Curb Your Smartphone Addiction by using Forest. https://www.forestapp.cc/

I have been using this APP when I need to stay focus. Because it helps me to leave along with my phone for a while and whenever I want to stay focused, it plant a tree. And the tree size depends on the time I stop using the phone. Leaving the app halfway will cause my tree to die.  I think it somehow can help people to stay away from their phone by the tree plant achievement. Once you set up the timer, you cannot use it, even you leave the app, it gives you the warning message. You can also noticed that the top right corner has the total gold coin you had earned so far. However, you should always set up the break time, it reminds you how many minutes left, so you can move on to the next maintain focus time.

Here is the screenshot when I set up 25  mins goal, once I didn’t use my iPad during this 25 mins. The App will plant a small tree for me. And you can always go back to check your past achievement by counting your tree and summing up your time.

• Online student success:
  • Handshake, https://osu.joinhandshake.com/,
  • Really resource for job hunting process, includes career fair, professional workshop and events.
• Communication:
  • Zoom, https://zoom.us/,
  • Zoom plays very important role during pandemic. But also a good resource for group project, such as team meeting, sharing screen, and survey.
• Efficiency:
  • Google sheet, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/,
  • Creating a weekly spreadsheet helps me to manage my time, in order to make any improvement.
• Studying:
  • Carmen, https://carmen.osu.edu/#,
  • Being a student, I would say checking your Carmen daily is part of my life now. So I have a clear idea when is the deadline, and any incoming assignments.
• Note-taking:
  • Notability, https://support.gingerlabs.com/hc/en-us,
  • I do use Notability for all my note-taking, I found out it is easy to keep and look up the old notes.
• Searching and researching
  • Kaggle, https://www.kaggle.com/,
  • Aa a data analytics major student, Kaggle is a good place for self-learning and doing research.

For this week blog, I want to share these useful resources, not only for studying, but also time management, note-taking, and campus student resource. You may have different thought than mine. That’s ok. Just pick the one you like most. Above all the resources, I highly recommend Notability, I would say I use it all the time. It can be my daily planner, slide notes, and I can also write my assignments.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=unsupervised+learning+R

Here is one useful learning video I found on the YouTube channel. Recently, I was working on one statistic project, which required us to use R do some unsupervised learning given us the large dataset. This video shows clear idea about how to present categorical and numerical variables in R. And how to pick the best visualization.

To be honest, I haven’t think about try to find study material from Youtube. I always google some learning blogs, which are boring and long. Instead of reading long article, watching a short video is much fun. You can exactly see how they code and operate. And at the same time, I can try code by myself when watching the live video.

After this week studying, I learned that try to find out all available online sources to help you success. I haven’t think about YouTube has some useful videos for me to learn. But after learning this week module, I find one more study tool can help me!

1. Google, https://www.google.com/.  (Links to an external site.)It organizes the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Google provides me a lot of useful learning information. During in school, sometimes we didn’t get what the professor say, or we may want to explore one subject deeper. I use Google a lot helps me improve the ability  to do my self learning.

2. Kaggle, https://www.kaggle.com/ (Links to an external site.).  Kaggle is  is an online community of data scientists and machine learning practitioners. For our data analytics major students, we use it a lot. It either give us the newest dataset or the perspective of improve one model or one graph.

3. LinkedIn Learning, https://www.linkedin.com/learning/me?u=2185266 (Links to an external site.). LinkedIn Learning is an online educational platform that helps you discover and develop business, technology-related, and creative skills through expert-led course videos. Personally, I use it as my self-training tool. It taught me not only technical skills, but also the soft skills, such as communication skill, team work skill.  

Those three tools are my favorite, and I almost use it every week. I want to share it with you. Hope they will give you some insight about online study tool.

This week’s class provide me a great insight of time management. My  biggest challenges when it comes to time management is when so many things came to me together at the same time, I feel frustrated. Since this is my last semester, I have been working on the job hunting, it also along with being a full time student and part time intern. So everything become unorganized when you were assigned to an unexpected interview. It will mess up your original plan. And you have to live with it.

What I have learn from this week is that focus on one thing at a time, finish it efficiently and then move on to another task. I may still feel frustrated, but this skill can help me to finish these tasks efficiently. When I practise it again and again, I believe I can overcome my emotion finally.

Next week I will focus on keeping tracking my time using Google Spreadsheet, comparing the results from this week. And conclude any conclusion to help me tracking my time. In order to see whether I make any improvement from this week. Overall, it will beneficial to my focus.

I love this quote because it tells you a clear idea about focusing one thing at a time until you make it. So I want to share this with all of you who as a student as well.

Citation: https://www.therandomvibez.com/stay-focused-quotes/

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I achieved my goals set in week2. The strategies I have used in the past two weeks is using the study manager app, which a very useful app I learned from another class. I set up my weekly study events first, and when the time is up. The app will reminder me whether I am studying. Most of the time, I will answer yes. I don’t have any challenge related to goal setting and time management yet.

By using the study manager app, I set up my weekly study events first, and when the time is up. The app will reminder me whether I am studying. It is a good tool for reminding me the due day. If I already finished, I just click yes to confirm I am studying. If I haven’t done or was working on it, I will know today is the due day, and I will finish up it quickly. So I used the strategies in the reading, write a daily to-do list first on my iPad, and set mini goals weekly using study manager. So I can allocate the time before the deadline. One thing I want to talk about Study Scheduler is that it won’t allow me to schedule two events at the same day. Maybe can fix it after, since only one assignment per day is not very realistic. The tool to track my progress is my daily to-do list, I cross the evens I finished and working on the rest of the events.

Creating a daily to-do list is definitely a best way to achieve my study goals. Normally, I do the most close due day assignment. Give them my priority.

Reference: Study Manager APP

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