Winter break 2024 grind

Last Edited: Fri Dec 27 04:46:51 UTC 2024

So. over this break I have had not 1, not 2, not 3, but 5 (gotcha) things I have been learning and/or working on. Let's break it down.

Plan

I HAVE REVISED THIS, SCROLL DOWN :)

1. Finish Pharr's Homeric Greek.
2. Read the Batrachomyomachia
3. Read the Hymn to Dionysus
4. Get through Ch. 14 of Latin textbook
5. Get through 5 ch. of Georgian textbook
6. Study intensively 10 chs. of Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece
7. Study intensively 15 chs. of Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric

Alright so there are technically 7 items on this list, but items 1-3 are all ancient Greek so they count as 1 item. Really I could be convinced that this is 4 things if we lump the two books into a "books" section, but I think this is a good division.

Dec 26, 2024 reflection

So reflecting on this I think I may have bitten off more than chew ngl. I missed one day of Greek and so I just stacked up two days of studying. As a result, I'm already feeling a little burnt out. A caveat here is that it is the Christmas season so my studying has been highly concentrated to just a few hours for the past few days instead of spread out. It might be the fault of this that I'm feeling kinda bad, the fact that I haven't worked out in a week, or the fact that I'm just stuck at home. Whatever it is I think that the factors are extraneous enough to merit my sticking this one out. That's all for now, let's keep up the work.

Dec 27, 2024 addition. Worth mentioning that I'm changing up my Georgian studying because I'm switching textbooks

Jan 4, 2025 reflection

I'm feeling pretty good about my progress. My Iliad reading has gotten noticeably easier (in large part thanks to the vocabulary memorizing). I'm on day 44 of a streak doing Anki (day 38 for Greek), so it's been really good to have this habit. I'm spending 3-5 hours per day on all my studying (Greek, Latin, and Georgian included) and it's been good for passing time over the break.

On my books (C.C. to Archaic Greece & C.C. Greek Lyric) I have absolutely fallen off. I have been dutifully reviewing my cards, but I have not read or created a single new card since that time. I do want to keep reading these books and studying them, but I think it's a bit too ambitious to want to do both of these over winter break. Instead, I'm deciding to drop my Greek Lyric studying and instead only do my Archaic Greece book. Then, over my Spring semester I'll take 1 chapter of the Greek Lyric book per week (which will be better because I'll be actively reading Greek Lyric).

I had a really hard day with Greek today and I know the vocab is only going to get harder once I get to the 3 chapters/day section. This is also where I have placed the Batrachomyomachia and Homeric Hymn to Dionysus, so I'm dropping those. Furthermore, the new Georgian textbook is highly intensive, so I'm only "forcing" myself to get through 2 chapters.

I'm also having a harder time with latin, so I'm dropping the 14 requirement and doing only 1-13 with 5 days of review after I finish chapter 13 (+ the final exam of course). As such, the full revised plan as of now is:

1. Finish Pharr's Homeric Greek.
2. Get through Ch. 13 of Latin textbook
3. Get through 2 ch. of Georgian textbook
4. Study intensively 10 chs. of Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece

Okay yeah that's all. Only 15 days left let's get to it :)

Jan 9, 2025 reflection

Alright with day 2 of the 3chs/day of Iliad and yeah it's really hard lmao. It's certainly starting to grate on me a bit but spirits are still high and I'm a grinder. It's going to take several re-readings of the Iliad book 1 before I call it good and I "move on" from Pharr.

Latin is certainly starting to get difficult. I have 5/6 days to review which is good.