Productive? Maybe.

Today I wanted to start off on the high note of yesterday - and continue on my productivity streak. I was off to a rough start, from having trouble sleeping last night to having trouble waking this morning, the stars were aligned against me. It seemed like technology was also fighting against me today, my video lecture restarted or froze on six separate occasions, and started to try my patience. Mini-breaks became my friend today to stave off utter frustration. Eventually I got through it and had a pretty good feeling about the subject matter.

I do have to say though, I had to take several mini-breaks throughout the lecture today because my focus was feigning, and this was in addition to my frustration with the freezing lectures. I didn't get a chance to go out and walk over my lunch break because I started my lecture late today (a little too late to be able to take an hour off to go and walk while still finishing before dawn tomorrow). Eventually I made it through and started on the questions of the day. I thought I would do better on the questions today, those 33 lucky questions, but it turns out that wasn't the case - I actually did worse today than I have over the last two days on this subject. Frustrating. It was then time for the checkpoint quiz that I was so worried about yesterday. The checkpoint quizzes are just what they sound like - per subject to try and keep you on track and find your weak areas within that particular subject. Great study tool.

The checkpoint quiz went a lot better than I thought it would, and that left me in higher spirits ... that was until I got down to my homework for the night and the targeted study. Wow, wow, wow - that is a lot of work. Before getting to the second checkpoint quiz at a later time, I have a ton of review work to do. This review is not just going back over the outline, but also includes re-watching certain areas of the video and doing area specific quizzes. I do have to say though, I am very impressed at the tools I have available right now. It knows where my problem areas are at and it is throwing everything possible at me to get me to master those areas. Now, granted the time commitment for all of this targeted studying really is quite immense, but if it helps me pass the bar on the first try - I am all for spending hours doing this additional review.

If I can ever finish up with all of this review, I get to start on an entirely new subject matter tomorrow. Bring on the contracts and (at least for now) sayonara torts.