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I'm managing my time: Day 4

By: Daniel Luscombe Posted: 04/30/09 8:24am

Planning out my entire day did not go well. Today was not a typical day, with final exams on their way, many of my regular classes have been shortened which through off my schedule.

For example, my urban planning class was about an hour and a half shorter today. With all my new free time, I thought I’d be able to goof off for a while instead of starting my work right away. Unfortunately, this only resulted in me wasting time beyond the hour and a half and still deviating from my schedule.

Another thing I learned about time management is that it is difficult to deal with the unpredictable. Today at work for instance, I had a rough outline of what I would do, but changing demands made it tough to stick to a schedule. When I begin to deviate from the schedule, slowly everything falls apart.

Luckily I was assigned an 11-15 page paper today (Hooray!). This will be the perfect test of my time management ability, especially because I plan on doing the paper in one sitting (Uh-oh!).

I want to do the paper in a lab-like setting. So I need to go to a place with few friends and distractions. If I am able to distill my environment to a blank slate, I will be able to reduce extraneous variables and test my true abilities. I need to find some sort of study pod. Hopefully I can find a corner in the library that is not too packed with last minute studiers. Any suggestions on a vacant area? I was thinking something along the lines of Scandinavian modern art or French-Canadian poetry. If you know of an empty quite place to study, post it below! I’m open to all sorts of suggestions.

Two days before final exam madness begins and I still feel a bit unprepared for a study marathon. Wish me luck!

A Week in the Life

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to step outside yourself and try something new? Each week, a reporter from the Features desk will be taking on a new lifestyle and spilling all the details on what it takes to live a week in the life of someone else.

This week, just in time for finals, entertainment reporter Daniel Luscombe will attempt to be more time efficient. He’ll document how he wastes the more time and find ways to thwart his procrastination.

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