CSE 2022: Plan/ Strategy/ Daily Routine

infamoussaid

are koi hai jo anthro ki strategy batade ya recommend krde kisi recent topper ki>>>  

sstarrrsaid

Consistency where are you? Please come to me.

Struggling with consistency post the break I took, its just so hard to sit and study when you have seen how it feels to not study and enjoy little things of life, that slow life where things happen at their own pace. 

But I guess life cannot move this way, you have to study. It sucks when you are not able to give it your all.  Cold is making it tough for me. I don't know where my immunity is gone, a little weather change and I become sick. Anyways whatever happens I need to gather myself tomarrow. Lets hope for a good day. 

Strict schedules from tomarrow. 

I will try to study whatever I could do now.  

Archandsaid

Celebornsaid

Came across a passage that resonated with me deeply and reminded me of this UPSC journey. 

"Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn’t something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn’t get in, and walk through it, step by step. There’s no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That’s the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.

And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You’ll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.

And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm is all about.”

Haruki Murakami (in Kafka on the Shore) 

Loved reading this. Putting the book on my reading list. This reminded of a poem I keep going back to in difficult times.

Sharing it here: Kahlil Gibran, Fear

It is said that before entering the sea

a river trembles with fear.

She looks back at the path she has traveled,

from the peaks of the mountains,

the long winding road crossing forests and villages.

And in front of her,

she sees an ocean so vast,

that to enter

there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.

But there is no other way.

The river can not go back.

Nobody can go back.

To go back is impossible in existence.

The river needs to take the risk

of entering the ocean

because only then will fear disappear,

because that’s where the river will know

it’s not about disappearing into the ocean,

but of becoming the ocean. 

Apologies for the poor formatting. 

Archandsaid

@Villanelle I have "If" as my wallpaper, perfect antidote to my limitless procrastination tendencies :P

@Purplesunbird Don't think we can ever go back to not re-reading "If". I'll keep posting something every once in a while! Good to see you back on the thread :)

Purplesunbirdsaid

Hello everyone! :) 

Let's bring end sem beast back. Less than 19 days to state pcs mains and I doubt anything substantial has been done yet. 

Trying my hands on cold brew for the first time. Let's see how that goes. It better be good, 12 hours of wait for it. 

Targets 6-02-22

    - Management - full

    - Audit and accounts - full

    - Hindi 

            - upsarg and pratyay

    - Law 

            -Tenancy and land revenue act

    - Bio - half 

See you all tomorrow. :)

Wima_Kadaphissaid

Started prep in Jan-2022.

Put everything into PRE preparation ONLY. Got 80.00 in both vision and vajiram key- GS and 117.XX in CSAT.

Feeling Quite upsetbcoz I had a condition with myself that if I clear PRE this time then only I may expect mains next time. But the scene seems bleak (as I am not good in answer writing; maths optional wala).Need some GYAAN.

Now devoting 11hrs= Current 3.5hrs+ Optional 3.5hrs+ GS 4hrs targeting 2023. Is it good? feasible? any modification needed? (Considering my not-so-fond-of-GS subjects attitude)

Purplesunbirdsaid

Today's update 12/07

    - Solid state physics-  theory 40% done

    - Newspaper 

13/07 

    - Newspaper 

    - Solid state 

            - finish theory

            - start with tut sheet

    - Yojana july

    - AWP - 3