By Student Ambassador Mony Now that we’re a couple weeks into the summer, and a few months into the lockdown situation, I find myself oddly enjoying this lifestyle of staying inside all week. During the short break in between the spring semester and summer semester, I’m really kicking it back and relaxing as much as I could as preparation before going back to the madness that summer classes have to offer. Now that we’re in the second week of the summer semester, I somewhat regret relaxing too much during the short break that I have. I’m starting to feel like I don’t have enough brain capacity to focus on my classes for more than 1 hour. The two classes that I take are both reading-heavy courses and I admit that reading is not something that I enjoy doing at all. Just one week into summer class, I can feel the intimidating auras that the courses give off. After reading this over, I kind of feeling bad because it feels like I’m a lazy student that complains about things. On the good side, however, I’m totally fine with the workload that the 2 classes throw at me, it’s just that I have to force myself to do it, to gather enough motivation to do my work. This leads me to my point of this blog which is the methods I used to force myself to do the works that I have. With the paragraph above, however, I don’t think that my tips are going to be convincing to you, the readers, or not but the methods I used works (for me, at least). The huge amount of tasks that I have to complete by the end of the week is super intimidating but I try to take one thing at a time. I have a stress-free approach to how I’m going to deal with the amount of work that I have to complete which I think is very dangerous. This approach would lead to a lot of close calls with the deadline. What I would do is upon finishing a few tasks that would take me about an hour or so to finish, I would reward myself a few hours of relaxing time before I feel like I’ve wasted enough time to continue doing my works. This part is the difficult part because once you’re in the middle of- say a game, it’s going to be super hard to force myself out of that and go back to studying. One method I use that would make me go back to studying is by brute force which is to force myself to close the application that I’m using and start studying. This method works most of the time but I still find myself staring at the class Canvas page blankly sometimes. If brute force doesn’t work I would go on to my second option which is to play mind games with myself. I would tell myself this: “The reason that you’re here is to study, not playing games/sit back and enjoy life.” After telling myself this, my mind would wander off to think about how my family back at home would feel if they know that I’m not putting enough effort into my studies, and with that in mind, it would make me feel bad enough to start studying again. And if I still have some tasks left, waiting to be completed and the deadline draws closer and closer, I would go to the extreme and pull an all-nighter to complete the task or somewhat get it going to a point that I’m comfortable working with after a short rest. This method is a little extreme and I can’t bring myself to keep relying on this method because it obviously is not a great idea. I would feel relieved that I completed the work if I don’t let my mind wander about thinking about my health and eyesight sacrifices. Nevertheless, I would still blame myself for procrastinating which is the reason that I would need to pull an all-nighter in the first place. Some of the tips that I gave might sound obvious but hey, it worked for me. I hope you will find them helpful!
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