Pop Quizlet!

I set a goal for eight lessons at Khan Academy today, but it turns out that my brain works about three lesson and three mastery sessions an hour.

I did four, just to feel like an overachiever. A little bit.

Which means that I'll probably go up one percentage point every couple of days towards my goal, if I can keep that up. An hour a day works pretty good with my schedule, so it should be doable.

Also made a little bit of a re-discovery. Something I already knew, but it was nice.

The next two chapters of the book I'm reading include a lot of vocabulary that will come in handy on the CISSP, which is the gold-standard certification for cybersecurity at the moment. So I will be needing those words someday.

I didn't want to just read the chapter and let it all fall out of my head, so I thought, "Hey, why not get some 3x5s and use them for studying?"

Then I thought again, and decided that it's time for something a little higher-tech than that. If I'm going into computer science, I'll need to get friendly with computer tools anyway - why not online 3x5 cards.

I went to quizlet.com.

I'd used them before, when I was studying for the A+ certification I never got, because it bored me to death, but they're all upgraded now, and nicer. Transferred the vocabulary into the computer and voila!

Lots of flash cards I can run through periodically when those words threaten to fall back out of my ears. Maybe I'll remember them a little longer.

For those non-math-minded, this website's also good for making goals, or affirmations, or for studying any subject, really. Just a handy learning tip for anyone else who might need it.

A Little More Failure...

"A little more persistence,  a little more effort,  and what seemed hopeless failure  may turn to glorious success."  - Elbert Hubbard I figured out this Labor Day Weekend that, if I study three lessons at Khan Academy a day, and engage in three mastery practice sessions, I should have most, if not all, the math classes at Khan Academy mastered within a year from now.  Could it really be possible to do this in baby steps like this? To completely retrain my brain? It seems like such a small effort - small from the outside, but herculean from within my mind. I'm going after something that felt impossible just a few years ago. I tell you though...it is getting more fun as I go along. Not the math itself...that's still work at this point. But it's fun to learn something I didn't know before. It's really fun to have those 'AHA!' moments, when something I'm struggling with suddenly makes sense. Still waiting for that to happen with rate problems, but polynomials was no problem whatsoever this weekend. It's all coming back. As far as computers go, I'm still approach-avoidance in actually getting my hands on the hardware and software itself. Have to stop being afraid to break things and take things apart. But I'm hoping, once I'm more versed on the mathematics underneath it all, then I can work on the fear of breaking things.