Alrighty, let's play this in full here. There is no sound We have that going on here Takes out the mouse cool So let me just check something here. You're going outside of the frame. I guess I can I can bring this in more So I'll be careful We have a fairly I would try to go. I know this very subjective, but I would probably go You know all the way out in your framing to do a full 720p 1080p whatever resolution you need, but it's a bit more widescreen I Think it then that way at least to me you can you can fit in more of the tail You might just also have to zoom out just a bit more in general So that maybe I'm not sure if you want to cut this off I might be okay to see the whole thing so if I go down you can see there's the whole thing here That'd be kind of I just was a squish I guess I'm not used to such a more old More old-school kind of framing. I'm so used to so such widescreen shots If I look at his arc also just checking here if he goes like this It's a slight feeling of a fairly fast Dip and I feel like if you would give this a proper arc just a bit Yeah, there's something where I feel like it goes pretty wide and then just kind of drops down So if you do a wider arc I make it too You know straight down towards the end then actually it will be good for you to go full Widescreen and he would start here if that makes sense, right? He would be more like this And then you can always leave the end position So maybe just globally and they are gonna control that or you have that moves the whole character Move the character over so all of this is for the left And then during this jump you can animate that main controller Back to this position Until he hits this here To give this a wider arc kind of like the animation layers kind of as a cheat. I guess Other than that I think the back and forth between the character is okay in terms of timing. Uh, it's fairly clear Where we're supposed to look I feel like Takes this out This and looks up it's almost like I'm looking I'm looking at him Takes this out puts it down. He goes back now that he looks at him I feel like my eye goes over here I don't want to see a reaction Is he gonna go good job thumbs up paw up paw down whatever it is But then we cut out and I feel like you could add another second or two However long you need for whatever reaction So it could be you know could be another nod It could be Squint I don't know if you can smile enough this kind of facial controls this rig has But that could be something interesting potentially Other than that, I mean it still feels very early stage if I look at What the fox is doing in terms of you know, simple moves going down cut off here Where not much is moving in terms of the rest of the body and the mechanics kind of harsh hits It's fairly close to pose. It's all seems very Early days. So I would just say keep going On that getting a bit more, you know, overall body mechanics going on their movements That could be a little bit of a way shifts, you know, slight keep alive on the tail Just make it less Static like, you know something like this where I just clearly just a rotation through there and then nothing else is going on here on the human side Same thing, you know, if you have if I scrub through this you can see how it's purely just the head So you want to add a few more mechanics to involve You know fanning out arrest. So I mean not that this head move will influence everything all the way down to the Legs, but he is on his toes. It's not like it's a very Stable position Pose wise, I will probably try It's interesting and probably offset those legs a bit more to maybe find a way to get these guys here And maybe this guy further out if that's possible Or you go This one and this one further out here or lower There's something where this foot how it comes down kind of aligns with With the thigh and then it's a bit twinny Even though this is spread out, it feels like these guys are too mirrored that overlap I'm not super smitten by in terms of silhouette See even this to me seems better, but you can bring them out so that maybe this foot will be here Giving you something like this so that we can potentially even see the toe Of this I would just kind of look at the silhouette You might be going a bit too low on the knee. I know it's a bit tricky, but you might just have to bring up the butt So that he has a bit more of a curvature like this To get into that because right now we're getting really low and not popping that Achilles heel I'm not even the foot roll is going to save this So I think when you go like this instead of bring the whole thing down We can bring a line of action on the body more like that As you go back, don't forget if you have something like this where that arm goes up You have to think about weight shifts if I loosen the the You know the lean on that arm It your chest is going to drop this way Because that position is not there So if you want to don't want to do that in terms of the drop obviously you would have to move you translate Your route and move that position over is more weight on this shoulder So you're gonna add a little bit of a dip there shoulder up potentially a straight arm This arm does its thing and even that root Part pelvis will move over there with a slight change because of that rotation Down here is going to affect this all the way down changing was potentially the knee position So as you go back, you know, even on something like this So it's not just a flat move back. This is all going to affect the rest of the body there And then on your jump you have to look at well. How is he jumping? Because it's slightly strange to go all the way up here already Where it's not going to be just the back leg. So to me it feels like It's going to be a push off using everything here So you go off and this will be shoulder down Arms down as much as you can And then a push off using the legs Meaning that you want to not I would not move this Foot back here just get full compression on this so that it stays put Full extension full extension on those legs Almost full extension and then you can slowly get into your bendy Part there One thing I'm wondering since we're all already in it's still in early stages since you are going White screen. So what if you move the whole guy over here? So the tail is still cut off But it would be here. So maybe the head would be here in my fantastic drawing, right? That's the guy and then you would have the stone would maybe end up here potentially, right? So we go this far over this far over and because you have that much more room. What if we move This character globally more profile so that we have Less overlap because I'm looking at this here too where we have all those Some more parallel lines and tangents and it is not as clean silhouette wise And I wonder if we're going profile if we can just make this just a bit cleaner You know you move them like I said all over here So it's a bit there might be slightly off balance because they're so far on the edge I will get that but You might have to maybe scale him down. So he's not as big Abstract to find ways for you a to fit this a to fiber nicer arc But then also silhouette wise make it work so that we're not so So messy here Also timing wise watch out. You're really shooting up and then it kind of slows down a lot through there So that momentum there suddenly stops So you might have to go not as high not as fast to give this a nicer hang time through here And a nice acceleration into the drop there It was also a bit slow motion through there And there's someone taking a thing, you know, he's stuck in that snow. So you really have to Lock this part and you can move the rest here But I would be careful with that much moving it can be It feels like you want to do this and then almost have leg movements first And this is all kind of locked And then maybe you start moving arms for him to get out and then the body can move And it could be a bit over interesting move out With the snow there for this All right, I'm gonna leave it at that. It's lots of notes Um, you will notice seen better You can kind of see what you can do with the camera or positioning of these guys Just to give this a bit more Just a cleaner silhouettes in general And nice arcs like I said, anyway, I'm rambling. I'm gonna leave it at that and stop. All right. Thank you All right, there's an email you can sign up you can start whenever you want you can submit whatever you want You get 16 submissions either way a like and subscribe would be awesome. All right. Thank you


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We back with some more Demon Slayer. What's going on guys? My name is Jack the Buster. I should know be today We have so eight of season two of our Demon Slayer watch through called gathering last episode hitting us with the big plot twist that Daki is actually sharing this position of upper moon six with a brother. I'm saying that they're actually two people one one He uses these insane sickles. I'm hoping we're gonna get some Tenkin action this episode since he's gonna really have to pop off Since there's two of them and I don't think Don Judo or Nezuko are really in fighting form Of course, he has a nose canes and it's who just showed up as well. So it's it's going down We're gonna hop right into it if you need a channel chop a sub hit that people bell show me see a future episode So if I like on this one, let's just hop right into it What or who is gathering versus a gathering of everyone because everybody's fighting now unless there's a trip Wait, if there's a third and I'm done dude. You jealous of Tenkin.  I like it. They can only afford to lose so many Hashirahs, bro That is so grossly scratches himself. I hate the sound Okay, so the singles touch you like you're done. So Well, he's still left, baby What he lie Wait versus brother Yeah, I like how his is flashy like a flashy headband come out of his brother's Here we go. This is what I wanted You He like understands all of them Well, he looks so much younger this he's not blind here, I don't think his other lights on his eyes times change Better not Hell yeah It's really interesting how unique his perspective on life is and like how he fights We've seen it through the wives as well how he shifted over time too.  That's his way. Come on take it pop off.  He's so badass. Yeah, you still got a chance though Ducky get it together girl.  You can know it's that you won't win Let's go. Hell. Yeah Minion as an instrument stick up for himself asleep And There's a b-team, baby Pange does here, too I guess this is the gathering like everyone is here I think they're shocked to see him still in the fight to do is like on the brink of collapse basically he did collapse Finally everyone's booking it Oh, they're helping everyone now dang this feels much more dire though than I had originally anticipated Mostly just cuz they've got this and just saw it hidden on ten get he's just gonna keep smiling He reminds me of Rengoku in that sense of the positivity even in the heat of like a really dangerous battle I mean Tanji on all them aren't shinobi. I mean they're not resistant to the poison like he is Since they are splintered that means they can't be a full power I wonder if even though he's the main unit. I wonder if they can like combine for like a final form I wouldn't be surprised One thousand percent push forward He knew exactly what he was thinking. Oh He explained this to you.  