Daily 5 - Day 330

Today's Daily 5:

1. 330 days of daily 5 lists
2. getting back another stats assignment with a grade of 95%.  What you need to understand is that the last time I got a grade like that in math, I was probably 6 years old and just learning to add and subtract.  I barely scraped through math in high school with a grade that would get me admitted to university, and that grade was a blessing, since the year I wrote the diploma exam, the math one was being tested, for new curriculum, and was only worth 20% of our grade instead of the usual 50%.  So, to get a grade like the 88% I got back yesterday and the 95% I got back today really shocked me and encouraged me and gave me hope.  I've been absolutely slogging through stats this week, and wasn't at all confident in the work I was doing on these assignments, and to get those grades felt like such a gift and confirmation of this crazy path I'm pursuing these days.
3. managing to focus and study for probably close to nine hours today.  I really needed to feel well enough to put a day like that in, and I haven't all week, so it was a blessing to do so today.
4. a couple of really good chats in the last few days with a very dear friend
5. taking the evening (after about 8:00) off to just do nothing, putter online, etc.  Not bringing homework home with me tonight.
6. fresh cherries
7. peanut m&m's
8. 10 minute yoga for a third day in a row
9. finishing a third stats assignment today as well
10. walking home to grandma's after mom dropped me at the office supply store to get another assignment scanned.  After all those hours of studying, it was nice to just be outside (after the heat had dissipated a bit) and get a bit of exercise.

Learning

To be honest, at the moment, I'm a bit stressed out.  Everything has taken longer than planned this week, and, though I've built a bit of leeway into my study schedule for the summer, there's not a lot, and I'm probably two full days of studying behind where I'd like to be at this point.  I'm reminding myself, too, that some of the things I've given time to this week, some social things, were absolutely necessary.

It's easy to look at my schedule for the week and think, "I 'wasted' time with that coffee date, or seeing so and so."  But the time wasn't wasted.  It was time that fed my soul.  And that is so necessary as well.

It's just not easy to remember that I matter too, not just the self-imposed deadlines.

It's also a lesson to remember to check not just my social calendar, but my school calendar for the upcoming week or weeks before I schedule social engagements.  To work on balancing those out so that I don't have several social engagements in the midst of a painfully busy week.

I'm learning.  About myself, and how I handle stress.  About my moods and motivations and discipline.

And about anatomy and statistics too.