I had been busy throughout this whole semester.
Oh No!
Year 2 Sem 3 is the semester where students are most likely preparing their final year projects and focus their study. However, I found myself do not have time to focus in study. Let me list down the reasonssss.
First of all, at the beginning of the semester, I have 3 events needed to handle. I am the Head of Editorial department from LOL camp (which happened on Week 2), Community Project from Engineering Science Fiesta (which happened on Week 3) and Program department from Maths Runner 2.0 (which happened on Week 4). My first few weeks of the semester are consumed by all these events.
Secondly, I need to take actuarial paper Financial Mathematics on Week 6. For this paper, I sacrificed my CNY holidays just to pass this exam. Finally I managed to pass this exam, in exchange, I do not have enough time to prepare my test for the rest of the subjects.
Thirdly, I am preparing 5 events.
Sales and Marketing of UTAR BALL, which is the most time consuming position because my team need to sell out all 180 tickets which in Week 5 to Week 12.
Program department of a drama called 如愿 (Wish Come True), need to make sure that the progress of the events is smooth and steady.
Publicity and editorial department of Se7en, an event which gather all the chair and v.chair of all the societies and have a dinner together. I need to learn some software which I never used before in a short period of time, such as Adobe Premiere, After Effect and Adobe Illustrator.
Editorial for National Mathematics Competition, need to come out with poster, shirt design and some other (many) things..
Helper for Actuarial Today, which help to take care the booth and prepare decoration.
I have total of 6 subjects this sem. Three mathematics subjects, two financial and economic subjects and one English related subject. All the tests and assignments and presentations that I cant escape... haizzz
I thought I was able to handle all the activities, but I was wrong. All the stress and burden that I do not know how to share with people are hide within my heart. Not that I do not have a strength to finish all the task, but I really do not have time to done every jobs perfectly. I can no longer able to differentiate, am I gaining experience, or torturing myself?
Now I need to stop wasting my time writing all these nonsense and just focus in my job.
I am not think critical enough when it comes to task management.
Year 2 Sem 3 is the semester where students are most likely preparing their final year projects and focus their study. However, I found myself do not have time to focus in study. Let me list down the reasonssss.
First of all, at the beginning of the semester, I have 3 events needed to handle. I am the Head of Editorial department from LOL camp (which happened on Week 2), Community Project from Engineering Science Fiesta (which happened on Week 3) and Program department from Maths Runner 2.0 (which happened on Week 4). My first few weeks of the semester are consumed by all these events.
Secondly, I need to take actuarial paper Financial Mathematics on Week 6. For this paper, I sacrificed my CNY holidays just to pass this exam. Finally I managed to pass this exam, in exchange, I do not have enough time to prepare my test for the rest of the subjects.
Thirdly, I am preparing 5 events.
Sales and Marketing of UTAR BALL, which is the most time consuming position because my team need to sell out all 180 tickets which in Week 5 to Week 12.
Program department of a drama called 如愿 (Wish Come True), need to make sure that the progress of the events is smooth and steady.
Publicity and editorial department of Se7en, an event which gather all the chair and v.chair of all the societies and have a dinner together. I need to learn some software which I never used before in a short period of time, such as Adobe Premiere, After Effect and Adobe Illustrator.
Editorial for National Mathematics Competition, need to come out with poster, shirt design and some other (many) things..
Helper for Actuarial Today, which help to take care the booth and prepare decoration.
I have total of 6 subjects this sem. Three mathematics subjects, two financial and economic subjects and one English related subject. All the tests and assignments and presentations that I cant escape... haizzz
I thought I was able to handle all the activities, but I was wrong. All the stress and burden that I do not know how to share with people are hide within my heart. Not that I do not have a strength to finish all the task, but I really do not have time to done every jobs perfectly. I can no longer able to differentiate, am I gaining experience, or torturing myself?
Now I need to stop wasting my time writing all these nonsense and just focus in my job.
I am not think critical enough when it comes to task management.
One important skill to learn on your way to being an adult is learning to say "NO" when necessary. If you have too many jobs or tasks and responsibilities, the question I always wonder is: Did you want to take on all these tasks or is it because you did not know how to say NO when asked to do them?
ReplyDeleteIf you really wanted to take them all on, then you are right, you just need to learn to manage your time better. But if you took on some of them due to an inability to say NO then this is the most important skill to learn.
Saying NO means knowing yourself and your time allocation well enough to know you cannot possibly do all the jobs well and without feeling stress. Saying NO is not a bad thing when it will mean you have the ability to do 2-3 jobs very well rather than do 6-7 jobs poorly or less well.
Thanks Dr. Carmen for replied my blog! You are right, I am not a person who know how to reject a request or an offer, which sometime will cause some troubles for myself. Recently i found the serious consequence of this attitude. From now on, I will keep on remind myself be brave enough to say "NO" to people.
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