30th July 2020

To Kill A Mocking Bird By Harper Lee

"Shoot all the blue jays you want,if you can hit'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mocking bird"

This book throws light on various topics like prejudice, racism, civil rights, gender roles, perception, integrity without discussing them explicitly yet showing us a way to comprehend all of the topics and their effects on society.

The events take place in Maycomb, Alabama around the 1930s. It is as seen through the eyes of Scott Finch, a young bright girl of 6, inquisitive and brave to say the least. The book has the power to connect with the reader at a deeper level and help change the perspective on how one sees the world and the people in it.

Hey guys! I wanted to make a challenge that felt achievable to folks while still giving that sweet sense of accomplishment. My mental health has been rough lately so I kind of designed it for myself as I try to find balance between taking care of myself and taking care of my goals.

The rules: Every day for 14 days, study and post a picture of what you worked on. It can be for two minutes or for hours. Doesn’t matter—you did something! There are also mental health prompts for each day I’d love if you answered. They range from pretty light to more thoughtful. Do your best!

I’ll be tracking and reblogging from the tag #TwoWeekStudyChallenge. Please don’t worry about your pics not being aesthetic enough or that what you’re doing isn’t interesting enough. It is, I promise!

This is set up like the 100 Days of Productivity Challenge: no start/end dates. It’s a personal challenge that’s there when you need it!

Week One Prompts

Day 1: What self care did you practice today?

Day 2: What did you do that made you feel proud today?

Day 3: Have you experienced burnout from studying? How did you handle it?

Day 4: How can you improve on taking care of your mental health?

Day 5: What kind of support do you wish you received from your school/university?

Day 6: What popular self-care ritual does nothing for you?

Day 7: What small thing brings you the most comfort?

Week Two Prompts

Day 8: What’s your comfort song?

Day 9: Do you think your long term goals are achievable and healthy? Why or why not?

Day 10: What subject brings you the most joy to study, either for school or on your own?

Day 11: Do you take mental health days? Do you think you should?

Day 12: What’s your creative outlet? What’s a new one you’d like to try?

Day 13: What makes you feel inadequate? Would you think it made a friend inadequate?

Day 14: What makes you feel strong and capable?

Do you have any favourite theorem(s)? I'd love to know xx

oh okay i like this. and of course i have favorite theorems, mostly based on how useful they are. here you go :

fermat's theorem (for congruences)

lagrange's theorem

fundamental theorem of finite abelian groups

density theorem

fundamental theorem of calculus (the one which uses riemann integrals)

wilson's theorem (for congruences)

special mention : squeeze theorem (mainly cause of the name)

Zero to the power of anything is zero. Anything to the zeroth power is one. So what is zero to the zeroth power?

The world's most cited mathematicians would seem to be in disagreement about the issue

🌟3rd August 2021 🌟

Summer Studying Challenge by @myhoneststudyblr

Q. What is your least favourite thing about the beach?

Probably getting sand in my hair lol

📷 The picture attached is my bujo spread for the first week of August.

📚Currenly Reading : Men of Mathematics by E T Bell.

Hello, welcome to mayusthings where I'll be simply talking about my daily life as a maths undergrad and topics in mathematics that gets me jumping out of happiness!

I hope through this blog that people will get to see that mathematics is a cool subject that can be conquered one step at a time. I also want to make it more accessible to everyone.

Hope to see you around:)

Picture credits:étoiles on Pinterest.

july 16, 2021

Hey everyone! For the past few days (and since I found out about energy management) I’ve actually been super productive and getting all my work done! It’s very satisfying tbh. And I’ve already started planning out my senior year again. I’m aiming for all A’s this semester! And it’s gonna be difficult because all of my courses are either honor level, accelerated honor level or college level courses because of the school I go to (besides stuff like PE, student life courses, etc) but I’m confident that I can do it! :)

16th July - Do you have any summer traditions?

I usually travel out of the country each summer, but COVID -_-

Hello! If you don't mind can you tell me how you organised your journal for your academics.I am a maths major and I wanted to do that for my proofs as well.I did try searching on the internet but I didn't get anything good.

Thank You in advance xx

It was a really basic format honestly ! So these are all the journals I kept during my whole undergraduate degree.

The black ones were for course and module information, lecture notes, to do lists and essay plans.

The dark and light yellow were a reading journal and a dissertation journal. I wanted to separate my own impressions of texts and I wanted to keep all my dissertation research and planning in one separate place as obviously I was conducting it by myself.

Black Journals

At the start of every year I would write down all the essential information from each of the four modules I was taking. This is an example (I have whited out the name and email of my course convened and lecturer for privacy reasons). But it includes contact information, lecture and seminar hours and locations, learning outcomes and assessment criteria (the things you will be assessed on, obviously paying attention to these helped me get top grades), assessment information (how many essays or exams I had that year and how much they contributed to my final mark and how many words they were) and finally the primary reading list.

