Hello! If You Don't Mind Can You Tell Me How You Organised Your Journal For Your Academics.I Am A Maths

Hello! If you don't mind can you tell me how you organised your journal for your academics.I am a maths major and I wanted to do that for my proofs as well.I did try searching on the internet but I didn't get anything good.

Thank You in advance xx

It was a really basic format honestly ! So these are all the journals I kept during my whole undergraduate degree.

The black ones were for course and module information, lecture notes, to do lists and essay plans.

The dark and light yellow were a reading journal and a dissertation journal. I wanted to separate my own impressions of texts and I wanted to keep all my dissertation research and planning in one separate place as obviously I was conducting it by myself.

Black Journals

At the start of every year I would write down all the essential information from each of the four modules I was taking. This is an example (I have whited out the name and email of my course convened and lecturer for privacy reasons). But it includes contact information, lecture and seminar hours and locations, learning outcomes and assessment criteria (the things you will be assessed on, obviously paying attention to these helped me get top grades), assessment information (how many essays or exams I had that year and how much they contributed to my final mark and how many words they were) and finally the primary reading list.

This is what a spread of my lecture notes looks like. I always hand wrote my lecture notes because I couldn’t retain information and didn’t enjoy using a laptop. In my first two years I used a rough notebook to write them down then wrote them up neatly later, which was too time consuming for third year. But by that time I had developed my note taking skills and felt confident writing them up as I listened in the lecture. I just wrote the name of the module and the text we were studying and the date for reference. I would change to a red pen for anything I felt was key information. I know most people won’t like this method but I write fast and quite neatly !

My to do lists, essay plans etc didn’t really have a format obviously. I just wrote down what I needed to do, did some rough mind mapping, occasionally put a little doodle in. My essay plans were sort of all over the place but this is where I did my essential planning and then rough work tended to be on scraps of paper or on the draft essay document. The first is a checklist at the end of the year and the second is one of the essay plans/brainstorms for an essay I got a first in.

Yellow Journals

(i.) Reading Journal

I kept a reading journal throughout university, which I wish I had used more. It’s literally just a brain dump of all my thoughts and impressions of what I was reading and any quotes I found relevant. I included secondary reading in this too in my final year. It’s something I’m going to carry on with because I love having somewhere to keep my stream of consciousness about literature. It was so helpful for me to read over this when I was writing my essays because there were some really insightful bits of analysis or key things that I had forgotten and needed reminding of. Highly recommend everyone doing this, if not on paper then on a document on your laptop !

(ii.) Dissertation Journal

There was very little method to this journal. But having it all in one place really kept me organised. It was a place of messy but very important brainstorming, figuring out and rough work. It’s the sort of thing that’s probably only coherent to me. I just wrote down what I needed to do as I went along. So in the early stages there was a lot of trial ideas, there was pages of information about how we should structure and deal with our dissertations from lectures, deadlines etc.

The first image is the first page where I started writing out some vague ideas about the topics I wanted my dissertation to address and which literature that worked with. The last two are just an example of what some of my working out looked like, how I was deciding to structure my argument, and which secondary materials and theorists I would use for each chapter. But there were all sorts of things in there, random tangential points and ideas I needed to note down, tips about how to write an effective dissertation etc. It ended up being my highest grade so this definitely worked for me !

223 Days, 50 assignments, 24 courses and 1 tiny room...

The Exam:

Joint Admission test for Masters (JAM) is a common admission test conducted every year for admission into M.Sc and other post-graduate science programs at Indian Institute of Technology (IITs), Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and National Institutes of Technology(NITs), organized by alternating institutes every year.

The Contender :

A brave and a somewhat kind soul is trying to make a place for herself in this world.Managing bullies while trying to make new friends is proving to be a challenge.Having clumsy habits is not making her life any better.Self doubt is killing whatever is remaining and all she has left with is hope.Hope that she will get better and her life with it.She intends to do this by appearing for the IIT JAM Mathematics exam.An exam where 15,000 students compete for 500 seats in the best colleges around the country.

Will she make it? How far will she go? We can only wait. And wait. And wait…..

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3 years ago

Mathematician and theoretical physicist Theodor Kaluza ( left) and theoretical physicist Oscar Klein who formulated the Kaluza-klein theory (kk theory) which is a classical unified theory of gravitation and electromagnetism built by formulating Einstein's field equations in five dimensions, considered an important precursor to string theory.

The original hypothesis came from Kaluza who sent his results in a letter to Einstein in 1919 and published his results in 1921. Kaluza presented a purely classical extension of general relativity to five dimensions with a metric tensor of 15 components ( 10 associated with 4 dimensional spacetime metric, 4 associated with electromagnetic vector potential and 1 representing a scalar field)

Oscar klein gave Kaluza's classical five dimensional theory a quantum interpretation by suggesting that the fifth dimension was curled up and microscopic to explain the cylinder condition and it's geometry could take the form of a circle of radius 10⁻³⁰

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3 years ago

Hi Guys! As Some Of You May Know, I’ve Been Trying To Switch Over To Notion To Stream-line All My Research

Hi guys! As some of you may know, I’ve been trying to switch over to Notion to stream-line all my research progress and notes in one space. Unfortunately, all the examples I found here on Tumblr and on Youtube were more geared towards a bullet journal adaptation of Notion or more undergraduate-focused use of the app, which wasn’t what I wanted to model mine after. Therefore, I decided to play around with Notion myself and ended up making it work for my purposes. Because I am using this with the intention of being more focused and having my priorities straight, I kept the theme pretty basic and efficient. I am still working on learning how to use this app for my purposes but I decided to make this post to show you guys how I set up my Notion. Feel free to message me if you ever have any questions about my set-up or would like to see more of how I set a particular page up. Some toggles and texts are blurred out for research privacy purposes since it is unpublished data. [click on individual images for full res.]

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4 years ago

What does FTC say?

It says that if a person takes the derivative of a function and then integrates it over a region on the number line say [a, b] then this is the same as evaluating the function on its endpoints.

What does the Green's Theorem say?

Green's Theorem is the fundamental theorem of calculus in 2 dimensions.Instead of taking the derivative of a single variable function we take the curl of a 2 variable function.Instead of integrating this over a number line we integrate it on the xy plane.Instead of evaluating the function at the two endpoints a and b and taking the difference, we take the line integral of the function and integrate it around the curve in a counterclockwise direction.

What does the stokes' theorem say?

Stokes' theorem is the fundamental theorem of calculus in 3 dimensions. Instead of taking the derivative of a single variable function, we take the three-dimensional curl. Instead of integrating this over a number line, we integrate it on the surface (To evaluate the surface integral one has to dot the vector field with unit normal vectors). Instead of evaluating the function at the two endpoints a and b and taking the difference, we take the line integral of the function and integrate it around the curve on a surface in a counterclockwise direction just like in Green's Theorem.

30th July 2020

🌿What would be your perfect summer day? 🌿

Wake up late,have a light breakfast,pack a good lunch and go to a nearby scenic water place with my family.My family includes my parents,my cousins,my uncles and aunts.Eat a ton of fruits,play a lot of games,make a truck load of memories and fall asleep on my mommy's shoulder in the car on the way back home.

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3 years ago

Heya! I finished chapter 12 of Analysis 1.It was I think the toughest chapter so far but it's not that tough that I'll loose my sleep over it.I also got the above book from Amazon today.The title is sexist but so is history 🤷🏻‍♀️I started from the last chapter and made some notes on it.I also revised chapter 8 today.Otherthan that it was a pretty chill day.I also answered an ask on Tumblr.I thought it was important to answer the question correctly and so I tried to the best of my ability 🐰

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