He better be foreshadowing Did he actually see some in him like I said, it was reminding me of Rengoku just that smile Yeah I think they have a really good shot. I mean they're all strong together He's killed Hashirah's though 15 and 7 Hashirah's oh my gosh. Hey, but is it it's it's his leg move brother He's bumping off baby, let's get it Dude, he's e-power fight so hard being able to just stay asleep like this. It's amazing He's like at a different level now. Just out of nowhere. I know they trained for a little bit But still I don't think he even knows still about how he fights when he's asleep. It's just kind of gone to this Ah Ha he does like remember things from when he's awake It's like what he wants to say to them when he's awake, but he can't well He actually did when he was away. He stood up for them He still retains it Based gig a chance in it's you This is second voice. Oh, is he saying it at the same time never mind Okay, dude. Oh He closes eye and sees through hers That's wild. I think he didn't close one of them They're able to like see what's going on with one another. I'm guessing it makes it easier to fight separately I think it looks a little ready, bro You're fast you can't be frozen He actually jumped backwards inside.   I mean I thought you know you've been through a bit bro. Where did the nose get go? He joins in it's No, where is he? So she's helping find out that there he is god dang She looks insane with the three eyes though Okay, so now she's power spiked a little bit, too It's interesting that he waited so long to come out. I guess it's like a last-ditch resort. I Mean they've been fighting a lot. I Guess then get in charge of having a way fought together ever really in like a situation like this It's like bolting out of her head.   He's having to dodge around the belts at the same time, too It just sounds like blood rolling against the blade. It's crazy Right matches Paper does beat rock. Oh, yeah, you just got to use what you need in this situation He's realized that perfect timing, too He's using like water stop hundreds using a water now for defense and then like, you know coming for offense So the blades are going up and down like back and forth Does he have more This is the sound design you can hear like blood in the back Makes you anxious That's what i'm saying, bro. He's already been through it, too. So got uh nezuko with him He blames himself. Tanjiro's blaming himself. Tengen blames himself.  It's so good. Oh Oh, she made it. She looks in rough shape, too. Bro.  He's not anticipating anything. Yeah Why? He had to like Greased an opening. His voice is so good though. It's so menacing Oh Does it not matter Hennigan's on a plan with her they they set something up. Oh Wait one hit him Oh the kunai have something Oh Genius, I didn't think about that. We've actually has with stare. He's done That's not Sounds like he's having fun. She actually came in court for those kunai.  Let's hear baby These have gotten so serious, bro It's so nice hearing his voice The boring young kamado Oh Feels good, man Defeating an upper rank demon is the next episode title. I mean, I guess we are slowly getting towards the end of the season It's crazy. It's sad that it's so short, man. I miss demon slayer being back But we only have three more episodes after this.  So I found it very interesting with his upbringing and everything I also love how they're incorporating the entire shinobi concept with her bringing that god just shooting kunai at him All laced with with starea because it makes sense that they would try to adapt it in terms of fighting demon So the guys that has been in for season two episode eight called gathering chop comment down below We thought the episode without my reaction did the fight deliver for you It's always a hope you guys have a wonderful rest of your day as per usual to catch you in the next one space base


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I started watching your videos and they are so the fact that they are so easily graspable. I mean, I'm not sure if that's the word but you can grasp them very easily. There's that and also there are concepts, literary theory and criticism. All of them I used to follow you on like I still do follow you on YouTube of course but then your lectures over there are immensely helpful and you are like this medium for me to you know my dreams just came true. So actually the syllabus it's so immense that it'll take me at least a year to just curate it down and you know bring it to one place. Everything like they have not left anything out. So that is why that platform the course arpithakarva.com is just it's the perfect start for a student and obviously they'll have to work harder, read books and do what not. But your course is the right platform from where you know students should definitely start if they're absolutely clueless like I was few months back ago. So it will give them the right platform. Hi Vidisha. Good evening. Good evening mom. This is such a pleasure to see you in real life. I mean in virtual mode that's it. Thank you so much. Say your lovely seeing you and firstly congratulations, big big congratulations on making all of us proud. Thank you so much mom and my entire credits to you and I feel entirely blessed seeing you like in in this technically possible manner because you've been my inspiration throughout and you know I my sister told me that Arpita mom cleared her net in her first attempt and that was such this for me was impossible and seeing you as an inspiration has helped me throughout so thank you so much. Thank you so much for all the love and appreciation means a lot to me and I would want to take that credit but I want to pass it again to you for putting in so much hard work because as teachers we can just be your guide but then you have to really sit down work for days and nights to you know understand literature in its full form to cover an ocean wide syllables and you made it possible so I'm very very proud of you not just me my entire team is very proud of you right now just a few minutes back one of my team member told me that Vidisha is there for the interview I'm like schedule the interview right now I I had to read somewhere I cancelled that because I really wanted to meet you. That is such a pleasure mom I heard like I got a call and I was immensely you know happy that you it is from your side and actually I purchased my NSM exams got over and I only had one month's time and it was entirely impossible even the person I was talking to said that okay is it your June attempt which you are aiming at I said yeah that would be my main attempt but this time I'm just sitting for the preparation however after like I started watching your videos and they are so the fact that they're so easily graspable I mean I'm not sure if that's how but you can grasp them very easily there's that and also there are concepts literary theory and criticism all of them I used to follow you on like I still do follow you on YouTube of course but then your lectures over there are immensely helpful and you are like this medium for me to you know my dreams just came true so thank you so much thank you so much for such such a long appreciation but then I would also want to pass on this thanks to my entire team they work really hard and my mentors as well like it is their blessing and their grooming which is which has shaped me so that's about it I want to know more about you I want to know where are you from how has been this educational journey like for you and when did you start preparing for net and what made you you know plan to prepare for net so all the best please okay all right so I was pursuing my bachelor's from Dell University so over there I used to get inspired from my professor and professor being a professor it was like my calling and I actually have been teaching since like a long time not just home curations we are referring to here after my 12th also I started teaching like in a sort of a school background and so teaching is something which comes naturally to me so for that I had to start preparing and then my teachers over there in Delhi told me that net is the medium that will open the gates for you and after that definitely you'll have to do your phd and stuff like that also I'm basically from Kolkata and currently residing in Ranchi so after my graduation I'm currently pursuing a master's so that's why and you're pursuing it from Rachi yes yes I'm currently in Xavier's St. Xavier's oh Xavier's Rachi right my brother is in Rachi he my younger brother he's pursuing his bachelor's from I am Rachi oh that's amazing yeah I've never been to Rachi but then if in case I do so I'm definitely going to meet you he's been asking me to come down to Rachi since so long but I was not getting time there's so much happening around that I could not go there but now I have another reason to come definitely we'll be so happy to have you here absolutely absolutely I tell my friends that you know what you should now that I've cleared it everybody's asking me how have you done it and how have you done it so my first literally the first advice I give them to them is that you can either purchase the course but if in case you're not just go to the website and that the syllabus over there it will give you the starting point you will literally have to do no hard work other than that you will find them chronologically arranged that will help you with your chronology as well so yes so the course has been immensely helpful to me thank you so much thank you thank you and I really loved how you mentioned that you know that that syllabus kind of gives you know it kind of directs a student as to how to start preparing because the syllabus prescribed by UGC as I always say is very very indicative so I wanted to sketch out the syllabus which anybody I have uploaded it free of course because I really wanted that anybody who's enthusiastic about preparing at least there should be something available for him so that he knows how to you know at least start or begin with definitely actually the syllabus it's so immense that it'll take me at least a year to just curate it down and you know bring it to one place everything like they have not left anything out so that is why that platform the course arpitaakarva.com is just it's the perfect start for a student and obviously they'll have to work hard or read books and do what not but your course is the right platform from where you know students should definitely start if they're absolutely clueless like I was few months back ago so it will give them the right platform thank you thank you so much so I wanted to also understand did you prepare for UGC later while you were in your master's yeah this was just I mean what would I say I gave my NSEM exams and I thought that okay let's just start from now and this was just my I would this is like an impossible thing because people say you should study for six months at least three months that's like maximum but I honestly studied for one month that too like I gave my best and then I sat in the exam thinking that this is just going to be an experience but thankfully I cleared it that too in my first NEM and the entire credit goes to you and my family of course they were being very supportive and everything absolutely absolutely I think family the kind of support that we get from family that is that cannot be spoken about in words because that is so dear and it is kind of the support pillar that the moment you feel demotivated the moment you feel alone those are the moments when it is your family that kind of gives you that strength to again you know start from the scratch it is only possible because of them my sister starting from feeling of form till waiting for the results to come out and my mom she has made that environment in my home so that I have to do no work my dad used to go to the center every like you know to see I was just studying so it is because of them that I was able to and why was I able to study is because of your course again so that is there thank you thank you thank you you should also add so all of this what you said makes complete sense but then add on this thing that you have put in that effort you know we Indians especially girls I would say have this habit of not prioritizing ourselves we kind of feel overwhelmed when we see other people helping us supporting us but then it is also important that this body this mind which is there with you throughout the day that this kind of helping you we should