The first couple of weeks of classes have now passed us by. To me these past couple of weeks flew by with very little work involved, not that I'm complaining. Then this week was presented to me. I feel as if all of my Professors are on the same clock.
I can hear all of them saying, "Let's wait two weeks before we start assigning HW and projects."
I feel like a little kid saying this, but I wished there was a way to slow down time. Not only because I have a lot of work to complete, but because this is suppose to be the time of our lives and I spend it in the computer lab. Exciting right?
Anyways, this week I am being challenged in many ways. I am being challenged to become extremely organized with my assignments and time. I feel the need to plan out every single hour, minute, and second of my day. This where I raise the question, is there such a thing as spending too much time on one project? Does one project deserve your full attention? How do you know when enough is enough and to just go with what you have?
This current project in Engr 407 is a project where I feel these questions are going to apply on several occasions. Having the ability to do what ever we want, when we want to, and only having a deadline to meet, does not give us a lot of structure to work with in planning, besides what I feel as chaotic. Therefore, not only is this project testing our ability to be decisve in making a product, but it also tests our ability to find the proper amount of time to spend on one item.
I hope that from this project we all come away with a better sense on when enough is enough and how to get to that point in a faster more effecient way.
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I completely agree, when people tell me that college is great and ask me how much fun I am having, I just tell them that I'm an engineering student and that we don't get to have fun if we want to pass. I'm sure this is true for other majors as well but unless you are one of those people who just "gets" it then you're going to have to spend almost all of your time working on homework or studying just to break even, let alone do well. I feel like when I do take a break that I am slacking.
ReplyDeleteI also have a hard time deciding how long to spend on projects. I feel like I need to give 100% on everything and sometimes there just isn't enough time. The first thing that I usually lose out on is sleep, which is never good. Like you said, time management is key, but can be very difficult when working in groups.