At least I could create my timetable for the upcoming university term and I can say, that I feel very much motivated to make up for the slacking around of the wintersemester. I after the quite hardcore ending of the university year last summer, I had felt a little bit done with everything and didn't really work as hard as I should have - that and concentration problems, but I have the feeling I am beyond this now. Or so I hope.
I love learning, but I have my difficulties with the mass-education-system that is University. I really miss actual interactions with the teachers, sharing more than just one course with your "classmates" and something like decent timetables, that don't feature random 3 hour breaks where you don't know what to do. And on top of that, I deal very badly with multiple choice tests, definitely something I will try to imrpove this term.
I have always known, I had a complicated way of thinking. No one knows, where it comes from, but sometimes I have the feeling that my brain works in it's own ways. The way how I solve mathematical problems shows this quite clearly - back in my schooldays, I have always had the longest papers and in the time where I was studying at the Technical University, one of our tutors always avoided letting me demonstrate, how I solved the homework, because despite of my endresults being perfectly fine, it was the very way of how I did it, that made him facepalm quite a bit: "I don't know how you came up with this and I don't understand your explanation of why this is legit - I mean it is, I guess, but wow. Please no one do it that way."
And I will not even get started on my mindmaps, they are a nightmare.
That complex form of imagination and approaching problems can also be very handy - I can say without shame that I am very good at solving encryptet texts. It is very much to our dungeonmaster's dismay, because he knows that we cannot play campaigns, where our party has to obtain keys to solve a cipher, because I will solve it just as it is, before we even go out trying to find hints. Same goes for combinatory riddles like Einstein's five house riddle.
This is my strength. Multiple choice is my weakess.
I feel like it also is, because by just crossing off letters, I am being rid of the possibility to explain why I selected them and why something is technically not a wrong answer.
I know that i need to focus more on the actual question and stop seeing all these other possibilities and options and yet it is hard. Quite frustrating as well sometimes to fail tests despite knowing that in an oral exam you would have probably scored very high. Just by looking at my grades, you can tell which ones were multiple choice exams and which ones weren't.
But the fact is; I am the one that has to adapt. In all honesty, I don't know how but my almost unbreakable optimism is telling me that it will work somehow. Or so I hope.
Grateful for any ideas and suggestions of course, maybe there is a simple solution to this issue that I am not able to see because my mind is trying to be everywhere at once again.
Also, it has been a while since I have shared inspirational music (yes it is with choir again) - you are welcome!~
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