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What did you do this week?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
I’ve spent all semester really excited for my internship this coming summer at a startup. Got news that it wasn’t going to happen due to COVID-19 and eventually was told I could still tag along as an unpaid intern. Essentially everyone I know had their offers rescinded so I figured an unpaid internship is better than no internship.
Feeling really deflated by it but it’s pushed me to work on coding challenges and take a couple Udemy courses to help improve my chances when I graduate next year. I’m going to try and use this time as wisely as possible.
On a more happy note, I fell back in love with reading again. I forgot how much I actually enjoyed it. Rather than looking at the book and thinking about how much more I have to read, I’m enjoying the process of being in the moment and taking in what is being read.
This is me too! I hadn't sat down and read a fiction book for pleasure in... months? Over a year, maybe? Now I'm rediscovering how nice it is to dive into a book and live in its world and with its characters.
This may be a strange connection, but what I think helped me get back into reading is running. I started running and training for a longer distance run before the virus hit and initially I hated it. After some time, I began to enjoy the adventure and stop counting the miles.
I used to read and always look at how many pages I had before the end of the chapter, how many chapters before the end of the book, etc. Like miles, I began to enjoy each page and engross myself in the story. It took a little bit but I really started enjoying reading again because of it.
I've started to apply the same logic to other things in life such as school work and my relationship and I realized something - patience was never my thing but once I embraced it, my life significantly improved.
Oh, I definitely know that feeling of being hyper-aware of reading progress! For a while, I had to put a small strip of tape on the bottom part of my Kindle screen to cover up the progress bar for the books I was reading. I seemingly couldn't escape focusing on what percentage of the book I was at. It was constantly breaking me out of my "flow" state. The joy of reading for me is when I no longer realize I'm reading and instead the story is just sort of happening in my head. Unfortunately, that can be a hard state to get to, and it's easy to get jarred out of. Nevertheless, when it's right, it's right.
Wrote about my TTRPG system for the first time in any coherent fashion.
Most of my efforts have been keeping myself up from a major ongoing shift in sleeping schedule.