Studying for My Midterm as an Engineering Student | Midterm Study Vlog 📚

to the channel. Midterm season is upon us and I thought I'd do a video taking you guys along my little midterms this semester. Ignore the background noise but I will take I want to take you guys along my midterms and this is this video I think is gonna be separated in two parts. This week I only have one midterm on Thursday and then I have the reading week and then I have two other midterms after the reading week. For taking five classes I'm still blessed with having three midterms this semester but that means I still want to like really focus on them. So yeah I have a midterm this week and I am gonna be taking you guys along my studying till Thursday. Unrelated I want to show you guys my Valentine's Day flowers. Look at this one so cool and all of them are so beautiful. Look at that. Anyways I love my flowers and they smell so good. I love my flowers. I have been up since 7 in the morning pretty much but I stay in bed till 8 and then I spend the entire morning getting ready. I have this thing where it takes so so so long to get ready in the morning. I think it's just I'm really slow but I really enjoy taking my time in the morning. It's like a little ritual but then that also means that I'm really slow and I would have wanted to go to school earlier than I'm leaving today for. So for Thursday I have like a I have two things that I need to do. I need to stay for my midterm and I have an assignment I need to hand in for my history class and right now I have my lunch. I have gotten dressed. I have done my makeup and I want to show you guys my little OOTD. This is the outfit. I tried this yesterday and I really love it. I really love how it fits. It's really nice and I have this thing this also I'm wearing this with like my jeans nothing special but I really love this little sweater. I can actually give you guys a small little haul. I got this shirt as well. Like I went for sweaters and then I ended up not getting only getting this sweater. This shirt my mom said my mom my mom my mom said that this looks like a little old lady but trust me when I say that it looks good on me. This little shirt and I also found the pre oh I forget my polka dots because I love my polka dots. I found this short sleeve polka dot blouse and I found these dress pants that this like gray dress pants that look so so good and they fit me perfectly. They're just a bit long because I feel like they're meant to be worn with heels but they fit me so well and I'm so excited and they're so comfortable I'm so excited to wear them but yeah this is my OOTD. I tried doing like buns. I don't know how I feel about the buns yet. I feel like it looks unusual on me because I don't usually wear buns, space buns but nonetheless that is what we're wearing. So I didn't have time to do my journaling but my journaling my plan for the week but I have it in my head so when once I get to school I will do it. Today I have a tutorial of freaking long break and then a lab. I really want to decorate with stickers my what's it called planner my planner I want to decorate with stickers my planner maybe I'll do that tonight something I've been wanting to do. For my class I'm going to try and like start my essay. I went to sleep really late yesterday reading it and I'm gonna try my best to like advance it and then I'm gonna be like switching in between. I also have a quiz today yeah okay we're gonna make this work. It's negative 4 today which is actually like really warm. I remember seeing a video of someone talking about how they were going to Korea. I was watching a vlog and the girl said that oh I bought this huge scarf because in Korea it's gonna be 10 degrees and I'm not ready for that type of cold. I was like like my Canadian-ness I'm having yogurt for dinner at lunch my Canadian-ness could not with that statement yeah it was just a bit funny to me because negative 4 today really warm you could go out without cold you'll be fine I've done that a while ago. Hi guys I am back home actually I've been back home for a while it's 11 30 p.m. I finished my lab around 8 and you know the time I shower I get home I eat not in those particular orders but you know it's like it was like 10 20 and then I procrastinated a bit so then it was like 10 30 so basically from like 10 30 to like right now so maybe like a good 45 minutes. I was working on my essay for my history assignment I managed to do another paragraph before I am like clocking out I'm a bit too tired to continue that so I will be reading some notes for my exam on Thursday just you know so that it's in my head before I go to bed today busy day long day productive I feel like it could have been better I think in total though I did sitting for like four to five hours which is good I guess I feel like I could have been more productive but at the same time it's like a difficult situation because I'm like I feel like I worked I took a lot of time on a problem set that I was working on which really wasn't that long but I took a long time on it and I'm like well I could have been quicker but at the same time I was like well I was trying to understand what I was doing I still got everything wrong which was kind of demotivating but at least now I know it was mainly like mistakes where I wasn't like paying attention you know so you know better than I make those mistakes right now than during the exam oh well still I yeah so I was like really checking taking the time to try and understand the material hopefully I understood it but um I know what my mistakes are I know where my weaknesses are so tomorrow I'm gonna read my notes today tomorrow I'm gonna do another problem set tomorrow and then do a practice exam we'll see how that goes and I also kind of want to do like maybe flashcards we'll see but that's my plan for tomorrow so good night let's go to sleep hello good morning friends it is currently 9 in the morning 8 52 I woke up around 7 50 ish but I did like kind of lay on my phone I was actually arranging my storage for my phone for so I can film for the rest of the week so maybe I was productive but yeah and it's 9 I'm gonna be blocking my apps mainly TikTok