also you know take time to pat ourselves to tell ourselves that we did a fantastic job we worked out really hard to like clear this exam so just add that appreciation that that name in that appreciation list that's also important okay so I have like a lot of questions to ask especially when I got to know that you just clear the exam with one month of preparation so it is very very important for a lot of aspirants who are running out of time who have this time crunch to know and get inspiration from you that what should be their strategy so that they can utilize that one month to the best of their ability so my very first question would be that how many hours did you study what was your routine in the last one one and a half months when you prepared so when did you exactly started preparing and when was the exam exam within the 6th of December yes the entire month of November like apart from me going to college and I also work as a part-time job so that was there so the only time I had was yeah that's why it just was surprising and overwhelming at the same time but like before that I would just want to add something before you start preparing you just need to have that strong faith that this is possible people are doing it it's not angels coming from heaven people are doing it so that is possible number one number two after that everybody has 24 hours in their lifetime so you know you just got to delete other distractions also so I kind of deleted all of my social media platforms I don't know this feels like a little boasting but then apart from that that is important I really want you to share everything honestly because these are things which are going to motivate others because a lot of people find it challenging that okay I cannot keep my phone away while studying but then when somebody like you would say which is cleared net they would feel that okay if if she can do it then so can I yeah definitely so the thing is it's possible it the exam definitely it's tough but it can take you more than one attempt two attempt three attempt but you will definitely do this and a lot of times people have not clarified just because of two marks and three marks that doesn't make them any less capable there they should just never lose that hope that's there and as far as my strategies are concerned I was very specific about things for example there were portions which I could not cover as well for example there was this portion I think it was pedagogy and teaching methodology and research all of that so I saw one of your videos which said that you know 80% of output comes from 20% of your hard work so there was that so I had put my most of my entire attempt was in covering British literature and what happens is students start from the initials anglo-saxon norman and meanwhile when they come to Victorian and modern age they feel a little tired and that happens but then the net it has a tendency of asking questions majority like majorly from the these sections modern post modern that to recent questions so that was there and so focusing on these sections just like Victorian and modern these this is very important definitely there'll be questions from anglo-saxon as well but you should not put your entire focus on something like that so there was that and again analyzing previous your question papers that was there and then I had to make my notes also just there's just one thing I would want to say that people think that they will remember things but no it's it's literally different our minds does not work like that we think we'll remember but we will not remember until like we completely grasp things for example like we make it a part of ourselves that is how we remember things otherwise it's like mugging up and mugging up will never happen if you just read once you will have to write down and then there are different strategies for example I was making notes and you don't have to write it elaborately for example some person married some person so you can just write the names and make a heart in between so just like that exactly so you must have also gone through those video lectures that definitely that's what that's that's what we do like if two people are marrying so we we're just going to make that diagram with the heart in between and if somebody kills somebody so we are going to just put a cross that is what makes your lectures even more understandable I'd say because usually when especially when we were doing Charles Dickens I had problem with that because that man has written so many beautiful works but then they are so comprehensive and they have 60 characters in it so it was difficult for me but then the video lectures it helped me a lot and you know the somebody basic crux of the things which you need to know because questions are asked from that and it covers mostly everything that the text was published in this era and you know this date and everything and in questions also they'll ask you they had questions like Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights was published just analyze which of them are wrong so if you know them right you'll definitely be able to tell them tell them right right and so you were talking about the portions you left like Lagbridge and Pedagogy left what were the other topics that you left because of the time crunch so which were the other units I prioritized my entire attention towards British literature literary criticism in theory because they were the major portion and I did not leave a lot of things because and also while in exams I definitely did not do research pedagogy and all that but when the questions came they usually strike you so over there also you have to do a lot of intelligent guesswork strike out the wrong answers so elimination technique as I said definitely definitely elimination technique so that helped and what did I leave not a lot of portion but research methodology just came into my mind that I did not like completely study it did you complete like American post-colonial European I did go through them but I was again not sure if like I did not do them as properly as I did my my entire foundation was this British literature and literary theory and apart from that yes the Caribbean literature and all that no I did not I could not go in detail but here if people have time they should definitely go through that absolutely absolutely and as a working professional like it would have been very difficult because you were also doing a part-time job so how did you like balance all of that together like you had to also attend college and then come back and study so what was your routine like so basically I had given my in-semester exams so I did not have that entire pressure of academics at the same times I did have to read my novels but then they were like I like literature that's the thing so I had to read them but then they were not much of a burden and then the job which I do it's just teaching children so that is again a part of it's like a practical weird job so that is what I love doing that so that was not like taking a lot of mental toll on me but then yes when I used to come back home I did not have to study for my exam so the college exam that is so I had exactly so then I started yeah the entire course I started watching one by one and then I made notes and then after every week I used to revise them because otherwise there's no point if one day I'll start revising them all again that it'll be really difficult it's going to vanish from your like it's it's going to go into that bomo data angle from where you'll never find that information again that's what happened so I used to revise what's that yeah yeah yeah good okay so I was also wanted to you know just put another question in this that when you say that you were preparing notes and you know studying so what study material or resources were you actually using for paper to preparation paper to yes I had started with I used to ask my professors also they used to tell me that for one particular topic do not stick with any one particular book if you're reading any particular thing for example if you're doing post-colonial literature if you study it from any book for example as you say you're doing if there's a historical instance even if it's war of roses I'm doing I'll read it from one book like for example I did it from E. Albers then I also referred to David Dutch because if if something gets missed then it will be covered up from the second book so books definitely they were there but again I also was watching YouTube videos of a lot of other for example if I'm watching modernism I'll watch I'll watch your video I'll the thing is you should not restrict yourself to only one particular source because there are times when things get you know missed and then you kind of don't know the entire so in order to have the entirety of it of course your course is self-sufficient it's just that in order to have that entire confidence you should also refer to other sources yes yes one topic from difference also keep jotting down also for example I was doing the alberts I was making my notes that okay these many questions are can be possibly asked after that I started reading some other book and then I also watched YouTube channel for my one topic had material from different sources so it kind of gave me that confidence that okay yes I've done it so I kind of can answer this wonderful wonderful and how did you prepare for those chronology based questions chronology specific approach yeah yes there was this very amazing YouTube video I found it was it had that information as to how will you there was this acronym for memorizing there was just one instance I'm giving Charles Dickens's novel so it was pickwick paper then Oliver Twist and things like that so I had to remember those there are sorry for yes yes in a sentence form which is you know there was a sentence and there's that chronology and apart from that even your course has mentioned it for example if it's Romanticism so it'll have words worth at the top and then Coleridge after that so and like these were the pre-romantic not pre the first generation and after that the second generation romantic so that here so there are also the works are in chronology so yes yes yes when you when you learn so it kind of sticks in your head like that right right exactly the theory again another very challenging area for you to see net aspirants so how what was your approach towards handling literary theory did you struggle with that or was it easy yeah I can really feel with the students if they say they are finding it difficult but then my only and only solution to that was understanding concepts concept is power it's literally if you know this especially literary theory and what has some person said and something like that if you know the concepts then what maximum the net like the paper setters will do is they complicate the language and but if you know the concept okay post colonialism is about this then if they give a wrong sentence you will know okay this is not it was like what I've read so understanding concept is very important and again memorizing what Gulf War did not take place and stuff like that so there's that too memorization but understanding it like you know you should not just wrote learn things otherwise you're bound to forget so exactly it's not going to stick in your head like if you're not understood something you are bound to forget exactly exactly but then one more thing that kind of strikes my mind as you are sharing this I I find you a very intelligent girl who kind of understood how things work how the paper setter minds works when he's setting the paper so why did you feel that there was a need to join a coaching class for you to see next like self study did not like why not the root of self study self study could have taken me a longer time is that that is the reason number one if I am being completely honest I would have done this but it would have taken me a few