My Summer Plan

It's all done! Three days ago I finished my biology exam, which marked the end of my high school career. It was also the first day in about a year that I was completely stress-free. I celebrated that day with hours of computer games, and the next two days went more or less the same.

A Summer Update

I have only had one post in the past 40 days or so, and that post wasn't even something that required a lot of time— I merely copied and pasted one of my economics assignment.

The question is— why? Shouldn't I have a lot of time due to summer vacation?

Well, throughout July, I have been in an intense camp called Shad Valley, where I participated in various activities from 9 o'clock in the morning to 10 at night. This is not to take into account the time for breakfast, showering, and Skyping my parents. So basically, I had nearly no time nor energy to update the blog.

For August, I probably won't be able to spend a lot of time on the blog either. I have an internship starting on August 7th, and it's from 9 to 5— it's longer than school! I am also volunteering at a hospital once every week, and there are just so many things that I want to fit into the tight summer schedule: applying for scholarships, reading novels, going to Bible studies, etc.

Still, I plan to write a blog post for every novel that I read, as well as one for my month-long experience at Shad Valley. I will do my best to make sure that I fulfill this goal!

Goals for the Rest of The Year

So, as the title has indicated has indicated, here are my goals for the rest of the year:

• Exercise at least two hours every week
• If nothing special comes along, memorize 20 vocabularies every weekday
• Do all physics homework
• Study properly before each physics and chemistry test
• Perfectly solve each problem encountered in the programming team
• Finish each English writing at least a day before it is due
• Study the following topics for math:
  • Euclidean and analytic geometry
  • Trigonometry, including functions, graphs, identities, sine and cosine laws
  • Exponential and logarithmic functions
  • Functional notation
  • Systems of equations
  • Polynomials, including relationships involving the roots of quadratic and cubic equations
  • The remainder theorem
  • Sequences and series
  • Simple counting problems
  • The binomial theorem
  • Elementary number theory, including tests for divisibility, number of divisors, and simple Diophantine equations
• Learn harder algorithms for programming
• Make sure that I get a good sleep before each test

My Summer (August) Plan: Failed

At the end of the July, I made a post about what I wanted to accomplish during the rest of summer vacation. And I miserably failed.

Here's the details (normal font=goal, bold=reality):

My Summer (August) Plan

It has been more than one month since summer vacation started, yet due to summer school and many family affairs, I haven't really been able to do the things that I want to do for summer. Therefore, I now have to squish everything into August, for once school starts I will probably be too busy to do these things.

So here are the things that I want to accomplish before school starts:

• Read at least 12 novels
• Finish watching all the videos of the computer methodology course and complete all the assignments
• Finish watching all the videos of the game theory course
• Pre-read my grade 11 and grade 12 math text books
• Study at least 20 vocabularies per day
• Read the book Algorithms 
• Practice for the seniors computers contest
• Practice for the various math contests
• Gain some general knowledge about Western history

As you can see, this is a very long list. So I must not slack off during the remaining days of summer.