The past week would have been absolutely out of control without taking time out to refresh my mind. With my final review this past Thursday, I was working nearly non-stop for a week and didn't have time to take significant breaks. I used the five-minute vacation to help keep me focused when i didn't have time to sleep. While I didn't close my eyes to prevent getting too sleepy, I found the stretching to be very helpful with staying energized.
Working towards a final project all week I divided my project into manageable chunks. Because the Divide by Four strategy didn't make my project seem manageable enough I subdivided it into more steps spread out over the course of a week.
Looking back, I wish I would have subdivided the project into smaller parts and decided on stricter, more definitive deadlines. Simply specifying "Monday Evening" as a deadline ended up being too lenient as I used all of the said evening and into the next morning to complete the task and even into the next day, after which all my deadlines got backed up and I became more stressed. Also, if I had been more definitive about when to accomplish things I could have stuck to a schedule more diligently, allowing my professor to critique more of my work before the final review. However, here is the progress of my work over the week.
Since all of my other classes were cancelled this week due to the Studio Final, the only other assignment I had to work on this week was this blog. Therefore, I used the divide by four strategy again to make sure I completed it by Saturday night.
Because the task of getting a blog done was much less involved than completing a final studio project, it was much easier to stick to my schedule for the former. However, I hope that with practice creating and sticking to schedules will come more easily to me. As a visual learner, I will continue to post my schedules on my desk where I can see them and be reminded of me at all times. In the future I hope to continue the Divide by four strategy as well as the Five minute escape to advance my progress.
I heard there is this crazy project due for architecture students. you must be really busy but i feel like with these techniques you should be able to finsih well! good job
ReplyDeleteFor architecture student like you, it must be very hard for you to manage your tasks wisely because there are just way too many things to do. But also for a student like you, chunking the task will be very helpful and I am glad that that you used it. I enjoyed reading your blog!
ReplyDeleteWow those architecture projects look so cool. I have a friend who's also in architecture and he only sleeps about 2 hours a day and lives in Slocum for his endless workloads. It seems really tough to be an architecture and I admire you for doing such jobs! Great blog good job!
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