more attempts because I did see everybody has a phone which is like an excellent best like it has the world on your fingertips however you will not have that guidance to where to start from what is what should you leave what should you not leave and you know things like that so joining your first of all this syllabus as I said it was so intense and immense that you know even seeing that will give you that overwhelming fear is it even possible to do it within six months so that can happen but once you join the coaching and like first of all the one if anybody sees the syllabus they would want to listen to the videos and that is very tempting of course but apart from that they can do their own research but listening to that helped me in you know uh sidelining a lot of other things which are not necessary so it kind of the coaching institute primarily helps you to have that footing that base that okay this is where you should start from this is what right right that's why right right and also like why not on offline classes because I don't know about Rachi like whether they have good UTC net institutes but then offline is said to be a relatively easier way because you can go there and set a lot of students feel that nowadays like I am a big fan of edx.com if you've heard of it has like plethora of courses from Harvard and Yale and all these great universities um so it's not possible for me to go there so then internet brings those courses to me so I am a big fan of online learning but then a lot of people still believe that offline is a better way to go so like uh what what was your take on this uh again I think it depends on person to person for example as per my schedule I was not able to even you know find out the time I used to listen to these lectures at 1am at night so going there again the geographical and tertiary problems were there and it's it is much more convenient for me to go through online and the thing is uh see again it has both pros and cons you can definitely interact with teachers and that can happen however if it is online you can use it at your own speed at your own pace you can re-repeat it watch it 100 times until you've understood so that was there and uh offline modes definitely help you but then I think again I mean I can't say one is better or one is not but it depends if one is comfortable with that so online coaching for me makes sense um what you just said makes so much sense that it could not fit in your routine because you were already engaged with a lot of things and you were studying at 1am at night so any online class could not have taken place uh offline class would have not taken place at that time so that kind of fit into your schedule great yes so any specific benefits that you can like pinpoint which you got once like after enrolling in our course like what were the key benefits you think that the course brought in your preparation okay uh there are multiple actually but then to start with it definitely helped me down with my syllabus because again it's vast because those uh for people I am saying you should go and refer to this and they are saying and they're like how is it possible to do it but once you have the course you know that it is definitely possible you just have to make time out of it number one number two critical as you said the theories and um critical criticism basically so that is a little difficult to understand if you are referring to different books and all so in the end I knew I had to buy this course because if I'm studying from my own I'll have to buy a lot of books like one book will be insufficient and so but then this course has that in the videos are self-sufficient and you can definitely do a research aside from that but apart from that if you're just watching that it will make you feel that okay you have not left out a lot you have covered most of it and mother you you can feel confident with that so helping me I was saying understanding is the key so that understanding comes from the videos so there's that right right and uh apart from that they're made very like they're not very long as if they're going for hours and hours they're very short and crisp and it's some videos just end in two three minutes so you feel like motivated okay let me just watch few more and then few more right right I know that was something that even I used to um you know do when I was preparing for that so I have understood this from a lot of psychological researchers that the attention span of human brain is very limited okay so if it is a 10 minute lecture you'll be like you'll feel okay let me do it it's just 10 minutes long if it is a 50-minute lecture you'll be like okay let me just browse through Insta for some time let me just go out and take a stroll let me do this let me do that this is a task too big to finish so if we break that task into like bite-sized lessons people are tempted to like go through it or like at a 10-minute class well let's just finish it I just want to sleep but I want to sleep around 130 so I have like 15-20 minutes let me finish two three lectures in that time so that kind of yeah that's that was my reasoning behind it why I worked once this is what I'm sure a lot of people yeah I hope so and I'm really blessed to have students like you on board with us who are um who look at literature from a very different lens for them passing an exam is one of the goals it's not the end goal for them the real goal is to understand literature to see how it can benefit society to inspire a lot of other students you're going to meet in your journey and what passionate about teaching so when I started this platform I always say to my employees we're going to celebrate six years and a few days on 14 February we are going to complete six years of our company so I remember thank you thank you to the day when I started the company my aim was to make a platform that can teach teacher like that can build teachers who love teaching so that students who they teach will love learning so it's kind of like a very big chain that I'm trying to make yeah and I have to be successful so far mom you have done an amazing amazing job it's like a steam biases happening teachers benefiting from the students and students benefiting like it's otherwise it's amazing so definitely thank you thank you so much um uh coming back to the uh interview I have another interesting question for you you were talking about notes like so can you share your note making strategy like um how exactly were you making notes and how were you revising these notes okay so I would let's just say I'll give you an example uh uh if I'm making notes on Marlo let's just say so I'll start with his biography first I'll write uh not all the details are important for example it was even mentioned somewhere he's a homosexual and all so I know they did not ask such questions if this is true or not I mean they might but then this detail probability is very very rare yeah exactly so you you got to know that this is important and what is not important just leave it out so obviously you can't write everything because it is immense so the important chunks I used to take out from the author understanding author is very important and uh there's that and apart from author when I was also doing the uh when I was doing the ages I did not leave out anything that is the movements the historical the lullard movements and the peace and rebellion and all that actually it's like a it's like building a house and all these works works that I do author's work they are like bricks but the social movements are like a cement so they will help you from the entire brick at the wall isn't it you kind of imbibed that metaphor in similiwala cheese on your side inside you I remember one of my students used to tell me that when I read John Dunn and a lot of other writers who love giving these analogies and allegories I kind of feel that it gets so sticky again right now the moment you just gave this beautiful analogy of building a house and how these moments and social reforms that happen that was kind of uh this kind of contributed contributed in um making the foundation of the house because bricks you can put one after the other but if the cement is not there the bricks are going to fall exactly exactly yeah right so that's a beautiful lovely analogy I am going to get uh in my few further future lectures saying that one of my student taught me this I'll be so glad so that is what I tell my friends also you know do not miss out those because otherwise you will not understand why is this writer writing what is in his mind you know that is important so there's that and after that like I've made notes on malo and after malo then I was I started with his works for example in a chronological manner that is so that badmai don't have to go ahead and see which work was written first so I obviously used to go ahead with the first work right see it's um not just the significance of title and then see the how what is the beginning line how does it end then the character's name and after that the entire crux a detailed summary that is at times they ask questions which are very detailed like who was the personal secretary and their dog or something like that some very detailed questions so um there was that and um like uh for example every plajew of malta and then uh dr foustis all of these had like one one page notes of a very condensed form that will not leave out anything the characters if there's a quote which is very significant or repeated so there was that if there's any reference on which another book was written the title was taken from it like your hand full of dust has been taken from wasteland so yeah sort of just like an intertextual illusions for example white sir gas to see and bertha mason and how so just like that so that is how I made my notes and I used to write them not in a lot of paragraphs I used to write them in point wise because otherwise I'll also not feel like reading it so just point wise very very important it is to like make very short notes so that so you don't have to be a lot of students don't understand they don't have to be a xerox machine they just have to write such like short pointers that only when they see it you can only understand that okay why you have written this particular phrase you will recall the story behind this phrase the notes are for your reference not for the reference of your friend that that's definitely definitely you will carry them with your like I think for the rest of your life so make sure that you understand them write them in proper handwriting change pen colors if that is necessary that will also help so write them in a crisp format and just yeah as you said because they're ox machine and everything so that is not very interesting and how did you revise like did you do daily revision or was it a last minute revision before the exams I used to do a weekly revision as in like daily revision would I my focus was to for example I did not have rigid goals but then I used to have certain things in mind okay that this week I'll be I used to like there's a in WhatsApp there's a thing where you can talk to yourself like the chat where you can talk to yourself I think there's that so over there I used to write that okay this week I'll cover literary criticism it is that I'll cover postcolonial or psychoanalytic psychoanalytical criticism or things like that and then in literature I'll do this in let's just say in other literatures I'll do Gabriel Garcia Maka and things like that so that would that helped me and then after a week I used to revise on Sundays especially I used to give time in the evening that okay what did I study in the entire week so that if I do it a quick revision quick revision would have been impossible if I did not revise it like that so there's that right right wonderful wonderful I think weekly revision makes so much sense that you also have a have a kind of understanding that okay this week this much I've