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[ SECRET POST #2785 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2785 ⌋

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[Tenth Kingdom]

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(Orange is the New Black)

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[Dresden Files author Jim Butcher, Shannon Butcher]

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[Panic! at the Disco. Brendon Urie]

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[BBC Robin Hood]

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[Chasing Life]

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[Rooster Teeth]

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[Hawkeye 2012]

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[Legend of Korra]

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[QI]

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How do you spend your time? I'm amazed at how so many people here seem able to keep up with so many things. I'd love to keep up with all the TV shows, watch all the latest movies, write all my stories, read all the fic and numerous books I want to get to, play the latest games, keep up with all the fandom spaces, join all the exchanges, and so on. But even if I didn't have a job and a ton of family things to do, I certainly couldn't manage as well as others seem to do.

So, how do you manage your time? Are you able to keep up with everything or are you like me and always a little out of the loop?

I don't. I'm a horrible procrastinator and I watch shows to escape from the fact that I've dug myself a deep hole.

I manage by being very obsessive over my habits. Like, I can't do surprises. I need at least a day's notice if I have to go somewhere/do something that is not part of my routine.

But my weekday is: Work from 8-5. Workout every other day. Eat dinner (sometimes while on the computer). Shower. And then free time to do what I want. Computer, read books, make gifs, whatever. Then go to bed between 11-12.

Saturdays I go grocery shopping. Sundays I clean the house.

And I guess never changing my routine helps me manage time. :P

I have Crohn's disease, and whenever it flares up, I lose a lot of time dealing with it. I became a part-time student so I could have the time to both get medical treatment and study for my classes, and now that I'm in remission, I only have to do the latter. This means I have a lot of free time, and I try to keep it free in case I get sick again.

I think the most active folks in fandom are probably folks who, for one reason or another, had their time opened up. (I am convinced one of my editors is idle rich--the only times he's ever been unavailable were when he was traveling to a fandom convention and when he was on a weeklong cruise.)

Like this, which reminds me I have to create a new calendar soon as lectures start up again and the one I've been using will not work as well this semester as it did earlier.

Well that is an old picture of my calendar, but blue is stuff I have to do (cleaning, food, bedtime and such), purple/pinkish is television shows, red is Formula 1 and the rest (green and the darker purple) is lectures, and I just plot in whatever else I have to do during the week around it, or move it as I see fit.

My Mac, iPad and phone are all connected with it (and my Mac gives me a 15 min warning) so I know what I have to do at all times.

~~I also realise I probably go to a lot less lectures than most of you guys, I am a full time student, but I take one subject at the time (or two as you can see from this week)...~~

Edited 2014-08-18 23:36 (UTC)

Question: how are you a full time student with 1 or 2 classes? Not trolling or sarcastic, just curious.

Because I am Norwegian and we all do it that way? I take 30 points each semester (as all full time students do), a subject is worth either 7.5 or 15 points (usually), and my semester is split into two, so I take two 15 points subjects each semester, one after the other.

Normally a 7.5 point subject has 2 lectures a week and a 15 points subject has 3, each lecture is 2 hours, we might also have an additional 2 hours of "group work" where we are split into smaller sections and solve questions or just discuss or have oral presentations.

So I usually go to school for something between 6 and 8 hours each week, the rest is independent studying.

To clarify a bit more: We only study subjects that are relevant to our Bachelor's degree + 30 points of subjects from another field of study. We finished our general education in all subjects when we graduated High School and are not required to further those studies, which frees up a lot of time.

Oooh this is interesting. (Not sarcasm, tragically I'm genuinely interested . ;))

Is it different across the subjects? Here in the UK, a timetable like yours would be standard for a humanities subject such as English or History where there are huge reading lists. For a science subject the timetables are usually around 25 hours of lectures a week.

I'm forever curious about how Higher Education (and education in general) is done across the globe.

I do humanities, I guess? Film and Television Studies, so we have a huge reading/watching list, and not many lectures which is normal for all of the Humanities studies*, people doing science obviously needs to do lab work and such and tend to have more of a busy schedule, also people studying practical stuff (in my Uni, cameramen and the practical film/tv studies) spends more time at their lectures.

Also here is another random fact: I don't have to go to my lectures (we might have a subject where we need to show up to 80% of the group study things because of oral presentations and such) they don't take attendance and I will not be marked based on it.

Actually I will never be marked by my Profs. under my name an external office creates numbers and we sign with those on our exams (Except Oral Exams, but they always bring in one examiner from a different University to sit with our regular Prof.), which are the only things we get graded on.

So my final grade is just that, it is my only grade in that subject (or one of 2 if I have a written and oral part)

We have one big assignment for each subject that we have to pass to get to take the exam, but that is it (the group study thing if mandatory will also count)

*With some exceptions, but I am not familiar with them, I know people studying to be a teacher tend to go to their University Colleges from 8.30 to 16.00 or something like that.

woops sorry Anon, that was a lot more than what you asked for, I get a bit carried on

~~Also going to sleep now, I'll reply in time for the next post.~~

Edited 2014-08-19 00:18 (UTC)

Chiming in again because this is really fascinating to me.

