Week 4 is in the bag and week 5 is upon us or upon just me really. As for he term 'in the bag', I never really understood it because when you say 'I was half in the bag' it means you were drunk and week 4 isn't twice as drunk. Anywho, the past week was a tough one as I knew I was behind with Data Sufficiency and last Monday was the Apple event where the Apple Watch was reintroduced along with the new MacBook which stole the show. I was so juiced when I got home last Monday night that it was all Apple. I spent the night reading everything I could find out about the event and watching the Apple product video. I spent the rest of the night writing a humor column about the Apple Watch.
Tuesday night was much of the same with he final editing of the Apple Watch piece and, since I study for 45 minutes a night, I was already 90 minutes behind two days into the week. I had studied for an hour on both mornings so it wasn't a total loss. I kept to my usual schedule but spent 30 minutes studying Friday morning to try to make up something.
I went to the Apple Store after work on Friday then went out for drinks with a friend afterward which got me home at almost 1am. I stayed up until 3am and slept until 9:15am on Saturday. I felt like crap and it took two hours to get going and I was way behind the eight ball. The previous Saturday, I had begun at 9am and studied for one hour one, then a 45 minute break, then another hour of study and I did this until 5pm. There was no study fatigue and I had excellent retention.
This past Saturday I needed to ales some changes. Since I started 2 hours and 15 minutes late, I decided to study in one hour segments with 30 minutes of in between each. By 6:15 pm, I had 5 hours of study time in and I had completed my studying for the week. And that was the problem; I only finished the homework assignments but didn't do any extra which is what I was supposed to do. The previous week I logged around 17:45 and this past week was 13:45 which seemed somewhat short.
I'm on the train heading home from my Manhattan GMAT class and we started today with Data Sufficiency. We launched right into problems from the minute go and I was lost. She'd give us two minutes and then she'd walk around the room to see how you're doing. On the first two problems I had nothing and she walked by to see my work, then she stopped. On the first pass she asked if anything looked familiar and I just stared back confused. On one of the problems, she asked in front of the class how I attached the problem. I said "I wasn't sure where to begin" and she started the problem and came back to me and I had nothing.
I more than made it up on the problem solving questions and for Critical Reasoning, I was a rockstar with all the answers. I finished the session really strong but it didn't make me feel good about Data Sufficiency. This week, I'm going to spend extra time on DS. Like the ocean waves, I'll keep coming until the problems just give in to me.
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