completed so you kind you can kind of have a mental calculation that okay 40 percent of my syllabus is complete next time I'm aiming to finish 50 percent so you have those milestones mentally there that's another interesting thing that I want to ask is that you must have found that since you did not cover the entire syllabus so there might be a lot of questions in the paper that you felt was unfamiliar or was tough for you to handle since you did not finish that portion so how did you tackle those questions again elimination technique that I knew these two were not the answers because I've studied that so for example there was like at times you just need to apply a little bit of there was a question what does quote mantu means so I kind of knew I studied all like this all the options and most of them were making sense but then there was this one sentence of one option which is not making sense entirely so that is strike off and then in the three so again the elimination technique helped me a lot so that is how I did and yeah manage your time yeah sorry please go ahead you would say just that only that there was a question there was a very difficult question it was an Indian writer lesser known Indian writer and there were chronology based on that so I started like you know thinking if I were a writer what would I have had written first is it a poem mother that's very lame I don't think so I think what is interesting good to know is that somebody who is keen on getting those questions right somebody who's not just like you don't know if that is not approach then that person is definitely going to use some or the other tactics to solve it and sometimes it's it is right also sometimes it backfires also but the point is that it is up make the mark look at me probability increase care just say this example that you're giving elimination so I always say that if you have four options and you take one option so your probability is 25% to get it right but if you eliminate two options then your probability of getting the right answer is 50% so you double probability so when you use these kind of tactics to get a question right your probability increased a little bit obviously the questions that you don't have an idea about probability plays a crucial role in considering you do not have a negative marking system which will you know diminish your marks you should definitely not leave out questions because there have been few very few questions which I thought were definitely wrong but they were not actually they were right because of that elimination technique and all that so I'm grateful that that happened so I think people should take their chances even if it's wrong you will know if it's right then good for you so good for you exactly exactly again another question that I have for you is that how did you manage time during the you know exam those three hours what was your approach which questions did you attempt first what was the sequence of paper one and paper two yeah so okay let me be very honest the moment I saw paper one I prepared a DI also like I used to see videos I think is it a brother who makes it some some person some karma yes yes yeah yeah he is my brother the one who is in I am Raji right yeah oh that is amazing so so I used to listen to I had prepared that but then the question paper it it was a little tricky this time paper one so I got nervous and then I was like okay let me I just marked them for review and I said I'll come back to these and then I came to paper like I did all of them but then I was not very certain so I did not waste my time thinking have an RK I will solve this question then only I will go to the next one so no that did not happen so and then I moved to paper two and that is where I was like okay this is my forte here and then I developed that confidence that okay I do this and after I was done with that so there was time left and then I went to review that question so I will the only tip I think with this is a very repetitive tip that you should not waste time on questions which you should which you know if you are not able to do that you should just move on to the questions which you don't know otherwise you just end up missing them missing and it is very important I think I can this is one tip that I kind of have repeated in all my videos that I made towards the end of the course like when I'm just taking youtube lives on how to attempt mock test and how to do the last minute revision so in that series in every video this is one thing that I say that don't get attached to a question it is not like your last relationship that you are like definitely when you have not prepared a lot like math is my again last minute revision I was revising so again the mentor he told me like he told he used to tell in his every video that there are portions which definitely come in exams so you should study these and these are the questions they have not been asking from like so many years so I did not I completely did not study them this time also they did not come so that happened and apart from that there were significant questions for example the alphabet series the number series these are things which you again have to make the mental makeup that okay even if you're not good in maths they will not ask few questions like you know from a very college level they'll ask you basic questions only in fact if I had to give it second time I would have a better in that but apart from that as I was saying so paper one main I did try to as in what do I say I did try to not put so much attention into questions which were a little difficult for me for example there were questions the train speed and everything so I knew this will take time and not for me at least but then there were questions like number series and alphabet series those were questions which I know okay these I can do this so that I did and that I made my surety and then I moved on and then a paper two was again yeah exactly very rightly said that you have to play with your strengths so like I remember this was one mistake that I did when I was preparing for that so when I was preparing for that I was like very very ambitious so I kind of did all number series and DI and everything and I'm pathetic at math yes I'm your ambition has inspired a lot I think the first video I watched of you was how to write better answers if you're in masters or bachelors that was the first video and over there you were explaining how you were the topper of your entire university and that was just so inspiring then you post videos of you going to foreign countries and it just makes me feel that okay one day I will be like her and you know if she can do it on one attempt it is possible so yeah I'm so sorry I interrupted no no no no not at all and I'm so glad I'm so overwhelmed right now to know that you know I have that impact in life so many people so yeah going back to my story so I was sharing that so I did a lot of hard work when it came to DI and logical reasoning questions so I put in like a lot of efforts to understand and solve a lot of questions but then when the paper came that time the DI and the logical part was very tricky so I could not get it right but then that's there I had this feeling here I have to get it right so I kind of wasted those 10 minutes and then that was the moment when I realized and it is just my ego that is making me waste my time here because I have put in like 50 hours understanding DI and now I cannot get these five questions right so so at that time I took a one minute break in the exam hall and I just asked myself that and that is the moment when I decided that DI I'm just going to mark random answers and I'm going to move ahead and that was a game changer because so even I would have not cleared it in my first attempt so that is when I realized a lot of people you know kind of relate to it and they kind of remember it at the back of their mind so on the day of the exam maybe and they'll remember you sharing this or our interview where we both are talking about this and they'll they might not waste their time and they'll move on so I think that is where I feel like I'm like your little version or something this exact thing happened with me I also prepared for DI but then the moment I saw the question half of the section was not there it you had to make the further calculation it was not the basic question definitely yeah yeah this time it was very hard so so that happened I saw and I realized okay I did not I was not even thinking so much I just knew it from the start this will take time I should not waste my time in this I should definitely just see which answer seems reasonable and like not going into extremes and all that so I did that and then I moved on to the other questions and as you said at the moment I did I entered paper two and I realized okay this is mine that there's a scope where I can that that's my battlefield yeah exactly that's my forte that's my strength yeah right great great so any advice that you would want to give to students who are preparing for that anything specific that you have in mind do you've shared some wonderful tips but anything else that you have in mind that you would want to share just believing that it is definitely possible I mean for those who have not clarified this my friends also they have attempted and they have scored 178 also 182 was the cutoff so there was this close so I would just say that you know you are also this close do not lose that hope even I had that in my mind that what if I don't clear this time it would be so difficult I'll have to start from basics again but you are not starting from the basics you are definitely ahead a lot because you have done most of the things you have to revise them and this time you might as well clear jrf so there's that right so believing that it is definitely possible will help you because once you know the why you will know how so answering that question that why you know that is very important to know how and once you know that why that okay you have things cleared in mind I have to get this trade this is my time limit you just don't have to take so much pressure that okay I don't have time that might come naturally if you are preparing for a long time but initially for people the beginners you have time you can do this and it is possible it is it is the exam is made for you you can do this exactly so the mental makeup is done and after that mental makeup there comes the action because you cannot be idealistic about things and just trade will happen no so that is there so I would say the the hard work definitely that should be done that should never be compromised you should not leave the portions unless that's like the only option left you should definitely do because you never know there was like Bharti Mukherjee and questions from that I just gave a read read last time and then after I saw the question I was like thank god I did this I read this otherwise I would have just skipped that portion so if possible try to cover maximum syllabus if not then you're definitely a human being and apart from that I'd say you can also keep a journal and things like that to write down feelings you know today you might not feel motivated so there's that and apart from that there are very wonderful movies also on youtube so there are days which you might not feel like you know studying a lot so you cannot obviously you will not feel like studying the novel so you can just watch the movie it will help you clear so many concepts I've watched that we pilgrim's progress I think it's a very cartoon version and it's amazing because yeah I was writing notes and it was there were like so many things happening simultaneously but then I saw the movie and it helped me a lot so these tips you have to be mentally prepared physically you have to do the hard work and also spiritually also if you want to stay connected there's that also so wonderful I think you've you've given that yoga kaja