Plan - Winter 2008

Most urgent (having to be done)

1. MItAC: sound, in two months (8 weeks)
2. Martha's course
3. Catherine's job opportunity
4. Toastmaster
5. Creating or mixing an album (Jan ~ May, 20 weeks)

Important (Long term)

1. Sound recording
1. MUSR-300
2. Martha's classes
3. Mixing listening and practice
4. Recording assistance
2. Personal software
1. Beat factory (breakbeater extension)
2. Audacity auto-labeling or audio feature visualization
3. Reading in music psychology
4. Reading in machine learning (sparse model)
5. Reading in MIR/ICMC/DAFx
6. News, global and local
7. Reading of computer science book collections
8. Writing
9. Using DAWs to create music
10. Science Applets
11. Exercise

Only emotionally important

1. Blogging
2. Google reader
3. Japanese
4. Music genre-based collection and listening
5. Videos
6. My novel
7. MSN chatting
8. Parties

Daily time distribution (24 hours, all in hours)

1. sleep (including noon nap): 7
2. eat: 2
1. Breakfast: 7:30~8:00am
2. Lunch: 12:00pm
3. Dinner: 6:00pm
3. MItAC
1. Before sound out: 7-8
2. After: 3-4 (including writing)
4. Catherine's job preparation:
1. Before submission: 2
2. After submission: 1
5. Toastmaster: 1~2 *
6. Mixing listening, practicing and writing: 1
7. Reading 3~5: 1
8. News: 0.5
9. Japanese, blogging, and others: 1

Weekly activities

1. Exercise: twice; 0.5/session
1. Tuesday
2. Friday
2. TA: Martha's course: 120+class; 4/week
1. grading on weekends
2. class attendance