Reflections On My Very Productive Day

1:09 AM (of Monday, February 2nd, 2026)

Today is Sunday, February 1st, 2026, and these are my reflections for today.

Today has been extremely productive, one of my most productive days of my entire life, truly in my entire life. I have lived for over 11,000 days, and I have rarely ever been as productive. Look at my list of completed tasks below, I studied for over 3 hours today, with basically no breaks. I studied this course called Analysis of Algorithms, and it's a very technical course involving some math and a lot of logic. I did most of the reading. I admit I didn't do all of the reading, it became much too technical for me and I did not continue due to not fully understanding the concepts, and I also did not watch all of the videos but they were much easier to understand.

What I did do however, is I did my technical homework assignment early. You know, Unit 1 is supposed to be review of past data structures and basic algorithms, but we didn't review any of that. I had to recall all of it from memory to answer the technical homework assignment. It's good that I somehow remember these concepts despite not having used them for years.

The previous version of myself would not have been able to do this. The me from 2 weeks ago would not have been able to do this. I really don't know what I have been doing for the past several years, I have been studying in university since 2016, essentially I have basically been a failure all this time since I would procrastinate and just do average in the courses. Today has been the first time in a long time where I have actually sat down to study something deeply, and I did it without being bored.

I should go ahead and review all the Unit 1 concepts I did not understand, in order to fully grasp them. That's what I have time for. Because I did my homework assignments early, there is still several days left for me to do this before we move to the next unit. I should understand everything in this unit before continuing.

I am taking more than one course this term, and I still have reading, homework, and other tasks regarding that other class. Just like today for CS 3304, I will focus on doing those tasks early too.

Now let's move onto my physical exercises. I think I did poorly today. I played Beat Saber for 30 minutes, which counted as cardio. I did take over 3000 steps today, taking over 6000, but I forgot to check it off, it is one of my daily habits to take 3000 steps minimum. It's been 3 months since I did any pull-ups or chin-ups, and I have lost all my strength in them. I can probably do 2 at the most in a row, total, right now. 3 months ago I was able to do 12 in a row of both chin-ups and pull-ups. Lesson learned: you really do lose strength when you stop working out for a while.

I only did 10 pull-ups and chin-ups total today, because I was physically not able to complete any more. My forearms started to hurt to the point where I literally could not do another single pull-up or chin-up even trying my best. Whenever I would try, my forearm would just hurt a lot and I couldn't even lift myself anymore, so I stopped. I don't think I've ever ran into this problem before. I didn't continue with the other exercises either.

Other than that, I also did a bunch of chores today, some of the most I have ever done in a day. So objectively, today has been one of the most productive days in my entire life.

Will I be able to keep it up? Let's try to keep it up!