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Your Organizational Tips and Tricks
So, let's compile all our best little ideas of how to make school, and life in general, that little bit easier. Here are some of mine:
- Print out your weekly schedule from gosfu and put it in the front of your binder. With a little finesse you can usually fit the whole day onto one page. Helps at the beginning, if you can't remember which room a class is in.
- Print out that semester's schedule for your bus from translink, and keep it at the front of your binder. Great for deciding whether you can make the next bus, of if you should hang out and have a coffee for 20 minutes. Nothing worse that getting the stop just in time to see the bus pull away.
- Go through all your syllabus's (syllabi?) and write down the important dates on one big multi-class list, broken down by week, and keep it at the front of your binder. I shudder when I remember the time (ok... times...) that I suddenly realized that I had a presentation the very next day. If there's a weekly assignment due, make a note of it under every week's column. For example:
What are your tricks?
- Print out your weekly schedule from gosfu and put it in the front of your binder. With a little finesse you can usually fit the whole day onto one page. Helps at the beginning, if you can't remember which room a class is in.
- Print out that semester's schedule for your bus from translink, and keep it at the front of your binder. Great for deciding whether you can make the next bus, of if you should hang out and have a coffee for 20 minutes. Nothing worse that getting the stop just in time to see the bus pull away.
- Go through all your syllabus's (syllabi?) and write down the important dates on one big multi-class list, broken down by week, and keep it at the front of your binder. I shudder when I remember the time (ok... times...) that I suddenly realized that I had a presentation the very next day. If there's a weekly assignment due, make a note of it under every week's column. For example:
- Buy a leatherman (or equivalent.) I've got this one. This might seem silly, but I can't tell you how often this thing comes in handy. Keep it in your bag, and be amazed at how often you will use scissors, screwdrivers, pliers, the can/bottle opener and, of course, the knife.Week 1:
All: None
Week 2:
Bio: Hand in first assignment.
Phys: None.
Chem: Prepare for lab.
Math: None.
Week 3:
Bio: Hand in second assignment, prepare presentation.
Phys: Hand in first assignment.
Chem: Prepare for lab 2.
Math: Do Lon-Capa.
etc, etc.
What are your tricks?
Comments
but ya, i like ur idea bout organizing everything weekly (assignments, presentations etc.). I would do that rather then carry around an agenda.
I needn't memorize room number for classrooms. Take me there once and I'll remember it for the rest of my life.
I have a complete bus schedule in picture format for the buses i need to take on my cellphone. I know exactly when to get on a 410 /403 to and from school
print the months of the semester eg jan to april, write down everything that is due for every course, and stick those 4 pages on your wall at home. This way, you can see for months ahead.
also, carry a pocket sized notepad for wherever, whenever note taking, instead of taking off your back pack, unzipping it and pulling out a gaint agenda
Printing the months off and posting them on the wall works really well....this is the first semester i DIDN'T do it (cuz i was lazy) and i was so messed up.
I am a fairly unorganized person, so i cant be of much more help. I usually write out what i want to accomplish each day of the upcoming week and map out what times i will put aside for homework, reading, etc.
I just cleaned my desk up the other day and gave up half way through cuz there is so much stuff on it. My room needs to be cleaned majorly.
this is my big thing:
at home I have a whiteboard at my desk, i write out two months, and I make notations for things: pay day, essay due, midterm, presentation due
when i see a big calendar i know how and when i need to do what, and how much slacking i can do and when its crunch time
here's the full view if you want to see the entirety, looks much better.
Room numbers (printout)
Deadlines (calendar) - Rainlendar isn't portable enough.
Lecture Notes
it does look better.. but the colors are a bit too.. hm.. i guess saturated? it just looks really blotchy.. =\
not to mention it doesn't take advantage of fitt's law nearly as much.