madra mind body and soul all three together and that is what yoga is all about yoga is all about so very beautifully you know kind of align the three pillars together and all three are as as important as the other because spiritual as you said I have this prayer section on the website if you see oh yeah I forgot to mention I had that in my mind that your course is not just like it does not definitely have content but then in the end there was like prayer from arpita mam and that was so soothing towards and it was like you being with us it's like your it reminds us of your presence that you are praying for us your entire team is working so hard so that we get there we reach to our dreams in a better manner in a faster way so definitely so thank you so much that that prayer I think is something that I advise everyone to do on a daily basis prayer or any form of meditation that you like it just what you said makes so much sense that when you journey you write down how do you feel so even today like I have been in this industry since past six years and yet there are days when I feel that oh I wasn't productive enough today I had so many things in my task list but I did not do it so I have this habit of you know writing my task list on a day-to-day basis in the morning and then I check it off and in the evening I have a completed task list that these are the things that I finished today so the days when I feel demotivated I go back to those previous notes and I just scroll through them and see that oh there have been days where I've been super productive so I can take that leverage that okay today I did not feel like doing so much and that kind of doesn't let me get into that guilt trip which a lot of us have this tendency towards we all gravitate towards saying that oh I'm not done enough I'm not intelligent enough I'm not hard working it out and that is something that has to be changed like no matter if you clear net you do not clear net it has nothing to do with your self-image you're a wonderful beautiful human being each one of us um and these these things that we do is just one of the achievements but that cannot overshadow our personality a person that we are yeah yes and that is probably the reason little difference which we do yeah that's what so that's what I was saying and as you have wonderfully mentioned all the spiritual causes and that but that was amazing yeah right right so that's about it I guess you've given a lot of tips which are going to be very very beneficial and some really eye-opening tips for me as well because you know every student that I meet has a very different way of studying so I'm a very systematic person I am somebody who is going to do a very thorough study you're somebody who is intelligent enough to know that okay this is the time that I have and this is what I'm going to aim for so your approach kind of would really help students who are also having this kind of time crunch and can relate to your approach better than mine so I think that is what we're aiming at that with these definitely definitely you have to have that mindset as well you know of what the paper setters they are going to set you have to just see it not like a battle but then you have to prepare your own army as well and then make sure and the only information you have of their army is the previous year question paper so there's that exactly exactly and thank you so much once again it was lovely talking to you thank you so much for taking out time for this interview and as soon as I land in Raji I'm going to give you a call I don't know when is that going to be possible but probably in the next three four months I'll be there in Raji and I'm definitely going to give you a call and I'll also ask Kadevi to forward your number to him so since he's in town he can definitely catch up with you once he's the one who has like kind of helped you with the maths and di portion so definitely definitely I owe him a treat actually just let you know and you mom if you come here I'll be so honoured actually to receive you and it will be an amazing experience to see you in real life it would be lovely I I I'll definitely take you out for a treat that is a treat that is due from arpatharva.com's team for students like you who have made us proud and who has kind of made us feel worthy of what we are doing so when we see that our efforts are getting converted into somebody's dream are coming true that that kind of motivates us a lot to keep moving on this path. You are an absolute inspiration ma'am if someone asks me where do you see yourself in like few years I would just my one word answer can be arpita ma'am so thank you so much thank you so much but I would really want to like add something to it I would not want you definitely we all get inspiration from each other but then I would definitely not want you to it's it's fire to be me I would want you to aspire to be the best version you can be because I know that you're beautiful in your own way and you can do things which I cannot even think of so there are plans which God has made for each one of us and we have to move towards that path just like that pilgrim progress so we have that journey to the celestial city and everybody's journey is different so ma'am do you mind me asking like this is very like I know this is very too early to think I have to finish my masters and do my desitations as well but then what exactly did you do after clarifying your net did you attempt for jrf as well did you do phd and what yes so I did my phd I cleared my net and since jrf is basically done in order to get that stipend when you're doing your phd I come from a financially well family so I never had that thank you which is jrf karki the government's a stipend because I found that let that money go into the hands of people who need it more than me so and then I pursued my phd I completed it while this startup was running so 2016 to 18 was my master 17 I cleared my net 18 I started the company and 18 may I enrolled in phd which completed in 2021 oh it's recent yeah it's amazing so that's how it is thank you so much for the guidance ma'am that that thank you thank you so much for the love and appreciation and you haven't I feel like earned this from a person I was just a viewer and now I'm talking to you live this is just an amazing amazing experience thank you and I feel grateful for you and your entire team who has worked so hard so so hard thank you I'm going to pass your regards to them definitely I'm definitely everything just the entire aim is just it is helping so many students out there including me and it has helped me you know for me it's like an impossibility thinking that I'll clear just in one month's time and you know under that to a category which is like the marks under this is just extremely much so for me I just thought I'll if it happens and it's good otherwise I was definitely prepared I'll give my second attempt but then I qualified this attempt and my entire credits to you and everybody thank you thank you so much and your strategy was wonderful now that I know your entire journey I can see that it wasn't luck it was sheer hard work and your smart work sometimes people think that okay if I study for like 12 hours for one year only then I can clear net there are people who are intelligent enough to realize that okay just like you said British literature theory and criticism that constitutes of 80 percent of the syllabus if you finish that completely there is a fair chance that you can get net because net cut off is 60 65 percent 80 percent we have 65 questions to answer so that is how the mind works the mind function so exactly and the mind I would say the mind should like there are there was a very motivational video I watched where it was said the mind should not be like a stone where you pour water and it just goes everywhere it should be like a sponge which should absorb it so you should have that clarity in your mind it should be like lattices in the window that okay this forms here this okay structuralism post structuralism this bath was a part of structuralism then he became a part of poster so things should be clear over there if it is clear you will see the questions and you will know the answer and you will be definitely more confident that okay so it should not be like a stone so another metaphor absolutely wonderful analogy once again some words of wisdom that I think it's going to be very very beneficial for all the future aspirants thank you so much for being with us and I'm really looking forward to meeting you very very I am just the same I'm I'm so honored for this interview and for the fact that I could see you and talk to you in person so that is amazing thank you thank you I'm going to share your number with Dave you can you guys get in touch definitely definitely I would love that and for you to come in Ranchi that would be absolutely absolutely absolutely chalo bye bye and congratulations once again and pass my regards to all your teachers and your family members definitely ma'am you too passed my entire like a lot of respect to your team and you of course and your brother and everybody who was a part of this journey because it's not one person just like structuralism it's the entire entire elements you know helping me reach out there you know if you want something desperately want something you will definitely find out the way so the just one last thing I would want to say is do not lose hope it is possible and you will definitely do this absolutely thank you so much thank you wonderful interaction with you actually bye bye same here ma'am just the same bye ma'am bye bye


Hey everybody, welcome to Wallach Way. I'm Jessica. Today's video is another summer haul and it is going to be Lakeshore Learning. Before I show you all of the homeschool goodies, I have a few things I wanna tell you. The first of which is don't forget to head over to my Instagram because there is a coordinating giveaway for every summer haul and this week's coordinating giveaway is from Lakeshore Learning. You have the chance to win five randomly selected games for your homeschool. So you could potentially win some of the things I'm gonna be showing you in today's video. The other thing I wanted to tell you before I show you all of this stuff is make sure you are signed up. Go to Lakeshore Learning and subscribe for their email and their text because they text an email separate coupon sometimes and you can kind of use them to your advantage.  