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Sort of cratered yesterday, so only managed to do my Japanese and a bit of Spanish. Been awake for roughly 20 hours at this point and still need to stay up since I have things to do today, so won’t have energy in me for the full work until maybe a sleep or 2. Will still stick to JP/SP until I’m back on track. If it wasn’t for MaruMori and Duolingos streaks, I’d probably have a few missing days.

(I know Duolingo isn’t so good, but I use it mostly to keep the habit).

It’ll be worth it in the end. Wherever that end might be. I’m sure. Enjoying the journey is a smart move too.

Thanks. I tried college in the past but never managed to make it far at all. Working on myself these days for growing as a person firstly, but also have better temperment. I have mental health issues where I can hit rock bottom on a dime, so it’s a constant struggle to maintain anything, but I guess I’m finally learning how to manage myself better.

Unfortunate you also go through stresses and pressure, but good to know the meditation helps. Keep on rocking on in your own journey too!

I use a website called MathAcademy, it’s very expensive but I’ve found it’s best for me and motivation. There’s better structure to learning than KhanAcademy I’ve found. Khan teaches you something but doesn’t really reiterate over it later, so you might learn something a few months ago then have to relearn it to get past the next Khan questions. What ended up making me ragequit it completely though was having no idea what I was supposed to search for when they were talking about a maths problem, using maths I had learnt but forgot, and I spent ages trying to find it to not be able to find it. Mixed in with the only weekly streak keeping you going on Khans, it didn’t really motivate me very much, but this other website I use, the daily goals of reaching 30xp or 50xp keeps me active. It constantly reshuffles older teachings into your pile too, which is better for longevity in that knowledge, and the lessons are sort of short and to the point. It felt on Khan, I’d spend about 15 minutes on a lecture to do 5 minutes of maths to have to repeat it, so I also wasn’t very fond of the nature of having to sit through mountains worth of videos to progress.

Long rant, but Khan is free and it’s good, but if you can afford it I’d say mathacademy is probably more worthwhile. I feel like if they lowered the price, I’d probably stick to it long after I’d need it for college based things.

My routine, when my days are stable include: Japanese, Spanish, Irish, Maths, Programming, Blender, Exercise, Meditate. I do projects like VRChat worlds/avatars and stuff if I’m tinkering in Blender, Godot/boot.dev stuff sometimes with programming. I’m actually not good at most of these and still have to rely on friends for input for various aspects like Unity quirks/baking, languages/meanings, programming and the like. The meditation might seem like what’s the point, but I’ve often ended up thinking about what would help me, and it tends to be the main thing popping back up as potential solution, so I also give that time too. I’ve also been on and off these tasks for various years, but I think what I’m learning the most about this trial is just learning to dedicate time towards it and be consistent.

I’m not working at the moment, so I’m sort of preparing myself for a full college life when the time hits. I sort of expect a lot of these tasks to run off into the abyss (except the maths/programming and Japanese/Spanish). So I try keep a rigid schedule so I’m a lot less overwhelmed by college when it starts. I have study sessions with a game developer friend as well as my GF. We all do separate things.

The apps I use to study Japanese are MaruMori and Busuu. For Spanish it’s Duolingo and Busuu (in the near future, also Conjugato). For Irish it’s a mixture of Rosetta Stone and physical books, sometimes Duolingo if Rosetta Stone annoys the crap out of me, because those audio screenings are terrible. Maths is MathsAcademy. Programming is boot.dev, YouTube tutorials (ClearCode on YT is fantastic for starting off), misc other tutorials and friends help. Blender I use Udemy and YT tutorials, along with asking a Blender guru I happen to know. Exercise is my bike/dumbbells. And Meditation I use GuidedMeditationVR (no voices), or Playne, if I don’t want to enter VR, I just put on some low disturbing ambience music then try meditate for 30 mins.

Wall of text. Sorry.

For the loooonnnnngest time, I had issues running VR on Linux. And for a few years when I started off (many years ago), most games wouldn’t run. Things have changed since then however. Now I’m finding all the desktop/handheld based games I want to play; I can just play. In addition, the issues I’ve constantly had with VR now have been alleviated (albeit with some manual tinkering).

Desktop games without anticheat will just work 99/100. VR takes some effort to work, but is worth it. VR on Linux still isn’t exactly perfect either. You sometimes press something in a game, the screen will freeze and you can see/feel it for sure. But, that happens maybe once every 10 mins or so, so it’s workable since all I use VR for is VRChat anyway.

Life’s good on Linux now. Besides college, I don’t think I’ll be needing to switch to Windows at all anymore. Oh, actually, now that I remember. I run World of Warcraft through bottles. Every so often WoW updates and kills functionality. I have to rebuild my Bottle, shift my files over and then it runs again, but that’s also outside of what Steam does, so.

Besides all of the above, I think I can stick full time to Linux now. It feels wonderful having an operating system that doesn’t own you anymore.

Few rough days recently, haven’t put much time into the Irish, but still going strong with Spanish and Japanese. Still blown back from that day for some odd reason. Getting on top of things again but need to rebuild the steam.

I do various other things in the day besides my languages, so I’m focusing more on studies that benefit college life over my Irish, despite that being the language I want to learn the most, (Japanese and Spanish have more use cases for me, however).

Proud of getting my maths streak up and running, not language related, but also more difficult to maintain (at least to me).

Edit: Also Rosetta Stone is sort of difficult to wade through with Irish, better than Duolingo, but the mandatory microphone tests drive me up the walls.

I use that, as well as Spirit City: Lofi Sessions: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2113850/Spirit_City_Lofi_Sessions/

I started off with this one, then maxed out achievements, then am on your one now and trying to max out achievements. On level 35/50 atm. Then will be heading back to Spirit City after, just because there’s more to unlock on that one.

Studied Japanese, Irish and Spanish for roughly 30 mins most days this week. Something happened to me yesterday so now I’m completely knackered and just want to give today a rest, but most likely won’t. I’ll be diving into it once I have my dinner.

Been using various study apps I found on Steam. They help keep me going.

Yeah, it can be quite overwhelming at times. Realistically I’d be a lot less burnt out if I decided to stick with just one language. But I honestly can’t. I would study about 20 languages in a day if I had the time for it. So I have to settle with just the 3. Takes a lot of time out of my gaming/social life, but I think eventually when I can speak properly in all 3, I’ll have more time for language based immersion/socializing/gaming to the point it’ll eventually pay off. So I have that future goal I have set for myself. Going to be a great day when I can finally partake in discussions in all 3.

I study a variety of things, and as of late the motivation has come back to me. (I blame having covid for knocking the wind out of me though). Did roughly 30 mins Japanese, 20 mins Spanish and 15 mins Irish today. Really wanting to pump an hour into each eventually, but need to give it time.

On May 22nd I bought an app to help me study. So far it’s working. Been more motivated to do more since.
Also a spell of desire stems from my GF and friends being encouraging moreso than usual. Which is nice since I’ve been burnt out for the past few months.

Hoping to maintain a stable week of committing myself to all the tasks I laid out for myself. It’ll be neigh impossible, but I’m looking forward to at least attempting a full week of full commitment. Still haven’t peaked since lockdown when I was able to do absolute boatloads of work everyday, but getting there.

Studying, studying and more studying.
Then hanging out with the GF maybe.
Few rounds of Gunfire Reborn with the friendos.
More studying.
Oh and exercising!
Oh yeah, and tinkering with both Godot and Blender now too, so that’ll be fun. Trying a 11 hour tutorial series of Godot on Youtube by a creator called ClearCode. It’s amazing what YouTube tutorials you can get for free!