Last week marked the beginning of the summer semester so my workload has significantly increased, but I knew what I was getting into. While I was frantically registering for the summer course and hoping that the green circle wouldn\u2019t change into a yellow triangle, I mentally prepared myself for the fact that the month of July would become pretty busy. Learning the course material well while completing the necessary work for my research has not posed any challenges yet but I\u2019m sure problems will come my way as the semester progresses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What has been helping me in time management is my \u201cbullet journal.\u201d (Note: My planner is neither aesthetically pleasing nor is it a collection of beautiful handwriting hence why \u201cbullet journal\u201d is in quotes.) It forces me to stay at my desk several minutes longer after my workday to better plan for tomorrow by allocating the necessary amount of time to complete tasks. Another added benefit to blocking sections out of my day is that it provides my life during the summer months some structure and a routine to follow. I am a creature of habit so it is reassuring to have things to do even when I don\u2019t have a full busy schedule like during the academic year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Getting into a good rhythm of dedicating time for research and school work is even more important since my lab team and I just started writing a manuscript. I need to be able to have enough time to put quality effort into both<\/em> the research and studying for my class. The best-case scenario is if I excel in successfully accomplishing my tasks and I don\u2019t procrastinate on anything. The worst-case scenario is if I collapse under the ever-growing mound of unfinished work piling onto my conscience. Let\u2019s hope things don\u2019t progress that far… <\/p>\n\n\n\n From my home to yours, <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sabrina Iqbal<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week marked the beginning of the summer semester so my workload has significantly increased, but I knew what I was getting into. While I was frantically registering for the summer course and hoping that the green circle wouldn\u2019t change into a yellow triangle, I mentally prepared myself for the fact that the month of… Continue reading Finding the Right Balance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1713,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1713"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2881,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions\/2881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}