Weak 3

I'm on the train home from week 3 and this was somewhat of a painful one. Not physical although my back does hurt quite a bit and there is a mini-blizzard (that means snow) in NYC. It was a very disruptive work week with layoffs and my boss being carried out on a stretcher in the midst of all of that. My VP's last day was Friday and I was the only one, below the EVP/CFO level in finance. 

I logged almost 14 hours of study, which is three hours less than last week, but I finished all of my assignments. There are two things I didn't get to do. I'm having trouble with my quant stuff and more specifically algebra (also the name Buckwheat's horse from The Little Rascals) which doesn't have me so concerned as I slammed dunked algebra in high school but that was thirty years ago. 

The algebra didn't click any better in class today but I really didn't spend any extra time on it this past week. The ultimate success formula is: 1) know what you want 2) take action 3) notice the results 4) make changes based on those results and start over. Clearly I need some help and not just in the 'increasing my meds' realm. One of the books in my Manhattan prep class is Foundations of GMAT Math and I need to spend time getting back to basics since it's 30 years since I've used those basics. 

I'm sticking to my one hour in the morning and I'll probably up it to one hour at night but I make that nighttime hour my back to basics. To make up some of the time lost at night, I'll probably do 1/2 on lunch. That will be over 16 hours of scheduled study just to get my homework assignments done. I should get them done in less time and devote some of that 'free time' to Math Foundations.