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Showing posts with label grad school chronicles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grad school chronicles. Show all posts
Monday, March 17, 2014
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Procrastination is an art form
An art form that I have perfected!
But really. Life is crazy and I just had a recent one on one showdown with my arch nemesis Accounting. It was touch and go for both of us but I fear I may have been the loser in this battle. Alas.
Additionally SXSW is just about to start which means running around putting schedules together and planning meetings and making sure everything is perfect for a 9 day "What the hell is sleep? I don't need sleep I have coffee!" extravaganza! (I'm putting my coffee in IV form for convenience of toting it around and quickness into the bloodstream.)
Because of these things the two posts I have are still in drafts because they are epic and awesome and apparently I can not focus when trying to do 683, 000 things. It is something I'm working on.
In the meantime, while I procrastinate on those posts and lose sleep at SXSW, lets all watch this viral video and giggle:
But really. Life is crazy and I just had a recent one on one showdown with my arch nemesis Accounting. It was touch and go for both of us but I fear I may have been the loser in this battle. Alas.
Additionally SXSW is just about to start which means running around putting schedules together and planning meetings and making sure everything is perfect for a 9 day "What the hell is sleep? I don't need sleep I have coffee!" extravaganza! (I'm putting my coffee in IV form for convenience of toting it around and quickness into the bloodstream.)
Because of these things the two posts I have are still in drafts because they are epic and awesome and apparently I can not focus when trying to do 683, 000 things. It is something I'm working on.
In the meantime, while I procrastinate on those posts and lose sleep at SXSW, lets all watch this viral video and giggle:
video by: artistwithouttalent
Link to video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWUq0fdKk
Link to video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWUq0fdKk
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Procrastination: A How-To Guide
It seems like the more I have something to do, the more other things I find that need to be done. I have a paper due at midnight tomorrow? Oh well then my kitchen needs a significant deep cleansing! Accounting test Friday? I really need to try this new recipe! Marketing analysis on Netflix? Ooh I think I should re-line my trunk with new fabric!
(This last one I'm def doing right now)
(Pictures will be coming soon by the way)
In any case, my procrastination is both one of my worst features and one of my best. As much as I want to be one of those people who plan everything down to the hour and are able to get all sorts of productivity done, I'm not always good at it.
However!
The upside to my frequent procrastination is that I find myself able to work really well under pressure. I've become very familiar with having a close deadline and getting my work done well and quickly to get it in. It's a skill that has become very useful and I'm sure will remain useful later. (Now if I could get the knack of that whole time management thing...)
So in the spirit of further procrastination, I'm curious to know what some of your favourite procrastination methods are? What do you guys like to do when you need to take up a bit of time? Or are you one of the people who are able to get your work done first and then spend your free time doing other things?
And of course, one last bonus from my procrastinating on the internet, my current favourite viral video going around now, Stormtrooper Secrets by ScottDW on youtube (if you haven't seen this yet, you must):
(This last one I'm def doing right now)
(Pictures will be coming soon by the way)
In any case, my procrastination is both one of my worst features and one of my best. As much as I want to be one of those people who plan everything down to the hour and are able to get all sorts of productivity done, I'm not always good at it.
However!
The upside to my frequent procrastination is that I find myself able to work really well under pressure. I've become very familiar with having a close deadline and getting my work done well and quickly to get it in. It's a skill that has become very useful and I'm sure will remain useful later. (Now if I could get the knack of that whole time management thing...)
So in the spirit of further procrastination, I'm curious to know what some of your favourite procrastination methods are? What do you guys like to do when you need to take up a bit of time? Or are you one of the people who are able to get your work done first and then spend your free time doing other things?
And of course, one last bonus from my procrastinating on the internet, my current favourite viral video going around now, Stormtrooper Secrets by ScottDW on youtube (if you haven't seen this yet, you must):
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
New year, new semester, old me
We are already mostly done with January, no idea when that happened, and I'm just beginning to look around and go "Oh right. Things to do." A 6-week long break from everything is nice in theory but bad in me being able to get things actually done.
I have all these well laid plans and they inevitably fly out the window in favour of staying on the couch, drinking coffee and watching netflix.