This is what a spread of my lecture notes looks like. I always hand wrote my lecture notes because I couldn’t retain information and didn’t enjoy using a laptop. In my first two years I used a rough notebook to write them down then wrote them up neatly later, which was too time consuming for third year. But by that time I had developed my note taking skills and felt confident writing them up as I listened in the lecture. I just wrote the name of the module and the text we were studying and the date for reference. I would change to a red pen for anything I felt was key information. I know most people won’t like this method but I write fast and quite neatly !

My to do lists, essay plans etc didn’t really have a format obviously. I just wrote down what I needed to do, did some rough mind mapping, occasionally put a little doodle in. My essay plans were sort of all over the place but this is where I did my essential planning and then rough work tended to be on scraps of paper or on the draft essay document. The first is a checklist at the end of the year and the second is one of the essay plans/brainstorms for an essay I got a first in.

Yellow Journals

(i.) Reading Journal

I kept a reading journal throughout university, which I wish I had used more. It’s literally just a brain dump of all my thoughts and impressions of what I was reading and any quotes I found relevant. I included secondary reading in this too in my final year. It’s something I’m going to carry on with because I love having somewhere to keep my stream of consciousness about literature. It was so helpful for me to read over this when I was writing my essays because there were some really insightful bits of analysis or key things that I had forgotten and needed reminding of. Highly recommend everyone doing this, if not on paper then on a document on your laptop !

(ii.) Dissertation Journal

There was very little method to this journal. But having it all in one place really kept me organised. It was a place of messy but very important brainstorming, figuring out and rough work. It’s the sort of thing that’s probably only coherent to me. I just wrote down what I needed to do as I went along. So in the early stages there was a lot of trial ideas, there was pages of information about how we should structure and deal with our dissertations from lectures, deadlines etc.

The first image is the first page where I started writing out some vague ideas about the topics I wanted my dissertation to address and which literature that worked with. The last two are just an example of what some of my working out looked like, how I was deciding to structure my argument, and which secondary materials and theorists I would use for each chapter. But there were all sorts of things in there, random tangential points and ideas I needed to note down, tips about how to write an effective dissertation etc. It ended up being my highest grade so this definitely worked for me !

Hello! I really like your blog and it somehow makes me feel good and safe, your notes are really pretty! When I look at them they seem so interesting and I wish to understand them but the problem is I haven't even started university (I have just finished high school) and I'm kind of scared thinking it would be too difficult for me to grasp. It is just so different from high school math but at the same much more fascinating. Do you perhaps have any advice on how to introduce myself to it, where to start? Or should I just wait for the classes to start and then study?Best wishes to you!! Thank you

Hey!

I just want you to know that mathematics is difficult at the University level but it is not more difficult than any other university course.It is just different.📚

So how is mathematics different and why you shouldn't get discouraged by it?

There is an entire book written on it.It is called 'Alex's Adventures in Numberland' written by Alex Bellos.There is one particular page that I really like.It talks about how are brain perceives the world around us on a logarithmic scale but mathematics is linear and that is why we have to put the extra effort into it (To convert logarithmic to linear) but according to me this extra effort is far less than wading through hundreds of textbooks often contradicting each other that many other university courses require. Here is the cover page of the book I recommended if you would like to read it.

Apart from having a positive attitude towards it I think it'll be great if you could start studying it before your university begins.

So from where should you start?

If you know where you'll be going for your university studies then you can check if your university has uploaded their notes online and start accordingly.Some old students also usually post their notes,so see if you can get your hands on them.If these two options fail then there are two more.Oxford university has made all their mathematics notes avalilable.You can start with their Introduction to mathematics and complex numbers course (I'll put the link at the end).A student from Cambridge University named Dexter Chua also has made his notes available.You can start with Numbers and sets if you use his notes (Again I'll put the link at the end).

Oxford notes:

https://courses.maths.ox.ac.uk/overview/undergraduate

Dexter's notes:

https://dec41.user.srcf.net/notes/

You should be fine with these but the beginning steps into mathematics needs a little more help.You can use the book called as 'How to prove it:A structured approach' by Daniel J. Velleman.If you can read this with the first course that you are taking (your university notes or Oxbridge notes) then I think you'll enjoy the course more just like I did.Here is the image of the book

If you want to know more then I'm just a message away so feel free to ask your doubts.

And thank you for all your compliments hehe ^_^

Monday, 3rd April 2023

Quantum Notes - Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation

Back at the notes this morning after a chilled weekend; I’m hoping to finish quantum today, as the quicker I make my way through notes and flashcards and onto proper practising, the better - fingers crossed for a productive day :)

🎵 Deadwing - Porcupine Tree