Ribh's D'Coopage

[MaryJanet]

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

I'm am as well.

 

[Ribh]

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.

That requires math, MJ. I have no idea how to work out percentages. When I say I am numerically challenged I mean it. I can't be relied upon to add up simple numbers straight, let alone do more complicated problems. How I manage money horrifies most people. It requires cash & lots of little piles.

At present I am allocating 2 days a week to each subject. Left over time goes to the closest assignment.

 

[Ribh]

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

Yep. I loathe transitions. So much upset & disorganization.

 

[Ribh]

I'm am as well.

Have a couple of hugs.

 

[MaryJanet]

That requires math, MJ. I have no idea how to work out percentages. When I say I am numerically challenged I mean it. I can't be relied upon to add up simple numbers straight, let alone do more complicated problems. How I manage money horrifies most people. It requires cash & lots of little piles.

At present I am allocating 2 days a week to each subject. Left over time goes to the closest assignment.

That's a really good system!

 

[BY Bob]

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.

Anyone can request a meeting with me by checking my calendar and grabbing a slot with a meeting invite. If they don't, they risk not getting my time. I make no promises to show up to any meeting that is not on my electronic calendar. Those that follow proper procedure get priority.

I have to have something to rely upon or else I miss everything. My electronic calendar is it.

 

[BY Bob]

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.

I had to learn to do this at university otherwise I only worked upon what I was interested in.

 

[fuentemoon]

I don't make an appointment ever without putting it in my phone calendar. I choose when it sends me reminders depending on the thing. I didn't have a phone when I was at university, I carried an old fashioned paper organizer. I have to have everything laid out or forget it.

 

[MaryJanet]

I had to learn to do this at university otherwise I only worked upon what I was interested in.

I did it too but it hard because sometimes I felt I was handing in something that was less than my best work.

 

[LozzyR]

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