and Instagram for like the eight hours and just had breakfast we got the morning matcha and we are gonna begin the study session with reading my notes again because you know just gonna do it over and over again until it gets into my head reading my notes again doing another problem set doing the practice midterm I don't know if I'll be able to do that because I want to study for the next two hours and then like take a shower or something and yeah so we'll see how much we can do in the next two hours but that is my goal and let's just get studying we've been at it for like an hour and a half I'm gonna take a small break I managed to finish my problem set it did take a bit of time I need to correct it and then I will do the practice midterm see where my difficulties lie so yeah I'm gonna take a small break shower get a snack and then we're going back at it also if you guys like if you're a person that tends to like stay on your phone like accidentally get distracted and go on your phone while you're studying my recommendation well first of all block TikTok and Instagram that will help you a lot as I've mentioned before I use the app Opal pretty useful and non-sponsored but pretty useful and another thing I really I do often is I will put my phone in my drawer right here just have a drawer my little drawer I just shove my phone in there and then I forget about it I just really I forget about it the entire time I'm studying so yeah just put your phone somewhere you can't see and you'll study hello I'm back from my break I'm trying to smile but I can't really it took like about an hour you know the time I showered the time I ate I'm on my second cream cheese bagel of the day you know I'm so crazy I'm gonna be wearing this mask until it turns clear and then yeah let's just keep going keep studying okay I just studied for like another two hours two hours and a half I did my practice midterm and I just finished correcting it I did decent I did good if I calculated correctly I should have gotten like an 86 on it which is good but I want to do better because I know I like messed up in some places and I was like okay well I need to do like if I understand this part I'll do better you know it was like a pretty it's a part where I have some difficulty so at least I know where I have difficulty and for like the other multiple choice like a true or false there were like really like specific and like really hard to understand but like easy to mess up so I want to practice that maybe do like my cue cards or whatever like to really practice these like specific questions and yeah I will go eat first because I'm very hungry and then I will analyze where I messed up because I did really good in a specific part that's like pretty easy to understand but I don't know if in the midterm that's coming up this is what he's gonna put you know he could put anything he wants so I have to be prepared so that's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna eat go maybe I'll try to see if I can find another midterm to practice tomorrow um oh my god my exam is in two days yeah I guess mainly working on the flashcards those took a long time even though I was copy pasting it because I don't know I didn't like how the they were making it seem and I was going between Quizlet and like gizmo and I don't know I didn't like how Quizlet was making it so I end up figuring something out but um yeah I'm gonna take like a break be like 30 minute break and then I want to try another sample midterm but I am getting pretty tired so I don't know if I should try actually I just just thought about this I'm gonna try to sample midterm tomorrow I have a huge break after my class I don't think that doing a practice midterm late at night while I'm feeling tired would be a good idea so now that just came to that conclusion I will still take a 30-minute break and I think I'm going to work on my assignment for my history class after because I'm gonna be I'm gonna try to do like be productive until like 8 because at 830 I'm going swimming and then after that I think I'm gonna be too tired for anything else so break I genuinely might just lie in bed but break alright guys we're going to the pool I've made my hair my braid is actually like a really good right now like there's no hair going out pretty impressive but we're going to the pool I'm really tired swim a bit and then probably go to sleep right after because I have to wake up early tomorrow for school guys I'm back from the pool I just finished showering it's 11 p.m. or like 1050 I came back around like 10 20 yeah pool was good really really tiring I did my 400 meters in less than 10 minutes 400 450 400 I did 400 meters and under 10 minutes which is like as a lifeguard requirement that I just I was like you know what I'm gonna do this right now mind you I'm not very active I don't really work out so that was a bit rough on my body embarrassingly but it's kind of embarrassing but it was a bit rough on my body so now my arms are very tired and I'm very tired I wanted to revise my notes however given that I have to wake up at 6 30 tomorrow morning and that my notes take like a minimum of 30 minutes to revise I will be going to sleep instead and revising tomorrow I still have all day tomorrow at school but like I have a long break today I'd say like I was pretty productive on my iPad I think it says like I studied five like that I used my iPad for like five or six hours but I don't know how they calculate that I calculated myself that I studied for around eight hours I think so yeah I think like pretty good I did what I wanted to do I did my practice exam and I figured out what I had difficulty with I I looked it up I like researched like I don't understand this let me look it up figured it out so now I understand I need I would there's not that much practice problems with this specific thing that I was missing but I found it sample so I'm gonna practice tomorrow on that and advance on my history assignment yeah I'd say pretty good productive day maybe I could have been a bit more productive I don't know I feel like I was really limited because it's just like I need to memorize stuff so yeah I maybe I could have