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I think i have not the chance to mention it here, but i have landed a part-time job at school as a receptionist. Basically every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon i would be stationed at the front desk of the general office and tend to general queries and directions. Most of the time there wasn't anyone so i would just study, which i have to say that it gives me great progress with regards to computing and japanese language.

I also had the chance to meet various professors and enter different labs due to the nature of my job as an asset tracking personnel too. It is kind of a good feeling since i feel that it could be a chance to make myself a prominent figure such that people know that i can assist them...maybe. At least, i hoped to someday.

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I had my first lab session on Monday, 27 August. I have to say that despite earlier preparation for it, i am still caught unprepared by the practical experiment of it. There were lots of errors that i could not have foresaw just by looking at the lab manual. While they were not fatal mistakes, i felt that it could affect my grades to a certain degree.

At the very least, the report writing will be next Monday, which still give us some leeway with regards to grading since it is a guided report where the tutors will be holding our hands. This will be the case for the next experiment as well, but it does not mean that i can just let my guard down.

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Revision has been progressing well, though i have to say that for Calculus i still have reasonable doubt. While the lectures in class were too easy for me, the lecture online are way advanced for me to understand. I will need to put in more effort to make up for that gap in knowledge.

Also, i am starting to run into a wall with regards to physics. While the tutorials and assignments are still relatively easy, the lectures are getting ridiculously mathematical, especially when it comes to deriving the components of kinematics. I could ignore this for now since the assignments are still easy, but i know that sooner or later i will face problems...so notes for that on revising.

Computing and Japanese is probably my strongest now, since i had been spending considerable time on them during work. Perhaps i could divert the working hours to calculus and physics instead next week on.

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...these few days i had kind of lost my drive to study. I guess i am getting a little distracted with the lady, which i hope it is not the case...but deep within me, i feel myself drawn closer and closer to her somehow. I have to stop it...before i lose sight of my goal in entirety.

Be strong...

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