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cramming

Today sucked. Or yesterday rather. I tried to cram last night -also put up this blog-, so I didn’t go to sleep. I fell asleep in class a few times. My body just shut down. By the end of the day, I had to fight to keep my eyes open. This was the last day for getting caught up with Obj-C (taught by Mark Fenoglio) so we can dive in to the foundation framework first thing Monday morning with Joe Conway. It was a wasted day.

Mark has been a good teacher. He managed to cover the equivalent of a 4 month college course in just 2 days. We moved really fast. He’s also a really funny guy. A true performer. I wish I would have prepared more before coming here. I understood the stuff I was able to cover prior to arriving when we reviewed them in class, but everything else went right over my head. Straight up charlie brown style. Lack of sleep didn’t help either.

I crashed as soon as I got back to my room (7pm ish) and woke up about 12:30am. I’ve skimmed over the course material for this week, but I still have to brush up on syntax. So I’m going back to the beginning chapters of the first book and reading through until I don’t understand the syntax. Then brushing up on those before I move forward. Each subsequent chapter has a heavy dependency on your knowledge of the last. So I found myself quickly daydreaming while reading because it wasn’t sticking.

Going to catch 2hrs of sleep and wake up a few hours before class to see how far I can get. Did I mention this is really hard.