gBlog - How we see it …

Wow, I just finished typing up four essays in a little less than 8 hours, dinner included. It’s the week before midterms, and yet my teachers seem to keep on piling up all the assignments (take a gander at my desk [click for a picture]) as if they were the three witches in Macbeth, “Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire, burn; and caldron, bubble. Tongue of an English essay, leg of a Sociology presentation, and a wing of Biology test, for a charm of powerful trouble, like a hell-broth, boil and bubble.”

Sure, taking a lot of classes can be good for your education and required credits are finished up quickly. However, the majority of Gallaudet students are involved in one activity or other. Some are involved in the Sociology and German clubs, others on the football team and tutoring history and math, and yet others can be working at Campus Activities and participating in a Greek organization. The possibilities are endless. One could interview someone for the Buff and Blue, our student newspaper, while working on a proposal for Student Congress on Wednesday nights.

This leads to a very important skill that every college student needs to have: time allotment and management. First of all, don’t do what I just did, procrastinating until absolutely necessary. First of all, you need a good, sturdy planner. It can be anything from a notebook with lines drawn in it to an actual bound yearly planner. For me, I just use my trusty Gallaudet planner [click for a picture]. With its small size and plenty of area to write in, I use it to jot down the meetings and appointments I have to go that week as well as important events that I can’t forget.

Once you have this item in front of you, put down everything you can think of, from classes to daily meetings to a coffee date with friends, as well as your class schedule. This way, you can gain a first-hand look at how busy you really are. If you need to attend a study group for psychology, put that in your planner right away, so you can know that specific time of the week is taken. That way, I can know when exactly I am able to meet up with my teacher for one-on-one feedback in Intro to Education class, and I can relate this information to my teacher right away.

This system has worked marvelously for me, from high school, where I was involved in an impossible amount of things, to college, where I still am involved in an impossible amount of things. The reason why I put myself through this torture is because I love being busy, I love being involved, and Gallaudet offers so many opportunities for that to do, from clubs to sports teams to on-campus jobs, and that’s what I like.

Thanks for reading.
con amistad, tyler