(the professor in the middle) brought in his Edna Mode doll from the
Incredibles. We were told to dress comfortably. I'm behind Edna with a
blue shirt and my green robe.
I'm feeling good. I had a very productive weekend. In the CommDesign discussion class on Friday we talked about stress and time management. One thing that really stuck out to me was different ways to arrange your to-do lists and think about the way you organize time throughout the week. One of the strategies discussed was a kind of thirds system. You divide your day up into three sections of eight hours. One section is devoted to sleep (yes!), one section to work and one to play. When she first presented this I was skeptical. Since classes are included in the "work" column, I didn't see how I would have enough time to get everything done, even if I put walking places and eating in the "play" section of my day. Still, with this strategy in mind I tackled my weekend. Turns out that on the weekends I definitely don't usually do 8 hours of work a day. This weekend I did. I'm feeling good.
Last week I had office hours with a professor to make sure I'm on track with my second project. The truth is that I'm behind. I had a tough start to this project, and then a tough week near mid terms when I got sick. Though lots of juniors in my class are a bit behind, I really didn't want to be one of them. So last week all I brought in was two rough spreads, sketches for my others and a theory for how my book was gonna be constructed. Though that's all my professor told me I should bring in, I didn't feel good about it. This weekend, I have finally picked up the slack. At the moment I have all the text written, photos taken, photos placed, and 12 out of 18 pages DONE (for this week). That's good. Now I can finish that project up tonight, start focusing on my third project and make sure I'm on track for all of my non-major classes. Just have to keep plugging away.
The best part of all of it was that I got to go to bed when I wanted both nights.
It'll feel great to be back on track. It doesn't mean that I can slow down, but it means that I won't have so much work piling up on me during finals... well, not AS much work. We'll see.
Last week I had office hours with a professor to make sure I'm on track with my second project. The truth is that I'm behind. I had a tough start to this project, and then a tough week near mid terms when I got sick. Though lots of juniors in my class are a bit behind, I really didn't want to be one of them. So last week all I brought in was two rough spreads, sketches for my others and a theory for how my book was gonna be constructed. Though that's all my professor told me I should bring in, I didn't feel good about it. This weekend, I have finally picked up the slack. At the moment I have all the text written, photos taken, photos placed, and 12 out of 18 pages DONE (for this week). That's good. Now I can finish that project up tonight, start focusing on my third project and make sure I'm on track for all of my non-major classes. Just have to keep plugging away.
The best part of all of it was that I got to go to bed when I wanted both nights.
It'll feel great to be back on track. It doesn't mean that I can slow down, but it means that I won't have so much work piling up on me during finals... well, not AS much work. We'll see.
