TASK MANAGEMENT

As the semester is almost over, there are several due dates of tests, projects, and major essays coming up. I do have a lot of works to finish before the final. CLS blogging and major/career project were two of them. I had 2 projects and a major essay due on same day tomorrow and CLS blogging today. So I needed this task management. One of task strategies tells me to do the hardest works first but I do the opposite way. I try to finish the easy tasks first to get rid of choirs and finish the important works at last to concentrate more on it after I finish all the easy works. I decided to use Priority Lists and Post-it Reminders as my strategies for this last blog. Then I needed these strategies for three classes with projects and essays, ENL211, CLS105, and IST195. These three classes had an essay and projects due on same day, Monday.


Firstly, I used priority lists to organize my most important works to finish. I looked up my grades from each class and instructions to find which one is the hardest. ENL211 was for final major essay, CLS 105 was for major/career project, and IST195 was for Project 2. I finished CLS 105 project to hand it in on Sunday last week to hand it in on Monday because I had already started this project and only had to write a reflection and I had a lot of works to finish and I was going to leave school on Thursday for Easter. Then major essay from ENL211 seemed to have the least work of all because it was only 2 pages. I borrowed books to write about it from the Bird library and started to research about what I'm going to write about. and then finished it on Wednesday. I was going to finish this on Tuesday and finish the IST195 project on Wednesday but I couldn't finish the essay because it took a lot of time to write each paragraphs as the instructor had a high expectation of this major essay. Then I finished the IST195 project on the same day, Wednesday. Also these are done by the most important works to the least decided by grades in each class.

For the next strategy, I used Post-it reminders. It helps me to keep in track of what I have to do next and what important things are coming up. It reminds me of my school works that should be done in what time and how. I put projects and essays in a red Post-it to show that it is very important and I put quizzes and things to study in a green Post-it and homework and less important things in yellow paper. Nothing is optional but necessary. All of them should be done but they are divided by types and importances of works.

These two strategies helped me to organize tasks better and be alert to what is due and important in the near future.