Ribh's D'Coopage

[BY Bob]

I think you're expecting a lot from yourself given the last few months.
I lived with my eldest for 10 months when I became homeless. They were and still are wonderful but there is something about having your own space with your things in it that all the kindness just can't replace.
Something else to bear in mind if can crack this in your current circumstances the next hurdle won't seem so high; or as I like to say to myself when the going gets hard "if I can get through this I can get through them all."

Well said.

 

[LozzyR]

This is a new thing here but Éowyn is suddenly obsessed.

And plastic bubble-wrap. We call it “nom-pops”.

 

[Ribh]

You are not alone in the calendar challenge thing. I am not numerically challenged and am a bit of a science geek (love strata - find it fascinating) but cannot for the life of me keep up on basic things like appointments and deadlines.
Somehow everything takes me by surprise a few hours before it is supposed to happen.
I have a long list of tricks I try on myself and routines I fail to adopt to help with this. Some work better than others but I think it is how we perceive time that is the problem (I think it has benefits too).
All to say I totally feel your pain on the deadlines and like all deadlines and other bad things, this too shall pass.

Thanks, RC! Time is a man~made constraint that I've rarely paid attention to ~ only now I must!

 

[Ribh]

This is a very good point. You should have to work to garner the degree. This is important to keep in mind.

As you learn both yourself a you are today along with the university process you will get your feet under you and create a consistent way of working that brings everything together. Give yourself some time.

I'm trying to keep MJ's advice in mind. It is good advice but I'm not used to struggling quite so much just to survive. I'm one assignment down which has given me some confidence. The next one in Archaeology is a field study on strata & matrix etc & I am refusing to know until I have Publishing & style & Context out of the way.

 

[rjohns39]

Good morning Jeannie You'll get there, just stick with it.

 

[BY Bob]

I'm trying to keep MJ's advice in mind. It is good advice but I'm not used to struggling quite so much just to survive. I'm one assignment down which has given me some confidence. The next one in Archaeology is a field study on strata & matrix etc & I am refusing to know until I have Publishing & style & Context out of the way.

See that. It will come to you. I have the utmost confidence in your abilities.

 

[LozzyR]

I'm trying to keep MJ's advice in mind. It is good advice but I'm not used to struggling quite so much just to survive. I'm one assignment down which has given me some confidence. The next one in Archaeology is a field study on strata & matrix etc & I am refusing to know until I have Publishing & style & Context out of the way.

Just make sure you reach out if your mental health is struggling. I am taking my own advice right now.

 

[MaryJanet]

You are not alone in the calendar challenge thing. I am not numerically challenged and am a bit of a science geek (love strata - find it fascinating) but cannot for the life of me keep up on basic things like appointments and deadlines.
Somehow everything takes me by surprise a few hours before it is supposed to happen.
I have a long list of tricks I try on myself and routines I fail to adopt to help with this. Some work better than others but I think it is how we perceive time that is the problem (I think it has benefits too).
All to say I totally feel your pain on the deadlines and like all deadlines and other bad things, this too shall pass.

That's my problem too. I'm already a shocker but when people catch me in a meeting and say let's meet Monday week 10am, yeh I'm not going to remember that. By the time I've gone across campus and upstairs to sit down back at my desk, I've lost that thought entirely. It never even gets into my schedule, much less checked for clashes, or attended on the Monday.

There should be a new courtesy: request meetings in writing and preferably with a meeting maker that goes into the calendar automatically.

 

[MaryJanet]

I'm trying to keep MJ's advice in mind. It is good advice but I'm not used to struggling quite so much just to survive. I'm one assignment down which has given me some confidence. The next one in Archaeology is a field study on strata & matrix etc & I am refusing to know until I have Publishing & style & Context out of the way.

What do you about giving your assignments a time budget so they each get a fair share of your time? Eg if an assignment is worth 20% of your grade, it gets 20% of the time put aside for working on assignments. Does that make sense? It might give you the feeling of being the boss of your time rather than the assignments consuming so much of it.

 

[MaryJanet]

See that. It will come to you. I have the utmost confidence in your abilities.

Me too. The transition period will of course be the hardest part.