There are several different approaches. To start, there is the one that I took today. Tell yourself for over a month that you WILL start objectives, but only end up answering one question and writing one word ("DNA") for another. Then, freak out when we are told that the objectives must be turned in at 11:59 PM in one week. You will try to manage your time, but then you will have humanities projects, essays, and tests galore. So, as the only obvious solution, you come home at 3:15 on Friday night, pop a squat on that uncomfortable chair in your dining room that has become your permanent evening residence, and furiously flip through your notebook and textbook for decent answers to the objectives.
Of course, there are some people who are actually GOOD at time management. Those select few take our teachers' suggestions and complete the objectives the day we learn them in class. But doesn't that just take the fun out of the experience?
Despite our teachers cautioning us against it, I find that some of us view objectives (and other timed assignments) as a challenge. It's 7:30 and a reading guide is due at 8:00. Can I finish this in half an hour? Then, the next day at school, these people are proud of their successful procrastination. I submitted the reading guide at 7:59:37!!! But should we really be proud? I, for one, actually prefer to get my reading guides out of the way over the weekend, but what habits are we getting ourselves into?
If in the real world, a senior boss says, "I want your report by 8:00," and you hand it to him/her at 7:59:37, is he/she really going to be pleased with yiur performance? Probably not! Time management is valued and respected in the working world.
These were just the ponderings running through my mind as I tried to recall everything we have learning in bio for the past month. Many of us, including myself, seriously have to learn better time management. Bio objectives are intended to be a challenge, but not a challenge against the second hand of a clock.
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