Time Flys When You're Wasting It

It is 8:17pm on Wednesday and I'm deciding to get my Tech Assignment out of the way so I can enjoy my weekend worry free come 4:50pm Thursday. Right before I started writing this blog I was on Facebook instant messaging Ashley. Itold her, "Ok, I'm gonna go do my Tech Assignment now. bye" I typed in the blogger website, thought of a title, and before I knew it I was back on Facebook looking at a pair of Nike's Ashley sent me, trying to determine if they had "swag"

As you can probably tell, my number one time waster is Facebook. I can literally spend HOURS searching facebook and stalking my friends (creepy!). I even have the site on my favorites bar for quick access. The problem is, whenever I am doing work that must be done on a computer I find myself needing to take breaks in order to stay sane. So when the time comes around to take a break, I usually hop onto Facebook, but instead of spending 10 minutes on it I will get distracted and spend half an hour without realizing it. I’ve tried in the past to log myself out of the website so when I do have the urge to go on, it will take more effort to log back on instead of just clicking a button. However, typing in my user name and password didn’t stop me.

Another technology based time waster is AIM, or instant messaging. I always keep myself logged on to iChat, so my friends are constantly I.M.ing me and distracting me from my work. Whereas on Facebook I will be distracted for long periods of time, on AIM I get distracted every 2 minutes from having a conversation with someone. I know the easy solution would be to log off, but I just never do. I think I will be able to force myself to quit the program while doing work because I am now acknowledging just how much time I am wasting.

Texting, Television, and Sleep are three other "Time Wasters" that I find myself constantly getting distracted with. While they do interfere with my work, I am better at avoiding these "Time Wasters" than both Facebook and AIM. I've learned that by putting my phone on silent I am not aware that my friends and family are constantly emailing me. This way instead of checking my phone every time I hear a buzz, I will check it when I remember and find three messages instead of just that one (which makes things more exciting!) Television I've learned to avoid until the weekends. Although it saddens me to miss when each new episode premiers, it is also nice to lay in bed Saturday afternoon and watch a marathon of shows I missed during the week. Since the beginning of the year I have become a lot better with sleeping. Even though I still don't fall asleep until around 2am usually, I have stopped myself from napping during the day, unless necessary to function.

I chose to do NSAS this week (No Salt And Sauce) for NSD225 because it was

actually very similar to the study method I am currently using, w

the 20-Minute Test Prep. For NSAS I had to print and read the NOTES before class,

SCAN the assigned chapter, ATTEND class, and then created STUDY SHEETS. I

adapted this strategy a little bit to make it my own. I didn't SCAN the chapter before

class because the textbook readings do not help at all with studying. Also, for creating

STUDY SHEETS I rewrote all my notes from lecture and then went through and picked

out the information that seemed the most important and turned them into questions.

I created a "Questions Test Bank" for all the questions and I have composed a list of 66

questions! My test is tomorrow so I hope I do well with my new study aids!