Study Vlog 🧸 Exams & Papers, Living In The Library, Getting Out Of A Rut: Productive Days In My Life

It is 1.55pm on a Monday. I have been so, so unmotivated to do anything really. Tomorrow I have a marketing exam and on Wednesday I have a paper. Both of them, I would say I'm like 60-70% done with both of them. But today is the day I need to lock in because there's just so much for me to do right now. I just finished editing for one of my marketing roles, so I need to polish that up a little bit. I have lecture recordings to watch and I'm just so unmotivated. Yeah, frankly, like this is also like my day two outfit, day two to three hair. I just need to get myself going again. I wrote down little post-it notes, office hours when I went a few days ago. I don't think I've shown this sweatshirt on camera either. This is the no-name sweatshirt that I got at the bookstore. It's so cute. Everyone asks where I got it and some people thought I bought it for like $300 at Parc. But yeah, I'm really happy. Probably gonna go drag myself to the library or someplace because sitting here has done nothing in terms of my productivity. And as you guys probably know by now, I think I announced this in a previous video. I did get my summer internship for 2026. So frankly, the external motivation to get good grades is kind of... But I still want to perform well. I don't want my GPA to tank. I'll be studying a lot today. I am so lucky. Someone just left, so I just took this seat. I've already started studying for the modeling exam. I'm writing my notes down here. I don't remember anything, so that's why I need to review and just get caught up. All of my files are loaded here. There's not a lot of slides, which is great. I only have these two left and the videos that I need to watch. I'm just not paying attention to the online webinars. I need my hair out of my way when I study. It just bothers me so much. Welcome to my floor. I figured since I always film at my desk, I should switch it around. I've been putting like pillows that I don't really use down here. Whenever I just like want to lounge about, I just lean back. And I have my blanket with me as well. I just got back from studying. I got a notification that I got a package and a bunch of stuff that I got from YesStyle. This is not sponsored, but I really have been shopping for them for years. I think my first order from them was probably back in 2019 when I was still in high school. And they sent me a bunch of products here. Oh, this is some Hef Blue. This is so cute. Oh, this is adorable. Super Viral Orencia Mochi Cleanser. Biodense Peptide Serum. Wow. I think this is the Popping Bubbles skincare that a lot of different skincare influencers use. It looks like this when I open it. I'm really excited to try this. I'm gonna head off to get dinner in a bit, but I want to take advantage of just the nice weather out. I'm pretty sure after a little bit, like there's not going to be any sun left in Notre Dame. We always have such a terrible like perma cloud where there's like no sun for like a few months. I get so sad during times like that. Perhaps I'll probably go on a little lake walk. I need to restock all my dry shampoo and foundation. I'm just gonna do a little bit of concealer because I only have these two spots I want to hide and I want my skin to breathe a little bit. Right now, it's a little past 8.30. My exam is at 9.30. I set my alarm for 7.45, but I woke up once at 6 something. But I forced myself to get a little bit more sleep and then I just missed my alarm. I didn't do frankly any studying last night other than finishing my homework. I want to go get a chai latte at Starbucks. I'm gonna sit at the student center Starbucks area, work for a little bit before my exam. And today I also have two more classes, finance and accounting. I might get one of my exams back from accounting. Although I'm a little nervous because if you watched my previous study vlog, you would know that I didn't do that well in my first exam. Not that I was doing horribly, but it was just like I was not doing as good as I expected. I also haven't done my makeup in a very long time to be honest. But I want to look a little bit more put together today. I'm just gonna do some very quick basic eye makeup. Okay, I just got holed up in a bunch of emails and I don't think I have the time to go to get a coffee anymore. So I'm just gonna make it here in my dorm. It's also raining outside today. I should probably wear a jacket because it might get cold. All right, let's head off to class and wish me luck on my exam and quiz. This quiz? I think I am. I'm really hungry so I'm gonna go to the dining hall and get a quick bite for breakfast. Look at how small this bagel is. It's so tiny. So right now it is 3 30-ish. Just made some peppermint tea because I'm feeling a little lightheaded and tea usually helps. I was expecting to get my accounting exam back today, but instead I got my corporate finance exam back and I did as expected. But my brain just doesn't think in finance. It's a lot about understanding, you know, lots of finance jargon like debt, equity, cost of capital, whatever. Like I am a finance major, but hopefully my future career field is not that related to finance. I think I'll be able to do okay if I just study a lot for final exam. I only have a paper left. I finished the majority of it. I have a lot of it written, but I'm gonna start a new draft. After I polish this up, I need to do all the footnotes, formatting, stuff like that, which is just tedious. It's not that bad. I need to pull up my previous paper to make sure that the formatting is consistent. This paper is for my theo class. Notre Dame is a Catholic school, so part of our university core is to take two theology classes, which in my opinion is a lot, but so far I'm actually quite enjoying it. I've actually been to a Catholic school since I would say like middle school, high school, so it's interesting to study in an academic sense. I need to pull some quotes from the Bible. I'm in the library right now and I'm gonna review some of the concepts for finance. There's a lot of information that builds off of what we learned previously and just my brain does not think in finance, so I think I need to really understand what I'm doing before starting the next class again so that I'm not falling behind. I've exported all of the documents from my iPad to my laptop. Then since this section is more of a memorization or understanding heavy, I'm just gonna hand write everything down. Dependenture, this is a firm. This helps me visualize everything too. Library is super quiet today. Oh, it's snowing too. As soon as the weather becomes colder and basically disgusting, I lose all motivation to vlog because it's so cold and I'm just so tired. It's been snowing quite a bit on campus already. Mid towards the end of November, the snow is just piling up non-stop. I'm more sad about the fact that it's snowing. My face is so cold. I'm at the library right now. I know some of the marks at Starbucks and they gave me a free drink. Right now it's, I would say, one and a half weeks away from finals. Actually, two full weeks-ish. I'm gonna start studying for my finals. Mostly been working on finance, but today I think I need to start on accounting because of the four exams I have, the two bigger ones are finance and accounting. I also have a bit of editing to get done and just some ad work, so... Actually, I think what would benefit me more now is just handwriting and understanding everything before coming straight into questions. Okay. I've been really enjoying having these Fudology jellies. It's a little bit like grape and it also has chia seeds in it. I think I'm gonna start editing instead of studying because I'm lazy. My brain is tired. Someone who cannot sit down and do like hours of work, I always need to switch between tasks to keep myself more entertained, I guess.