Random Blog #27

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Today is the second day after I finished the CPALE examination and honestly, I'm feeling kind of...useless?

What a brutal word but there's just no other way to describe what I'm feeling. 

Yesterday, I did nothing other than eat and sleep. Although, I did clean my study table. Regardless, it was a very, very, very different day--one that I am not used to.

Today I woke up at 11am, with no reviewer to answer, no material to study, and no lecture to watch. It is of course very liberating to be out of the chains of the unhealthy CPALE grind but it's just weird to not be as productive as I was the whole past year when I'm studying the whole day.

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