
- past paper august 2017
Also I'm practising my QWERTY typing skills because I struggle at every computer exam because I'm used to AZERTY but basically all of the rest of the (Western?) world is not, and it's fucking pain. I typed out all of today's camp preparations with my keyboard in QWERTY and wrote this post that way too and it's fucking pain. For some reason, " and ' are nowhere close together? And the accents are nowhere (don't even think about ç)? And the whole thing with using shift for interpunction rather than for numbers sucks too. Like what is this. I much, much prefer AZERTY. Maybe it'd help if I actually had a QWERTY keyboard so I could see what I was doing, but still.
ALSO THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UK QWERTY AND US QWERTY?? Whyyyy -_-
For reference, this is what my keyboard looks like:
And this is what my current keyboard settings are:
And this is a US keyboard:
Don't be fooled by how similar they all look. It's like reading Swedish as an English or Dutch native. Looks similar, but not similar enough to actually understand what it's about when you look closer. The difference in typing speed is significant.
But if I want to be slightly efficient on coding exams, I'm going to have to at least learn where the ^ and : and " are without having to actively search the keyboard every time. Good luck to me I guess.