Personal Goals for Semester 1, 2017/18

I set about trying to both write up, and manage my total ideal to-do lists and calendar for this semester (up until Christmas) but once put together I discovered not just the inevitable budget deficit but also *ahem* a serious time deficit once the worst-case times were estimated – although there is an oversimplifying linearity here including travel times e.g. skydiving occupies the time spent getting there and sitting around even though I could spend that time watching and reading things elsewhere on the lists.

I therefore need to go about prioritising these, and stripping it back but until then I am publishing my initial first draft so that it is up here and I feel more accountable for completion!

Arts and Entertainment

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Activity

Description

Dates and Deadlines

Time (hrs)

 

True to Life, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art   Until October 29th 3
A Perfect Chemistry, Photographs by Hill and Adamson, Scottish National Portrait Gallery   Until October 1st 3
St Triduana’s Chapel, St Margaret’s Church, Friends of Scottish National Galleries   October 30th 3
What does it take to create a New Town?   November 14th 3
Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites, National Museum of Scotland   Until November 12th 3
Age of Oil, National Museum of Scotland   Until November 5th 3
Loving Vincent: Live From the National Gallery, Cameo Cinema   October 9th 3
The Antarctic Legacy of Shackleton and Hurley, National Library Scotland   Until November 12th 3
Sunset Boulevard, Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre! 3rd to 7th October 4
Hedda Gabler, Festival Theatre 17th to 21st October 4
The Patrick Geddes Trail Map trail anytime 6
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith Books! 100?
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Counting Sheep by Paul Martin
Super Better by Jane McGonagall
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Terra Incognita by Sara Wheeler
Map Addict by Mike Parker
Off The Map by Alistair Bennett
Game of Thrones, Season 100?
BoJack Horseman, Season
Lucifer, Season
Westworld, Season 2
Stranger Things, Season 2

 

Sports

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Activity

Description

Dates and Deadlines

Time (hrs)

 

Attend as many EUCC training sessions as possible!
  • Improve my high catches in cricket
  • Improve on finishing batting strokes with straight bat facing upwards
  • Improve bowling consistency

 

Until October 29th 110
Progress onto freefall on RAPS skydiving training     192
Attend 3 EUWWC wakeboarding sessions
  • Frontside butterslide
  • Frontside lipslide
  • Surface frontside 180
  • Surface half cab
  • Switch carving
  • Ride switch continuously
  • Ollie
  • Ollie frontside 180
anytime 9
Attend 4 Liverpool Wakepark wakeboarding sessions 6
Accumulate 20 hours practice snowboarding   anytime 40
Book and prepare for Explorers Connect Scottish Winter Skills weekend   2nd to 4th March 2018 3

 

University

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Activity

Description

Dates and Deadlines

Time (hrs)

 

Thermodynamics 4   Exams are between December 8th and 21st 110
Dynamics 4   110
Power 4   220
Digital System Design 4   Next semester starts 20
Analogue Circuits 4
Engineering Medicine 4
Finite Element Methods for Solids and Structures 4   anytime 20
Engineering Project Management 4  

 

Polyanno, Blogging, and Personal Projects

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Activity

Description

Dates and Deadlines

Time (hrs)

 

Blogging Ideally write 5 new posts anytime 25
Expand Beginners Guide to Hacking blog posts Need to add blockchain, machine learning, and embedded processing 20
Write guide to locomotion?   30
Complete written notes on Touch by David J Linden   5
Complete written notes on Restless Creatures by Matt Wilkinson   5
Build DIY digital oscilloscope kit   2
Repair broken Roberts Rambler II radio   10
Attend IOT//EDI Meetups   Once a month 10

 

Personal Health and Wellbeing

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Activity

Description

Dates and Deadlines

Time (hrs)

 

Maintain the urgent/important matrix      
Update this post!      
Attend the university ADHD group sessions     10
Attend Mental Health Mentor sessions     10
Attend NHS sessions for exam phobia     10
Improve sleeping habits      

Polyanno

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Activity

Description

Dates and Deadlines

Time (hrs)

 

Dragon Drop   15 hours a week until IIIF Toronto, October 11th, then 10 hours a week 120
ATU  
Text granularity research notes  
Vector Overlapping algorithm  
Vector Overlapping research  
Crowdsourcing research  
Fix UI  

 

Gardening

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Activity

Description

Dates and Deadlines

Time (hrs)

 

Make gardening tasks calendar     2
Weed backgarden     5
Finish building insect house     5
Build and bury bee homes     3
Resupply bird feeders     0.5
Weed front garden     2

 

 

 

 

 

 

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