DEADLINES!

Deadlines – getting them before they get you 

   When you start planning anything like starting college, finishing a particular semester, or graduating you must, must, MUST understand the power that the word ‘deadline’ has for your plans.

   No joking, its urgent to understand this. The University system is a complex machine and so if you are not able to get material in on time than there is (very) little that can be done for you.

   One of the best things you can start by doing is looking your school’s academic calendar of events.
   For example, here is ours as it currently stands: http://www.uttyler.edu/calendar/

   One of the other great things you can do is to contact your Academic office, of the office/department of the place where you need to inquire about deadlines. Find their numbers, speak to the receptionist or chair and make sure to find deadlines for whatever it is you must learn about.

   Also, wherever possible – get deadline confirmations in writing or email. This will help you have records for your own use, as well as to provide a checkable source if you get conflicting information.

How To Handle Stress

   If anything, college is a lot like high school. What was the one thing we all knew high school was? Drama. Now, unlike high school drama, college drama tends to actually matter ...

The Power of Using a UT Tyler Planner

It started in Elementary. They just smiled and handed me a "planner". They told me they would monitor my use of it. So I wrote in my horrible handwriting what was due and threw it into my backpack never to be looked at again. It was a horrible cycle. It continued to middle school without a thought. 

Then dark times came (the fire nation attacked) when I entered high school.

It took about three years before my cycle was finally crushed and squashed between the pinky toe of a small bald man. My previous teachers were sub par in seeing the past the facade of my  "planners"

I was too disorganized and failed to turn in projects, my mediocre grades dropping even lower with the Texas heat. Then the short bald man lectured into seeing the light of using such devices to make sure I did everything I needed to do. 

Strangely, this use of the planner worked to my utter shock. I was strong, I stayed on the path for a good two years THEN I graduated high school.

I went down an even more dangerous path my freshman year of not writing down any of my assignments or when tests were other than in the margins of my notebooks. I somehow managed to do pretty well in all my classes both semesters. 

Now today, the below picture is my Google Calender , my "planner".

It pops up reminders on my phone with such strange magic. 

I really developed and started using the schedule because my life became so full that if I didn't schedule time for things then I would procrastinate and fail to do something and would be found crying under my desk. Now I breathe with a little less weight on my shoulders.

The point of that long dramatic sarcastic soliloquy was that if you've given up using some sort of procedure to schedule class work or your life, try again. 

If using a old school paper planner works for you, do it! this is how Kat does her planning!

if you are an electronic person like me, use whatever  applications work for you.

If something else works for you, do it that way.

Now I bide you all adieu. So I can go study for my two tests this week.