There have been so many hours when I have sat at home, in bed, multitasking like crazy. And I'm not exaggerating, on more than one occasion I have caught myself watching TV, playing Set online, talking to 8 different people in facebook and trying to write that last minute essay (or two). Somehow I'm surprised when one a.m. roles around and I still only have two paragraphs. I can blame the teacher, blame the school, blame the whole system, and trust me, I have. But really, it comes down to one person and that's me. I have a huge issue when it comes to studying, I just can't do it. Well yes I have done it before, but maybe, MAYBE, once every three weeks I will sit down and take part in a real study session that lasts more than an hour.
It's because I don't think of school work as an activity, but rather a side-task that is only meant to be done when the last episode of Bones turns into commercial for 45 seconds and I have nothing better to do. I got by with this mindset in high school because, honestly, high school doesn't really call for much more than that. I thought about changing my study habits before I started college but every time and opportunity arose I brushed the issue aside like it didn't mean anything. Now, after 2 solid weeks of stressing about my history essays I have finally decided something needs to be done about it. I am by no means a slow worker, and when I put my mind to something it will get finished very promptly but my mind just didn't want to be put anywhere, let alone in the middle of some 500 page textbook that interests me about as much as fried eggplant.
As I type this I am actually sitting in the reading room at Suzzalo library on the UW campus. I love this place, I have gotten more work done in the past 2 hours than I have all week. I think this is my new home. At this rate I could take on 20 more credits and still be fine. OK, maybe I'm getting ahead of myself but I'm so glad I have finally found a way to get my work done.
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