I hope you all had a great beginning of the new year and a good January, hah! I've had some awesome friends come and stay with me and the start to a new semester of my grad program. More accounting is on the way and that means its time for more of my super powers to deal with this once and for all. This is the last semester of it and then I am done with accounting and can proclaim my victory.
I have an awesome craft post I am putting together (the pictures are all being a bit squidgy) and I hope to have that up for everyone soon. In the meantime, please take a moment of your day and enjoy a bit of old school Community:
I have all these well laid plans and they inevitably fly out the window in favour of staying on the couch, drinking coffee and watching netflix.
I hope you all had a great beginning of the new year and a good January, hah! I've had some awesome friends come and stay with me and the start to a new semester of my grad program. More accounting is on the way and that means its time for more of my super powers to deal with this once and for all. This is the last semester of it and then I am done with accounting and can proclaim my victory.
I have an awesome craft post I am putting together (the pictures are all being a bit squidgy) and I hope to have that up for everyone soon. In the meantime, please take a moment of your day and enjoy a bit of old school Community:
Thursday, December 19, 2013
The Grad School Chronicles Volume 1
As I mentioned before somewhere, I'm currently in grad school. At some point after I graduated from undergrad with a degree in This Won't Do Me Any Good, I realized the job I had, I'd been working for 6 years and there was really no where to go with it. I liked the people I worked for and I liked what I did (most of the time) but it wasn't what I wanted to do long term and I was just ... not going anywhere.
So I sat down, thought about what I wanted to do and where I wanted to go and that led me to grad school and getting another degree. An MBA with a concentration in digital media to be super specific.
I had been out of school for close to three years by the time I decided I wanted to go back, which isn't as long as some people wait to continue their education I know, but it was long enough for me to go "Paper? What's all that about?". Writing academically after three years of, well, not required this massive shift in my brain (probably for the better. I'm assuming its for the better). It wasn't that I hadn't wrote a lot in undergrad, I had, I just conveniently forgot the really frustrating and difficult parts of undergrad. Suppression of bad memories I think it is.
Anyways, so now I have just finished my first semester of grad school. 1 semester, 2 quarters, 6 classes and damn. It has been simultaneously, the most awesome experience as well as the most humbling. Pretty sure I lived more at the library this past semester than my own apartment (I was debating having my mail re-routed).
With the exception of accounting, which is and will remain my nemesis, I found the classes more interesting than I ever had expected business school to be. I had assumed business was very cut and dry and very boring and I'm sure in some cases, okay yes. It can be cut and dry in places but it certainly isn't boring. And I found I have a knack for media relations and marketing which was an awesome thing to find (especially as I really liked both of those classes as well).
For now it is winter break which means all those websites I wanted to look at and 12 million books I wanted to read I can actually do now. Also means I get to catch up on the sleep I've missed due to over-caffeination. Next semester will come soon enough but now at least I know what I'm dealing with.
So I sat down, thought about what I wanted to do and where I wanted to go and that led me to grad school and getting another degree. An MBA with a concentration in digital media to be super specific.
I had been out of school for close to three years by the time I decided I wanted to go back, which isn't as long as some people wait to continue their education I know, but it was long enough for me to go "Paper? What's all that about?". Writing academically after three years of, well, not required this massive shift in my brain (probably for the better. I'm assuming its for the better). It wasn't that I hadn't wrote a lot in undergrad, I had, I just conveniently forgot the really frustrating and difficult parts of undergrad. Suppression of bad memories I think it is.
Anyways, so now I have just finished my first semester of grad school. 1 semester, 2 quarters, 6 classes and damn. It has been simultaneously, the most awesome experience as well as the most humbling. Pretty sure I lived more at the library this past semester than my own apartment (I was debating having my mail re-routed).
With the exception of accounting, which is and will remain my nemesis, I found the classes more interesting than I ever had expected business school to be. I had assumed business was very cut and dry and very boring and I'm sure in some cases, okay yes. It can be cut and dry in places but it certainly isn't boring. And I found I have a knack for media relations and marketing which was an awesome thing to find (especially as I really liked both of those classes as well).
For now it is winter break which means all those websites I wanted to look at and 12 million books I wanted to read I can actually do now. Also means I get to catch up on the sleep I've missed due to over-caffeination. Next semester will come soon enough but now at least I know what I'm dealing with.
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