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Calendar Updates

On this page, you will find information for our Calendar Updates. For some of the updates, there are screen casts in Blackboard. That will be indicated in the description for the update. There is also other helpful information here that can help you find what time management processes help you. 

Calendar Update #1 (8.28)

On a piece of paper (or a document in your Online Folder), lets start the process of setting some intentions for this semester!​

Step 1: What are 3-4 intentions you would like to focus on for this semester? (you can think in terms of year but if you want to keep it simple, at least focus on this semester)

  • ​Some ideas/areas

    • career

    • school

    • money 

    • relationships

    • spirituality

    • physical health

    • emotional wellness​

Step 2: How are you going to do those 3-4 intentions? 

  • What is your action plan?

    • Be concrete​

    • Use positive language

    • present tense

  • Do at least 3-4 sub points for each thing...​

Step 3: How do you want to feel for each intention?​

Step 4: Pick a Word for the semester. Try to use a Habit of Mind!​​

Remember, intention and action! 

Create structures to hold you accountable!

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Adapted from "The Women's Leadership Podcast" Season 2 Episode 19

Calendar Update #2 

In Blackboard, go to our Seminar page>Left panel>Screencasts>Calendar Update #2 folder. Please follow the directions on how to set up your online calendar blocking system. Please be sure to think of the following (however, you are not limited to these ideas):

  • classes you are taking

  • times to eat food

  • extracurricular 

  • socializing

  • tutoring

  • work

  • study

  • personal things

  • time to relax

Calendar Update #3 (9.18)

This is going to be where we learn how to break down things we need to do and put them in more manageable tasks. You can either write this first part out on a piece of paper, in your calendar /planner, or your Google Drive. 
A. GSD Lists

  • This is what is says...GET STUFF DONE!

    • Write out everything you need to get done, for the next week or so, and I mean everything! ​

      • What do you have to study? 

        • If you are thinking exam: what exactly do you need to do to prep?

          • Create notecards? Go to SI? Do practice essays? Go see Wooster? What are the steps you need to do to get somewhere. ​

      • What reading do you need to get done?

      • What tasks do you have to do? 

      • Do you need to get stuff done for work?

      • Do you need to go see a professor? 

      • Do you need to do laundry? Go grocery shopping? Clean? 

      • Do you need to call loved ones? Call the doctor? Make appointments?

B. Now look at the online calendar you have created. What are some points in your day where you can devote these things? Write them into your calendar...

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C. If you find that you are doing a lot and you are worried about how to get all of it done, try using the Pomodoro Method. Click here to access the information!

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Calendar Update #4 (10.16)

  • Create a GSD list of all of the things you need to do for the Writing & Rhetoric Portfolio. ​

    • When will you work on the draft? ​

    • What do you still need to include in the draft? 

    • What revisions do you need to make? 

    • When could you ask for help (if you needed it)?

    • When are you going to have certain things done? What deadlines can you give yourself?

    • What else do you need to consider? 

  • Create a GSD list of all the things you need to do for History Exam #2. 

    • When are you going to work on the study guide? ​

    • Are you able to make it to SI? To Wooster's hours?

    • When do you want to have certain parts of the study guide done by? Give yourself deadlines...

    • What areas on the study guide are you most confident about? What areas do you need to work on? 

Calendar Update #5 (10.28)

  • Pull out your calendars and update November and December due dates!

    • Writing & Rhetoric​

      • What is due when? ​

      • How are you breaking down your to-do's for the project?

      • When will you have things done or drafted so that you can ask for help? 

    • Seminar

      • Write down the last quizzes in your own calendar...​

    • History

      • do you need to write down the readings? ​

      • Exams?

  • Write out a GSD list for the rest of the semester. What do you need to get done? 

    • Refer back to Calendar Update #3...remember that your to-do list expands beyond just assignments...​

Where can you find more information? 

  • Click here to access a YouTube playlist I put together for you to all!

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  • Click here for the MyStudy Life App!

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  • Click here for the Dartmouth Time Management page.

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