Last One's A Doozy

TECH Entry 10

            This week, the strategy I found that helped myself out with my classes for finals the most was the “Graphic Organizer” test prep strategy, and I used it to help me study for my final exam coming up around the corner in IST 195.  I feel that out of any of the strategies I learned in this course so far, using graphic organizers has been the most beneficial to me in my other classes because they make it easy to study for tests and even help to keep me on track when I am writing a paper.

Since I am a visual learner, I really benefit from setting up information I need to study for an exam and then reviewing it in that visual form rather than just looking at a bunch of words on a piece of paper or my computer screen.

The final TECH---prepare for my final exams!

I have to admitted that time flies! I have one more week I can go back  to my home, but before that I have to concetrate on my final exams. This week the strategies I used was ranking priority and acedemic fears.

Because we have already got t othe end of this semester so that is means our tasks would have an end. This week I jave a lot of tings have to do, so sometimes I lost my directions and did not know what I should do now. so the ranking priority would be a best way to help me organized all the task I did. I used  different colour in different courses si this will easilt regonized how much I should do on each of he courses.  After I did this everytime I felt confused  I have directions to keep doing my work.

Another strategy I used this week was acedemic fear, because to be honest I felt so stressful about my finl exam of my major class-ist195. Not only because this was the my major but because the contet of this exam is different from previoue two. on the first two exams of this course the questions are all based on the lecture but this time 80% of the questions was from the textbook. So i need acedemic fear to help me analyse the outcome.  when I finished the analyze I found acutally it isnot that bad if I failed so all I can do is relax and try my best to prepare it.

Building Blocks to Finish

this week i am going to use building blocks to finish strategy. 

as final weeks coming, i have already been busy.  in the next two weeks, i have a lot of to do. i will have couples of exams and final exam, which are very stressful. besides those exams, i also will have a project, which is from cls 105. it is future career exploration. however, i have already finished it during the thanksgiving break. it helped me to save a lot of time for my finals. in addition, i want to talk about my final schedule. basically, i will take statistic exams, linguistic exam, and psychology exam. in the next week, i have to take psy exam, which is on friday. on thruseday, i have to take my third statistic exam.  after the next week, which is the final week of this semester, i will take my linguistic exam, and i will take my statistic final.  my focus of next one week is statistic and my psy class.  after next week, i will focus on studying statistic again, at the same time i will also study the linguistic, which is very hard i think. 

Stress Management

TECH Entry 9

            This week, the strategies I used to help me out with my classes were the “Stress Diagram” and “A Day at a Time” stress management strategies in order to help me out with my homework that I have to do over break.

I used the “Stress Diagram” strategy for all my classes that assigned work over the break—which would be IST 195, REL 205, HST 231, and WRT 105—in a surprisingly successful attempt to manage my stress levels.  It worked so well because for me, I need a controlled environment when doing my work in order to be productive; and without it, I tend to just run in circles and have a hard time even getting work done.

The other strategy I used was the “A Day at a Time” strategy, and I used it in tandem with the “Stress Diagram” strategy with considerable success in that I used it to give myself a list of the stress factors that were persisting and needing to be eliminated.  It also gave me attention to which factors were more problematic because of the fact that I was having trouble getting rid of them.  This strategy worked well for me because I need a constant reminder of things that need to be taken care of in order to even get things accomplished, so having this on-going list of things that are causing stress enabled me to focus on what they were and get rid of them effectively in a faster fashion than if I had not used the strategy.

5 minutes escape and stress

This week I am going to talk about my stress diagram.  First of all, stress diagram helps us to understand how our stress spread, and how percentages they are.  As a normal person, I also have stress.  I am going to talk about my stress. Most of my stress, is my grade.  As known, I need to transfer to Whitman and ischool.  So I have to work on high grade.  I have been feeling stressed out since the beginning of this semester.  I really want to achive my goal and transfer into Whitman and ischool.  In addition,  I have some stress about my future.  As I am studying in university, I need to worry about what I am going to do in the future. I want to get internship during summer.  However, it does look like that it is easy.  Moreover, I want to apply an RA for next year.  I don’t have a lot confidence about that. It is also a good opportunity for me. I really want to get that. 

Second, I want to talk about five minutes escape. Taking a break is very important. keeping work will make people fatigue.  Once I study every 2 hours, I will take about 10 minutes or 20 mintues break.  Or I call it 5 mintues escape.  During that 5 mintues, I will have a deep breath. Or think something else, try to let my brain take a break.   Or sometimes, I will wash my face or try to breath my teeth.  I also call that 5 minutes escape. I try to keep my brain very clear. 

Blue is GPA concern

Red is career concern

Purple is  life stress. 

Green is TA competition

relax is great

Oh yeah! I am so excited because next week I can see my high school friends in Chicago. Thanksgiving break it is really wonderful time for us to relax for awhile. On this week's tech, I would use stress diagram and five-minute escape to help me escape from the stress of a lot of exams and projects.

stress diagram is a good way for me to know exactly what are the things really make me stressful. One of the things make me crazy was the due day because you have to think about it every single day. A lot of things come into your head is really annoyed so make the gragh to help me find out what are the things become important. I used different  color to help me to see clearly which one makes me so tired so I can do something to relase myself. Usually when I feel tired I would chose to watch a comedy or listern to the music which I loved. After it I would feel full of energy so I can back to work effienctly.

Nest strategy I used was five-minute escape. Due to the fact sometime I do not have so much time to watch movie so use a little break becomes so siginificant. Breaths is a very good way to relax yourself. I still remeber when I was a chid I went to the piano competition I was so nervous at the bac kstage so my mother told me to close my eyes and took a deep breath before I started to perfomance. Everytime it worked for me because you just feel you have nothing should worry about at this moment and all I should do is try my best to express the music. Also, a little exercise is very helpful expecially you feel your body isn't yours.

In summary, everyone has their stressful things so if we can find the proper way to relax ourselves I believe we will work more effiency.

Hope everyone can have a nice Thanksgiving~~

entry 8

This week the strategy I used are time waster and chunk the task. The reason I choose these two strategies are after all the exam I seem to relase myself but you know it is not good if I keep letting my self feel there are nothing I can do.

First of all, I used time waster, on the right column I listed the things which is distrction to me, then I listed the things which I should do. In this way, when I finished the chart I felt so guilty because I disorganize all my plan. Because I am a visual learner so I made this chart in two colors. I have to say this way is very suitable for me because when I posted on my wall, I started to thinking about why I am here, so in some ways it become a motivation for me to keep study.

Another strategies I used this week is chunk the task, firstly, I listed the thing I should have do this week, and then in option 1 and option 2  I write down the time that I should do the task. In this way it helps me set a time to finish the task.   

After making this chart I have certain conceprt that this week I should do what kind of big task and then I have idea that when should I did them . Also, in this way I  can give myself more flexiable time management so I can arrange other stuff in my life.