From: josh lauer (jslauer@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Mar 02 2008 - 22:09:37 ARST
I took 4 trips to make it, my only recommendation for studying is to take
care of yourself, don't take it "too" seriously and just flat out relax...if
your relaxed the information flows into the brain better and you type
faster. Get some massages (not the exotic kind, unless your into that sort
of thing) and just flat out chill out. Worked for me and my blood pressure
thanked me for it.
Josh
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From: "Carl Yost Jr." <yostc@sunpenguin.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 7:03 PM
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Subject: Re: Study schedule
> Granted my schedule is going to get worse but on the weekends I lab for
> 4-5 hours Saturday and Sunday. During the week I lab and read 2-3 hours
> each night. During lunch I read through the labs I did the previous night
> and take all my notes. My wife is pregnant so we don't do to much until
> the weekends so the weeknights are prime time for me.
>
> One thing I won't stop doing though is working out. If I don't work out I
> can't focus, my mind becomes scattered. If I don't work out I don't sleep
> well either. I try to make sure each night I get 7-8 hours a sleep or my
> brain will not retain anything through out the day :D. I have to watch for
> burn out or I will just start to resent everything about the exam...
>
> I don't think anyone but yourself can tell you what your schedule should
> be. Only you know yourself well enough to know what is going to work for
> you and what won't.
>
> Scott Vermillion wrote:
>> In all seriousness, I did give up nearly all of my favorite distractions
>> for
>> the period of Sept - Feb. I do not watch television (oh, Letterman and
>> Discovery HD occasionally) or movies (less than 1/yr is probably about my
>> lifetime average). I did give up (more or less) my beloved collection of
>> Cubans, which if properly smoked, can chew up two or three hours of an
>> evening. Perhaps this contributed to my reaching that burnout phase,
>> though? I don't really know for sure. But I can tell you that once I
>> got
>> back up on that horse in early Jan, the final four weeks were focus,
>> focus,
>> focus and I was no longer bothered with any nagging, lingering symptoms
>> of
>> burnout; I was actually more or less enjoying myself again. During this
>> time, I gave up my thrice-weekly trips to the gym (possibly a mistake)
>> and
>> my kids started bringing dinner to my desk and clearing it for me an hour
>> or
>> so later (and that was generally the one meal a day I managed to get in).
>> I
>> followed my own advice and dropped off the list, e-mail, and
>> landline/cell.
>> It was not a pleasant lifestyle and not one I look forward to readopting
>> anytime soon. All I can say for sure is that my little rebellious phase
>> and
>> the break it led to were ultimately what allowed me to regain my focus
>> and
>> to get my head out long enough to see that train (aka "The Beast")
>> barreling
>> down the track, ready or not (they take the brakes out of that sucker 28
>> days before it comes smashing into the terminating station)!
>>
>> And Rik is telling you the flat truth. He predicted back in August with
>> cunning accuracy what I had laid in store for myself and how it would all
>> unfold (no swap for a December date for me, eh Rik?). So listen to him
>> if
>> not to me, he's pretty well got this routine dialed in...
>>
>> Cheers all,
>>
>> Scott
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
>> Joseph Brunner
>> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 3:32 PM
>> To: 'keith tokash'; ccielab@groupstudy.com
>> Subject: RE: Study schedule
>>
>>
>>> On weekends I almost never go anywhere, just alternate between lab work
>>> and
>>> taking Netflix + food breaks.
>>>
>>
>> Why I suspect I needed 4 trips to get my number, while Scott Vermillion
>> only
>> needed 1.
>>
>> You need to drop all the extraneous bull shit.
>>
>> Your morning routine is also garbage. Here is my answer to you.
>>
>> Leave your house EARLY (by 4:30am). RUSH to work.
>>
>> DO all your studying BEFORE anyone gets in. by 10am you HAVE all your
>> studying done for the day. Anything else is gravy.
>>
>> Study at little more, perhaps the debugs you captured during your lab
>> study
>> in the early morning. Makes notes... now take all the notes you made at
>> lunch to the doc cd in the afternoon. If you study at night, only study
>> the
>> doc cd. On the weekends, sleep in. don't get up to early. Your body will
>> have a sleep debt you need to pay off each week. At about noon, hit the
>> lab
>> hard with full 8 hour labs. End the weekend days with reviewing your
>> configs, and debugs. Take notes as you go through them. Resolve any
>> uncertainties with the doc cd.
>>
>> This is my study routine for the next three.
>>
>> You'll never get anywhere with netflix.
>>
>> Just a friendly help.
>>
>> -Joe
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
>> keith tokash
>> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 4:38 PM
>> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>> Subject: Study schedule
>>
>> Dear Abby,
>>
>> I hate to say this, but I'm really burning out here and would like to
>> compare
>> notes a little. I wake up at 5.30am each weekday, but I'm a slow riser
>> so I
>> may not quite make it out of bed right away. Average time to start lab
>> work
>> =
>> 7am. I go until 9-9.15am, then head to work. I get home about 6-7pm (3
>> mile
>> commute) and get about 1.5 hours of lab time in. On weekends I almost
>> never
>> go anywhere, just alternate between lab work and taking Netflix + food
>> breaks.
>>
>> I've been doing this for about 3 months now, with another 6 months of
>> various
>> other schedules before that, and I'm starting to have more and more
>> trouble
>> focusing, and I'm losing my patience more as well. Of course I'm
>> becoming
>> more and more fun for my wife to deal with on the side.
>>
>> Does anyone have any type of advice or schedule that worked for them? I
>> don't
>> suppose it helps that I'm normally really busy at work too, so I can't
>> study
>> there, or take time to play video games like some sysadmin types seem to
>> have
>> time for. At this point I'm really having trouble just finishing the
>> last
>> two
>> tasks in my current lab on account of wanting to take a nosedive off my
>> balcony. I'm thinking a week off might do wonders, as I have a bootcamp
>> scheduled for March 17th, but I hate to lose the time (May 20th lab
>> date).
>>
>> With a few exceptions, secrecy is deeply incompatible with democracy and
>> with
>> science.
>> --Carl Sagan
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