read my notes a bit more I don't know but it's okay I'm still feeling satisfied so I'll be going 7 30 I'm leaving in like two minutes but today we are Wednesday I have a pretty big day today at school pretty full day but I think I might skip my afternoon like my late night class to study for my exam tomorrow we'll see like I'll probably just still stay at the library to study yeah woke up this morning he's fairly easily but I'm still like pretty tired we'll see how that goes and the OOTD is just this sweater with some jeans yeah and my hair well I let it air dry so it's kind of poofy I don't know about this situation it was so wet I slept in a bonnet when I woke up and yeah so let's go to school we have some stuff to do hello I just came back from school actually that's not true I came back from school around 6 and by the time I eat and showered it's now 8 maybe I got home around 6 30 actually I don't know I am very very exhausted right now and not saying that to be like negative I'm just saying like that's how I feel right now and I'm really tired so a friend who told who took this class to the these exams told me that I really needed to sleep before the exam to be a sound of mind the day of the exam because they try to trick you with the true or falses with the wording so like okay I'm gonna sleep so my goal tonight is to go to sleep around 10 10 30 I don't know how realistic that is because these are the following things I want to try to accomplish by tonight well first of all about my day so to begin I feel like I wasn't this that productive today I felt really tired and I felt like I couldn't focus and it's really weird because usually my days my Wednesdays are very much longer usually my Wednesdays are from 8 to 8 p.m. I started later than usual I started on 845 and I finished earlier I finished around 530 it was a lot shorter for Wednesday but I was I'm still like really really tired so today I did start the other practice midterm that I was talking about I didn't manage to finish it so I want to finish that and then my friend she sent me like this whole document with a bunch of other practice midterms that I want to try to complete as most as I can so I would like to do the practice midterms and then the thing is there's a concept I don't understand a concept that I have a lot of difficulty with so I'm gonna correct myself in the practice exam I just took and see if I got it to see if I still understand because I feel like I'm I'm really still confused about it because like if what I got in the practice exam was good then I think I would still be fine it's just like there's it's really unclear so a bunch of methods to do it it's really not clear anyways so I want to make sure I understand that and then yeah do as many midterms as I can but also I want to finish my history assignment I worked on it during my class that I had however I still need to add my footnotes and stuff and arrange it and go over it and I am very slow when it comes to assignments and written word essays so is it realistic to complete all these things in two hours no but my exam is tomorrow at 145 ish unclear but 145 probably so I don't know what time I'm gonna wake up and go to class I want to get a good amount of sleep maybe wake up around 7 30 I don't know so we'll see we're just gonna do that and we'll see cuz rest rest is very important guys and I feel like right now I need some rest which is I don't get how people pull all-nighters I don't think I need an all-nighter for this class to be honest but like oh I don't get it like rest is so important yeah this is your reminder that you need to rest okay guys I feel very very very very exhausted I feel like insanely exhausted I don't remember the last time I felt like this I'm gonna go to bed it's 1020 goodnight okay everyone I just spent the last two hours hour and a half reading my notes and completing my history assignment and printing it so I have it here and I'm going to now get ready it's like 9 a.m. I'm gonna get ready for school and go eat breakfast and maybe take a shower and then go to school okay guys I'm leaving for school this is the fit gotta slay my exam in a slay fit I still have this thing to my eye I decided I was bringing this bag so that's what I'm bringing and we are we are going now you're going I'm going to be practicing my flashcards in the car only thing hi guys um well first of all um about the exam um so how how the exam went um it was something um I don't think it was that great it wasn't that good um I know I could have performed better but I feel like that exam was like really tripped um I studied so much and I was like well all my studying down the drain because I only had like an hour first of all it was supposed to be an hour 15 minutes nope teacher decided it was an hour um there's 40 multiple choice questions and it's not like they were like easy we still had to calculate stuff so it was still time consuming and like the first few questions honestly like no one understood them because I practiced for that and everyone like who I've spoken to believes there's errors and I also believe that because I've practiced those like the two problems that were given I practiced those exact problems and I got them all right when I was practicing them so tell me why when I was in the exam I wasn't getting the same answers and here's the thing I looked after when I after the exam I went to back to look at what I did and I was like these answers are correct and I got the same ones in the exam but the thing is the teacher was okay well it was like about the planes I met on Miller planes if you guys or know it's a material science class so oh what's a Miller in this for this for plane A and plane B and so like it was multiple choice and it was like okay well A Miller is A A is this B is this and those were like the options so A is this B is this so tell me I was getting the answer for A for like one part but then the answer for B was in the other part like I wasn't getting the same answers I don't know if what I'm saying makes sense let's say my answer for A was option B but in that same option I wasn't getting the same B results however like when I went to look I was