ciascu's Journal: An Update

Just an update to give you an idea of how this studying thing is going. On and off, but getting there. I'm only able to use three or four days a week and keeping strict timescales when I get into something is proving challenging. In the interests of honesty, I'll admit today is probably the first that I've (mostly) changed subjects on the hour-mark.

But then all these processes take practise; habits don't form in a day. Mind you, some bits are easier than others.

So rough target schedule:
7.30-8.00 Get up, quick run, exercises, breakfast (8.15-8.45 today)
8.30-9.30 Piano: Hanon exercises and scales [1] (9.15-10.15 today)
9.30-10.00 Shower and read news from Google.fr
10.00-1.00 First block of activities
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00-4.00 Second block of activities
More later as time permits

As can be seen, this isn't a particularly strenuous system, but with the 5 hours to be split predominantly between French, Ancient Greek, Piano, Guitar, Economics, History, Geography, Psychology, (PhD prep) Math and English Lit, along with Philosophy and Church History there is plenty to get through. As mentioned before, the sciences[2] are the obvious gap in this curriculum but having done them until 18, I don't feel so bad about them as the subjects I last did as 1 of 11 timetabled courses.

The format of the posts after this will be (for my own reference): Intro, details of the day, further details on a subject. Just a quick summary of what I did get up to today, then: French, reading Montesquieu's L'Esprit des Lois VERY slowly, although the pace is picking up :) ; Ancient Greek, working through A First Greek Course by Sir William Smith; Guitar, learning Leyenda (or Asturias) by Albeniz; Piano, working on Bach's E Major Fugue from WTC II; Economics, starting Introduction to Economic Analysis by Prof McAfee (Caltech).

More detail on those in future. Perhaps more interestingly, nearly all the resources I'm using are freely available under Creative Commons or in the public domain. More info on that too.

1. Whatever Ms Whiteside may have to say on the matter
2. I will not be regarding Math as a science, though it is _useful_ in science (pure mathematician speaking here)