So, this being the final week of classes, and we are nearing the end of the year. Which seems so crazy to me, being a freshman, I feel like, I was just moving in, not knowing anyone, and now its the end. Next year will be so different, and it is a bittersweet feeling, nobody likes change, but it will be nice to meet a whole new group of friends and people in a new building. However, even though this ending is coming upon us sooner than ever, I still have so much work to focus on before we all get to these sad endings.
Task management has been a huge issue for me, since before I can remember. I usually like to do projects and assignments all in one night. Once I sit down and start to work, I like to complete the work within that siting. By doing this, it makes me feel accomplished and like I was able to get one item knocked off my list of things to do. For example, this blog, once I am finished I am going to go work out and feel good about doing it because I will have rewarded myself with a nice work out. The reward system works really well for me, because I usually need a little extra push to start something, like if there is a time frame that the assignment needs to be done for then this will help me start because I know if I don't finish it, I won't be able to do the activity that comes after it.
Also, I decided to divide by four for my recent time arts project. Because I am in VPA and a lot of the time we assignment a project to complete each week, it is easy to just forget about it and then last minute the night before, I stay up all night working on it. This way of doing things is just not helpful for so many reasons, besides lack of sleep, the quality of the project is immediately lessened. So, by dividing into four, it helps me get each small aspect of the project to come together at the and create the finished piece. At first, I went and sat in Starbucks and made a map of all the noises I heard for the next hour and where there were around me. Then second, I had to come back to my computer and use a site to download sounds that were similar (but not the same) to those that I heard in Starbucks. Third, I edited the noises in Audacity to form a single sound for approximately a minute. This brings me to the fourth step, where I presented the final project to my class on our blog.
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