productivity

My post-intern college life…

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Stephanie

After working for 8 hours a day…every day…all summer long…I’m not sure how I will take the shock of returning to college life. There are two different paths I can take:

I can retaliate against the level of productivity I have had all summer, and the early hour that I have been waking up at by sleeping in until outrageous hours (11 a.m. – noon ish…or maybe just 9 a.m.).
I can continue to get up around 6:30-7 a.m. every morning, and work hard every night to get everything done.

Let’s be serious…the second probably isn’t going to happen unless I get another internship…and somehow find the motivation to keep it going. What would be perfect though, is despite when I have class, work, or anything else, if I could find the happy medium in between the two. Too much productivity for me is exhausting…but I do love getting things done. During the school year, the biggest waste of time for me is Facebook and Twitter, and working every day without checking each site every 5 minutes is seriously revolutionizing the way that I live my life. Even when I come home now, I spend significantly less time creeping on everyone that I know, and it is a rather beautiful thing (even though I’m not as “in the know” anymore).

Even though I’m not sure how I will handle managing my time when I go back to school…I do know that I am so excited to not have to cook for myself anymore (I won’t have to have grilled cheese every night) and I know that one other aspect of my college life will not change…the state of my room…

Stuff in my room tends to multiply...

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When can I become a real person again?

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Stephanie

Now that I have been a college student for you know…about 2.5 years….I have started this vicious cycle of being a real person….then getting bogged down with stuff….then recuperating from being bogged down….then becoming a real person again….and so on. Usually my “being bogged down” stage lasts while I’m at school, and then then I go home for a break/weekend where I usually recuperate, and then I become a real person again just in time to go back to school.

So, I was a real person…..about 3 weeks ago. Then I came back to school, had to move back into my sorority house, then move out of my sorority house to be a recruitment counselor (we live in a hotel during recruitment), then I moved back into my house, and then I started classes. And now, with no school breaks rapidly approaching….I have no idea how I am going to deal with this situation. Either I need to be really productive for a week or two to get everything done before a weekend, or I need to figure out a weekend when I can just not do anything….so I can recuperate from the intensity that is my life during the week. Just to give you an idea of how outrageous my life is at times…check this out.

Here are all of the cups that began to accumulate on my desk during Finals week this past semester. Due to the danger that comes with having cups full of water/liquid near a computer...I just moved them all to the bookshelf. It works, right?

This is slightly outrageous….because Finals week is quite possibly the most intense week of the year….but it does illustrate my point quite well I believe. When my life gets busy…I respond by trying to save time in any way possible. This usually ends up being through not showering….or not cleaning up things….or not sleeping. But….the good thing is that I always get everything done on time, and I always do my best….so I guess it is worth it? This semester, however, I am going to try my absolute hardest to not get to this point. So I will return to this “being a real person” topic frequently….since it is something that most Butler students have trouble with. What can I say? We just love to be involved.