Diary

10:25 Learning English I should study English at home rather than in the office, I think. I need to write more journals. 14:16 Vimium Vimium is a browser extension that can make using a browser like Vim. 15:58 Safety Training Finished the Safety Training online course, and then I could start doing the lab soon, hopefully. 16:10 About Polishing Today I learned a very important concept – about polishing. At the stage of writing, don’t worry about the format and the grammar issues. ...

I had two classes today that went until 2 PM. I was extremely tired all day because I didn’t sleep well. At lunch, I thought about eating early since I had class soon. I mentioned this to Chathuranga, and he said he wanted to eat now too. Well, that made our group too big and we couldn’t all sit together. It was pretty awkward.

Chathuranga is back and brought us gifts - fridge magnets and jasmine tea. Very nice. We had lunch together at noon. Our regular group meeting at noon was uneventful. Started learning about Typst and FEM, then began studying VIM. After dinner at home, continued learning VIM. This editor is incredibly difficult to use.

Gemini gave me some great advice while I was learning Neovim. It made a very good point: 13:33 “For beginners, ‘over-intelligent’ tools are often the biggest obstacle to learning.” Since I am using a “cleaned-up” tutorial, I shouldn’t obsess over the missing ‘X’ in the exercise. The core purpose of Lesson 1.4 is simply to learn how to use i to append missing characters. As long as I identify where a line is missing text and manually complete it, I’ve achieved the goal of the exercise. ...

Today is Saturday. I woke up early to video call Huan before she went to bed. I scolded her a bit again because I feel she often represses her emotions just to be a “good person.” I don’t think that’s healthy, especially between family and partners—it’s important to be honest about how we feel. After the call, I started working on my assignment. I’ve really come to enjoy using Quarto and LaTeX to complete my homework; the results look very professional. ...

Since I had no classes today, I spent the entire day working on my assignments. In the morning, Luis invited me to a breakfast event, but I turned him down. He then called Amir, who suggested that Luis ask me one more time, but I declined again. However, when they returned, Luis brought a burger back for me. I felt a bit guilty and embarrassed for having said no so many times when he was being so thoughtful. To make up for it, I shared some meat and an egg with him during lunch, which made me feel a little better. ...

I didn’t sleep well last night and didn’t fall asleep until almost two o’clock. I was exhausted the entire day today. On top of that, I had classes all day today. Three classes were truly draining. In the morning and again in the evening, Xiaohuan and I got into some confusing arguments over things that didn’t really make sense. Perhaps we both need to read more, experience more, and feel more. ...