a little math

alright people, i know you are all dying to know how much i actually study. well, to give you a clue, lets do some math from this past weekend. on saturday i studied from noon until six, minus a lunch break, so about five hours, then from about 8 till eleven, so 8 hours total. on sunday i studied from 10 until 9 minus breaks for lunch and dinner, which were probably a little more than 2 hours, so lets say i studied for 9 hours or so. the total for the weekend was then 17 hours.

we had 15 lectures last week, and will have another 15 before the next test (oct. 6). i reviewed 7 lectures this weekend. so if 7 lectures took 17 hours, that's a little over two hours a lecture.

i'm up to lecture #8. how many hours will it take me to review the rest of the lectures? 22 more lectures, a little over two hours a lecture, do you think i could do it in 50 hours?

lets take into consideration too, that i'm in class until 4 or so every day. cuts down on the review time.

i should be done by christmas.

so why have i not killed myself yet? first of all, this weekend actually was a pretty good weekend for studying, though the raw numbers don't show it. part of it was because i found a new study partner (arlin, he's from san francisco). which at first made things take longer because we reviewed lectures i had already gone over on my own (doubling the study time necessary). but then when we got into a rhythm, reviewing went faster. and we weren't going over material i had already reviewed. and i learned it much better studying with him. all that to say, i think i'll actually be able to go over at least a couple lectures a night this week with him.

which will get me caught up to...the lectures we went over today. sigh. so even if i work really hard this week, i'll still be almost a week behind on reviewing lectures.

math sucks.