Organized my stuff today
Step one:
make list of subjects and topics to learn. Take nice colours for each subject,
whatever you feel fits best (not in picture: dark blue for physics and biology,
yellow for
psychology&sociology).Step
two: count days that you have left for
learning and compare with number of topics to learn (count one day for each
topic learning time!!!). Be shocked when you realize you have exactly the same
number (96!). What a coincidence! And what a desaster, it means you have to
start learning today!
Step three:
Try to find way to neatly organize your plan,
keeping the possibility to overlook everything in one go and to exchange learn
topics when need arises. Be inventive and find something that attracts your
senses and meets your learning preference (visual type: colours, date tags,
special markers, whatever floats your boat). You may use string and needles as I
did and just macguyver it quicksmart out of nothing. Make the thing bloody huge
so you can't escape it :D !
Step four:
Fill it up! Spend a great deal of time on this
because current events like upcoming exams and practicals will be prepared and
timing the right subject to the right exams is a good idea. Also, if you plan
long enough and try to make it perfect, you'll feel very satisfied and you
automatically have an excuse for not starting to learn today
*yay!*Gasp in horror when you realize
there's only TWO free days in you plan. That is not enough. Learning advisors
say you must not learn more than five days in a row to maintain efficiency. It's
like being on a diet and allowing yourself a tiny but regular chocolate
consumption to avoid frustration breakouts, yummy!
Hope that you'll mystically catch up and
thus regain free days by learning two topics in one day (veeeery unrealistic,
but keep hoping!).Step
five: Relax. You have just signed your fate
for the time from today until the twentieth of august 2004. Go fetch yourself a
cuppa tea. Who knows when you'll next be able to enjoy that luxury.
Anyone wants to comfort
me?
Posted: Do - Mai 6, 2004 at 12:24 Uhr