This piece of writing is mostly for myself. I want this to act as my journal. I've always tried to see life from others' perspective. I think it's time to see it from mine. This can act as a rough draft of my life.
If you're very nosy and want to kn...
Since I slept early yesterday, I was very much awake today unlike yesterday.
I went to college, the first lecture being a finance one. Frankly, I'm having a difficult time getting a hang of this lecture. This lecture is pure theory and the professor is known for throwing information around here and there. But I'm mostly at fault not the professor.
I should be revising everything that he's done in class and do some extra reading on my own to understand the concepts better. Since I am not doing that, all the topics are going above my head. I zone out after only half and hour of the two hour lecture. I really need to read up so that I know more about the subject and don't just sit there like an ignorant dumb fuck. I think I can catch up even now if I put in more efforts. So yeah, let's do this?
I had a sudden urge of eating instant noodles during the short break. But instead of going to my normal instant noodles area, I decided to try out the one we get at the make shift canteen in the design school. I had eaten that caterer's noodles before (when it was at some other place) and the quantity was good for the price they were offering it for so I thought this one would be better.
But no, first of all, I thought this one would be cheaper because it's in a college canteen but no, same price. Then they took longer time than necessary to make really bland tasting noodles. Wtf?! If felt like they had put two packets of noodles but only half a packet of the masala. My friends told me to ask them to put more masala and I did. The lady agreed immediately (which definately proves that they deliberately put less masala). But the noodles were already slightly overcooked the first time, so when she gave to me the second time, it was really overcooked. The noodles literally fell apart when I touched it. Horrible! I'm not eating there again. My normal noodles guy is MUCH better.
Quality before quantity.
After break we had a Financial Accounts lecture and we started with Internal Reconstruction. I understood every in the first go and was able to solve everything on my own which was good.
I met Kristen after my lectures and we went home together after a really long time.
Oh! I'm quite intrigued by YouTube's newest update. I can now see how much time I spend on the app per day or over a couple of days. There is also an option by which YouTube will inform me when I have been continuously streaming videos for about an hour and suggest me to take a break among other things to manage my time better. I didn't know how bad I needed these things until today.
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n the evening, I finally started to do something for my Marketing Assignment. There is still A LOT of confusion tho. So for this assignment, we have been divided into groups. Each group had been given a company (and subdivisions thereafter). We have to create a consumer journey and find 100 touch points and for each touch point, we need identify the desired experience, desired action and desired outcome. So we needed to fill 500 cells in an excel sheet and present it to the class. My group had UBER and our consumer was of the secondary type.
The problem was that all of the lectures so far have been all over the place and the professor didn't explain the points very well. Now each and every group was confused about the assignment and the shit takes way to long to finish. My group of 6 members had divided the journey/work into 6 parts: -> Before downloading the app -> UI/UX experienced after downloading the app -> A good trip using the UBER service -> A bad trip using the UBER service -> Customer Retention -> Miscellaneous
The parts were alloted into first come first serve basis and unfortunately I was the last person to see all this, thus getting stuck with the miscellaneous point. I had no definite realm to focus on and I just wasn't able to understand my role in this project. I tried to make some points but when I asked Paul for validation, he low-key rubbished all of them... sigh.
Paul and another member apparently had an idea about how to go through with the assigning but the issue was that they both had different views. So there was a lot of frustration while working on it. Both of them told me their views and I couldn't get a hang of it, so even I was getting stressed out.
I decided to clear my mind and called Venus. I hadn't spoken to her for months so it felt great talking to her again. But unfortunately, her life currently is not going well. She has been studying for (and have given a few papers of) competitive exams since last year and she's not able to give a shit about it anymore. She doesn't feel motivated enough to study. According to her, the batch mates ranks have been fluctuating but hers remains stagnant irrespective of whether she studies for it or not. Apart from studies, she has lost interest in even going to college, meeting or even interacting with humans. There are days when she doesn't even want to get out of bed. I really don't like seeing Venus like this. Even though I'm bad at it, I tried to give her words of encouragement. We collectively made a routine for her to follow, giving proper amounts study time and break time. She has about 3 months for the main exam and I want her to give her best.
I, on the other hand, spoke about the fate of my club, my college schedule and how I'm liking my studies this year. She is one non KPop stan who understands my love for BTS and KPop so we spoke a bit about them as well. She asked me whether I have found other KPop stans so I told her about Marissa and my fellow intern and how I think I'm better off fangirling on my own. I even told her about learning Hangeul and the Korean structures/culture through expats' vlogs.
I just got off the phone after realising that we had been speaking for a hour and now it's nearing 1AM. It's good that we can talk for so long even after not being in touch for months. I really hope the woman gets motivated and aces her exams.
