CST300 Week 2

 Boy this course has tons of work. Definitely not what I was expecting.

The review and reflect document listed for this week includes a variety of different learning strategies.  There are aspects that I do find that I do, however, personally it's difficult to achieve because of my own personal obstacles I deal with daily.  That is depression and anxiety.  

There are days where I can get great sleep and days where I get terrible sleep.  There's no pattern that I've been able to find out. Either way I have to brute force my way to accomplishing tasks at work and for school.  When anxiety and depression hits all this plan just goes out the window and I have to reset which takes time.  I still try to work my way around depression and anxiety since I still have to be a productive member of society!  

On top of that my work varies.  I can travel across the united states, I can have meetings late or real early in the morning with colleagues across the globe. 



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