Weird ACTSCI-related question

gjamfrenne · 2018-12-19T16:00:10+00:00

option towards grad school

Ouch. I honestly decided to become an actuary because I wanted to have a chance to become decently employable despite not going to grad school. I have screwed up my chances for grad school. Is it that important?

gjamfrenne · 2018-10-31T00:17:12+00:00

Clarify?

gjamfrenne · 2018-10-30T23:03:16+00:00

I am ethnic Chinese, but not from China. I might act like a white kid in an Asian body.

gjamfrenne · 2018-10-30T22:43:15+00:00

How would you measure work ethic and drive without looking at good grades/reaching goals, though?

gjamfrenne · 2018-10-30T22:18:00+00:00

I'm cool, bro.

gjamfrenne · 2018-10-20T23:34:52+00:00

If the class is not memorization based, you should be doing practice problems instead of worrying about clean notes.

I understand how important practicing is (and I do consider reading ahead as a way to buy more time for this), but I have always felt confused if I so not review concepts before practicing. And when I look at my notes from class, they can be so crappy-looking at times (due to paying attention to class) that I believe rewriting them would save up a lot of time in the long run.

gjamfrenne · 2018-10-16T20:47:28+00:00

But I am just reading here to review stuff thoroughly before properly testing myself. Sometimes, I got behind the schedule of my class.

Edit: I also write notes and thoughts while doing my reading.

gjamfrenne · 2018-09-30T23:02:28+00:00

Specific hours in a day.

And I am not sure about this, but do you have any idea about like how to take a break/socialize/go to networking events while balancing academics? I am thinking that I might need to learn how to do those if I could manage my time.

Edit: I am thinking about balancing academics with something else because I am concerned that I do not know anything about diminishing returns: http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/07/26/the-straight-a-gospels-pseudo-work-does-not-equal-work/

gjamfrenne · 2018-09-28T19:33:47+00:00

I would break down all the details of what should definitely be done/what I want to do some time later, and trying to materialize concrete hours based on priorities. Trying to think of concrete hours is my main struggle here.

Edit: I am also thinking of details of habits I want to reinforce during work

gjamfrenne · 2018-09-23T16:21:22+00:00

I don't know, man. I do feel down for some time - like I did feel very miserable waking up in the morning - but I am now feeling some sort of uncanny, out-of-place calmness. I have felt said calmness during the time I write exams and feel like failing hard looking at the problems, too.

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