31/March/2025 (Monday)[😭]

I've got 22 days until my entrance exam, and I'm slacking off a lot. So, I'll start a challenge to track my progress and stay accountable.

I'll begin tomorrow, and my goal is to study for no less than 12 hours a day—that will be the absolute minimum.

Tags: jipmat prep, test-1 prep challenge

Guys, good news! I got an acceptance letter from a university! I'm so happy. It may not be the best one, but I'm proud that I cleared their entrance exam. I still have many exams ahead of me, and if I qualify those, I could get into a better university or B-school.

Time left for the exam: 2 days

I received this on my birthday back in 2014. I wasn’t a big fan of it then, but I like it now. I consider it vintage, though I’m not sure how others see it.

I've done too much shopping this month. I'm not at home right now, but once I get back, I'll post all my purchases from Crossword (the bookstore), Daiso, and the other stationery stores I've visited so far. I've definitely gone over budget, so it's time I pause this shopping spree. I need to face the fact that I'm not rich. (I'm not broke either, but I'm somewhere on the borderline — which might be the same thing.)

I left home around 7:30 in the morning and went to Agra to take an exam. B-school entrance exams are held only in a few cities. I came back home around 9:30 PM. I think we should have left a bit later because it wasn’t that far away. I also saw the Agra Fort, but only from the outside because it was extremely hot, and besides, visiting the fort properly takes an entire day. The exam didn’t go as well as I had expected. The Quant section was pretty hard.

Trying to study amid self-conflicts and doubts. I'm so depressed and worried about my future.

I’ve defiled the very first page of my new journal—the one destined to be my sacred commonplace book. A grand beginning, now tainted beyond repair. Truly, my talent knows no bounds.(sarcasm, of course)

I tend to get a bit dramatic...... nevermind.

I just updated my budget and money management log (lol, I don’t earn anything, but I’ve got a decent amount from pocket money), and I overspent this month—all on books. I’ve already bought seven books; I really need to set a limit. Some books are very expensive, but I buy them because I’ve been wanting to read them for a while and they’re low on stock—so, yeah, expensive.

Books that I bought for May. I've already had three of them on my tablet, and since I liked them, I decided to buy their paperbacks. Siddhartha and Kitchen are the ones that I'll be reading for the first time. I bought some stuff from Daiso as well, as there was a sale going on there.