like that's the results I got so I don't know why the thing is that Miller and this is Miller planes you have like different methods of doing it and those different methods depending on where you put your origin you can get different results and maybe one of those results were that I didn't have time though to check every single option it was like trick question kind of because I didn't have the time to check for every single origin point to see which one matches with the correct answer I had the whole other rest of the exam to do and like some questions were fine and then at one point one of the questions I wasn't getting but then I realized afterwards I was like oh it's because I converted my units wrong which actually really helped when I figured it out but after that there was this this graph and the graph made no sense because like it was the elastic modulus elastic modulus is like the stress is equal to elastic modulus E times strain so it's stress here's the formula okay and that and it was a stress-strain graph and well the modulus of elasticity Young's modulus is the how do you say that word Young's modulus is a slope so it's like it's a stress over the strain tell me why when I was using the graph and I was going okay well let me take this point at this point I was getting an option I wasn't on one of the options tell me why I was getting 200 megapascals or gigapascals and the answers were like completely different I think I put the closest one that was like 215 but I did like two points and it was both 200 I don't know I don't get it it didn't make no sense which freaked me out because then I had to calculate stuff based on the modulus of elasticity that I found but I found one that was probably incorrect anyways it was making sense uh yeah so also the furthermore to prove my point that this exam was like there was a mistake or it was like not correct or whatever I don't know if that was but like he asked what's the angle of diffraction for this and this and this tell me why the options were in nanometers he asked for an angle and the options were in nanometers the answer was like you can't find that you can't find because you need the wavelength but like I just don't think why the answers are in nanometers but what the hell it was crazy exam one hour not enough what the hell um and I think I went one of the questions I had to email so it kind of sucks because I feel like I studied a lot for this exam I put in a lot of effort I was doing my flashcards I was like trying my best my flashcards actually really helped because they were like the true or false questions like I was like I practiced this one I practiced this one I know the answer to this one because I a bit of a bummer I was kind of pissed off because I studied this much and I feel like I spent a lot of time I really want to up my grades and I feel like stuff like this just kind of like punches me in the face because I had no control over it even though I studied so much I don't have control over the fact that the teacher might want to mess up with the exam you know or just have fun and you know annoy everyone else so um yeah that was a bit of a bummer but you don't know till we get the grade so we'll just have to wait apart from that the rest of the day was really fun really fine I after my tutorial I went to the Reggie's which is the our university's bar and I went to play I think I've recently discovered that in English it's called foosball in French we call it baby foot I know this is not in French but like we call it baby foot I've always called it baby foot so my my friend who speaks English mostly English she's like no it's a foosball table I was like no it's baby foot what do you mean anyways we played baby foot and I was having the time of my life I love playing baby foot so much fun so that helped there is a little story now that I'm home I'm so happy to feel not stressed about this exam anymore I wasn't that stressed but I'm just glad I got it over with I cleaned my room a bit I had so much so much so much clothes lying around and I feel like I'm a victim of my environment so when my environment is dirty I feel messy I feel all over the place and that's usually what happens during exams just clothes pile of clothes accumulate but yeah I cleaned up within my space and I'm gonna relax I might crochet a bit I've started a crochet project I cannot tell you what it is but well probably wouldn't know what it is you probably wouldn't know what it is from this but it looks like this it's a little circle so this is actually really clean I really like the way it looks anyways that's what I've done so far I'm not gonna tell you what I'm doing because it's a gift from my best friend yeah okay so this is gonna be it for my first for my midterm video this is like I've mentioned the beginning of the video like part one because I only had one midterm this week but I do have two other midterms plus a midterm report to hand in the week after the reading week unfortunately I wish I could have just been able to relax during the reading week I can't because I have exams anyways so the part two of the midterm vlogs study vlogs are gonna be coming afterwards but at least during my midterm during my reading week I'll have time to edit my vlog and I'm excited to show it because I just post because I haven't posted in so so long and I miss you guys and I miss posting but honestly I really feel the difference of being able to focus more on school being able to like really focus more on school I feel like that really helps without having the stress to film all the time so I really appreciate guys for understanding how um for understanding how I need to film less and I'll be put and I'm posting less but I still care about you guys and I'm so excited to post the video that's coming up because I haven't seen you guys in a while and I love reading your comments so yeah don't be afraid to leave comments I love reading them sorry if I don't always answer I forget to answer but I rest assured I probably read the comment I just forgot to answer it I do that with text a lot so I will see you guys on the next video bye good luck on your finals or good luck on your midterms