One year since quitting streaming

One year since quitting streaming:

It has been a year and 1 month since I quit streaming/gaming/osu, what has happened since then?
Original Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/XcYRDL44 (I will assume you have read this)

I can say without a doubt that quitting streaming/speedrunning/osu was one of the best decisions of MY life.

Don't be confused, I'm not saying for everyone to suddenly quit streaming, so don't flame me, I'm only saying that in specifically my case, quitting streaming/gaming has allowed me to achieve things I never thought possible.

I'm the type of person to hyper-focus on only one thing and block everything else out until that task is completed. During both my senior year of high school and my freshman year of college I was being heavily held back by my focused desire to play games and stream. I was ignoring the social and academic aspect of college, and my GPA was paying for it (I got a 2.8 my 2nd semester freshman year). My parents recognized this, but I was too stubborn to realize it.

In this pastebin I will be talking about what I've achieved over the last year to hopefully help other people who are like me to realize what they can achieve if they just put down the controller.

1) Japan/Japanese:

After quitting streaming I really buckled down on Japanese. I had been casually studying from April 2016 until August 2016, but after I quit I made it my goal to become fluent. I spent 8+ hours studying per day in August during and after working part time and I managed to study a full year of college Japanese in that one month, placing into the 3rd semester class in September.

All this past school year I have been diligently keeping up with studies and by the time it got to January I was by far the best in my 4th semester class. I applied and was accepted to a study abroad program for language and spent all of this past June and July

It has been exactly 1 month since I returned from my study abroad trip to Japan. I learned SO much it's insane, it feels like I've been in a hyperbolic time chamber. It's almost surreal to be able to listen casually to a Japanese conversation and not have to translate it back to English in my head but still retain all of the meaning. I'm also able to hold long extended conversations in Japanese without really trying too hard and can express anything I want to express (albeit in simple grammar structures and with the occasional basic mistake). I'm also currently able to quickly read manga (with about 1 in 15 words being skipped) and can watch anime without subtitles (~70% comprehension depending on the series, which is good enough to get what's going on).

With all of that I'll be able to enter 5th year Japanese this semester, which means I was able to learn 2 years of Japanese in only one summer :). To think that I've gotten this far with only having started studying in April 2016 is pretty insane. I can confidently say I am bilingual now (not fluent in Japanese, but definitely conversational).

2) Speedrunning/Streaming/osu/Gaming:

I've found that (with a few exceptions like Persona and Breath of the Wild) I don't particularly enjoy playing single-player games anymore. This has been going on for a while, but I've now fully accepted the fact that they just aren't fun enough for me. It's sort of sad that I've now become one of those boring adults that can't really get into video games. However, that being said, I love competition more than anything else, and so Speedrunning and playing osu will always be fun because they have that special self-improvement element to them.

I can't see myself Speedrunning until I have a dedicated block of time to devote to it, which will surely not happen during this next semester.