Ranking Priorities

Ranking Priorities!

Do you ever feel so overwhelmed by your work that you end up just avoiding all of your assignments all-together? Do you ever waste time wondering what you should do first? Do you ever do all other assignments and save the huge dreaded project for two in the morning the day it is due? I do. I often spend a long period of time just playing on my computer because I can’t choose an assignment to begin with. Sometimes I forget that I have assignments due the next day, and accidently do long term projects instead and forget things that are more necessary, and end up staying up later to complete them. It is also hard on nights when I have so much work to complete, to choose where to begin.

I have other activities and things I need to keep up with that aren’t class related, considering I am a member of Syracuse University Ski Team and Danceworks. It is hard to balance these activities, but using this method and “D’s Due and Due,” I manage to keep everything straight.

I started by listing my classes in priority order. So I took my REL 120, CLS 105 and MAT 222 classes and put them in order of importance, for what order I should do them in. I picked a specific color for each class to make it easy to read. Then I put them into the days that I should do them on. I put those in order of what is most important and should be done first. I also added tasks I need to do for clubs and campus activities that were important. I would recommend this method for others because it really helps to be able to see all of the tasks I must complete that evening, so I need to budget my time in order to get all of these things done. I used colors on mine as just a fun way to keep things straight visually, but I think it helped, so I would recommend this to others also.

This method keeps me on track and kept me from procrastinating. I spent a night this week at the library until six in the morning and this was helpful, because I did only the most important tasks and left the least important for another time, rather than not having time to complete the most important things.