So I actually have three separate purchases. We made two orders or we placed two orders and then we went to the Lakeshore store and I did that because like if you get $20 off 100, you do smaller orders, you're saving more money. So make sure you sign up because it makes it a little bit more affordable to be able to do things like that. Also, when you're getting ready to buy multiples of something, make sure they don't have a bundle created because I bought quite a few like board games. They came in a bundle package and you saved $20 by buying them in the bundle versus buying them individually. Okay, that's all my tips. Now let's go ahead and get started. Most of what I purchased was very specific and intentional because you can go broke in Lakeshore. They have so much awesomeness and it was either things that we have used in the past from them that we love that I knew would be really good in our home school or it was things that I specifically knew I wanted to work with her on. Not like I was walking through Lakeshore and I just bought everything because it looked awesome which I could have done, but I restrained myself. The one thing I really knew that I went in the store with like the intention of looking for something was writing. Writing is something I really wanted to work with Emily on this year. So I went in to specifically find something for that. What I left with was the build a paragraph flip book. So this is a book that has different topics in it. So we have friends, pets, sports, family, favorite food, beach, and then within each topic there are details and then a conclusion. So you could see like let's say right here we're gonna talk about the beach and here are our three details from the beach and then our conclusion. So we have, I'm sorry, for friends. So we have friends that are special, funny, kind and then I have the best friends in the whole wide world could be your conclusion. So it's a really great way to kind of have an outline for a paragraph and help her write them to start with I felt like to really help her see that we need three details and a conclusion and here is the way to start that. And then along those same lines I also picked up the build a story flip book. So this one includes the character, the setting, the event and the conclusion. So you would just flip to find those four different things and then on the back of this one it also has some transitional words to help you transition from one topic to the next or from one sentence to the next. The last thing I grabbed with writing intentions was the writing process folder. So this takes you through the whole writing process. Over here we have some writing topics. Here we have overused words and commonly misspelled words and then when you open it all the way up you have the four pockets that take you through the process. So there's pre-writing, draft, revise and final slash edit. And each of those pockets have the steps for each of those processes. And then on the very back of the folder you have the revising checklist and the editing checklist. So I just thought it was kind of cool this would help her see how the process went and exactly what needed to be done. So that is what I grabbed with writing specifically in mind. Pretty much everything else that I picked up was things that we've used from them in the past that I know we love and I know we wanted to level up in our homeschool. The first of which is the power pen, nonfiction and fiction reading comprehension cards. I didn't need the power pen because I still have the power pen from last year when we used these cards. This is just the fourth grade. What I love about these is that they're just short little paragraph or two for her to read. And then when she's done reading there are a few questions on the back that she can use the power pen to answer. I really, really love that this is something that she can do independently. So I try to make sure I have a few independent activities on hand for days I don't feel good or days I'm just too busy or whatever days me and her aren't jiving. That's really common when you're homeschooling and only that if you're both having a bad day the whole homeschool day is gonna be shot. So I like having some things like that so she can do independently and that's one of them. They're also really good for strewing. Another independent activity that we loved last year that I wanted to level up is these quickies. This was the whole language arts bundle from Lakeshore. So it's four vocabulary, literature, grammar and writing and informational text. And then inside each of these boxes are these little like envelopes if you will that you just pull out and that's the activity. So this one is academic vocabulary and on the back it has the directions for what you're supposed to do. You just open it and it has the little cards in here ready to go. So basically it's like a ready-made center for fourth to fifth grade standards for that grade and those topics, I'm not sure where that went so we're just gonna stick that in there. And then there is also separately all of the answer cards. So this is all the answer cards for all of the different activities in this box. So that is the vocabulary box and it includes Greek and Latin roots and affixes, idioms, similes and metaphors, context clues, academic vocabulary, synonyms and antonyms, dictionary skills and frequently confused words. Then we also have literature and that includes determining theme, character traits, making inferences, poetry, drama and prose, summarizing, comparing contrast, point of view and words and context. And then we have informational text which is text structures first and second hand accounts, what happened and why, connections in text, making inferences, text features, supporting evidence and summarizing. And then we have grammar and writing which is complete sentences, commas, pronouns and adverbs, verb tense, capitalization and punctuation, adjective order, connections, prepositions and interjections and then progressive and perfect verb tenses. And let me just show you one more time. Like I said, they just have, each of them has these really cute color-coded little boxes that just slide right out and then they have Velcro on them so they seal nicely and the cards are already pre-cut and then little, you know, ready to go. Like it really is a ready-made center so between all four of these language arts is covered for centers. Now I still like to print and have fun centers but this just makes sure I have something independent on hand ready to go that I don't have to do at all. I don't have to prep it, I don't have to oversee it. Now I do keep the answer card separate. Sometimes I will check her, sometimes Kevin will check her, sometimes I'll give her the answer card and let her check herself so she can see what she did wrong but I do keep those separate just so you know, I don't put them in there. The next thing we grabbed were these splash games so it is splash, multiplication and splash division. They play very similar to if you're familiar with the learning resource pop games, like the pop for sight words, pop for addition.  Now these do actually have two separate ways to play though there's a challenge in a team play. So if you or child was maybe just starting out you could have them do the team play with you or with their siblings or classmates if they're in a class and then you could step it up to the challenge whichever one that they needed to do and they do also have these in subtraction in addition we just didn't need them but if that's where your kiddo is at they have those as well. Pretty much everything else we have is games, surprise, this one is the fascinating facts about the human body. I did not intend to purchase this one, explore the human body from inside out but it was on display when we went to the store and it was just kind of cool, I couldn't walk away. And it was on sale too. So you have this human body, he's a pretty good size he's about the size of my forearm and all of his pieces come out and then you have some trivia questions and facts to go with him. So I just kind of thought well that would be a fun way to learn a little bit more about the human body and that's one topic that we haven't done a lot with that we're hoping to do more with this year so it just seemed like a fun thing to add to our collection. Okay, I'm not really sure how I didn't already have this one when I walked through the store I was like, oh that game looks familiar but I don't own it. So we went ahead and picked it up it is the allowance game and it is basically a money game and Lord knows we could use all of that so it'd be the first to save $20 save and spend your allowance start your own business lose learn to make change and handle money and we really need some help with saving money so I thought the fact that this game encouraged you to save versus spend was really, really great. The next thing that I got remember I got told you guys about bundling so this was the math bundle it is the fourth and fifth grade mastering math I'm not sure what they call it but it was a fourth and fifth grade math bundle and you got these four games and so we have multiply, divide and conquer a multiplication and division game and then we have ATM action, a money game climb the cliff, a fraction game and the math star, a word problem game we could use all the help with word problems we can get so the next bundle or set that I purchased I actually don't have all of the games for that one because there were two that were back ordered so they sent me the four individually and then told me they would send me the two soon I believe they'll be here in three weeks I just didn't wanna wait to do this video for you guys and I was still able to get that bundle discount so that was really, really great so what I did is I purchased the reading comprehension it's level two, it was grades four through five we did level one, grades two through three last year and so I went ahead and like I said, leveled up to the next one so this is a wipe out, a vocabulary game hazard mountain, which is an inference game capture the flag, a word comprehension game sorry, a reading comprehension game you guys, I can't talk and then main street shopping, which is a main idea okay, now I do wanna say something about these games we love them, but I know I talk a lot about games so sometimes when I talk about games it's a game that is like happens to be educational I mean, every game is really teaching something but a lot of times people prefer sneaky games so games that like Scrabble, Scrabble's just a really fun game that happens to work on spelling skills it's not specifically intended to be an educational game these games are specifically intended to be educational games so a lot of them are, let me see if I can open one of these for you, are specifically, you know, standard based games so this is the main street shopping game and you can see here that the cards that you are reading have a paragraph you read the paragraph and it asks you what is the main idea of this paragraph I mean it is a very specific concept that you're working on and it feels very educational however, it is still at least in my daughter's opinion a lot more fun than having a piece of paper where she has to read multiple paragraphs and fill in some sort of bubble like a worksheet now if you have a worksheet loving kid then that's great, but I don't and so these give me the ability to still have her reading paragraphs and answering questions or doing multiple math problems or working on word problems in what she deems a more fun, hands-on, interactive way and so that's what these are for us but again, I just want you to know before you order one and you're like Jessica recommended this game they are intended to be educational so they are very school-ish type games okay, there's my little disclaimer on that the very last thing that I have I believe this is our third or fourth year buying it we love it, I buy it every year and like I said, I was buying with the intention of this being everything I bought from Lakeshore for the whole year so we went ahead and bought the are you ready for fifth grade game show now obviously we will not be using this anytime soon it will probably be waiting until next summer in fact, because we are just now using the are you ready for fourth grade game show right now currently but I was really trying to get everything that I would need slash want for the whole year so I went ahead and grabbed this plus it was on sale and they tend to go on sale here towards the end of the school year because they know that's when people want them so I think it was like 1999 instead of the normal 2999 so that is everything that is all of my Lakeshore learning hall that's all of the goodies again, most of it is games or a few independent activities or writing I would love if you would head over to my Instagram and enter to win that giveaway so you can win some Lakeshore learning goodies for yourself


