To keep 7 hours+ of study a day is really hard for me. I'm shamed. I'm a graduate student, that means my current job is to study though financial support from my department ceased since after this August. When the department paid stipend for my 20 hours per week as a graduate assistant, I could consider study as my part time job by putting priority on teaching(or grading). But now, I do not have any part time job. All my priority is to study. Typical working hour in US is 40 hours a week, meaning that if my job is to study, I have to study 40 hours a week at least. It does not seem any hard. What I found out after starting to record my study hour from this May is that to study 8 hours a day every day is a damn hard thing. Not every day, even just to keep consecutive three days of 8 hours study is really difficult. I've never achieved this feat which seems quite moderate. I'm shamed. Last month, my study hour recorded 128. For 5~6 days, I totally ditched my responsibilities surfing webs, watching TV shows and procrastinating. Up to this point, I recorded 77 hours for this month, yes this month gets worse than the last month. I wish I could finish this month with 130 hours meaning 7 hours each day even on the thanks giving.

First notebook entry: Introducing myself I'm Korean living in New Jersey right now. I want to settle in the US after finishing my eduction here. That's a reason why I really need to hone my English skill, why I joined this website and why I'm typing this sentence at 2:30 AM. When I googled the meaning 'tennis-anyone type girl', this site popped up. I encountered the word on a novel 'Love story' by Erich Segal. I really love tennis (to play and watch even read about it), but I'm not tennis-any type boy(or guy) since it implies some high social class. Now I'm going through the bottom of academic pyramid. I wish I safely end this Poor Hungry and Destitute process.