I dont feel like I’m actually getting anything from studying with the person I’m studying for the alg qual with except stress and anxiety. I never walk away feeling more confident and clarified. I would absolutely get more just doing focused solo work for the same amount of time
I think he gets something so I suppose I will go through w it but I’m so aggravated
If the study sessions are sacrificing your performance to aid someone else's, that's absolutely not fair to you! Please take care of yourself and protect your own bandwidth.
It’s like 4 intense hours of socializing with someone who doesn’t always recall Lagrange’s theorem but will fight about it
there's someone in my cohort who is really great to hang out with but really terrible for me to try to study with, and I've mostly stopped trying. our learning processes just do not mesh nicely
I think this is just sometimes a thing. Sometimes it’s like a difference in backgrounds and sometimes it’s a difference in how brains work. It took me awhile to figure out how to work with anyone so i guess I shouldn’t be surprised that with some people it just won’t really go at all
We do mostly get along fine when we are not talking about algebra
Feeling it today because now we’re going to do it twice a week. RIP my spoons
As a treat, I’m going to find a time to work with my friend who does help me before the exam. It’s harder because he’s at Purdue now but he said we could do a phone call
Me, trying to be a tuffie: I love algebra I love talking about algebra, people do not exhaust me