F around and find out

I'm just about done with my first semester at Carnegie Mellon and am very excited for winter break to start for a couple of reasons:

• Being at home and being able to spend time with family and friends is always nice.
• My classes were so boring.
  • Consequently, I haven't had the time to do independent learning as much as I wanted to.

As such, I decided that I'm going to create a study schedule with my roommmate Dennis for winter break, which will be titled "fuck around and find out". On surface, this will include something like 6 hours of fucking around and 6 hours of studying (finding out).

This is going to be split into two sections: things I do with Dennis and things I'm going to do on my own.

With Dennis:

• Making sure that we still know most of the 15-251 material.
• Preparing for 15-259 so that we don't have to put toooooo much effort into it during the semester.
• Reviewing algebra so that we are on pace for 21-610.
• Brushing up on analysis to make sure 21-269 isn't a pain during the semester.
• Learning extremal combinatorics so that we can sit in on 21-738 and not be entirely lost.

On my own:

• Learning auction theory.
• Focusing on quantum computing, whether it be theoretical stuff or working on qBraid things.
• Reading the news so that I'm more in touch with what's happening in the world.
• Practicing piano.

I also wanted to make a little schedule here so that I could have something to pace myself with:

From December 16 - December 31:

Subject	Material	Source	Time per day
15-251	class website	link	30 minutes
Algebra	my own notes, Dummit and Foote	notes	30 minutes
PNC	Mor's textbook Chapters 1-11	link	90 minutes
Analysis	Pugh Chapter 1	link	30 minutes
Auction Theory	Krishna	physical copy	45 minutes
Quantum Computing	Nielsen and Chuang	link	45 minutes
News (tech)	Bloomberg, NYTimes	bloomberg nytimes	60 minutes
Piano	Ballade No. 1, Arabesque No. 1	physical sheet	30 minutes

From January 1 - January 14:

Subject	Material	Source	Time per day
PNC	Mor's textbook Chapters 12-17	link	90 minutes
Analysis	Pugh Chapter 2	link	60 minutes
Extremal	some book i found	link	30 minutes
Auction Theory	Krishna	physical copy	45 minutes
Quantum Computing	Nielsen and Chuang	link	45 minutes
News (world)	NYTimes, Apple News	nytimes	60 minutes
Piano	Ballade No. 1, Arabesque No. 1	physical sheet	30 minutes