Ladies and gentlemen, something a little bit different for you, we got a little taste, a little sampler, a little appetizer of Mama's Boys podcast, the new podcast I started with my man Omar Isoff. It is a non-fitness podcast. We want to talk to people that we enjoy talking to, influencers, coaches, Instagrammers, YouTubers, podcasters, celebrities, whatever it might be and let you hop in or be the fly on the wall or join in with the conversations that we like to talk about. Talk about things that maybe we don't do all the time. So for us it's non-fitness, maybe it's movies or music or sports for myself, for Omar, maybe it's video games, books, jazz, etc. So today's episode we have the one and only Mr. Joe DeFranco. This is a coach, a human that I've looked up to for a long time, not only for his knowledge and his experience within the industry but also as a businessman. He was one of the very first people I ever watched on YouTube. He's probably the number one guy that inspired me to get into coaching, strength and conditioning, coaching basketball players, rugby players, football players in the weight room. He's revolutionized how people do that, not only business-wise again but also in his methods and he's also had such a broad reach of the athletes he's worked with now, working with the WWE, Triple H, Brian Cushing, a bunch of very elite athletes. So if you're interested, give this little highlight reel a chance, check it out on iTunes, check it out on Spotify, Stitcher or MamasBoysPodcast.com. I think you guys will appreciate it. We're dropping episodes every, do you know what it is? New episodes are dropping every Tuesday and every Friday. So be sure to subscribe on iTunes, give us a rating and review. It's much appreciated and I will catch you guys in the next one. Something like that? Yeah. Yeah, WWE. That's what you do, yeah? Main gig now or what? One of the main, one of the main gigs, yeah. I only go, I train Paul, Triple H and Steph twice a week. I drive to their house but they travel a lot. So I do all their programming, go to their house twice a week and then they opened up that, they started the performance center which is basically like, I don't want to call it minor leagues because there's a lot of guys that have been wrestling for a long time but kind of their feeder system to the WWE. Basically like a college program to the NFL, whatever, it would be a good example of it. And when I first started training Triple H, he had the idea to open up this performance center that he wanted to be like this NFL type facility and basically breed all the wrestlers there so they didn't have to go looking for them all over the world. So then they hired me as a consultant to design the weight room aspect of that facility, hire a strength coach, and implement more athletic type training because they're all training just like body builders for the look, when they start having a lot of injuries. That's what, Orlando? Yeah, that's in Orlando. And then they have headquarters Connecticut or something? Yes, Samford. Mike Ackman, he doesn't notice like it's Connecticut, I think. I knew it was in that area. You got your resume, you want me to put it in there? There you go. Actually, hold on. I got some WWE connects. No, but what would be so everyone, like I was talking with Mark Bell and he was explaining everyone has a shtick and like wrestling. Yeah, look a certain way. And so he said kind of like, I forget what he called me like a Canadian, whatever, because I'm from Canada. I got the bandana, the long hair, whatever. So it's a look. It's that what would Mike's shtick be? Like what would he do?  Oh, he's your man. Come on, ultimate warrior. All the classic wrestlers are iconic because they physically stand out. There's some sort of trend. They're personality. You're saying Mike doesn't physically stand out in any which way, so we have to figure out a really good gimmick for him. Personality has to take over, yeah. Look, I got Mike's skills. I don't know how it can handle in the ring, but I think I got Mike's skills. That's more important. It's way more important. Joe, you don't train like Roman Reigns or anything? No. We're about to talk shtick. So I was actually my videographer, really likes wrestling and I have a connection through Kofi Kingston. He's bought shirts and stuff. So we got tickets to see a wrestling show recently and he was giving me the rundown, but I think it was definitely Roman Reigns. We're just on the mic. He does a terrible job. He's jacked up. Which is like just hyping it up and like just talking and being charismatic. I was super surprised. There were people that were on like, I forget, Mike Owens, I think is the guy's name. Oh yeah, the little. Kevin Owens. Kevin Owens. Kevin Owens. Where is it? He was great on the mic. He doesn't look like he could do much. He's super athletic too, Kevin Owens, but he's great on the mic, which is more important, probably more important than your wrestling skills. Cause if you look at all the big name, they weren't great wrestlers. Paul Kogan, even the rock, I think, and I don't, I don't know technically, but, you know, macho macho man was considered a good wrestler, but like ultimate warrior guy, people who know wrestling would say technically, they weren't great wrestlers, but they're all, you know, they're legendary. Everybody knows them. That era was amazing with just Stone Cold and the Rock because they're so good on the mic. I think Stone Cold the same. Some people thought he was a pretty good wrestler, wrestler. But the point is like, if you can hype up a crowd or get people behind you, like who cares for the rest of the story? I think you got the high potential vote. You were talking before about maybe, uh, what, getting a mullet. We're doing that just for the podcast. Oh, for the podcast. Hey, you got me here. I rarely leave New Jersey. So you got me here. Some good job. Maybe you could be a manager instead of a wrestler. I'll be down because I'm getting old.  I don't want to get off the top ropes anymore. So maybe I'll just talk. We'll go for Roman Reigns. We can't talk. Yeah. What was the, what was the dude, uh, the undertaker? What was the guy that he had that always, you know, with the bags under his eyes? Paul Bearer. Yeah. You could be that. You could be a Paul Bearer. Yeah. Uh, yeah. I mean, he's gross, but I'll be the last to fall. Yeah. The more hands of.  Yeah. There's, they're like fans of like a lot of people in our industry, which is funny because they're mega stars, but they'll, they'll be fans of people in our industry. It's cool. There's a few that used to be actually like lifters. There's that power lifter, bronze stomen or Strowman. Yeah. Yeah. He was a strong man. Yeah. And so I met him, when I think he was at, is it, uh, what, of the training facility? That's what I briefly met him at the performance center. He's super cool. Yeah. Super. Very athletic too. Yeah. I think he was on the way to, uh, potentially go to world's strongest man and stuff. He just jacked up his shoulder.  I walked in there. He's doing like a 52 inch box jump. I remember walking by him and just looking at him and being like, how do you, how much do you weigh? Like 350, 360.  That's a lot of those guys. A lot of the guys are good athletes. I mean, obviously the rock plays, uh, uh, out of Miami, which is top level D one. Uh, but even Stone Cold, I think maybe Texas tech or something. He played college football. He was like a one double A or D two Texas school. John Cena played at Springfield. Yeah. Yeah. He's a good Mike skills. He's a funny dude. He's a funny dude. He's got good Mike skills. But yeah, there are Paul triple H is like a huge fan of body building and fitness industry. Like he knows all the everyone in our industry. That's how he found me was just like Googling stuff and looking up. He would, he liked researching training himself. And that, that's how he came upon my stuff and I've been working together for eight years. Even one, like I remember reading yourself. I'm going to creep up on you hard here now, but on teenage, you know, you don't creep too much because I see you don't even follow me on Instagram. It's going to be fixed now. That's going to be fixed now.  I'm an Italian guy from New Jersey. So driving in.  I'll go both. I'll go. Or I'll go so hard through the front. It goes out your back.  Talk about disrespect.  I agree. He's Canadian. They're supposed to be nice. He tried to butter me up saying he liked my eyebrows. No, I said I meant my match because I, someone has even better eyebrows than myself. The gig is up. So I'm going to riff on that for a little second.  We've been friends on Facebook. I've filmed video. I didn't even know like, so here, here is, let me hear the excuse. Here's the assumption is there's Insta thoughts on Instagram. So like girls opposed like IG modeling and all right. And then there's like YouTubers and social and then people that actually have careers. So like a Brad Schoenfeld. So he doesn't use it like as a promotional tool, right? It's just for himself. It's like, it's a professional thing. Like maybe he'll have like 30 photos. Like everyone that I assume that's established in the industry, like let's say like Joe, you've trained. I'm, I'm blanking on the dude's name. Houston Texans. Brian Cushing. Yeah. When the Lonnie said that always got me a hype way said I want to be the most dominant physical monster on the field. Like I remember like those videos and like some of those photos and stuff from the T nation days. Anyone that's like established, not that I assume they don't have an Instagram, but it's like, it's like whatever to you. That's somewhat acceptable. I'm old and I don't have Instagram. I didn't say old bro. So Brad said the same thing. I don't know how to turn on a computer. Brad said the same thing to me because like I met up with him and stuff. And then he asked me something about Instagram and I'm like, Oh, I didn't know you had an Instagram. He's like, why wouldn't I have an Instagram? And I was like, Oh, but I was online and stuff. So no disrespect. I, I, I'm, I'm buying it. I would be, I would be honored if you stabbed me in the front though. Speaking of literally Brad speaking of Dr. Brad Schoenfeld.  You know who I'm talking about. I call him Jack Christopher Walkins. Yeah. Cause he kind of sounds like that. We have a ton of mutual friends. I've never met him personally. I, I don't know, maybe I'm, I guess I look up to him as well, because I didn't know he had an Instagram up until about a week ago. I just started following him about a week ago and I was like, but same thing. I figure he was, you know, he's doing his research and he's not going to be on Instagram. And I, yeah. I was like, wow, he's got an Instagram. Yeah. And he does post some good stuff. You're training. Yeah. You're training. I just followed him recently. You're training superstar, like WWE people like NFL. It's like, all right, like this is like, Instagram means like what to you? Like, I don't know. Like, are you on it? It is, it is kind of true. The, the, when I was training athletes full time, I did way less. I, I was one of the original kind of YouTube people, but it wasn't like vlogging and consistency. It was, Hey, I'm training an athlete. He's about to do something really


Good afternoon. I'm Sergeant Horne. I'm with 8th Engineer Support Battalion. We're out here setting up these tents today. I'm a combat engineer, so I'm mainly in charge of putting decking in tents. We're currently brought up to the base on Operation Allies Welcome, which is a mission in which ATSB undergoes taking in 1,000 refugees here at Pioneer City. It's an interesting challenge out here putting these teams and camps together for 8th Engineer Support Battalion because of last minute and austere conditions, but I think it's perfectly suited for pioneers of the meff like us. When we first came to an area like this where there's absolutely nothing out here, the most difficult thing is getting an idea of what you actually want to build. So we spent a lot of time in our planning process and actually figuring out how we're going to lay things out. It definitely helps being a family and it definitely helps being flexible and having the ability to work the way you need to. It's nice to be an 8th Engineer Support Battalion, be able to help this many people not travel that far. It really rings true to what we do as pioneers.