The week before Thanksgiving break I have an intense amount of school work to complete and make up. Over the course of last week I was extremely sick and wasn't able to go to most of my classes. I am still making up all the work that was due plus the new information that I need to learn and complete.
For Tech Assignment #8 I used two strategies, Time Wasters and Time Strategies. For the time wasters, I put down all the things that help make me unaccomplished with my school work and other important work that I need to finish. After I wrote up all the things that helped waste my time when trying to accomplish school work I made up a fritter finder that helped determine what time I had available between class and practice so I could sit down and study. After completely my fritter finder scheduled realistic amounts of time for doing assignment and studying. For me, I can't tell myself that I am going to sit down and study from 5-10 at night, that is just not possible for my brain to focus for that long so I decided to use 20 minute STUDY/TEST prep to help keep me focused.
For the 20 minute STUDY/TEST prep I started out with my EAR101 exam and wrote down note cards for all the important terms that I need to remember for my next exams. After the 20 minutes were up I moved on to creating my outline for ANT273 Christianity Doctrine that is due on the 20th. After my 20 minutes were up for that I went back to EAR101 and studied my flashcard for another 20 minutes. When those 20 minutes were up I went back to ANT273, looked at what I had finished on my outline and started to begin writing my introduction paragraph for my rough draft. I went back and forth for 20 minutes in these two topics until my rough draft for ANT273 was completed.
Working with these two strategies and trying to make adaptations for them were at first somewhat difficult because I have trouble with trying to stay focused. Putting down my time wasters and then putting down what my avoided tasks are next to them showed me that I need to seriously reevaluate my priorities and this tech assignment was a start to fixing that. With doing the 20 minutes study/test prep, I was too busy going back and forth between two courses that I forgot about the outside world and just focused on my studies.
I like the strategies you used. I made a diagram very similar to yours and it worked for me. Hope its helping you prepare for finals!
ReplyDeleteI did the same strategies except instead of using the 20 minute test prep I used the 10 minute technique. I thought that laying out all of my distractions really helped me, hopefully it did the same for you.
ReplyDelete10 minute technique is a great second option. if you get distracted easily try 10 minute technique
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