There were some classes where it didn't matter whether I turned up for lecture, and others where it did; professors were given leeway to grade on whatever criteria they deemed appropriate, and some of them valued attendance more than others. On top of that, the grades that one got in a particular course impacted one's entire academic career. How one did on an exam mattered less than how one did in the class as a whole. You could ace the final, but still drag down your grade point average due to how you performed during the rest of the semester.

Basically just sharing experiences at this point, since you seem interested, yourself. Hope you sleep well. :)

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(Anonymous) - 2014-08-19 00:52 (UTC) - Expand

We only study subjects that are relevant to our Bachelor's degree + 30 points of subjects from another field of study. We finished our general education in all subjects when we graduated High School and are not required to further those studies, which frees up a lot of time.

I am so jealous over this. I had to take so many completely worthless gen eds when I was in college, and the fact that they were required (despite the fact that they had nothing to do with my major) combined with the fact that there weren't enough professors to teach them all resulted in me having to take an extra semester.

I even had to take a basic algebra course because I got a 14 instead of a 15 on a useless test, and it was for a grand total of zero credits. If I hadn't taken that class, then I wouldn't have been able to take the calculus and statistics classes that I needed for my major. This, despite the fact that one can understand calculus and stats without understanding algebra.

/bitter, sorry

I am forever resentful of college gen ed classes because I knew from the moment I entered college what I wanted to major in. I could've taken so many more classes that were relevant to my major if I hadn't had to waste time on stuff I didn't care about/already knew/wasn't useful to me.

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(Anonymous) - 2014-08-19 04:09 (UTC) - Expand

I'm not making_excuses, obviously, but college/university is different in Scandinavia/Europe. Full-time students there typically only do one to two classes at a time, at a more intensive pace than American students.

Well, not here in Belgium. It might change as they're doing a lot of reforms, but I had a shitton of subjects.

Oh? That's interesting! How many subjects would you typically take in a semester? I took between five and six when I was in school.

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Usually by doing things before class tbh. I can get to a class about an hour beforehand and take the time to surf the web, catch up on a web show, ect.

I think living by myself (as opposed to living with roommates which I used to and could share chores with) sort of kicked me into managing my time better. I usually have routines planned out for chores and schoolwork. When it comes to fandom stuff I just pick whatever I feel like doing that day, whether it's reading fic, watching a movie or something else.

One word: badly. It's a huge problem.

I manage my time by bending it. No seriously. I have had at least three people tell me they're convinced I have the ability to do so. I think I just have really good multi-tasking skills so I can look like I'm doing nothing but actually doing everything.

I don't. I work full time and I'm married so most of my evenings I have to pick what hobby I'd like to do that night. I can never do everything that I'd like to do.

I don't. This is why I tend to stick to movie-based fandoms, and watch mini-series for entertainment. Over the last half a decade or so, I don't think I've ever watched more than three airing shows at a time. Right now, it's just one.

I spend my times working, studying, and fangirling. My studying is either school, or when I'm off-semester, it's stuff I study on my own time (I'm autodidactic). At the moment, I'm (re-)teaching myself Spanish, with a bit of Russian on the side.

well...none of us do ALL of those things. And many times people talk about stuff they read/watched/played/etc. years ago.

I'm out of the loop. I used to spend my mornings at home and then go out in the afternoons to get stuff done, but lately I've been staying in more and more. I'm usually on the computer - I have ADHD, and using the internet is like crack.

A study on kids with ADHD found they had a higher chance of becoming addicted to the internet (and yes, I have depression and social anxiety):

* Girls diagnosed with depression or social phobia are more likely to develop an addiction to the Internet.

For children and teens with ADHD, the constant stimulation offered by the Internet (including social networking sites that are constantly updated and fast-paced video games) offers the perfect outlet. For those with depression, social phobia or hostility, the Internet has a therapeutic effect, permitting them to create their own online identity without having to function “normally” in the real world.

“If you have a child that is hyperactive, the Internet can move at their pace,” Michael Gilbert, a senior fellow at the Center for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California, said in an Oct. 6 HealthDay News article. “If you have a child that is depressed or has social phobia, they can get in touch with other kids dealing with the same kinds of issues. They can go into artificial worlds, like ‘Second Life,’ where they can live out fantasies or take on different personas. For kids who have anger or hostility, the Internet gives them a chance to play out their aggression there.”

I'm not sure. I know I don't follow as much as I used to when I was in high school. I had a lot more time then and none of the consequences. I'm in college now and check things between classes and during my commute. One thing is I follow a lot of RSS feeds and just browse through them to stay up-to-date. Watching shows gets a bit tricky. I watch 1-2 each night while making/eating dinner. Less if I have work or studying to do. And I prioritize time with my SO over other things when he gets home because it's very limited and more important to me. We watch certain shows together though. I do find it difficult to find time to devote to playing video games. I have a huge backlog. Hopefully when I'm done with school I'll have more time because studying and projects just takes so much out of me.

With a very dedicated calander and I still can't fit everything in.

So...ignoring my 8 hours of work and the 1 hour travel time either side aaaand ignoring my 7 hours of sleep I've got 7 hours each day to spend eating, chores, checking out the internet, ~networking~, hanging with friends, my game of the week and gym.

Sometimes things get out, generally anything down-time related like games or the gym :C

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