{"id":8374,"date":"2013-02-01T00:41:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T00:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/?p=8374"},"modified":"2013-02-04T22:21:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T22:21:42","slug":"a-guide-to-time-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/2013\/02\/01\/a-guide-to-time-management\/","title":{"rendered":"A Guide to Time Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: Maria Kuznetsov, DiY\/Guides Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>A set of general tips to kick off the new semester!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Find out why your mind wanders<\/em>. If you are hungry, eat a snack. If you have check, set an alarm. If you have something to do and it\u2019ll take less than 5 minutes, go do it. Otherwise, write it into your schedule. If you\u2019re tired, drink some caffeine right before a 20 minute nap in order to be alert right as you wake.<\/li>\n<li><em>Make a list<\/em>: a pile of papers is no use if you don\u2019t know where to start. It may help to write steps such as find ID \u2013 find book in catalog \u2013 go to library \u2013 start research.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t use\u00a0list-making as an excuse to procrastinate. Give yourself 2 minutes to write a to-do list. Mentally start with your first class of the day and go through all your classes so there\u2019s no 3 am calls to classmates to know the homework.<\/li>\n<li>Work tends to take up all the time allotted, so estimate how long each assignment will take you. Write the time near the assignment.<\/li>\n<li><em>Decide how to start<\/em>:\u00a0 harder or easier assignments first, or any other order. If you know you\u2019ll need a tutor or someone to help, look at the tutor schedule, or find someone and set up a time.<\/li>\n<li><em>Break down large tasks into small chunks<\/em>. Start papers with an outline or brainstorm and continue writing them all at once or in paragraph by paragraph.<\/li>\n<li><em>Turn down the music or find something else<\/em>. Studies show that humans are worse at multitasking when hearing voices. You won\u2019t retain as much information studying if &#8220;Rise Against&#8221; is playing in the background. Try some ambient music, which is specifically created to be background music, such as<em> Ambient 1\/Music for Airports<\/em> by Brian Eno.<\/li>\n<li><em>Find some motivation<\/em>: tell all your friends that this is going to be the <em>best <\/em>essay they have ever read, so if you start socializing, they\u2019ll scold you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sources used:<\/p>\n<p>Baumeitser, Roy F. and John Tierney. \u201cHarness the Power of Your Inner Nag.\u201d <em>Mental_floss<\/em> Feb. 2013 : 55-6. Print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Maria Kuznetsov, DiY\/Guides Staff Writer A set of general tips to kick off the new semester! Find out why your mind wanders. If you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":8380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1021],"tags":[1552,1554,1553],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-diy","tag-diyguides","tag-staying-focused"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8374"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9038,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8374\/revisions\/9038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8374"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}