Month: October 2012

Time management has become an very important skill once you hit college. I can’t count how many times I end up procrasinating everything until the last minute and end up not finishing everything. In my personal experience, I can say that procrasination will never lead to good endings, so it’s best to finish up everything beforehands. Like right now, I had a week to do this blog post, but I chose not to. I had to wait until monday night when my electricity are about to be cut off.

Struggling with Time Management is something everyone can relate too. I always leave things to the last minute thinking I have time and then I end up rushing it, but I do usually get my work done. I think it’s just the age we leave in with all this technology and distraction, however; I do think Time Management has always been a problem even before phones, TV, and the internet. Doing the chart in Freshmen seminar helped me see the time I waste and could be making use of so that’s something I need to be aware of for the future. I just need to set aside more time for papers and assignments and stop leaving everything to the last minute. It was always something you could get away with in High School, but college not so much.

Time management has been an issue for me throughout high school. No matter how early I tell myself I wil finish an assignment or paper, it never really gets done until the last minute. I have the tendency to get overly comfortable with the time I have remaining to finish something, and before I know it, the time is gone. However, I feel like I work best under pressure. I don’t like spreading an assignment over a span of time. I like sitting there, focusing, and getting it done. But for this to happen efficiently, it has to be at the very last minute. I feel like the work I produce will just not be as good if I do it will lots of time left before it needs to be submitted. Maybe that’s just me, but I definitely work better under pressure with a time constraint.

For me, time management is an important skill that can always be used regardless of the situation. This skill is especially key in school and college because of deadlines and due dates for a variety of things. Usually, students who have good time management skills will be more relaxed and more successful than those who lack it. This is because they will tend to rush projects and it will overall turn out worse than a carefully planned out work. Although people realize the necessity of such a skill, some people sometimes cannot help but procrastinate. In the short run, procrastination seems perfect because it allows students to do other things that are much more intriguing than school work. In my case, I love procrastinating. I find a lot more joy in other things. I knew I did not have to try hard in high school because Baruch was my first choice and I came from the city and Bronx Science so I enjoyed my high school life to the fullest. I don’t regret it at all but now that college started, I can get my time management skills going. I plan things out and take mild game/video breaks with my girl every time I feel like I am too tired of work and it has been going perfectly so far. There are probably some steps that I can take to improve myself but I can still suffice currently. Time management is an important skill and wise to master and use for the rest of your life.

Time management is a skill that many have to adapt to as a mean to survive societies like ours. We can make the choice, to be controlled by clock or to take better care of our time. Unorganized time management tends to led to disasters such as, latenesses, procrastinations and bad work ethics; others who do utilize their time correctly tends get things done accordingly and efficiently. For me, I try to get my home works done as soon as possible when I get home, then I’ll proceed to go on youtube, Facebook and etc. If I had to study, I normally take a bath to clear my head, after the bath I would proceed to study  with all electronics off but my phone for music. I normally study from 7 to whenever I feel like i’ve studied enough. I try to get to bed by 12 or 1 in the morning to get enough sleep. Even though it seems congested it really isnt, I always find the time to chat with my friends and family and having quality time with them; always having my dinner with my grandparents every night. I also keep two planners to keep me ahead, one for school and other for work and appointments that are not school related.

I think time management is a skill everyone should use but these days it is so easy to get distracted. I usually end up doing homework or studying the very last minute. It easy to get off course when you have televisions, computers, smartphones, and video games all around you. Doing the chart/graph in freshman seminar made me realize how much time I waste with electronic devices. I will attempt to plan ahead and not procrastinate.

In the first few weeks of college I was very overwhelmed with work and time management was one of my biggest issues. Soon enough I realized I had to do something about it because I knew if I didn’t I wasn’t going to be able to do all of my work. After reading the packet from class I realized that many of the time management techniques I read I already put into use. One of the most important things that I do to keep me on track is make a schedule. I look at everything that is due for the week and I set certain days to get certain subjects done. I don’t technically set aside a certain amount of hours though. I make sure that I get all the designated subjects completed on a certain day no matter how much time it takes me. This strategy has been working out well for me so far because I have been getting all of my work done and I have been excelling as well.

Time Management and I have a love-hate relationship. I love the idea of it and sometimes even make an effort to use it. However, I mostly hate following through with it. Being a procrastinator when it comes to school has its pros. No, not really. Procrastinating has, seriously, NEVER been beneficial to me. I’m some one who refuses to submit hurried assignments, so waiting to the last minute often results in me not doing my work at all, or delaying past the due date.

Oddly enough, I don’t really procrastinate in work. I guess it’s the idea that working on somebody else’s time and money that keeps me from wasting it. Oh well, at least I got this in on time.

Time management? That’s something I don’t have and the test that i took shows that I am indeed a procrastinator. I am trying my best to follow some of these advice.  I am doing my blog early for once because I am taking the advice to space my work out. I believe that I already took the advice of to do my work when I feel the most awake, which is night time. I usually don’t space out my time correctly and end up having to do all my homework  papers, and projects last minute. They come out pretty good and I think that’s only the case because I work better under stress. But lately all this stress is getting to me. I don’t think my body can handle staying up every night anymore. I should really plan ahead of time.

I always considered myself to be an efficient worker with solid work ethic.  I almost always get my work done ontime, and really attempt to plow through my homework in an efficient manner.  Although i occasionally check my Instagram and Twitter feed this does not really stp me from doing my work.  In my oppinion this evaluation was not so accurate.  It evaluated me to be a procatinator, when I feel im not.  Although I dont get much sleep that is not because I waste time; in reality, I just have a lot of homework and I  juggle that A partime job a few days a week alongside school.  Whether someone is still in college, or the owner of a massive bussiness, everyone needs some chill time. In my oppinion, if someone procrastinates a bit, this is actually healthy, and can really give someone some piece of mind.