If you’re like me, this year your finals are either late in final season, take-home written assessments or instead, final papers and presentations all due within the final week of classes. Instead of multiple choice, short answer, and long answer…
My Relationship with Procrastination..and how I’m trying to end it
The year just started and I feel as though I am starting to get behind rather than ahead. In fact – the year just started and I’ve already handed in an assignment late. Granted the penalty was only a 1%,…
Starting the Year By Fighting Writer’s Block
As a humanities student, it’s vital that I have my creative (and motivation!) juices flowing for all those papers I’ll be writing this semester. I was on CLNX when I saw this workshop Addressing Writer’s Block a couple days ago;…
Quick Tips to Deal with Stress
If you clicked on this blog post you’re probably past the point of ‘time management and plan ahead is the best way to relieve stress’. It’s also at that point in the year where even taking a break to exercise…
How I Balance Work with Study as an Engineering Student
In my first year of engineering at U of T I was so swamped with work because of my poor time-management skills coupled with trying to adapt to a new environment and culture. At that point in my life I…
A Game Plan to Beat Procrastination
Have I been procrastinating writing my essays? Have I been procrastinating doing my laundry, going grocery shopping, and even writing this blog post? The answers are all yes. Over the past year I have become a major procrastinator, getting everything…
Submit On Time or Take a Late Penalty?
TLDR: take the late penalty if you think you’ll learn more from it
Missing Deadlines ≠ End of the World
My motivation went from 100 to 0, real quick
Decluttered Room, Decluttered Mind
I never took the whole “messy room means a messy mind” thing seriously when I was growing up, no matter how many times my parents told me to clean my space. But I’m starting to have second thoughts. My room…
25 Hours in a Day – Making Time for Everything
“While everyone is sacrificing sleep to get ahead of the game, sleep to actually get ahead of the game” – Having three classes back-to-back is not fun (especially around lunch time). Even if the buildings are next to each other..